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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 144 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/144.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/144-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Psalm 144</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/143.htm" title="Psalm 143">◄</a> Psalm 144 <a href="../psalms/145.htm" title="Psalm 145">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/144-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><V 143:1>A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><V 143:2>My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><V 143:3>O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><V 143:4>Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><V 143:5>O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><V 143:6>Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><V 143:7>Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><V 143:8>Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><V 143:9>To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><V 143:10>He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><V 143:11>Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><V 143:12>Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><V 143:13>Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><V 143:14>Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/144-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><V 143:15>They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/143.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 143"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 143" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/145.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 145"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 145" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>