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most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text subdues my people">a</a></sup></span> under me.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="name">Lord</span>, what are human beings that you care for them,</p><p class="line2">mere mortals that you think of them?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They are like a breath;</p><p class="line2">their days are like a fleeting shadow.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Part your heavens, <span class="name">Lord</span>, and come down;</p><p class="line2">touch the mountains, so that they smoke.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy;</p><p class="line2">shoot your arrows and rout them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Reach down your hand from on high;</p><p class="line2">deliver me and rescue me</p><p class="line1">from the mighty waters,</p><p class="line2">from the hands of foreigners</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>whose mouths are full of lies,</p><p class="line2">whose right hands are deceitful.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will sing a new song to you, my God;</p><p class="line2">on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>to the One who gives victory to kings,</p><p class="line2">who delivers his servant David.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">From the deadly sword <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>deliver me;</p><p class="line2">rescue me from the hands of foreigners</p><p class="line1">whose mouths are full of lies,</p><p class="line2">whose right hands are deceitful.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then our sons in their youth</p><p class="line2">will be like well-nurtured plants,</p><p class="line1">and our daughters will be like pillars</p><p class="line2">carved to adorn a palace.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Our barns will be filled</p><p class="line2">with every kind of provision.</p><p class="line1">Our sheep will increase by thousands,</p><p class="line2">by tens of thousands in our fields;</p> <p class="line2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>our oxen will draw heavy loads. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or our chieftains will be firmly established">b</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line1">There will be no breaching of walls,</p><p class="line2">no going into captivity,</p><p class="line2">no cry of distress in our streets.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/144-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Blessed is the people of whom this is true;</p><p class="line2">blessed is the people whose God is the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text <i>subdues my people</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>our chieftains will be firmly established</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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