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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 144</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Prayer for National Deliverance and Security</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">Of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Blessed be the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, my rock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>my rock<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18378a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and my fortress,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my stronghold and my deliverer,</span></span><br /><span class="text">my shield, in whom I take refuge,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who subdues the peoples<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18378b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> under me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, what are human beings that you regard them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or mortals that you think of them?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>They are like a breath;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their days are like a passing shadow.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Bow your heavens, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and come down;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">touch the mountains so that they smoke.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Make the lightning flash and scatter them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">send out your arrows and rout them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Stretch out your hand from on high;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the hand of aliens,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>whose mouths speak lies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and whose right hands are false.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I will sing a new song to you, O God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>the one who gives victory to kings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who rescues his servant David.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Rescue me from the cruel sword,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and deliver me from the hand of aliens,</span></span><br /><span class="text">whose mouths speak lies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and whose right hands are false.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>May our sons in their youth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">be like plants full grown,</span></span><br /><span class="text">our daughters like corner pillars,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">cut for the building of a palace.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>May our barns be filled,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with produce of every kind;</span></span><br /><span class="text">may our sheep increase by thousands,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">by tens of thousands in our fields,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>and may our cattle be heavy with young.</span></span><br /><span class="text">May there be no breach in the walls,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18390c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> no exile,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and no cry of distress in our streets.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">happy are the people whose God is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 144:2">Psalm 144:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>With 18.2 and 2 Sam 22.2: Heb <i>my steadfast love</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 144:2">Psalm 144:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb Mss Syr Aquila Jerome: MT <i>my people</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 144:14">Psalm 144:14</a> 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