# Psalm 144 Of David. 
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1. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; 
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2. he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. 
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3. O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? 
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4. Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. 
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5. Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! 
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6. Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! 
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7. Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, 
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8. whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 
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9. I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, 
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10. who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. 
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11. Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 
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12. May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; 
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13. may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; 
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14. may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! 
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15. Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! 

(ESV)