Psalm 144 - American Standard Version 2015 American Standard Version 2015
Psalm 144

¹ {\b {\i A Psalm} of David.}\par\par\tab Blessed be Jehovah my rock,\par\tab Who teacheth my hands to war,\par\tab {\i And} my fingers to fight:

² My lovingkindness, and my fortress,\par\tab My high tower, and my deliverer;\par\tab My shield, and he in whom I take refuge;\par\tab Who subdueth my people under me.

³ Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him?\par\tab Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

⁴ Man is like to vanity:\par\tab His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:\par\tab Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;\par\tab Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

⁷ Stretch forth thy hand from above;\par\tab Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,\par\tab Out of the hand of aliens;

⁸ Whose mouth speaketh deceit,\par\tab And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹ I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:\par\tab Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

¹⁰ Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings;\par\tab Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,\par\tab Whose mouth speaketh deceit,\par\tab And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹² When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth,\par\tab And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

¹³ {\i When} our garners are full, affording all manner of store,\par\tab {\i And} our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

¹⁴ {\i When} our oxen are well laden;\par\tab {\i When there is} no breaking in, and no going forth,\par\tab And no outcry in our streets:

¹⁵ Happy is the people that is in such a case;\par\tab {\i Yea}, happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.