1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare, ISV — Psalm 144:1
2 he is my gracious love and my fortress, my strong tower and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I find refuge, who subdues a144:2 So LXX; the Heb. lacks subdues peoples b144:2 So DSS 11QPs Sebir Aquila Syr Targ Hieronymus; cf. Psa 18:48; 2 Sam 22:48; LXX reads subdues my people under me. ISV — Psalm 144:2
3 LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him? ISV — Psalm 144:3
4 The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow. ISV — Psalm 144:4
5 Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; c144:5 So MT (imperfect verb); LXX, DSS 11QPs read and descend!; i.e. a verb of command touch the mountains, and they will smolder. ISV — Psalm 144:5
6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, d144:6 Lit. scatter them shoot your arrows and confuse them. ISV — Psalm 144:6
7 Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners. e144:7 Lit. the hand of the sons of strangers ISV — Psalm 144:7
8 Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand deceives, f144:8 i.e. they swear to false oaths ISV — Psalm 144:8
9 God, I will sing a new song to you. On a harp of ten strings I will play to you— ISV — Psalm 144:9
10 to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords. ISV — Psalm 144:10
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, g144:11 Lit. the hand of the sons of strangers whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives. h144:11 i.e. they swear to false oaths ISV — Psalm 144:11
12 May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace. ISV — Psalm 144:12
13 May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields. ISV — Psalm 144:13
14 May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets! ISV — Psalm 144:14
15 Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. ISV — Psalm 144:15