PSALMS CHAPTER 144 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

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CHAP. CXLIV.

1 Dauid blesseth God for his mercie both to him and to man. 5 Hee prayeth that God would powerfully deliuer him from his enemies. 9 He promiseth to praise God. 11 Hee prayeth for the happy state of the kingdome.

¹ [A Psalme of Dauid.] Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to warre, and my fingers to fight.¹

² My goodnes and my fortresse, my high tower and my deliuerer, my shield, and he in whome I trust: who subdueth my people vnder me.²

³ Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the sonne of man, that thou makest account of him?³

⁴ Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.⁴

⁵ Bow thy heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines, and they shall smoke.

⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and destroy them.⁶

⁷ Send thine hand from aboue, rid me, and deliuer me out of great waters: from the hand of strange children,⁷

⁸ Whose mouth speaketh vanitie: and their right hand is a right hand of falshood.

⁹ I will sing a new song vnto thee, O God: vpon a psalterie, and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises vnto thee.

¹⁰ It is he that giueth saluation vnto kings: who deliuereth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sword.¹⁰

¹¹ Rid me, and deliuer me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanitie: and their right hand is a right hand of falshood.

¹² That our sonnes may be as plants growen vp in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:¹²

¹³ That our garners may bee full, affoording all maner of store; that our sheepe may bring forth thousands, and tenne thousands in our streetes.¹³

¹⁴ That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streetes.¹⁴

¹⁵ Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.¹⁵

Psalms Chapter 144 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

¹ Hebr. my rocke. , Heb. to the warre, &c
² 2.Sam.22 2. 3. & .35. and 49. verses. , Or, my mercie.
³ Iob 7.17. psal.8.5. heb.2.6.
⁴ Psal.39.6. iob 14.2.
⁶ Psal. 18. 13,14.
⁷ Heb. hands
¹⁰ Or, victory.
¹² Heb. cut.
¹³ Heb from kind to kind.
¹⁴ Heb. able to beare burdens, or loaden with flesh.
¹⁵ Psal.33.12 and 65.4.

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