Psalm 144

³⁴He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

³⁵He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

⁴You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

¹¹Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.

⁴The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

²He said: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

³My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁹I will keep watch for You, O my strength, because You, O God, are my fortress.

⁴⁷the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,

⁹Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

⁴what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

¹⁷What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

⁶But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

³Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

⁴When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

¹¹My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

²³I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

⁹For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

⁵You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

⁶Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

⁸“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

¹⁴For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

³²He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

⁹He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

³God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

⁴His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

¹⁸Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the Lord had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

¹If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

²as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

¹⁸For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

²³I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

¹³The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

⁴²I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

¹²For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

⁵Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.

¹²If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

¹³He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

²I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

¹⁶He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

³For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

¹⁵Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

⁴³He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

¹⁷He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

²They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

⁶My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

²⁰He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

⁴They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

³⁰And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

³Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

³Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.

⁴Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

¹Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

²Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

¹A Psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.

⁵⁰Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

⁷O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.

¹⁶No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

¹⁷A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

¹⁹So David inquired of the Lord, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go up,” replied the Lord, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

²⁰So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the Lord has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.

¹⁶Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.

¹⁷But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”

⁶Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

⁷And David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

⁷Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

²⁰He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

²They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

¹Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

²I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

⁶When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

⁷On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.

⁵As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

⁶He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

³Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

⁴but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

³For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

⁴They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

¹⁴May the Lord give you increase, both you and your children.

¹⁵May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹⁵No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

⁸We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

⁹If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

¹³He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

⁸The Lord will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the Lord your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

⁴The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

¹⁰You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

³He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

³⁷They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

³This is what the Lord says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

⁴This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

⁷The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

⁶Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord.

¹⁷And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

¹⁸another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.

¹⁷But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

¹⁸Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

¹¹In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

⁵Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

²⁹Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

⁴Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

¹⁵Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O Lord, in the light of Your presence.