PSALMS 144:1-8

¹A Psalm off David. Blessed be the LORD my rock, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

²My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

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

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

⁵Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

⁷Stretch forth thine hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strangers;

⁸Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.