Psalms 144:2-15

²You are my covenant faithfulness and my fortress, my high tower and the one who rescues me, my shield and the one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues nations under me.

³Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him or the son of man that you think about him?

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Cause the sky to sink and come down, Yahweh; touch the mountains and make them smoke.

⁶Send flashes of lightning and scatter my enemies; shoot your arrows and drive them back in confusion.

⁷Reach out your hand from above; rescue me out of many waters, from the hand of foreigners.

⁸Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand is falsehood.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, God; on a lute of ten strings I will sing praises to you,

¹⁰who give salvation to kings, who rescued David your servant from an evil sword.

¹¹Rescue me and free me from the hand of foreigners. Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand is falsehood.

¹²May our sons be like plants who grow to full size in their youth and our daughters like carved corner pillars, shapely like those of a palace.

¹³May our storehouses be full with every kind of produce, and may our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

¹⁴Then our oxen will have many young. No one will break through our walls; there will be no exile and no outcry in our streets.

¹⁵Blessed is the people with such blessings; happy is the people whose God is Yahweh.