Psalms 144:3-9

³Lord, what are human beings that you should care about them? What are people that you should concern yourself with them?

⁴Humanity is like a breath; their lives are like a passing shadow.

⁵Part your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains so that they give off smoke.

⁶Scatter your enemies with flashes of lightning! Let your arrows fly and send them running in confusion!

⁷Stretch down your hand from heaven and set me free. Rescue me from raging waters, from the oppression of foreign enemies.

⁸They are such liars, even telling lies under oath.

⁹God, I will sing a new song to you, accompanied by a ten-stringed harp,