Psalms 144:4-13

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,

¹⁰to you, the one who gives victory to kings. You saved your servant David from death by the sword.

¹¹Set me free. Rescue me from the oppression of foreign enemies. They are such liars, even telling lies under oath.

¹²Then our sons will grow up like plants in their youth and become mature, and our daughters will be like beautiful pillars carved to support a palace.

¹³Our storehouses will be full of all kinds of crops; our flocks of sheep will grow by thousands, increasing by tens of thousands in the pastures.