Psalms 143
1A Psalm of David concerning Goliath. 1 Blessed be the Lord my God, 1 Who instructs my hands for battle, 1 And my fingers for war. 1
2My mercy, and my refuge; 1 My helper, and my deliverer; 1 My protector, in whom I have trusted; 1 Who subdues my people under me. 1
3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? 1 Or the son of man, that thou takest account of him? 1
4Man is like to vanity: 1 His days pass as a shadow. 1
5O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: 1 Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 1
6Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: 1 Send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them. 1
7Send forth thy hand from on high; 1 Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, 1 Out of the hand of strange children; 1
8Whose mouth has spoken vanity, 1 And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. 1
9O God, I will sing a new song to thee: 1 I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings. 1
10Even to him who gives salvation to kings: 1 Who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword. 1
11Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, 1 Whose mouth has spoken vanity, 1 And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity; 1
12Whose children are as plants, 1 Strengthened in their youth: 1 Their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously 1 Adorned after the similitude of a temple. 1
13Their garners are full, 1 And bursting with one kind of store after another; 1 Their sheep are prolific, 1 Multiplying in their streets. 1
14Their oxen are fat: 1 There is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, 1 Nor cry in their folds. 1
15Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, 1 But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.