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Psalms 144

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: ✦ 2My goodness, 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: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. ✦ 7Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; ✦ 8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ✦ 9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. ✦ 10It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. ✦ 11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: ✦ 12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: ✦ 13That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: ✦ 14That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. ✦ 15Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 18 ·102 Sam 22 ·5Deut 28 ·4Deut 32 ·4Ps 33 ·3Isa 44 ·3Ps 12 ·2Judg 6 ·2

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 144 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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