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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 Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle— ✦ 2My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me. ✦ 3Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? ✦ 4Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. ✦ 5Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ✦ 6Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. ✦ 7Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners, ✦ 8Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ✦ 9I will sing a new song to You, O God; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You, ✦ 10The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword. ✦ 11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose 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 pillars, Sculptured in palace style; ✦ 13That our barns may be full, Supplying all kinds of produce; That our sheep may bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields; ✦ 14That our oxen may be well laden; That there be no breaking in or going out; That there be no outcry in our streets. ✦ 15Happy are the people who are in such a state; Happy are the people whose God is the Lord! ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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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