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Psalms 144

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle. ✦ 2He is my loving ally and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him. He makes the nations submit to me. ✦ 3O Lord, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them? ✦ 4For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow. ✦ 5Open the heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke. ✦ 6Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them! ✦ 7Reach down from heaven and rescue me; rescue me from deep waters, from the power of my enemies. ✦ 8Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead. ✦ 9I will sing a new song to you, O God! I will sing your praises with a ten-stringed harp. ✦ 10For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword. ✦ 11Save me! Rescue me from the power of my enemies. Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead. ✦ 12May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace. ✦ 13May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands, ✦ 14and may our oxen be loaded down with produce. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares. ✦ 15Yes, joyful are those who live like this! Joyful indeed are those 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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