Psalms 144:1-150:6 A Psalm of David. Blessed be Jehovah my Rock, who teaches my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A Psalm of David. Blessed be Jehovah my Rock, who teaches my hands for war, my fingers for battle. ² He is my mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield, and in Him I take refuge, in Him who humbles my people under me. ³ O Jehovah, what is man that You know him; the son of man, that you esteem him? ⁴ Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes. ⁵ Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah; and come down; touch the mountains and they shall smoke. ⁶ Flash out lightning and scatter them; send out Your arrows and confound them. ⁷ Send Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of a foreigner's sons, ⁸ whose mouths have spoken vanity; and their right hand is a right hand of lies. ⁹ I will sing a new song to You, O God; I will sing praises to You on a harp of ten strings, ¹⁰ You who gives salvation to kings, who delivers His servant David from the evil sword. ¹¹ Rescue me and deliver me from the foreigners' sons, those whose mouths have spoken vanity; and their right hand is a right hand of lies; ¹² so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters like corner-stones hewn like a palace building; ¹³ and our storehouses may be full, furnishing kind to kind; our flocks may breed thousands and ten thousands outside, ¹⁴ our oxen laden; there is no break and no going out, and no crying in our plazas. ¹⁵ Blessed are the peoples that are so; blessed are the peoples whose God is Jehovah! ¹⁴⁵ ¹ A Psalm of Praise, of David. I will exalt you, my God, O King; and bless Your name forever and ever. ² I will bless You every day; and I will praise Your name forever and ever. ³ Jehovah is great and to be greatly praised; and to His greatness there is no finding out. ⁴ Generation to generation shall praise Your works; and shall declare Your mighty acts. ⁵ I will muse on the glorious honor of Your majesty, and the things of Your wonderful works. ⁶ And they shall speak of the might of Your awesome works, and I will declare Your greatness. ⁷ They shall express the memory of Your great goodness, and they shall sing of Your righteousness. ⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful, long to anger and of great mercy; ⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works. ¹⁰ All Your works shall thank You, O Jehovah; and Your saints shall bless You. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your might; ¹² to make Your might known to the sons of men; yea, the glorious majesty of His kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is a kingdom to all eternities; and Your rule in all, generation and generation. ¹⁴ Jehovah upholds all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all hope to You; and You give them their food in due time. ¹⁶ You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, and kind in all His works. ¹⁸ Jehovah is near to all who call on Him, to all those who call on Him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of the ones who fear Him; and He will hear their cry and save them. ²⁰ Jehovah watches over all who love Him; but He destroys all the wicked. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and all flesh shall bless His holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise Jehovah; praise Jehovah, O my soul. ² While I live I will praise Jehovah; I will sing praises to my God while I have being. ³ Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, for there is no salvation in him. ⁴ His breath will go out, he returns to the earth; his thoughts perish in that day. ⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob in his help; his hope is on Jehovah his God; ⁶ who made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever; ⁷ who executes judgment for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry; Jehovah sets free the prisoners; ⁸ Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises those bowed down; Jehovah loves the righteous; ⁹ Jehovah watches over the strangers; He relieves the orphan and the widow, but He warps the way of the wicked. ¹⁰ Jehovah shall reign forever; O Zion, your God from generation and generation. Praise Jehovah. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise Jehovah; for it is good to sing praise to our God; because praise is delightful and becoming. ² Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows. ⁴ He appoints the number of the stars; He calls to them all by names. ⁵ Our Lord is great and of great might; there is no limit to His understanding. ⁶ Jehovah relieves the meek; He throws the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing to Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing praise on the lyre to our God, ⁸ who covers the heavens with clouds; who prepares rain for the earth; who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹ He gives the animals their food, to the young ravens that cry. ¹⁰ He takes no delight in the strength of the horse, nor any pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, those who hope in His mercy. ¹² Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For He has made strong the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your border, He satisfies you with the fat of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sends His command out on the earth; His word runs very swiftly; ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the white frost like ashes; ¹⁷ He casts out His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold? ¹⁸ He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not done so with any nation; and they have not known His judgments. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; praise Him in the heights. ² Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His hosts. ³ Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars of light. ⁴ Praise Him, O heavens of heavens; and O waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of Jehovah; for He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ And He established them forever and ever; He gave a decree that they not pass away. ⁷ Let the sea-monsters and all deeps praise Jehovah from the earth, ⁸ fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind fulfilling His word, ⁹ mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ beasts and all livestock, creeping things and birds of the wing, ¹¹ kings of the earth and all people, princes and all judges of the earth, ¹² young men and virgins too, old men and youths. ¹³ Let them praise the name of Jehovah; for His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heavens. ¹⁴ He also lifts up the horn of His people, the praise of all His saints, of the sons of Israel, a people near to Him, Praise Jehovah. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise Jehovah! Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise in the assembly of the saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in His Makers; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their Kings. ³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praise to Him with the timbrel and lyre. ⁴ For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He beautifies the meek with salvation. ⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. ⁶ Let the exaltation of God be in their throat, and a two-edged sword in their hand, ⁷ to execute vengeance on the nations, punishment on the peoples; ⁸ to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron bands; ⁹ to execute on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all His saints. Praise Jehovah! ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise Jehovah! Praise God in His holy place; praise Him in the expanse of His might. ² Praise Him in His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness. ³ Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the harp and lyre. ⁴ Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with strings and pipes. ⁵ Praise Him on the sounding cymbals; praise Him with the resounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah. Praise Jehovah!