UST PSA Chapter 144

144 

This is a psalm of David.

I praise Yahweh, who protects me!

He equips me to fight well in wars.

2 He is always faithful and kind to me.

He keeps me safe and helps me escape from danger,

as if he were my shield

or a place where I could go to be safe.

He enables me to rule other peoples.

3 Yahweh, people are so insignificant;

it is amazing that you pay any attention to them!

4 People live for only a very short time,

just as a mist or a shadow quickly disappears.

5 Yahweh, please come down from the sky

and split open the mountains so that smoke pours from them.

6 Please send lightning bolts like arrows

against my enemies to make them run away.

7 Reach down from heaven and rescue me from my enemies

who are surrounding me like a dangerous flood.

Save me from the power of these foreign people.

8 They say things that are not true

and raise their right hands to swear oaths that are false.

9 God, I will sing a new song to you

and play my ten-stringed harp to praise you,

10 because you are the one who saves kings

and who rescues me, your servant David, from danger in battle.

11 Save me from the power of these foreign people.

They say things that are not true

and raise their right hands to swear oaths that are false.

12 Then our sons will be like strong plants

that grow tall when they are young,

and our daughters will be as beautiful and stately

as pillars that craftsmen carve to decorate a palace.

13 May our barns overflow with many kinds of crops.

May our sheep give birth to great numbers of lambs,

yes, very great numbers as they graze in our pastures.

14 May our oxen be strong to pull plows.

May no one break through our walls, may no one go into exile,

and may no one cry out in distress in our city squares.

15 What a good life people have when these things happen for them!

What a good life people have who worship Yahweh as their God!