Psalms 143
1 A Psalm of
David concerning Goliad.
Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands
for battle, and my fingers for war.
2 My mercy, and my refuge; my helper,
and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people
under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art
made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass
as a shadow.
5 O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come
down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Send lightning, and thou shalt
scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.
7 Send forth thine hand from on high;
rescue me, and deliver me out of great
aGr. many.waters, out of the hand of strange children;
8 whose mouth has spoken vanity, and
their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.
9 O God, I will sing a new song to
thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.
10 Even to
him who gives
bOr, victory.salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.
11 Deliver me, and rescue me from the
hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand
is a right hand of iniquity; 12 whose
children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are
beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.
13 Their garners are full, and
bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific,
multiplying in their streets.
14 Their oxen are fat: there is no
falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their
cOr, habitations.folds. 15 Men bless the people to
whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people
whose God is the Lord.