144: 2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdueth 800my people under me.
80011QPsa, some mss., Aram read peoples under me.
144: 3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
144: 4 Man is like to 801vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
801Hb. a breath:
144: 5 Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
144: 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
144: 7 Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;
144: 8 Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
144: 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
144: 10 Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
144: 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
144: 12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as cornerstones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
144: 13 When our garners are full, affording all manner of store, And our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
144: 14 When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no 802going forth, And no outcry in our streets:
802Or, sallying,
144: 15 Happy is the people that is in such a case; Yes, happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.
