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Psalms 144

1.Blessed be the Lord my strength, which ateacheth mine hands to fight, & my fingers to battel.
2.He is my goodness and my fortres, my tower and ^my deliverer, my shield, and in him I trust, which subdueth my bpeople under me.
3.Lord, what is man that thou cregardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest upon him!
4.Man is like to vanitie: his daies are like a shadowe, that vanisheth.
5.dBowe thine heavens, ô Lord, and come down: touch the mountains and thei shal smoke.
6.eCast forthe lightening & scatter them: shote out thine arrows, and consume them.
7.Send thine hand from above: deliver me, and take me out of the great fwaters, and from the hand of strangers,
8.Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand gof falsehood.
9.I wil sing a hnew song unto thee, ô God, and sing unto thee upon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.
10.It is he that giveth deliverance unto Kings, and rescueth David his iservant from the hurtful sworde.
11.Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12.That our ksonnes may be as the plantes growing up in their youth, and our daughters as the corner stones, graven after the similitude of a palace:
13.That our lcorners may be ful, and abunding with divers sortes, and that our shepe may bring forthe thousands and ten thousand in our streets:
14.That our moxen may be strong to labour: that there be none invasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our stretes.
15.Blessed are the people, that be nso, yea, blessed are the people, whose God is the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
Who of a poor shepherd had made me a valiant warrior and mighty conqueror.
2-^.
Ebr., my deliverer unto me: for the Prophet can not satisfy himself with any words.
2-b.
He confesses that neither by his own authority, power nor policy his kingdom was quiet, but by the secret grace of God.
3-c.
To give unto God just praise is to confess ourselves to be unworthy of so excellent benefits, and that he bestows them upon us of his free mercy.
5-d.
He desires God to continue his graces and to send help for the present necessity.
6-e.
By these manner of speechs he shows that all the lets in the world can not hinder God’s power, which he apprehended by faith.
7-f.
That is, deliver me from the tumults of them that should be my people, but are corrupt in their judgement and enterprises, as though they were strangers.
8-g.
For though they shake hands, yet they keep not promise.
9-h.
That is, a rare and excellent song, as your great benefits deserve.
10-i.
Though wicked Kings be called God’s servants, as Cyrus, Is. 45.1, forasmuch as he uses them to execute his judgements yet David because of God’s promise, and they, that rule godly, are properly so called, because they serve not their own affections, but set forth God’s glory.
12-k.
He desires God to continue his benefits toward his people, counting the procreation of children and their good education among the chiefest of God’s benefits.
13-l.
That the very corners of our houses may be full of store for the great abundance of your blessings.
14-m.
He attributes not only the great commodities, but even the least also to God’s favour.
15-n.
And if God give not to all his children all these blessings, yet he recompenses them with better things.