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Psalm Chapter 144 - A Psalm of David

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Psalm 144: Strength for Battle and the Blessing of a God-Kept People

This episode presents Psalm 144, a psalm of David, in which David blesses the Lord as his strength who trains his hands for war and names God as his goodness, fortress, high tower, deliverer, shield, and the one he trusts. He marvels at how fleeting man is, like vanity and a passing shadow, and then prays for the Lord to bow the heavens, come down, and scatter enemies with lightning and arrows, delivering him from “great waters” and from “strange children” whose speech is vain and whose right hand is false. David vows to sing a new song with psaltery and ten-stringed instrument, praising the God who gives salvation to kings and delivers His servant from the hurtful sword. The psalm ends with a vision of blessing: thriving sons and daughters, full storehouses, multiplied flocks, strong oxen, safety, and peace, concluding that happy are the people whose God is the Lord.

00:00 Psalm 144 Opening
00:06 God My Strength
00:21 Human Frailty
00:35 Cry for Deliverance
01:00 New Song of Praise
01:22 Blessings for the People
01:50 True Happiness

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Psalm Chapter 144 - A Psalm of David

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Psalm 144, a psalm of David, blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight, my goodness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he and who my trust, who subdue with my people under me. Lord, what is man that thou take us knowledge of him, or the Son of man that thou make us to count of him? Man is like divinity, his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Baal thy heavens, O Lord, and come down, touch the mountains, and they shall smoke, cast forth lightning and scatter them. Shoot out thine arrows and destroy them. Sin thy hand from above, rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God, upon a sultry and an instrument of ten strings while I sing praises unto thee. It is he that give a salvation unto kings who delivereth David and a servant from the hurtful sword, rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. That our sons may be his plants grown up in their youth, that our daughters may be his cornerstones polished after the similitude of a palace, that our garners may be full, affording all manner of store, that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets, that our oxen may be strong to labor, that there be no breaking in nor going out, that there be no complaint in our streets. Happy is that people that is such a case. Yay, happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

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