rsv Psalms:144:5-15
rsv@Psalms:144:5 @ Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.
rsv@Psalms:144:6 @ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!
rsv@Psalms:144:7 @ Flash forth the lightning and scatter them, send out thy arrows and rout them!
rsv@Psalms:144:8 @ Stretch forth thy hand from on high, rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of aliens,
rsv@Psalms:144:9 @ whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
rsv@Psalms:144:10 @ I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to thee,
rsv@Psalms:144:11 @ who givest victory to kings, who rescuest David thy servant.
rsv@Psalms:144:12 @ Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
rsv@Psalms:144:13 @ May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;
rsv@Psalms:144:14 @ may our garners be full, providing all manner of store; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
rsv@Psalms:144:15 @ may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mischance or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! [ (Psalms strkjv@144:16) Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the LORD! ]