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Psalms 143

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

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