144

Ezra Chapter 144

1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war,

2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;

3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son

4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth

5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,

7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great

8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David

11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose

12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that

13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:

14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no

15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is