Psalm 144

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³ Lord, why do you even think about men and women?
    Why do you take care of humans?
⁴ People soon pass away, just like a breath.
    Their life is like a shadow that soon goes.
⁵ Lord, open up the heavens!
    Leave your home and come down to earth!
Touch the mountains so that they burn with smoke.
⁶ Send bright lightning to frighten your enemies.
Shoot your arrows at them
    so that they run away.^[b]
7 Put your hand down from heaven,
    and pick me out from the deep water.^[c]
Save me from the power of foreign people.
⁸ Their mouths speak lies.
Even when they make a promise,
    they are deceiving people.

⁹ I will sing to you a new song, God.
    I will make music to you on my harp.^[d]
10 You help kings to win against their enemies.
You also save me, your servant David, from my enemies,
    when they try to kill me with their dangerous swords.
¹¹ Keep me safe from the power of foreign people.
    They speak lies.
    Even when they make a promise, it is false.
¹² When our sons are young,
    may they grow quickly, like strong plants.
May our daughters become tall and beautiful,
    like the beautiful pillars in a king's house.
¹³ May our homes have plenty of different kinds of food.
May our sheep have thousands of lambs,
    so that there is no space in our fields.
¹⁴ May our cows become fat.^[e]
I pray that our enemies will never knock down our city's walls.
I pray that none of us will become their prisoners.
I pray that nobody will cry in our city's streets because they are afraid.
¹⁵ When God does that for a nation,
    he has surely blessed those people!
If people know that the Lord is their God,
    then God has blessed them!