Old Testament

Psalms 144:6-15 Metrical Psalms 1650 (MP1650)

6. Cast forth thy lightning, scatter them;thine arrows shoot, them rout.

7. Thine hand send from above, me save;from great depths draw me out;And from the hand of children strange,

8. Whose mouth speaks vanity;And their right hand is a right handthat works deceitfully.

9. A new song I to thee will sing,Lord, on a psaltery;I on a ten-string'd instrumentwill praises sing to thee.

10. Ev'n he it is that unto kingssalvation doth send;Who his own servant David dothfrom hurtful sword defend.

11. O free me from strange children's hand,whose mouth speaks vanity;And their right hand a right hand isthat works deceitfully.

12. That, as the plants, our sons may bein youth grown up that are;Our daughters like to corner-stones,carv'd like a palace fair.

13. That to afford all kind of storeour garners may be fill'd;That our sheep thousands, in our streetsten thousands they may yield.

14. That strong our oxen be for work,that no in-breaking be,Nor going out; and that our streetsmay from complaints be free.

15. Those people blessed are who bein such a case as this;Yea, blessed all those people are,whose God JEHOVAH is.

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