{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/144","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T01:01:41.206Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":144,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":143,"nextChapter":145,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":15},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 144 (DRB)","markdown":"[Psalms 144](https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/144)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/144 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}