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A Prayer for National Safety

Of David.[a]

144 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
the one who trains my hands for battle,
my fingers for war—
my loyal love and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, and one in whom I take refuge,
the one who subdues peoples[b] under me.
O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him,
or the son of man that you take thought of him?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 144:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 144:2 Reading with many Hebrew manuscripts and versions; MT reads “my people”