Psalm 144 (A Fortress Is My Lord) Lyrics

Oh, blessed be the Lord my strength

Who trains my hands for war

And trains my fingers for the fight

A fortress is my Lord

He is my steadfast love and my

Deliverer, my tower

Subdueth peoples under me

My shield in whom I trust

Lord, what is man that you regard

The sons of men, at all

For all his days are like a breath

A passing shadow, small

O bow your heavens, Lord, come down

And make the mountains smoke

Flash forth your lightning, scatter them

Thine arrows, shoot, them rout

Thine hand send from on high to save

Me out of waters, great

And from the hand of foreigners

Whose lying mouths deceive

A new song I will sing to thee

Upon the harp, I'll play

To thee who gives the victory

Unto the kings of men

You rescue from the cruel sword

Thy servant David, Lord

And me from lying foreigners

Whose lying mouths deceive

Rid me, O Lord my God, of them

Their mouths speak vanity

For their right hand a right hand is

That works deceitfully

And may our sons be in their youth

Like green plants, fully grown

Our daughters, in a palace wall

As polished corner stones

O Lord make all our granaries full

Our gardens give their yield

And make our sheep bring forth, abound

Ten-thousand in our fields

Oh make our cattle heavy with

Their young, none fail to bear

That there be none to cry aloud

Or in the streets despair

For happy are the people unto

Whom such blessings fall

And happy all the people are

For whom the Lord is God