Psalms 145

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.	1 Alleluia. Of Haggai and Zachariah.
2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.	2 Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God as long as I shall be. Do not trust in the leaders,
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?	3 in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.	4 His spirit will depart, and he will return to his earth. In that day, all their thoughts will perish.
5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.	5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob: his hope is in the Lord God himself,
6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.	6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all the things that are in them.
7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:	7 He preserves the truth forever. He executes judgment for those who suffer injury. He provides food for the hungry. The Lord releases those who are bound.
8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.	8 The Lord enlightens the blind. The Lord sets upright those who have been thrown down. The Lord loves the just.
9 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.	9 The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.
10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:	10 The Lord shall reign forever: your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
11 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:
12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
14 their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.