The Daily Office

according to the Book of Common Prayer, 2019
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Psalm 144

Benedictus Dominus

1 Blessed be the Lord my strength,*

who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight,

2 My hope and my fortress, my stronghold and deliverer, my defender in whom I trust,*

who subdues the peoples under me.

3 O Lord, what is man, that you have shown such respect to him,*

or the son of man, that you so regard him?

4 Man is like a thing of nought;*

his time passes away like a shadow.

5 Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down;*

touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Cast forth your lightning and scatter them;*

shoot out your arrows and consume them.

7 Send down your hand from above;*

deliver me, and take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strangers,

8 Whose mouth talks of vain things,*

and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song unto you, O God,*

and sing praises unto you upon a ten-stringed lute.

10 You have given victory to kings,*

and have delivered David your servant from the peril of the sword.

11 Save me, and deliver me from the hand of strangers,*

whose mouth talks of vain things, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood;

12 That our sons may grow up as young plants,*

and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple,

13 That our storehouses may be full and plenteous with all manner of grain, *

that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields,

14 That our oxen may be strong to labor, that there be no decay,*

no leading into captivity, and no outcry in our streets.

15 Happy are the people of whom this is so;*

indeed, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.

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