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Psalm 144

¹Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
²My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
³Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
⁴Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
⁵Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
⁷Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
⁸Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
⁹I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
¹⁰It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
¹¹Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
¹²That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
¹³That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
¹⁴That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
¹⁵Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.

1All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever.
²Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?
³Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the deep, and wisdom?
⁴Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.
⁵The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments.
⁶To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels?
⁷[Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood her great experience?]
⁸There is one wise and greatly to be feared, the Lord sitting upon his throne.
⁹He created her, and saw her, and numbered her, and poured her out upon all his works.
¹⁰She is with all flesh according to his gift, and he hath given her to them that love him.

¹³Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
¹⁴I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
¹⁵But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
¹⁶Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
¹⁸For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
¹⁹Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
²⁰For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
²¹It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
²²Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
²³And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.