The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

PSALME 144. (Book 144)

A thanksgiving for victory, and a prayer for the blessings of Peace.

MORNING PRAYER. (Book 144)

BLessed be the Lord my strength: which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.

2 My hope and my fortresse, my castle and deliverer, my de∣fender, in whom I trust: which subdueth my people that is under me.

3 Lord, what is man that thou hast such re∣spect unto him: or the sonne of man that thou so re∣gardest him?

4 Man is like a thing of nought: his time pas∣seth away like a shadow.

5 Bowe the heavens, O Lord and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Cast forth thy lightning, and teare them: shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.

7 Send down thy hand from above: deliuer

me and take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strange children.

8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity: and their right hand is a right hand of wickednesse.

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God▪ and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed ••ute.

10 Thou hast given victory unto kings: and hast delivered David thy servant from the perill of the sword.

11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children: whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

12 That our sonnes may grow up as the young plants: and that our daughters may be as the po∣lished corners of the temple.

13 That our garners may be full and plenti∣ous with all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands, and ten thousands in our streets.

14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay: no ••eading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.

15 Happy are the people that be in such a case: yea, blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God.

The Prayer.

O Lord our strength, our hope and ••ortresse, our castle and deliverer, our defender in whom we trust; bowe the heavens, O Lord, come down and save us, send down thine hand from a∣bove, deliver us, and take us from the great wa∣ters, from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sinnes, from the condition of mortality, and from the hand of strange children, whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse. Give us, O Lord, victory and peace, and all the blessings of thy peace, with which thou usest to adorne & beautifie the dwel∣lings of the righteous, that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours, but above all, our happinesse may consist in being thy peo∣ple, and thou being our God, that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.