The hunted psalmist cannot but come back, in the close of his psalm, to his actual circumstances, for earthly needs do clog the soul's wings. He unites righteousness and loving-kindness as co-operating powers, as in ver. 1 he had united faithfulness and righteousness. And as in the first verses he had blended pleas drawn from God's character with those drawn from his relation to God, so he ends his petitions with pleading that he is God's servant, and, as such, a fit object of God's protection. PSALM CXLIV. 1 Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who trains my hands for battle, My fingers for war; 2 My loving-kindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, My shield and He in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me. 3 Jehovah, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him? The son of frail man, that Thou takest account of him? 4 Man--he is like to a breath, His days are like a shadow passing away. 5 Jehovah, bow Thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains that they smoke. 6 Lighten lightning and scatter them, Shoot Thy arrows and confound them. 7 Stretch Thy hands from on high, Pluck me [out] and deliver me from many waters, From the hands of the sons of the alien, 8 Whose mouth speaks falsehood, And whose right hand is a right hand of lies. 9 O God, a new song will I sing to Thee, On a ten-stringed harp will I harp to Thee, 10 Who giveth salvation to kings, Who snatches David His servant from the evil sword. 11 Pluck me [out] and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the alien, Whose mouth speaks falsehood, And whose right hand is a right hand of lies. 12 So that (? or Because) our sons [may be] as plants, Grown tall in their youth; Our daughters like corner-pillars, Carved after the fashion of a palace; 13 Our granaries full, giving forth kind after kind [of supply]; Our flocks producing thousands, Producing tens of thousands in our fields; 14 Our kine heavy with young; No breach and no sally, And no [battle-] cry in our open spaces. 15 Happy the people that is in such a case! Happy the people whose God is Jehovah!