Psalm 144

1.	1 Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for the fight. 2 My Steadfast Love, my Fort, my Stronghold, my Deliverer, my Shield in whom I refuge take, he brings my people under me.
2.	3 O LORD, what then is man that you take note of him? What is the son of man that you consider him? 4 A breath, a nothingness, is man. As for the days of man, they all are like a shadow passing by.
3.	5 O LORD, bow low your heav'ns; may you yourself come down. Yes, touch the mountaintops and cause them thus to smoke. 6 Make lightning flash and scatter them. O may your arrows be sent forth to trouble and disquiet them!
4.	7 Your hand reach from on high to rescue me and save from waters great and deep. from hands of alien folk, 8 whose mouth speaks always what is false, and even the right hand of whom is a right hand of cunning lies.

5.	9 O God, in praise to you, a new song I will sing. Upon a ten-stringed harp your praises I will play. 10 For he salvation gives to kings; his servant David he will help and keep him from the wasting sword.
6.	11 O rescue me and save, grant me deliverance, from hands of alien folk, from power of foreigners, whose mouth speaks always what is false, and even the right hand of whom is a right hand of cunning lies.
7.	12 So be our sons like plants grown sturdy in their youth, and may our daughters be like palace cornerstones; 13 all kinds of goods fill up our barns; our flocks of sheep be multiplied by thousands and ten thousands more;
8.	14 yes, may our cattle bear. may there be no attacks, no going forth to war, no outcry in our streets. 15 O happy people who are thus! O happy people who can say they have the LORD to be their God! Tune: Lischer, 66.66.888.

Psalm 133

1 Behold! how good a thing it is, how wonderful to see,
   when brethren make it their delight to dwell in unity!

2 For it is like the fragrant oil poured out on Aaron's head,
   that, going down upon his beard, upon his collar spread.

3 Like Hermon's dew upon the hills of Zion, it descends.
   The LORD commands his blessing there, ev'n life that never ends.

Tune:  Azmon  (C M)

"O for a thousand tongues"

Psalm 128

Blessed the man that fears Jehovah
And that walketh in His ways.
Thou shalt eat of thy hands’ labor;
And be prospered all thy days.
Like a vine with fruit abounding
In thy house thy wife is found
And like olive plants, thy children
Compassing thy table ’round.

Lo, on him that fears Jehovah
Shall this blessedness attend
For Jehovah, out of Zion,
Shall to thee His blessings send
Thou shalt see Jerus’lem prosper
All thy days ’til life shall cease
Thou shalt see thy children’s children
Unto Isr-a-el be peace.

Tune: "Come Thou Fount of every blessing" 

Here is a snippet from a family man:  [the rest can be found here]

one of my boys asked, “Daddy, since we could not sing our psalm in the restaurant, can we sing it while we’re in the car?” You better believe we can! If a small step on my part can lead to my 11 or 12 year old asking to seize a moment to sing scripture together, let me take that step!

Then, our singing of Psalm 128 has had an unexpected sanctifying influence on me. The children enjoy the song so I can often hear them singing it lightly as they go about their tasks in the home. I hear them singing “Bless the man who fears Jehovah and that walketh in his ways” and the rest of the Psalm which expounds the benefits which will come to them as their father fears and obeys God.