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| [1]BLESSED be the LORD, my strength, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight; |
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| [2]My refuge and my deliverer; my shield and my helper, upon whom I trust, who subdues nations under me. |
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| [3]LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thou art mindful of him? |
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| [4]Man is like vapour; his days are as a shadow that passes away. |
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| [5]Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; rebuke the mountains, and they shall smoke. |
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| [6]Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. |
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| [7]Stretch forth thy hand from above; deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of the ungodly, |
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| [8]Whose mouths speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
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| [9]I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee. |
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| [10]It is he who gives salvation to kings; who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword. |
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| [11]Deliver me from the hand of the wicked, whose mouths speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood, |
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| [12]That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as brides richly adorned after the fashion of temples; |
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| [13]That our storehouses may be full to overflowing; that our sheep may multiply abundantly in our streets; |
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| [14]That our cattle may be strong and there be none barren among them; that there be no stealing, and that there be no mourning in our streets. |
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| [15]Happy is the people who have all these things; yea, happy is the people, whose God is the LORD. |
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