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[1]Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war. |
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[2]My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me. |
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[3]Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him? |
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[4]Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow. |
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[5]O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. |
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[6]Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them. |
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[7]Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children; |
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[8]whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. |
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[9]O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings. |
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[10]Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword. |
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[11]Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity; |
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[12]whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple. |
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[13]Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets. |
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[14]Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds. |
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[15]Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. |