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v1
Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war—
v2
my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples ^[Reading with many Hebrew manuscripts and versions; MT reads “my people”] under me.
v3
O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?
v4
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
v5
O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
v6
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
v7
Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
v8
whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand.
v9
O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you,
v10
who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword.
v11
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand,
v12
that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
v13
that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds, ^[Hebrew “from kind to kind”] that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields,
v14
that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas.
v15
Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.