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Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock

¹ Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.² He is my loving devotion and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples^(a) under me.³ O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?⁴ Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.⁵ Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.⁶ Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.⁷ Reach down from on high; rescue me and deliver me from deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,⁸ whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

⁹ I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—¹⁰ to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.¹¹ Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.¹² Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.¹³ Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.¹⁴ Our oxen will bear great loads^(a). There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.¹⁵ Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.