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¹ (143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.² (143-2) My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.³ (143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?⁴ (143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.⁵ (143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.⁶ (143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.⁷ (143-7) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:⁸ (143-8) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

⁹ (143-9) To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.¹⁰ (143-10) Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:¹¹ (143-11) Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:¹² (143-12) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:¹³ (143-13) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:¹⁴ (143-14) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.¹⁵ (143-15) They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.