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¹ [A Psalm] of David. Blessed be Yahweh my rock, Who teaches my hands to war, [And] my fingers to fight:² My loving-kindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer; My shield and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.³ Yahweh, what is man, that you take knowledge of him? Or the son of common man, that you make account of him?⁴ Man is like vanity: His days are as a shadow that passes away.⁵ Bow your heavens, O Yahweh, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out your arrows, and discomfit them.⁷ Stretch forth your hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;⁸ Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹ I will sing a new song to you, O God: On a psaltery of ten strings I will sing praises to you.¹⁰ You are he that gives salvation to kings; Who rescues David his slave from the hurtful sword.¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.¹² That our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones cut after the fashion of a palace;¹³ [That] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;¹⁴ [That] our oxen are well laden; [That there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets:¹⁵ Happy is the people that is in such a case; [Yes], happy is the people whose God is Yahweh.