1 - ?Of David.?
Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 - He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples
3 - Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
4 - They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
5 - Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
6 - Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
7 - Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
8 - whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 - I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10 - to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword
11 - deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 - Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 - Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
14 - our oxen will draw heavy loads.
15 - Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.