1 ARST I praise Yahweh, who is like a huge rock on which I am safe! He trains my hands so that I can use them to fight battles; he trains my fingers so that I can shoot arrows in a war. BSB BSB: Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 ARST He is the one who protects me as he promised; he is like a fortress in which I am safe, he protects me as shields protect soldiers, and he gives me refuge. He defeats other nations and then puts them under my power. BSB BSB: He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3 ARST Yahweh, we people are so insignificant! Why do you notice us? It is amazing to me that you pay attention to humans. BSB BSB: O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 ARST The time that we live is as short as a puff of wind; our time to live disappears as a shadow does. BSB BSB: Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 ARST Yahweh, tear open the sky and come down! Touch the mountains so that smoke may pour out from them! BSB BSB: Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 ARST Cause lightning to flash with the result that your enemies will run away! Shoot your arrows at them and cause them to run away in panic. BSB BSB: Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 ARST It is as though my enemies are like a flood around me; reach your hand down from heaven and rescue me from them. They are men from foreign countries BSB BSB: Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 ARST who always tell lies. Even when they swear to tell the truth, they tell lies. BSB BSB: whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 ARST God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten- stringed harp while I sing to you. BSB BSB: I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
10 ARST You enable kings to defeat their enemies; you rescue those who serve you as I did. BSB BSB: to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 ARST So I ask you to save me from being killed by the swords that those evil people carry. Rescue me from the power of those men from foreign countries who always tell lies. Even when they swear to tell the truth, they tell lies. BSB BSB: Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 ARST I wish that our sons may all grow to full adulthood; I wish that our daughters may grow up to be as straight and tall as the pillars that stand in the corners of palaces. BSB BSB: Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 ARST I wish that our barns may be full of many different crops. I wish that the sheep in our fields may give birth to tens of thousands of baby lambs. BSB BSB: Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
14 ARST I wish that our cattle may give birth to many calves without having any miscarriages or deaths when they are born. I wish that there may not be any time when the people in our streets cry out in distress because foreign armies are invading. BSB BSB: Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
15 ARST If good things like that happen to a nation, the people will be very fortunate. How fortunate are those who worship Yahweh as God! BSB BSB: Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
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