Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock 1 DRA Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. BSB BSB: Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 DRA My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. 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 DRA Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? BSB BSB: O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 DRA Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. BSB BSB: Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 DRA Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke. BSB BSB: Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 DRA Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. BSB BSB: Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 DRA Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: BSB BSB: Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 DRA Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. BSB BSB: whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 DRA 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. 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 DRA Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: BSB BSB: to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 DRA 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: BSB BSB: Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 DRA Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: BSB BSB: Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 DRA Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: 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 DRA Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. 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 DRA They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord. BSB BSB: Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
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