Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock 1 ULT Of David. Blessed{ be} Yahweh, my rock, the one teaching my hands for war, my fingers for battle, BSB BSB: Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 ULT my covenant faithfulness and my fortress, my stronghold and the one rescuing me, my shield, and in whom I take refuge, the one subduing 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 ULT Yahweh, what{ is} man, that you know him, the son of man, that you consider him? BSB BSB: O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 ULT Man compares to vapor; his days{ are} like a passing shadow. BSB BSB: Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 ULT Yahweh, bow your heavens and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. BSB BSB: Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 ULT Light lightning and scatter them; send your arrows and rout them. BSB BSB: Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 ULT Send your hands from above; break me free and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of sons of a foreigner, BSB BSB: Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 ULT who, their mouth speaks worthlessness, and their right hand{ is} a right hand of falsehood. BSB BSB: whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 ULT God, I will sing a new song to you; with a lyre of ten{ strings} I will make music 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 ULT the one giving salvation to kings, the one breaking free David his servant from the evil sword. BSB BSB: to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 ULT Break me free and deliver me from the hand of the sons of a foreigner, who, their mouth speaks worthlessness, and their right hand{ is} a right hand of falsehood, BSB BSB: Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 ULT that our sons{ may be} like plants having been enlarged in their youth, our daughters, like corner pillars carved{ in} the pattern of a palace. BSB BSB: Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 ULT { May} our granaries{ be} full, furnishing from kind to kind; may our flocks be thousanding, may they be myriading in our fields. 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 ULT { May} our oxen{ be} burdened; no breach and no going out and no cry in our squares. 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 ULT The happinesses of the people for whom{ it is} thus to it! The happinesses of the people for whom Yahweh{ is} its 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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