Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock 1 UST This is a psalm of David. I praise Yahweh, who protects me! He equips me to fight well in wars. BSB BSB: Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 UST He is always faithful and kind to me. He keeps me safe and helps me escape from danger, as if he were my shield or a place where I could go to be safe. He enables me to rule other peoples. 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 UST Yahweh, people are so insignificant; it is amazing that you pay any attention to them! BSB BSB: O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 UST People live for only a very short time, just as a mist or a shadow quickly disappears. BSB BSB: Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 UST Yahweh, please come down from the sky and split open the mountains so that smoke pours from them. BSB BSB: Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 UST Please send lightning bolts like arrows against my enemies to make them run away. BSB BSB: Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 UST Reach down from heaven and rescue me from my enemies who are surrounding me like a dangerous flood. Save me from the power of these foreign people. BSB BSB: Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 UST They say things that are not true and raise their right hands to swear oaths that are false. BSB BSB: whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 UST God, I will sing a new song to you and play my ten- stringed harp to praise 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 UST because you are the one who saves kings and who rescues me, your servant David, from danger in battle. BSB BSB: to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 UST Save me from the power of these foreign people. They say things that are not true and raise their right hands to swear oaths that are false. BSB BSB: Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 UST Then our sons will be like strong plants that grow tall when they are young, and our daughters will be as beautiful and stately as pillars that craftsmen carve to decorate 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 UST May our barns overflow with many kinds of crops. May our sheep give birth to great numbers of lambs, yes, very great numbers as they graze in our pastures. 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 UST May our oxen be strong to pull plows. May no one break through our walls, may no one go into exile, and may no one cry out{ in distress} in our city 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 UST What a good life people have when these things happen for them! What a good life people have who worship Yahweh as their 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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