1 GLT Of David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and 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 GLT You are my steadfast love and my fortress, my high tower and the one who rescues me, my shield and the one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues nations 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 GLT Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him, the son of man that you think about him? BSB BSB: O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 GLT Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. BSB BSB: Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 GLT Yahweh, cause your sky to spread wide and come down; touch the mountains and make them smoke. BSB BSB: Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 GLT Shoot lightning and scatter them; send your bolts and disturb them. BSB BSB: Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 GLT Reach out your hand from above, deliver me and rescue me out of many waters, from the hand of sons of foreigners. BSB BSB: Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 GLT For their mouths speak lies, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. BSB BSB: whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 GLT I will sing a new song to you, God; on a lute of ten strings I will play for 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 GLT who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David your servant from an evil sword. BSB BSB: to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 GLT Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of sons of foreigners. For their mouths speak lies, 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 GLT May our sons be like plants who grow large in their youth and our daughters like carved corner pillars, resembling 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 GLT May our storehouses be full with every kind of produce, and may our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands 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 GLT May our oxen have many young. No one will break through, no one will go out, and no one will cry in our 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 GLT Blessed is the people for whom this is so; blessed is the people for whom Yahweh is his 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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