1 Blessed be the Lord my strength,which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 my goodness, and my fortress;my high tower, and my deliverer;my shield, and he in whom I trust;who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity:his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down:touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them:shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above;rid me, and deliver me out of great waters,from the hand of strange children;
8 whose mouth speaketh vanity,and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten stringswill I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings:who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,whose mouth speaketh vanity,and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12 that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones,polished after the similitude of a palace:
13 that our garners may be full,affording all manner of store; that our sheep may bring forth thousandsand ten thousands in our streets:
14 that our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out;that there be no complaining in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.