2 my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.
3 O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?
4 Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
5 O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
7 Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
8 whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand.