+[A Psalm+] of David.

¹BLESSED BE the Lord, my Rock and my keen and firm Strength, Who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight–

²My Steadfast Love and my Fortress, my High Tower and my Deliverer, my Shield and He in Whom I trust and take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.

³Lord, what is man that You take notice of him? Or [the] son of man that You take account of him? [Job 7:17; Ps. 8:4; Heb. 2:6.]

⁴Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

⁵Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Cast forth lightning and scatter [my enemies]; send out Your arrows and embarrass and frustrate them.

⁷Stretch forth Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hands of hostile aliens (tribes around us)

⁸Whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hands are right hands [raised in taking] fraudulent oaths.

⁹I will sing a new song to You, O God; upon a harp, an instrument of ten strings, will I offer praises to You.

¹⁰You are He Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword [of evil].

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me out of the power of [hostile] alien [tribes] whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hands are right hands [raised in taking] fraudulent oaths.

¹²When our sons shall be as plants grown large in their youth and our daughters as sculptured corner pillars hewn like those of a palace;

¹³When our garners are full, affording all manner of store, and our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our pastures;

¹⁴When our oxen are well loaded; when there is no invasion [of hostile armies] and no going forth [against besiegers–when there is no murder or manslaughter] and no outcry in our streets;

¹⁵Happy and blessed are the people who are in such a case; yes, happy (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, to be envied) are the people whose God is the Lord!