¹Blessed be the LORD my strength,

Which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

²My goodness, and my fortress; My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I trust;

Who subdueth my people under me.

³LORD , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him!

Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

⁴Man is like to vanity:

His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

⁵Bow thy heavens, O LORD , and come down:

Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them:

Shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

⁷Send thine hand from above;

Rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

⁸Whose mouth speaketh vanity,

And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:

Upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

¹⁰It is he that giveth salvation unto kings:

Who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

¹¹Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

¹²That 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:

¹³That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:

That our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

¹⁴That our oxen may be strong to labour;

That there be no breaking in, nor going out; That there be no complaining in our streets.

¹⁵Happy is that people, that is in such a case:

Yea , happy is that people, whose God is the LORD .