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1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
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1 Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
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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.
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2 He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
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3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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3 O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?
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4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away .
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4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
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5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down : touch the mountains, and they shall smoke .
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5 Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
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6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
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6 Send forth lightning and scatter [the enemies]; shoot your arrows and rout them.
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7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
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7 Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
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8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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9 I will sing a new song to you, O God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
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10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
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10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword.
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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:
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11 Deliver me and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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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:
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12 Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
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13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
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14 That our oxen may be strong to labour ; that there be no breaking in, nor going out ; that there be no complaining in our streets.
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14 our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.
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15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
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15 Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
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