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1 Thank the LORD, my rock, who trained my hands to fight and my fingers to do battle,
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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 merciful one, my fortress, my stronghold, and my savior, my shield, the one in whom I take refuge, and the one who brings people under my authority.
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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 O LORD, what are humans that you should care about them? What are mere mortals that you should think about them?
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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 Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.
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4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
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5 O LORD, bend your heaven low, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will 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 Hurl bolts of lightning, and scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and throw them into confusion.
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6 Send forth lightning and scatter [the enemies]; shoot your arrows and rout them.
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7 Stretch out your hands from above. Snatch me, and rescue me from raging waters and from foreigners' hands.
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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 Their mouths speak lies. Their right hands take false pledges.
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8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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9 O God, I will sing a new song to you. I will sing a psalm to you on a ten-stringed harp.
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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 You are the one who gives victory to kings. You are the one who snatches your servant David away from a deadly 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 Snatch me, and rescue me from foreigners' hands. Their mouths speak lies. Their right hands take false pledges.
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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 May our sons be like full-grown, young plants. May our daughters be like stately columns that adorn the corners 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 May our barns be filled with all kinds of crops. May our sheep give birth to thousands of lambs, tens of thousands in our fields.
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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 May our cattle have many calves. May no one break in, and may no one be dragged out. May there be no cries of distress 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 Blessed are the people who have these blessings! Blessed are the 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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