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1 <> Blessed be the LORD my strength, who 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 notice 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 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; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strangers,
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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 whose 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 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose 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 full grown in their youth, that our daughters may be as cornerstones, 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 labor, 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 for whom such is the 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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| Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved. (Third Millennium Bible Online) |
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