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1 A psalm of David. Blessed be my Lord God, that teacheth mine hands to war; and my fingers to battle. (A song of David. Blessed be the Lord my God, who traineth my hands for war; and my fingers for 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 mercy, and my refuge; my taker up, and my deliverer. My defender, and I hoped in him; and thou makest subject my people under me. (My mercy, and my refuge; my defender, and my deliverer. Yea, my defender, and in whom I trust; and thou makest the peoples to be subject 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 a man, for thou hast made (thyself) known to him; either the son of man, for thou areckonest him of some value? (Lord, what is man, that thou hast taken notice of him?/that thou carest for him? or the son of a man, that thou reckonest, or esteemest, him of some value?)
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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 A man is made like vanity; his days pass as shadow. (A person is but like vanity, yea, but a puff of air; his days pass like a shadow.)
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4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
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5 Lord, bow down thine heavens, and come thou down; touch thou [the] hills, and they shall make 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 Light thou shining, and thou shalt scatter them (Send thou forth thy lightning, and thou shalt scatter thy enemies); send thou out thine arrows, and thou shalt trouble 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 out thine hand from on high, ravish me out, and deliver thou me from many waters; and from the hand of alien sons. (Send out thy hand from on high, and take me out of here, that is, rescue me; save thou me from the deep waters, and from the power of foreigners, or 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 The mouth of whom spake vanity (Their mouths spoke lies); and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness.
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8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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9 God, I shall sing to thee a new song; I shall say psalm to thee in psaltery of ten strings (yea, I shall sing a song to thee to the strains of a ten-stringed lute).
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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 Which givest health to kings, which again-boughtest David, thy servant; from the wicked sword ravish thou out me. (Who givest salvation, or deliverance, to kings, and redeemest thy servant David; rescue thou me from the wicked 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 And deliver thou me from the hand of alien sons; the mouth of which spake vanity, and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness. (And save thou me from the power of foreigners, or of strangers; whose mouths spoke lies, and whose right hands be the right hands of wickedness, that is, they always break their oaths, or their 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 Whose sons be as new plantings in their youth. The daughters of them be arrayed; adorned about as the likeness of a temple. (May our sons be like plants fully grown in their youth; may our daughters be arrayed, or adorned, like 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 The cellars of them be full; bringing out from this vessel into that/from one vessel into another. The sheep of them be with lambs, plenteous in their goings out; (May our cellars be full; and we be able to bring forth from this vessel into that one/and we be able to bring forth from one vessel into another. May our sheep be with lambs; yea, plentiful and innumerable.)
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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 their kine be fat. There is no falling of their wall, neither passing over (of it); neither cry is in the streets of them. (May all our kine be fat; and be there no parting in the walls of their wombs, nor any passing over of them. And may there be no cries of distress in all 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 They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it. (And so we say, Happy be the people, who have things like we do; happy be 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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| Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only. (Wycliffe Bible) |
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