Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
1 By David. Blessed [is] Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My hands for war, my fingers for battle.
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Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!
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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.
3 Jehovah, what [is] man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?
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LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
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They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
5 Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
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Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
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Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
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