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1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
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44 (Mizmor of Dovid). Baruch Hashem my Tzur (rock) which teacheth my hands for war, and my fingers for milchamah (battle);
2 He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
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My Chesed, and my Metzudah (Fortress); my Stronghold, and my Deliverer; my Mogen, and He in Whom I take refuge; Who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
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Hashem, what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him! Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him!
4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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Adam is like hevel; his days are as a tzel that passeth away.
5 Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
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Part Thy heavens, Hashem, and come down; touch the harim, and they shall smoke.
6 With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
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Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; shoot Thine khitzim (arrows), and destroy them.
7 Put out your hand from on high; make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;
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Send Thine Yad from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of mayim rabbim, from the yad Bnei Nekhar;
8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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Whose mouth speaketh shav (lies), and their right hand is a right hand of sheker.
9 I will make a new song to you, O God; I will make melody to you on an instrument of ten cords.
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I will sing a shir chadash unto Thee, O Elohim; upon a nevel of ten strings will I make music unto Thee.
10 It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.
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It is He that giveth Teshu’ah (deliverance, salvation) unto melachim; Who delivereth Dovid His eved from the cherev ra’ah.
11 Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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Rescue me, and save me from the yad Bnei Nekhar, whose mouth speaketh shav (lies) and their right hand is a right yad of sheker;
12 Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
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In their youth, may baneinu (our sons) be like plants full grown; may benoteinu (our daughters) be like cornerstones, columns wrought for the Heikhal;
13 Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
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That our barns may be full, affording all manner of provision; that our tzon may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our meadows;
14 Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.
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That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no peretz (breach) nor golus; that there be no cry of anquish in our streets.
15 Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
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Ashrei are such people; Ashrei is the people that Hashem is Elohav.
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