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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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(143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
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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(143-2) My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3 LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
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(143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4 They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
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(143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
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(143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
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(143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
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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(143-7) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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(143-8) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9 I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
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(143-9) To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword
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(143-10) Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11 deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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(143-11) Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
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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(143-12) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
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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(143-13) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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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(143-14) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
15 Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.
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(143-15) They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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