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1 (143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
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Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
2 (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.
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my rock and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues the peoples under me.
3 (143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
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O Lord, what are human beings that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them?
4 (143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
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They are like a breath; their days are like a passing shadow.
5 (143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
6 (143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
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Make the lightning flash and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them.
7 (143-7) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
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Stretch out your hand from on high; set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hand of aliens,
8 (143-8) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hands are false.
9 (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.
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I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,
10 (143-10) Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
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the one who gives victory to kings, who rescues his servant David.
11 (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:
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Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hands are false.
12 (143-12) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
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May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building of a palace.
13 (143-13) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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May our barns be filled, with produce of every kind; may our sheep increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields,
14 (143-14) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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and may our cattle be heavy with young. May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, and no cry of distress in our streets.
15 (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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Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall; happy are the people whose God is the Lord.
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