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[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;
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My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
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LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
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Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
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Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;