1Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; (مز 18:2; مز 18:31; مز 18:34; مز 18:46)2he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples[1] under me. (مز 7:10; مز 18:2; مز 18:47; مز 59:9; مز 59:10; مز 59:17; مز 91:2; يون 2:8)3O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? (مز 8:4; مز 31:7)4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. (أي 8:9; مز 39:5; مز 102:11; مز 109:23)5Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! (مز 18:9; مز 104:32; إش 64:1)6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! (مز 18:14)7Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, (مز 18:16; مز 18:44; مز 69:14)8whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. (تك 14:22; تث 32:40; مز 12:2; مز 41:6; مز 106:26; إش 62:8)9I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, (مز 33:2)10who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. (مز 18:50)11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. (مز 144:7; مز 144:8)12May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; (مز 128:3; زك 9:15)13may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; (إش 30:23; يؤ 2:24)14may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;[2] may there be no cry of distress in our streets! (إش 24:11; إر 14:2; إر 46:12)15Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord! (تث 33:29; مز 33:12; مز 146:5)