1Prayer for rescue. A happy people described.
A Psalm of David.
Blessed be Jehovah my rock,Who teacheth my hands to war,And my fingers to fight:2My lovingkindness, and my fortress,My high tower, and my deliverer;My shield, and he in whom I take refuge;Who subdueth my people under me.3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him?Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?4Man is like to 1vanity:His days are as a shadow that passeth away.5Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.7Stretch forth thy hand from above;Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,Out of the hand of aliens;8Whose mouth speaketh deceit,And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.10Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings;Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.11Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,Whose mouth speaketh deceit,And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth,And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;13When our garners are full, affording all manner of store,And our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;14When our oxen are well laden;When there is no breaking in, and no 2going forth,And no outcry in our streets:15Happy is the people that is in such a case;Yea, happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.