My Rock and My Fortress

Of David.

¹Blessed be the Lord, my grock,

hwho trains my hands for war,

and my fingers for battle;

²he is my isteadfast love and my jfortress,

my kstronghold and my deliverer,

my lshield and he in whom I take refuge,

who msubdues peoples1 under me.

³O Lord, nwhat is man that you oregard him,

or the son of man that you think of him?

⁴pMan is like a breath;

his days are like qa passing rshadow.

⁵sBow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!

tTouch the mountains so that they smoke!

⁶uFlash forth the lightning and scatter them;

usend out your arrows and rout them!

⁷vStretch out your hand from on high;

wrescue me and deliver me from the many waters,

from the hand xof foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak ylies

and whose right hand is za right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing aa new song to you, O God;

upon aa ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

¹⁰who gives victory to kings,

who brescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me

from the hand xof foreigners,

whose mouths speak ylies

and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹²May our sons in their youth

be like cplants full grown,

our daughters like dcorner pillars

cut for the structure of a palace;

¹³emay our granaries be full,

fproviding all kinds of produce;

may our sheep bring forth thousands

and ten thousands in our fields;

¹⁴may our cattle be heavy with young,

suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;2

may there be no gcry of distress in our streets!

¹⁵hBlessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!

iBlessed are the people whose God is the Lord!