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href="footnotes.htm#fn23144001-1">*</a>Blessed be the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, my rock,</p> <p class="sl1">who trains my hands for battle,</p> <p class="sl1">my fingers for war;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144002" class="ver">2</span>My safeguard and my fortress,</p> <p class="sl1">my stronghold, my deliverer,</p> <p class="sl">My shield, in whom I take refuge,</p> <p class="sl1">who subdues peoples under me.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23144003" class="ver">3</span><a id="rfn23144003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23144003-1">*</a><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, what is man that you take notice of him;</p> <p class="sl1">the son of man, that you think of him?<a id="ren23144003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144003-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144004" class="ver">4</span><a id="rfn23144004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23144004-1">*</a>Man is but a breath,</p> <p class="sl1">his days are like a passing shadow.<a id="ren23144004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144004-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144005" class="ver">5</span><a id="rfn23144005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23144005-1">*</a><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, incline your heavens and come down;</p> <p class="sl1">touch the mountains and make them smoke.<a id="ren23144005-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144005-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144006" class="ver">6</span>Flash forth lightning and scatter my foes;</p> <p class="sl1">shoot your arrows and rout them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144007" class="ver">7</span>Reach out your hand from on high;</p> <p class="sl1">deliver me from the many waters;</p> <p class="sl1">rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144008" class="ver">8</span>Their mouths speak untruth;</p> <p class="sl1">their right hands are raised in lying oaths.<a id="rfn23144008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23144008-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144009" class="ver">9</span>O God, a new song I will sing to you;</p> <p class="sl1">on a ten-stringed lyre I will play for you.<a id="ren23144009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144010" class="ver">10</span>You give victory to kings;</p> <p class="sl1">you delivered David your servant.<a id="ren23144010-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144010-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl">From the menacing sword <span id="v23144011" class="ver">11</span>deliver me;</p> <p class="sl1">rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.</p> <p class="sl">Their mouths speak untruth;</p> <p class="sl1">their right hands are raised in lying oaths.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23144012" class="ver">12</span>May our sons be like plants<a id="ren23144012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">well nurtured from their youth,</p> <p class="sl">Our daughters, like carved columns,</p> <p class="sl1">shapely as those of the temple.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144013" class="ver">13</span>May our barns be full</p> <p class="sl1">with every kind of store.</p> <p class="sl">May our sheep increase by thousands,</p> <p class="sl1">by tens of thousands in our fields;</p> <p class="sl1">may our oxen be well fattened.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144014" class="ver">14</span>May there be no breach in the walls,</p> <p class="sl1">no exile, no outcry in our streets.<a id="ren23144014-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144014-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23144015" class="ver">15</span>Blessed the people so fortunate;</p> <p class="sl1">blessed the people whose God is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren23144015-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23144015-h">h</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span 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