My Rock and My Fortress

Of David.

¹Blessed be the Lord, my rock,

who trains my hands for war,

and my fingers for battle;

²he is my steadfast love and my fortress,

my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield and he in whom I take refuge,

who subdues peoples1 under me.

³O Lord, what is man that you regard him,

or the son of man that you think of him?

⁴Man is like a breath;

his days are like a passing shadow.

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

Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

⁶Flash forth the lightning and scatter them;

send out your arrows and rout them!

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high;

rescue me and deliver me from the many waters,

from the hand of foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak lies

and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

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

¹⁰who gives victory to kings,

who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me

from the hand of foreigners,

whose mouths speak lies

and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹²May our sons in their youth

be like plants full grown,

our daughters like corner pillars

cut for the structure of a palace;

¹³may our granaries be full,

providing 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 cry of distress in our streets!

¹⁵Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!

Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!