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- <A Psalm.
Of David.>
Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
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- He is my strength, and my Rock;
my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
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- Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind?
or the son of man that you take him into account?
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- Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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- Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
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- With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
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- Put out your hand from on high;
make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;
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- In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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- I will make a new song to you, O God;
I will make melody to you on an instrument of ten cords.
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- It is God who gives salvation to kings;
and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.
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- Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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- Our sons are like tall young plants;
and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
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- Our store-houses are full of all good things;
and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
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- Our oxen are well weighted down;
our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.
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- Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
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