1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war. 2 My mercy, and my refjuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him? 4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
5 O Lord, bow the heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them. 7 Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;