1 A Song to the Lord Who Preserves and Prospers His People A Psalm of David. Blessed be the Lord my Rock, Ps. 54:5 Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle—
2 My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
3 2 Sam. 22:35; Ps. 18:34 Lord , what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?
4 Job 7:17; Ps. 8:4; Heb. 2:6 Man is like a breath; Ps. 39:11 His days are like a passing shadow.
5 Job 8:9; 14:2; Ps. 102:11 Bow down Your heavens, O Lord , and come down; Ps. 18:9; Is. 64:1 Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Ps. 104:32 Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
7 Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,
8 Whose mouth Ps. 18:13, 14 speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will Ps. 12:2 sing a new song to You, O God; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,
10 The One who gives salvation to kings, Ps. 33:2, 3; 40:3 Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood—
12 That our sons may be Ps. 18:50 as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;
13 That our barns may be full, Supplying all kinds of produce; That our sheep may bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields;
14 That our oxen may be well laden; That there be no breaking in or going out; That there be no outcry in our streets.
15 Ps. 128:3 Happy are the people who are in such a state; Happy are the people whose God is the Lord !