1 By David. Blessed [is] Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My  hands for war, my fingers for battle.
         
                                
                        2 My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer,  My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my  people under me!
         
                                
                        3 Jehovah, what [is] man that Thou knowest him? Son of man,  that Thou esteemest him?
         
                                
                        4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow  passing by.
         
                                
                        5 Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against  mountains, and they smoke.
         
                                
                        6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine  arrows, and trouble them,
         
                                
                        7 Send forth Thy hand from on high, Free me, and deliver me  from many waters, From the hand of sons of a stranger,