1Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
who trains my hands for war
and my fingers for battle.

2You are my covenant faithfulness and my fortress,
my high tower and the one who rescues me,
my shield and the one in whom I take refuge,
the one who subdues nations under me.

3Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him
or the son of man that you think about him?

4Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

5Cause the sky to sink and come down, Yahweh;
touch the mountains and make them smoke.

6Send flashes of lightning and scatter my enemies;
shoot your arrows and drive them back in confusion.

7Reach out your hand from above;
rescue me out of many waters,
from the hand of foreigners.

8Their mouths speak lies,
and their right hand is falsehood.

9I will sing a new song to you, God;
on a lute of ten strings I will sing praises to you,

10who give salvation to kings,
who rescued David your servant from an evil sword.

11Rescue me and free me from the hand of foreigners.
Their mouths speak lies,
and their right hand is falsehood.

12May our sons be like plants who grow to full size in their youth
and our daughters like carved corner pillars, shapely like those of a palace.

13May our storehouses be full with every kind of produce,
and may our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

14Then our oxen will have many young.
No one will break through our walls; there will be no exile
and no outcry in our streets.

15Blessed is the people with such blessings;
happy is the people whose God is Yahweh.