| Berean Study Bible | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. | 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare. |
| 2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | 2He is my faithful love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him; he subdues my people under me. |
| 3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? | 3LORD, what is a human that you care for him, a son of man that you think of him? |
| 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. | 4A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. |
| 5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. | 5LORD, part your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. |
| 6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them. | 6Flash your lightning and scatter the foe; shoot your arrows and rout them. |
| 7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners, | 7Reach down from on high; rescue me from deep water, and set me free from the grasp of foreigners |
| 8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. | 8whose mouths speak lies, whose right hands are deceptive. |
| 9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You— | 9God, I will sing a new song to you; I will play on a ten-stringed harp for you-- |
| 10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword. | 10the one who gives victory to kings, who frees his servant David from the deadly sword. |
| 11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. | 11Set me free and rescue me from foreigners whose mouths speak lies, whose right hands are deceptive. |
| 12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace. | 12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters, like corner pillars that are carved in the palace style. |
| 13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields. | 13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all kinds of produce; our flocks will increase by thousands and tens of thousands in our open fields. |
| 14Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets. | 14Our cattle will be well fed. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our public squares. |
| 15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. | 15Happy are the people with such blessings. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD. |
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