| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; | 1Praise the LORD, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle. |
| 2he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | 2He is my loving ally and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him. He makes the nations submit to me. |
| 3O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? | 3O LORD, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them? |
| 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. | 4For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow. |
| 5Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! | 5Open the heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke. |
| 6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! | 6Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them! |
| 7Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, | 7Reach down from heaven and rescue me; rescue me from deep waters, from the power of my enemies. |
| 8whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | 8Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead. |
| 9I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, | 9I will sing a new song to you, O God! I will sing your praises with a ten-stringed harp. |
| 10who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. | 10For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword. |
| 11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | 11Save me! Rescue me from the power of my enemies. Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead. |
| 12May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; | 12May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace. |
| 13may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; | 13May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands, |
| 14may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! | 14and may our oxen be loaded down with produce. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares. |
| 15Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! | 15Yes, joyful are those who live like this! Joyful indeed are those whose God is the LORD. |
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