| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 1Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. | 1Of David. Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. |
| 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 loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. |
| 3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? | 3LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? |
| 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. | 4They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. |
| 5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. | 5Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. |
| 6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them. | 6Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; 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 your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners |
| 8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. | 8whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You— | 9I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, |
| 10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword. | 10to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers 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. | 11deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace. | 12Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. |
| 13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields. | 13Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our 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 oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. |
| 15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. | 15Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD. |
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