| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare, | 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; |
| 2he is my gracious love and my fortress, my strong tower and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I find refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | 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. |
| 3LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him? | 3O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? |
| 4The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow. | 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. |
| 5Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder. | 5Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! |
| 6Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them. | 6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! |
| 7Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners. | 7Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, |
| 8Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand deceives, | 8whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| 9God, I will sing a new song to you. On a harp of ten strings I will play to you— | 9I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, |
| 10to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords. | 10who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. |
| 11Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives. | 11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| 12May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace. | 12May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; |
| 13May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields. | 13may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; |
| 14May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets! | 14may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! |
| 15Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. | 15Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! |
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