Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock

1(143:1) A Psalm of David concerning Goliad. Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

2(143:2) My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

3(143:3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

4(143:4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

5(143:5) O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6(143:6) Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

7(143:7) Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

8(143:8) whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

9(143:9) O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

10(143:10) Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

11(143:11) Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

12(143:12) whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

13(143:13) Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

14(143:14) Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

15(143:15) Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.