1.Praise be to the lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle
2. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shiledm in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me
3. Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you thing of them?
4. They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow
5. Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke
6. Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them
7. Reach down your habnd from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
8. whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful
9. I will sing a new song to you, my GOd; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you
10. to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David . From the deadly sword
11. deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful
12. Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorm a palace
13. Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields
14. Our oxen will draw heavey lads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets
15. Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
Amen