1The Psalm of David praising the LORD on the day when Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, and Jonathan the son of Shimea killed a man of great stature, saying: Blessed be the LORD my rock, who instructs my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.
2My mercy, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my protector and He in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You make account of him?
4Man is like unto a breath: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
5O LORD, bow Your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains so that they smoke.
6Send lightning, and scatter them: shoot out Your arrows, and destroy them.
7Send forth Your hand from above; deliver me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of foreigners;
8whose mouths speak falsehood, and whose right hand is a right hand of lying.
9O God, I will sing to You a new song: I will sing praise to You on a psaltery of ten strings,
10who gives salvation to kings, who rescues Your servant David from an evil 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;
12May our children be as plants, grown up in their youth: may our daughters be cornerstones, hewn like the form of the temple.
13May our garners be full affording all manner of store; may our sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our markets.
14May our oxen be strong to labor; no breaking in, nor going out, no complaining in our streets.
15Happy is the people that is in such a case. Happy is the people whose God is the LORD.
16Happy is he who waits until there will be good to all Israel forever.