The 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.
My mercy, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my protector and He in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You make account of him?
Man is like unto a breath: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
O LORD, bow Your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains so that they smoke.
Send lightning, and scatter them: shoot out Your arrows, and destroy them.
Send forth Your hand from above; deliver me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of foreigners;
whose mouths speak falsehood, and whose right hand is a right hand of lying.
O God, I will sing to You a new song: I will sing praise to You on a psaltery of ten strings,
who gives salvation to kings, who rescues Your servant David from an evil sword.
Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood;
May our children be as plants, grown up in their youth: may our daughters be cornerstones, hewn like the form of the temple.
May our garners be full affording all manner of store; may our sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our markets.
May our oxen be strong to labor; no breaking in, nor going out, no complaining in our streets.
Happy is the people that is in such a case. Happy is the people whose God is the LORD.
Happy is he who waits until there will be good to all Israel forever.