1. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war—
2. my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.
3. O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?
4. Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
5. O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
6. Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
7. Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,