3. Hashem, what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him! Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him!
4. Adam is like hevel; his days are as a tzel that passeth away.
5. Part Thy heavens, Hashem, and come down; touch the harim, and they shall smoke.
6. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; shoot Thine khitzim (arrows), and destroy them.
7. Send Thine Yad from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of mayim rabbim, from the yad Bnei Nekhar;
8. Whose mouth speaketh shav (lies), and their right hand is a right hand of sheker.
9. I will sing a shir chadash unto Thee, O Elohim; upon a nevel of ten strings will I make music unto Thee.
10. It is He that giveth Teshu'ah (deliverance, salvation) unto melachim; Who delivereth Dovid His eved from the cherev ra'ah.
11. Rescue me, and save me from the yad Bnei Nekhar, whose mouth speaketh shav (lies) and their right hand is a right yad of sheker;
12. In their youth, may baneinu (our sons) be like plants full grown; may benoteinu (our daughters) be like cornerstones, columns wrought for the Heikhal;