12AND IN COVENANT LOYALTY YOUR YOU WILL DESTROY ENEMIES MY AND YOU WILL DESTROY ALL [THE] OPPOSERS OF LIFE MY FOR I [AM] SERVANT YOUR 12And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.
1[BE] BLESSED YAHWEH ROCK MY WHO TRAINS HANDS MY FOR <THE> WAR FINGERS MY FOR <THE> BATTLE 1Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2COVENANT LOYALTY MY AND STRONGHOLD MY REFUGE MY AND DELIVERER MY TO ME SHIELD MY AND IN HIM I TAKE REFUGE THE [ONE WHO] SUBDUES PEOPLE MY UNDER ME 2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer He is my shield in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples*NoteCloseMany Hebrew manuscripts, DSS, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts subdues my people under me.
3O YAHWEH WHAT? [IS] HUMANKIND AND YOU HAVE CONSIDERED HIM A CHILD OF HUMANKIND AND YOU HAVE REGARDED HIM 3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4HUMANKIND TO <THE> BREATH HE IS LIKE DAYS HIS [ARE] LIKE A SHADOW PASSING 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5O YAHWEH BEND DOWN HEAVENS YOUR SO YOU MAY COME DOWN TOUCH <IN> THE MOUNTAINS SO THEY MAY SMOKE 5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6FLASH LIGHTNING AND YOU WILL SCATTER THEM SEND ARROWS YOUR AND YOU WILL ROUT THEM 6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7STRETCH OUT HANDS YOUR FROM A HIGH PLACE SET FREE ME AND DELIVER ME FROM WATERS MANY FROM [THE] HAND OF SONS OF FOREIGNNESS 7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8WHO MOUTH THEIR IT SPEAKS FALSEHOOD AND RIGHT [HAND] THEIR [IS] A RIGHT [HAND] OF DECEPTION 8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9O GOD A SONG NEW I WILL SING TO YOU WITH A LYRE OF TEN I WILL MAKE MUSIC TO YOU 9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
10WHO GIVES DELIVERANCE TO <THE> KINGS WHO SETS FREE <OBJ.> DAVID SERVANT HIS FROM A SWORD EVIL 10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11SET FREE ME AND DELIVER ME FROM [THE] HAND OF SONS OF FOREIGNNESS WHO MOUTH THEIR IT SPEAKS FALSEHOOD AND RIGHT [HAND] THEIR [IS] A RIGHT [HAND] OF DECEPTION 11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12WHO SONS OUR [WILL BE] LIKE PLANTS FULL GROWN IN YOUTH<S> THEIR DAUGHTERS OUR [WILL BE] LIKE CORNERS CARVED [THE] STRUCTURE OF A PALACE 12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13GRANARIES OUR [WILL BE] FULL PROVIDING FROM KIND TO KIND FLOCKS OUR [WILL BE] PRODUCING THOUSANDS PRODUCING TEN THOUSANDS IN OPEN PLACES OUR 13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
14CATTLE[S] OUR [WILL BE] LOADED THERE NOT [WILL BE] A BREACH AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] ABORTION AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] AN OUTCRY IN OPEN PLACES OUR 14Our oxen will bear great loads.*NoteCloseOr Our chieftains will be firmly established There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
15HOW BLESSED! [IS] THE PEOPLE THAT THUS FOR IT HOW BLESSED! [IS] THE PEOPLE THAT YAHWEH [IS] GOD ITS 15Blessed are the people of whom this is so blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.