Blessed Be Yahweh, My Rock
Of David.
Blessed be Yahweh, amy rock,Who btrains my hands for war,My fingers for battle;Ps 18:22 Sam 22:35; Ps 18:342 My lovingkindness and amy fortress,My bstronghold and my deliverer,My cshield and He in whom I take refuge,Who dsubdues 1my people under me.Or peoplesPs 18:2; 91:2Ps 59:9Ps 3:3; 28:7; 84:9Ps 18:393 O Yahweh, awhat is man, that You know him?Or the son of man, that You think of him?Job 7:17; Ps 8:4; Heb 2:64 aMan is like a breath;His bdays are like a passing shadow.Ps 39:11Job 8:9; 14:2; Ps 102:11; 109:23
5 O Yahweh, abow Your heavens, and bcome down;cTouch the mountains, that they may smoke.Ps 18:9Is 64:1Ps 104:326 Flash forth alightning and scatter them;Send out Your barrows and confuse them.Ps 18:14Ps 7:13; 58:7; Hab 3:11; Zech 9:147 Send forth Your hand afrom on high;Set me free and bdeliver me out of many waters,Out of the hand of cforeignersPs 18:16Ps 69:1, 14Ps 18:44; 54:38 Whose mouth aspeaks worthlessness,And whose bright hand is a right hand of lying.Ps 12:2; 41:6Gen 14:22; Deut 32:40; Ps 106:26; Is 44:20
9 O God, I will sing a anew song to You;Upon a bharp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,Ps 33:3; 40:3Ps 33:210 Who agives salvation to kings,Who bsets David His servant free from the evil sword.Ps 18:502 Sam 18:7; Ps 140:711 Set me free and deliver me out of the hand of the sons of a aforeigner,Whose mouth bspeaks worthlessnessAnd whose cright hand is a right hand of lying.Ps 18:44; 54:3Ps 12:2; 41:6Gen 14:22; Deut 32:40; Ps 106:26; Is 44:20
12 That our sons would be as agrown-up plants in their youth,And our daughters as bcorner pillars 1fashioned as for a palace;Lit cut after the pattern ofPs 92:12-14; 128:3Song 4:4; 7:413 That our agranaries would be full, furnishing every kind of produce,And our flocks would bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields outside;Prov 3:9, 1014 That our acattle would 1bearWithout 2bmishap and without 3closs,And without doutcry in our streets!Lit be ladenLit bursting forthLit going outProv 14:42 Kin 25:10, 11Amos 5:3Is 24:11; Jer 14:215 How blessed are the people for whom this is so;How ablessed are the people for whom God is Yahweh!Ps 33:12