2. My Steadfast Love and my Fortress, my High Tower and my Deliverer, my Shield and He in Whom I trust and take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
3. Lord, what is man that You take notice of him? Or [the] son of man that You take account of him? [Job 7:17; Ps. 8:4; Heb. 2:6.]
4. Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
5. Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6. Cast forth lightning and scatter [my enemies]; send out Your arrows and embarrass and frustrate them.
7. Stretch forth Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hands of hostile aliens (tribes around us)
8. Whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hands are right hands [raised in taking] fraudulent oaths.
9. I will sing a new song to You, O God; upon a harp, an instrument of ten strings, will I offer praises to You.