1. Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
3. LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
4. Man is like to vanity: 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 them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
7. Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreigners;
8. Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9. I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you.
10. It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.