| International Standard Version | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare, | 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare. |
| 2he is my gracious love and my fortress, my strong tower and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I find refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | 2He is my faithful love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him; he subdues my people under me. |
| 3LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him? | 3LORD, what is a human that you care for him, a son of man that you think of him? |
| 4The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow. | 4A human is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. |
| 5Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder. | 5LORD, part your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. |
| 6Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them. | 6Flash your lightning and scatter the foe; shoot your arrows and rout them. |
| 7Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners. | 7Reach down from on high; rescue me from deep water, and set me free from the grasp of foreigners |
| 8Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand deceives, | 8whose mouths speak lies, whose right hands are deceptive. |
| 9God, I will sing a new song to you. On a harp of ten strings I will play to you— | 9God, I will sing a new song to you; I will play on a ten-stringed harp for you-- |
| 10to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords. | 10the one who gives victory to kings, who frees his servant David from the deadly sword. |
| 11Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives. | 11Set me free and rescue me from foreigners whose mouths speak lies, whose right hands are deceptive. |
| 12May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace. | 12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters, like corner pillars that are carved in the palace style. |
| 13May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields. | 13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all kinds of produce; our flocks will increase by thousands and tens of thousands in our open fields. |
| 14May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets! | 14Our cattle will be well fed. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our public squares. |
| 15Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. | 15Happy are the people with such blessings. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD. |
The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation
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