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1 (Mizmor of Dovid)
Baruch Hashem my Tzur (rock)
which teacheth my hands for war,
and my fingers for milchamah (battle);
2 My Chesed, and my Metzudah (Fortress);
my Stronghold, and my Deliverer;
my Mogen, and He in Whom I take refuge;
Who subdueth my people under me.
3 Hashem, what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him!
Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him!
4 Adam is like hevel;
his days are as a tzel that passeth away.
5 Part Thy heavens, Hashem, and come down;
touch the harim, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;
shoot Thine khitzim (arrows), and destroy them.
7 Send Thine Yad from above; rescue me,
and deliver me out of mayim rabbim,
from the yad Bnei Nekhar;
8 Whose mouth speaketh shav (lies),
and their right hand is a right hand of sheker.
9 I will sing a shir chadash unto Thee, O Elohim;
upon a nevel of ten strings will I make music unto Thee.
10 It is He that giveth Teshu'ah (deliverance, salvation) unto melachim;
Who delivereth Dovid His eved from the cherev ra'ah.
11 Rescue me, and save me
from the yad Bnei Nekhar,
whose mouth speaketh shav (lies)
and their right hand is a right yad of sheker.
12 In their youth, may baneinu (our sons) be like plants full grown;
may benoteinu (our daughters) be like cornerstones,
columns wrought for the Heikhal;
13 That our barns may be full,
affording all manner of provision;
that our tzon may bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our meadows;
14 That our oxen may be strong to labor;
that there be no peretz (breach) nor golus;
that there be no cry of anquish in our streets.
15 Ashrei are such people;
Ashrei is the people that Hashem is Elohav.