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[A Psalm of David concerning Goliad.]
[1] Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.
[2] My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.
[3] Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?
[4] Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
[5] O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
[6] Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.
[7] Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;
[8] whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.
[9] O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.
[10] Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.
[11] Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;
[12] whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.
[13] Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.
[14] Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.
[15] Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
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