Psalms 143:1-12

¹A Psalm of David concerning Goliad. Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

²My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

³Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

⁴Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

⁵O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

⁷Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

⁸whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

⁹O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

¹⁰Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

¹¹Deliver 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;

¹²whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.