1 Blessed be the Lord my rock, ♦︎
who teaches my hands for war and my fingers for battle;
2 My steadfast help and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield in whom I trust, ♦︎
who subdues the peoples under me.
3 O Lord, what are mortals that you should consider them; ♦︎
mere human beings, that you should take thought for them?
4 They are like a breath of wind; ♦︎
their days pass away like a shadow.
5 Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; ♦︎
touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
6 Cast down your lightnings and scatter them; ♦︎
shoot out your arrows and let thunder roar.
7 Reach down your hand from on high; ♦︎
deliver me and take me out of the great waters,
from the hand of foreign enemies,
8 Whose mouth speaks wickedness ♦︎
and their right hand is the hand of falsehood.
9 O God, I will sing to you a new song; ♦︎
I will play to you on a ten-stringed harp,
10 You that give salvation to kings ♦︎
and have delivered David your servant.
11 Save me from the peril of the sword ♦︎
and deliver me from the hand of foreign enemies,
12 Whose mouth speaks wickedness ♦︎
and whose right hand is the hand of falsehood;
13 So that our sons in their youth
may be like well-nurtured plants, ♦︎
and our daughters like pillars
carved for the corners of the temple;
14 Our barns be filled with all manner of store; ♦︎
our flocks bearing thousands,
and ten thousands in our fields;
15 Our cattle be heavy with young: ♦︎
may there be no miscarriage or untimely birth,
no cry of distress in our streets.
16 Happy are the people whose blessing this is. ♦︎
Happy are the people who have the Lord for their God.
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18After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority; and the earth was made bright with his splendour.
2He called out with a mighty voice,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
It has become a dwelling-place of demons,
a haunt of every foul spirit,
a haunt of every foul bird,
a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.*
3 For all the nations have drunk*
of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power* of her luxury.
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
Come out of her, my people,
so that you do not take part in her sins,
and so that you do not share in her plagues;
5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Render to her as she herself has rendered,
and repay her double for her deeds;
mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
7 As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never see grief,
8 therefore her plagues will come in a single day
pestilence and mourning and famine
and she will be burned with fire;
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;
10they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
Alas, alas, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in one hour your judgement has come.
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