2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9. To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11. Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: