2. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3. Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
4. They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
5. Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
6. Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
7. Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
8. whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
9. I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10. to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword