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143:1 David adversus Goliad benedictus Dominus Deus meus qui docet manus meas ad proelium digitos meos ad bellum	143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
143:2 misericordia mea et refugium meum susceptor meus et liberator meus protector meus et in eo speravi qui subdis populum meum sub me	143:2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
143:3 Domine quid est homo quia innotuisti ei aut filius hominis quia reputas eum	143:3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
143:4 homo vanitati similis factus est dies eius sicut umbra praetereunt	143:4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
143:5 Domine inclina caelos tuos et descende tange montes et fumigabunt	143:5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
143:6 fulgora coruscationem et dissipabis eos emitte sagittas tuas et conturbabis eos	143:6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
143:7 emitte manum tuam de alto eripe me et libera me de aquis multis de manu filiorum alienorum	143:7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
143:8 quorum os locutum est vanitatem et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis	143:8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
143:9 Deus canticum novum cantabo tibi in psalterio decacordo psallam tibi	143:9. 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.
143:10 qui das salutem regibus qui redimit David servum suum de gladio maligno	143:10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
143:11 eripe me et eripe me de manu filiorum alienigenarum quorum os locutum est vanitatem et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis	143:11. 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:
143:12 quorum filii sicut novella plantationis in iuventute sua filiae eorum conpositae circumornatae ut similitudo templi	143:12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
143:13 promptuaria eorum plena eructantia ex hoc in illud oves eorum fetosae abundantes in egressibus suis	143:13. Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
143:14 boves eorum crassi non est ruina maceriae neque transitus neque clamor in plateis eorum	143:14. Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
143:15 beatum dixerunt populum cui haec sunt beatus populus cuius Dominus Deus eius	143:15. They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

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