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Ask a QuestionFor You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness.
For by You I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Let be and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth!
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our High Tower and Stronghold). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
He only is my Rock and my Salvation, my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be greatly moved.
You brought us into the net (the prison fortress, the dungeon); You laid a heavy burden upon our loins.
Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.
Rescue me and deliver me out of the power of [hostile] alien [tribes] whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hands are right hands [raised in taking] fraudulent oaths.
When our sons shall be as plants grown large in their youth and our daughters as sculptured corner pillars hewn like those of a palace;
Happy and blessed are the people who are in such a case; yes, happy (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, to be envied) are the people whose God is the Lord!
He said: The Lord is my Rock [of escape from Saul] and my Fortress [in the wilderness] and my Deliverer;
I will call upon the Lord, Who is to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
There went up smoke from His nostrils; and lightning out of His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.
They confronted and came upon me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay and support.
They cried [for help], but there was none to deliver--even unto the Lord, but He answered them not.
Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their caves or strongholds.
The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted,
Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me speedily! Be my Rock of refuge, a strong Fortress to save me!
Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked.