Teaching my hands for battle, So that my arms shall bend a bow of bronze.
“And You give me the shield of Your deliverance, And Your lowliness makes me great.
Blessed be יהוה my Rock, Who is teaching my hands for fighting, My fingers for battle;
Causing all fighting to cease, Unto the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the chariot with fire.
and a spirit of right-ruling to him who sits in right-ruling, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
“Thus said יהוה to His anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of sovereigns, to open before him the double doors, so that gates are not shut:
“Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘See, I am breaking the bow of Ě
“And it shall be in that day that I shall break the bow of Yisra’ĕ
To the chief singer with my stringed instruments.