³⁴ Teaching my hands for battle, And a bow of brass was brought down by my arms.

¹ By David. Blessed `is' Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My hands for war, my fingers for battle.

³⁵ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am breaking the bow of Elam, The beginning of their might.

³⁶ And Thou givest to me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy lowliness maketh me great.

⁹ Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

⁶ And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might `to' those turning back the battle to the gate.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

⁵ and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'