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Psalm 151
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

This psalm is ascribed to David as his own composition (though it is outside the number[a]), after he had fought in single combat with Goliath.

151 I was small among my brothers
    and the youngest in my father’s house;
I tended my father’s sheep.(A)

2 My hands made a harp;
    my fingers fashioned a lyre.(B)

3 And who will tell my Lord?
    The Lord himself; it is he who hears.[b](C)

4 It was he who sent his messenger[c]
    and took me from my father’s sheep
    and anointed me with his anointing oil.(D)

5 My brothers were handsome and tall,
    but the Lord was not pleased with them.(E)

6 I went out to meet the foreigner,[d]
    and he cursed me by his idols.(F)

7 But I drew his own sword;
    I beheaded him and removed disgrace from the people of Israel.(G)

Footnotes

  1. 151.1 Other ancient authorities add of the one hundred fifty (psalms)
  2. 151.3 Other ancient authorities add everything; others add me; others read who will hear me
  3. 151.4 Gk: Q ms prophet
  4. 151.6 Gk: Q ms Philistine
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