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Psalm 151
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
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)
7 But I drew his own sword;
I beheaded him and removed disgrace from the people of Israel.(G)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
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