Psalms 144
1 A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
[A Psalm] of David. Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight;
2 My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me!
3 O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?
4 Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
6 Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
7 Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens,
8 Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.
O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee:
10 He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.
Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:
13 Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures;
14 Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets.
15 They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah!
