< Psalms 144 >
1 to/for David to bless LORD rock my [the] to learn: teach hand my to/for battle finger my to/for battle
Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 kindness my and fortress my high refuge my and to escape me to/for me shield my and in/on/with him to seek refuge [the] to subdue people my underneath: under me
He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3 LORD what? man and to know him son: child human and to devise: think him
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 man to/for vanity to resemble day his like/as shadow to pass
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 LORD to stretch heaven your and to go down to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 to flash lightning and to scatter them to send: depart arrow your and to confuse them
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 to send: reach hand your from height to open me and to rescue me from water many from hand son: type of foreign
Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8 which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception
whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 God song new to sing to/for you in/on/with harp ten to sing to/for you
I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
10 [the] to give: give deliverance: victory to/for king [the] to open [obj] David servant/slave his from sword bad: evil
to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 to open me and to rescue me from hand son: type of foreign which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception
Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 which son: descendant/people our like/as plant to magnify in/on/with youth their daughter our like/as corner to chop pattern temple: palace
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 granary our full to promote from kind to(wards) kind flock our to produce thousands to multiply in/on/with outside our
Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
14 tame our to bear nothing breach and nothing to come out: produce and nothing outcry in/on/with street/plaza our
Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
15 blessed [the] people which/that thus to/for him blessed [the] people which/that LORD God his
Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.