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
A Psalm. Of David. Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
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 strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
3 LORD what? man and to know him son: child human and to devise: think him
Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
4 man to/for vanity to resemble day his like/as shadow to pass
Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
5 LORD to stretch heaven your and to go down to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry
Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
6 to flash lightning and to scatter them to send: depart arrow your and to confuse them
With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
7 to send: reach hand your from height to open me and to rescue me from water many from hand son: type of foreign
Put out your hand from on high; make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;
8 which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception
In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
9 God song new to sing to/for you in/on/with harp ten to sing to/for you
I will make a new song to you, O God; I will make melody to you on an instrument of ten cords.
10 [the] to give: give deliverance: victory to/for king [the] to open [obj] David servant/slave his from sword bad: evil
It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding 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
Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
13 granary our full to promote from kind to(wards) kind flock our to produce thousands to multiply in/on/with outside our
Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten 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 are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.
15 blessed [the] people which/that thus to/for him blessed [the] people which/that LORD God his
Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
