< 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 versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
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
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.
3 LORD what? man and to know him son: child human and to devise: think him
O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
4 man to/for vanity to resemble day his like/as shadow to pass
Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
5 LORD to stretch heaven your and to go down to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry
O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 to flash lightning and to scatter them to send: depart arrow your and to confuse them
Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
7 to send: reach hand your from height to open me and to rescue me from water many from hand son: type of foreign
Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
8 which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception
Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9 God song new to sing to/for you in/on/with harp ten to sing to/for you
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.
10 [the] to give: give deliverance: victory to/for king [the] to open [obj] David servant/slave his from sword bad: evil
He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant 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
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.
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
Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
13 granary our full to promote from kind to(wards) kind flock our to produce thousands to multiply in/on/with outside our
Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
14 tame our to bear nothing breach and nothing to come out: produce and nothing outcry in/on/with street/plaza our
Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
15 blessed [the] people which/that thus to/for him blessed [the] people which/that LORD God his
They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.