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
I praise Yahweh, who is [like an overhanging] rock [under which I] ([get refuge/am protected])! He trains my hands so that I can use them to fight battles; he trains my fingers so that I can [shoot arrows in a 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
He is the one who protects me; he is [like] a fortress [DOU] in which I am safe, he protects me [like] [protect soldiers] [MET], and he gives me refuge. He defeats [other] nations and [then] puts them under my power.
3 LORD what? man and to know him son: child human and to devise: think him
Yahweh, [we] people are [very insignificant/unimportant], so why (are you concerned/do you care about us) [RHQ]? [It is amazing to me that] you pay attention to humans.
4 man to/for vanity to resemble day his like/as shadow to pass
[The time that we live is as short] as [SIM] a puff of wind; our time to live disappears like a shadow does.
5 LORD to stretch heaven your and to go down to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry
Yahweh, (tear open/open up) the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
6 to flash lightning and to scatter them to send: depart arrow your and to confuse them
Cause lightning to flash with the result that [your enemies] will run away! Shoot your arrows [at them] and cause them to (run away/scatter).
7 to send: reach hand your from height to open me and to rescue me from water many from hand son: type of foreign
[It is as though my enemies surround me like] a flood; reach your hand down from heaven and rescue me from them [SYN]. They are men from other countries
8 which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception
who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
9 God song new to sing to/for you in/on/with harp ten to sing to/for you
God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten-stringed harp [while I sing] to you.
10 [the] to give: give deliverance: victory to/for king [the] to open [obj] David servant/slave his from sword bad: evil
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
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
[So I ask you to] save me from [being killed by] the swords [that those] evil [people carry]. Rescue me from the power [MTY] of those foreigners who [SYN] [always] tell lies, and [who raise] their right hands [in courtrooms when they solemnly declare that they will tell the truth].
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
I wish/hope that our young sons will grow up to be like strong plants [SIM], and I wish/hope that our daughters will [grow up to] be [straight and tall] like the pillars [SIM] that stand in the corners of palaces.
13 granary our full to promote from kind to(wards) kind flock our to produce thousands to multiply in/on/with outside our
I wish/hope that our barns will be full of many different crops. I wish/hope that the sheep in our fields will give birth to tens of thousands of baby lambs.
14 tame our to bear nothing breach and nothing to come out: produce and nothing outcry in/on/with street/plaza our
I wish/hope that our cows will give birth to many calves without having any miscarriages or deaths when they are born (OR, that no enemies will break through our city walls and take us (into exile/to their own countries)). I wish/hope that [there will not be a time when the people in] our streets cry out in distress [because foreign armies are invading].
15 blessed [the] people which/that thus to/for him blessed [the] people which/that LORD God his
If good things like that happen to a nation, the people will be very happy. The people whose God is Yahweh are the ones who will be happy!
