Psalms 144
1 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].
上主，我的磐石，他應該常受頌讚！他教我的手能鬥，教我的指能戰。
2 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.
他是我的力量，我的堡壘，他是我的干城，我的救主，我的盾牌及我的避難所，他使萬民都來屈服於我。
3 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.
上主，世人算什麼，您竟眷顧他，人子算什麼您竟懷念他？
4 [The time that we live is as short] as [SIM] a puff of wind; our time to live disappears like a shadow does.
世人不過像一口氣，他的歲月如影消逝。
5 Yahweh, (tear open/open up) the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
上主，求您將天低垂，親自降凡，您一觸摸群山，群山立即冒煙。
6 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).
求您發出閃電，將敵人驅散，求您把箭射出，使他們混亂。
7 [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
求您自高處伸出您的手，救拔我，求您由洪水和外人手中，拯救我！
8 who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
他們的口舌只說虛言謊語，只是為發假誓而舉起右手。
9 God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten-stringed harp [while I sing] to you.
天主，我要向您高唱新曲，我要彈十絃琴向您詠奏。
10 You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
是您賜給君王獲得了勝利，是您拯救了您的僕人達味。
11 [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].
求您由凶險的刀劍救拔我，求您由外人的手掌拯救我！他們的口舌只說虛言謊語，只是為發假誓而舉起右手。
12 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.
願我們的兒子們，從幼就像茂盛的果樹，願我們的女兒們，像宮殿中雕刻的砥柱！
13 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.
願我們倉廩裡的各種食糧常滿，願我們牧場上的羊群，蕃殖億萬！
14 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].
願我們的牲畜常滿載重量，城牆沒有缺口也沒有逃亡，我們的街市中也沒有悲傷。
15 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!
身逢這些福樂的百姓，真是有福，認上主為天主的人民，真是有福。
