Psalms 144

1 A psalm of David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.

[By David.] Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

2 You are my covenant faithfulness and my fortress, my high tower and the one who rescues me, my shield and the one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues nations under me.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues peoples under me.

3 Yahweh, what is man that you take notice of him or the son of man that you think about him?

LORD, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

5 Cause the sky to sink and come down, Yahweh; touch the mountains and make them smoke.

Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

6 Send flashes of lightning and scatter my enemies; shoot your arrows and drive them back in confusion.

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

7 Reach out your hand from above; rescue me out of many waters, from the hand of foreigners.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

8 Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand is falsehood.

whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song to you, God; on a lute of ten strings I will sing praises to you,

I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

10 who give salvation to kings, who rescued David your servant from an evil sword.

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

11 Rescue me and free me from the hand of foreigners. Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand is falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

12 May our sons be like plants who grow to full size in their youth and our daughters like carved corner pillars, shapely like those of a palace.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

13 May our storehouses be full with every kind of produce, and may our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

Our storehouses are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

14 Then our oxen will have many young. No one will break through our walls; there will be no exile and no outcry in our streets.

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

15 Blessed is the people with such blessings; happy is the people whose God is Yahweh.

Blessed are the people who are in such a situation. Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.