Psalms 144
1 [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;
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 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
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 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
上主，世人算什麼，您竟眷顧他，人子算什麼您竟懷念他？
4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
世人不過像一口氣，他的歲月如影消逝。
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
求您發出閃電，將敵人驅散，求您把箭射出，使他們混亂。
7 Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
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 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
他們的口舌只說虛言謊語，只是為發假誓而舉起右手。
9 I will sing a new song to thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee.
天主，我要向您高唱新曲，我要彈十絃琴向您詠奏。
10 [It is he] that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
是您賜給君王獲得了勝利，是您拯救了您的僕人達味。
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:
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 That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace:
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 [That] our granaries [may be] full, affording all manner of store; [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
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 [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labor; that [there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.
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 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yes], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.
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。
