Psaumes 144
1 Par David. Béni soit Yahvé, mon rocher, qui entraîne mes mains à la guerre, et mes doigts pour combattre...
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 ma bonté, ma forteresse, ma haute tour, mon libérateur, mon bouclier, et celui en qui je me réfugie, qui soumet mon peuple sous mes ordres.
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 Yahvé, qu'est-ce que l'homme, pour que tu en prennes soin? Ou le fils de l'homme, que tu penses à lui?
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 L'homme est comme un souffle. Ses jours sont comme une ombre qui passe.
[The time that we live is as short] as [SIM] a puff of wind; our time to live disappears like a shadow does.
5 Ouvre tes cieux, Yahvé, et descends. Touchez les montagnes, et elles fumeront.
Yahweh, (tear open/open up) the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
6 Lancez la foudre, et dispersez-les. Envoyez vos flèches, et mettez-les en déroute.
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 Étendez votre main d'en haut, me sauver, et me délivrer des grandes eaux, hors des mains des étrangers,
[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 dont la bouche profère des mensonges, dont la main droite est une main droite de mensonge.
who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
9 Je chanterai une nouvelle chanson pour toi, Dieu. Sur une lyre à dix cordes, je chanterai tes louanges.
God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten-stringed harp [while I sing] to you.
10 Tu es celui qui donne le salut aux rois, qui sauve David, son serviteur, de l'épée mortelle.
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
11 Sauvegardez-moi, et délivrez-moi de la main des étrangers, dont les bouches parlent de tromperie, dont la main droite est une main droite de mensonge.
[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 Alors nos fils seront comme des plantes bien cultivées, nos filles comme des piliers sculptés pour orner un palais.
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 Nos granges sont pleines, remplies de toutes sortes de provisions. Nos moutons produisent des milliers et des dizaines de milliers dans nos champs.
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 Nos bœufs tireront de lourdes charges. Il n'y a pas d'entrée par effraction, ni de sortie, et aucun tollé dans nos rues.
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 Heureux les gens qui se trouvent dans une telle situation. Heureux le peuple dont le Dieu est Yahvé.
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!
