Psaumes 144
1 De David. Béni soit l’Éternel, mon rocher! qui enseigne mes mains pour le combat, mes doigts pour la bataille,
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 et mon lieu fort, ma haute retraite et celui qui me délivre, mon bouclier et celui en qui je me réfugie; il assujettit mon peuple sous moi.
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 Éternel! qu’est-ce que l’homme, que tu prennes connaissance de lui?… le fils de l’homme, que tu tiennes compte de 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 ressemble à la vanité; 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 Éternel! abaisse tes cieux et descends; touche 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 Fais briller l’éclair et disperse-les; lance tes flèches et mets-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 Étends tes mains d’en haut; arrache-moi et délivre-moi des grandes eaux, de la main des fils de l’étranger,
[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 la vanité et dont la droite est une droite de mensonge.
who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
9 Ô Dieu! je te chanterai un cantique nouveau; je te célébrerai sur le luth à dix [cordes],
God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten-stringed harp [while I sing] to you.
10 Toi qui donnes le salut aux rois, toi qui délivres David, ton serviteur, de l’épée funeste.
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
11 Arrache-moi et délivre-moi de la main des fils de l’étranger, dont la bouche profère la vanité et dont la droite est une 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 Afin que nos fils soient comme des plantes croissant dans leur jeunesse, [et] nos filles comme des pierres d’angle, ornementées selon le style des 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 Que nos greniers soient pleins, fournissant toute espèce [de provisions]; que nos troupeaux se multiplient par milliers, par dix milliers dans nos campagnes.
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 Que nos génisses soient fécondes; qu’il n’y ait pas de brèche, pas de sortie, et pas de cri 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 Bienheureux le peuple pour qui il en est ainsi! Bienheureux le peuple qui a l’Éternel pour son Dieu!
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!
