Psaumes 144
1 Psaume de David. Béni soit l'Eternel, mon rocher, qui dispose mes mains au combat, et mes doigts à 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 Qui déploie sa bonté envers moi, [qui est] ma forteresse, ma haute retraite, mon libérateur, mon bouclier, et je me suis retiré vers lui; il range 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 Ô Eternel! qu'est-ce que de l'homme, que tu aies soin de lui? du fils de l'homme [mortel], que tu en tiennes compte?
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 semblable 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 Eternel abaisse tes cieux, et descends; touche les montagnes, et qu'elles fument.
Yahweh, (tear open/open up) the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
6 Lance l'éclair, et les dissipe; décoche tes flèches, et les mets 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 Etends tes mains d'en haut, sauve-moi, et me délivre des grosses eaux, de la main des enfants 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 La bouche desquels profère mensonge; et dont la droite est une droite trompeuse.
who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
9 Ô Dieu! je chanterai un nouveau Cantique; je te psalmodierai sur la musette, et avec l'instrument 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 C'est lui qui envoie la délivrance aux Rois, [et] qui délivre de l'épée dangereuse David son serviteur.
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
11 Retire-moi et me délivre de la main des enfants de l'étranger; dont la bouche profère mensonge, et dont la droite est une droite trompeuse.
[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 de jeunes plantes, croissant en leur jeunesse; et nos filles, comme des pierres angulaires taillées pour l'ornement d'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 Que nos dépenses soient pleines, fournissant toute espèce de provision; que nos troupeaux multiplient par milliers, même par dix milliers dans nos rues.
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 bœufs soient chargés de graisse. Qu'il n'y ait ni brèche, ni sortie [dans nos murailles] ni cri dans nos places.
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 Ô que bienheureux est le peuple auquel il en est ainsi! ô que bienheureux est le peuple duquel l'Eternel est le 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!
