Psaumes 144
1 Psaume de David. Béni soit l'Éternel, mon rocher, qui dresse 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 Mon bienfaiteur et ma forteresse, ma haute retraite et mon libérateur, mon bouclier et celui vers qui je me retire; celui qui 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 Éternel, qu'est-ce que l'homme, que tu aies soin de lui? et le fils de l'homme 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 un souffle; ses jours sont comme l'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 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 Fais briller l'éclair, et disperse-les; lance 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 Étends tes mains d'en haut, délivre-moi, et me retire des grandes eaux, de la main du 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 le 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 O Dieu, je te chanterai un cantique nouveau; je te célébrerai sur la lyre 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 la délivrance aux rois, qui sauves David, ton serviteur, de l'épée meurtrière.
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
11 Délivre-moi, et me retire de la main des fils de l'étranger, dont la bouche profère le 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 Que nos fils soient comme des plantes croissant dans leur jeunesse; nos filles comme des colonnes taillées, ornant les angles 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 celliers soient remplis, fournissant toute espèce de provisions; que nos brebis se multiplient par milliers, par dix 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 Que nos bœufs soient chargés de graisse; qu'il n'y ait ni brèche, ni attaque, ni clameur 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 le peuple duquel il en est ainsi! Heureux le peuple dont l'Éternel 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!
