詩篇 144
1 ダビデの歌 わが岩なる主はほむべきかな。主は、いくさすることをわが手に教え、戦うことをわが指に教えられます。
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 主はわが岩、わが城、わが高きやぐら、わが救主、わが盾、わが寄り頼む者です。主はもろもろの民をおのれに従わせられます。
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 主よ、人は何ものなので、あなたはこれをかえりみ、人の子は何ものなので、これをみこころに、とめられるのですか。
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 人は息にひとしく、その日は過ぎゆく影にひとしいのです。
[The time that we live is as short] as [SIM] a puff of wind; our time to live disappears like a shadow does.
5 主よ、あなたの天を垂れてくだり、山に触れて煙を出させてください。
Yahweh, (tear open/open up) the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
6 いなずまを放って彼らを散らし、矢を放って彼らを打ち敗ってください。
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 高い所からみ手を伸べて、わたしを救い、大水から、異邦人の手からわたしを助け出してください。
[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 彼らの口は偽りを言い、その右の手は偽りの右の手です。
who [SYN] [always] tell lies. [Even in a courtroom where they swear to tell the truth] they tell lies.
9 神よ、わたしは新しい歌をあなたにむかって歌い、十弦の立琴にあわせてあなたをほめ歌います。
God, I will sing a new song to you, and I will play my ten-stringed harp [while I sing] to you.
10 あなたは王たちに勝利を与え、そのしもべダビデを救われます。
You enable kings to defeat [their enemies]; and you rescued me, your servant David, from [being killed by] my enemies’ swords.
11 わたしを残忍なつるぎから救い、異邦人の手から助け出してください。彼らの口は偽りを言い、その右の手は偽りの右の手です。
[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 われらのむすこたちはその若い時、よく育った草木のようです。われらの娘たちは宮の建物のために刻まれたすみの柱のようです。
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 われらの倉は満ちて様々の物を備え、われらの羊は野でちよろずの子を産み、
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 われらの家畜はみごもって子を産むに誤ることなく、われらのちまたには悩みの叫びがありません。
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 このような祝福をもつ民はさいわいです。主をおのが神とする民はさいわいです。
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!
