Psalms 144
1 A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
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。
2 My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
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。
3 O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
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。
4 Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
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。
5 O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
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。
6 Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
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。
7 Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
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。
8 Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
彼らの口は偽りを言い、その右の手は偽りの右の手です。
9 To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.
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。
10 He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.
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。
11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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。
12 Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
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。
13 Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
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、
14 Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
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。
15 They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
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。
