Psalms 144
1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
上主，我的磐石，他應該常受頌讚！他教我的手能鬥，教我的指能戰。
2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
他是我的力量，我的堡壘，他是我的干城，我的救主，我的盾牌及我的避難所，他使萬民都來屈服於我。
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
上主，世人算什麼，您竟眷顧他，人子算什麼您竟懷念他？
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
世人不過像一口氣，他的歲月如影消逝。
5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
上主，求您將天低垂，親自降凡，您一觸摸群山，群山立即冒煙。
6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
求您發出閃電，將敵人驅散，求您把箭射出，使他們混亂。
7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
求您自高處伸出您的手，救拔我，求您由洪水和外人手中，拯救我！
8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
他們的口舌只說虛言謊語，只是為發假誓而舉起右手。
9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
天主，我要向您高唱新曲，我要彈十絃琴向您詠奏。
10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
是您賜給君王獲得了勝利，是您拯救了您的僕人達味。
11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
求您由凶險的刀劍救拔我，求您由外人的手掌拯救我！他們的口舌只說虛言謊語，只是為發假誓而舉起右手。
12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
願我們的兒子們，從幼就像茂盛的果樹，願我們的女兒們，像宮殿中雕刻的砥柱！
13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
願我們倉廩裡的各種食糧常滿，願我們牧場上的羊群，蕃殖億萬！
14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
願我們的牲畜常滿載重量，城牆沒有缺口也沒有逃亡，我們的街市中也沒有悲傷。
15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
身逢這些福樂的百姓，真是有福，認上主為天主的人民，真是有福。
