Psalms 144

1 to/for David to bless LORD rock my [the] to learn: teach hand my to/for battle finger my to/for battle

[A Psalm] of David concerning Goliad. Blessed [be] the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, [and] my fingers for war.

2 kindness my and fortress my high refuge my and to escape me to/for me shield my and in/on/with him to seek refuge [the] to subdue people my underneath: under me

My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

3 LORD what? man and to know him son: child human and to devise: think him

Lord, what is man, that you are made known to him? or the son of man, that you take account of him?

4 man to/for vanity to resemble day his like/as shadow to pass

Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

5 LORD to stretch heaven your and to go down to touch in/on/with mountain: mount and be angry

O Lord, bow your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 to flash lightning and to scatter them to send: depart arrow your and to confuse them

Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shall discomfit them.

7 to send: reach hand your from height to open me and to rescue me from water many from hand son: type of foreign

Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

8 which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception

whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

9 God song new to sing to/for you in/on/with harp ten to sing to/for you

O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings.

10 [the] to give: give deliverance: victory to/for king [the] to open [obj] David servant/slave his from sword bad: evil

[Even] to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

11 to open me and to rescue me from hand son: type of foreign which lip their to speak: speak vanity: false and right their right deception

Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

12 which son: descendant/people our like/as plant to magnify in/on/with youth their daughter our like/as corner to chop pattern temple: palace

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

13 granary our full to promote from kind to(wards) kind flock our to produce thousands to multiply in/on/with outside our

Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

14 tame our to bear nothing breach and nothing to come out: produce and nothing outcry in/on/with street/plaza our

Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

15 blessed [the] people which/that thus to/for him blessed [the] people which/that LORD God his

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.