Psalms 138
1 Yahweh, I thank you with all my inner being. I sing to praise you in front of [the idols of false] gods [to ridicule/belittle them].
[A Psalm] of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
2 I bow down while I look towards your sacred temple, and I thank you [MTY] because you faithfully love [us] and faithfully do all that you have promised. You have shown that both you [MTY] and what you have promised to do are greater than anything else.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
3 On the day when I called out to you, you answered me; you enabled me to be strong and brave.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and] strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.
4 Yahweh, [some day] all the kings of this earth will praise you, because they will have heard what you have said.
All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5 They will sing about what you have done; they will sing and say that you are very great.
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is] the glory of the LORD.
6 Yahweh, you are supreme, but you take care of people [who are considered to be] unimportant. And you know what proud people [are doing], even though they are far away [from you and think that you do not see them].
Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
7 When I am in the midst of [many] troubles/difficulties, you save/rescue me. With your hand/power [MTY] you rescue me from my enemies who are angry at me.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
8 Yahweh, you will do for me everything that you promised; you faithfully love [us] forever. Finish what you started to do [for us, your Israeli people.]
The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
