Mazmur 144
1 Dari Daud. Pujilah TUHAN pelindungku! Ia melatih aku bertempur, dan mengajar aku berperang.
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.
2 Dialah penolong dan pembelaku, penyelamatku tempat aku bernaung. Ia pelindungku, tempat aku mengungsi, bangsa-bangsa ditundukkan-Nya kepadaku.
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.
3 TUHAN, apakah manusia sehingga Kauperhatikan dia? Siapakah dia sehingga Engkau mengindahkannya?
O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
4 Manusia itu seperti sehembus angin, seperti bayangan lewat, begitulah hidupnya.
Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
5 Ya TUHAN, bukalah langit-Mu dan turunlah, sentuhlah gunung-gunung supaya berasap.
O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 Lemparkanlah kilat-Mu supaya musuh diceraiberaikan, lepaskanlah panah-Mu supaya mereka gempar.
Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
7 Ulurkanlah tangan-Mu dari surga, dan bebaskanlah aku dari banjir. Selamatkanlah aku dari kuasa orang asing
Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
8 yang suka berdusta dan menipu, dan mengangkat sumpah palsu.
Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9 Aku akan menyanyikan lagu baru bagi-Mu, ya Allah, dan memetik kecapi sambil menyanyi.
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.
10 Engkau memberi kemenangan kepada raja-raja, dan membebaskan Daud hamba-Mu.
He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.
11 Luputkanlah aku dari pedang orang lalim; selamatkanlah aku dari kuasa orang asing yang suka berdusta dan menipu, dan mengangkat sumpah palsu.
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.
12 Semoga anak-anak lelaki kita di masa mudanya seperti tanaman yang menjadi besar. Semoga anak-anak perempuan kita seperti tiang jelita, yang menghias penjuru-penjuru istana.
Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
13 Semoga gudang-gudang kita penuh isinya dengan segala macam hasil bumi. Semoga domba-domba di padang-padang kita beranak sampai puluhan ribu banyaknya.
Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
14 Semoga sapi-sapi kita berkembang biak dan tak ada yang hilang atau keguguran. Semoga tidak terdengar jeritan sengsara di jalan-jalan kota kita.
Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
15 Berbahagialah bangsa yang demikian, berbahagialah umat yang Allahnya TUHAN!
They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.
