Mazmur 144
1 Dari Daud. Pujilah TUHAN pelindungku! Ia melatih aku bertempur, dan mengajar aku berperang.
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to 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 support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3 TUHAN, apakah manusia sehingga Kauperhatikan dia? Siapakah dia sehingga Engkau mengindahkannya?
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4 Manusia itu seperti sehembus angin, seperti bayangan lewat, begitulah hidupnya.
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5 Ya TUHAN, bukalah langit-Mu dan turunlah, sentuhlah gunung-gunung supaya berasap.
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
6 Lemparkanlah kilat-Mu supaya musuh diceraiberaikan, lepaskanlah panah-Mu supaya mereka gempar.
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7 Ulurkanlah tangan-Mu dari surga, dan bebaskanlah aku dari banjir. Selamatkanlah aku dari kuasa orang asing
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8 yang suka berdusta dan menipu, dan mengangkat sumpah palsu.
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: 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 thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
10 Engkau memberi kemenangan kepada raja-raja, dan membebaskan Daud hamba-Mu.
Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11 Luputkanlah aku dari pedang orang lalim; selamatkanlah aku dari kuasa orang asing yang suka berdusta dan menipu, dan mengangkat sumpah palsu.
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:
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.
Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude 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 storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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 oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
15 Berbahagialah bangsa yang demikian, berbahagialah umat yang Allahnya TUHAN!
They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
