詩篇 144
1 戰することをわが手にをしへ 闘ふことをわが指にをしへたまふ わが磐ヱホバはほむべきかな
Of David. Blest be the Lord my rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for fighting.
2 ヱホバはわが仁慈わが城なり わがたかき櫓われをすくひたまふ者なり わが盾わが依賴むものなり ヱホバはわが民をわれにしたがはせたまふ
My rock and my fortress, my tower, my deliverer, my shield, behind whom I take refuge, who lays nations low at my feet.
3 ヱホバよ人はいかなる者なれば之をしり 人の子はいかなる者なれば之をみこころに記たまふや
Lord, what are mortals that you care for them, humans, that you think of them?
4 人は氣息にことならず その存らふる日はすぎゆく影にひとし
They are like a breath, their days as a shadow that passes.
5 ヱホバよねがはくはなんぢの天をたれてくだり 手を山につけて煙をたたしめたまへ
Lord, bow your heavens and come down: touch the hills, so that they smoke.
6 電光をうちいだして彼等をちらし なんぢの矢をはなちてかれらを敗りたまへ
Flash forth lightning and scatter them, your arrows send forth and confound them.
7 上より手をのべ我をすくひて 大水より外人の手よりたすけいだしたまへ
Stretch out your hand from on high; pluck me out of the mighty waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
8 かれらの口はむなしき言をいひ その右の手はいつはりのみぎの手なり
who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies.
9 神よわれ汝にむかひて新らしき歌をうたひ 十絃の琴にあはせて汝をほめうたはん
O God, a new song I would sing you, on a ten-stringed harp make you music.
10 なんぢは王たちに救をあたへ 僕ダビデをわざはひの劍よりすくひたまふ神なり
For to kings you give the victory, and David your servant you save.
11 ねがはくは我をすくひて外人の手よりたすけいだしたまへ かれらの口はむなしき言をいひ その右の手はいつはりのみぎの手なり
Snatch me from the cruel sword, rescue me from the hand of foreigners, who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies.
12 われらの男子はとしわかきとき育ちたる草木のごとくわれらの女子は宮のふりにならひて刻みいだしし隅の石のごとくならん
May our sons in their youth be as plants well tended: our daughters like cornices carved as in palaces.
13 われらの倉はみちたらひてさまざまのものをそなへ われらの羊は野にて千萬の子をうみ
May our barns be bursting with produce of all kinds. In the fields may our sheep bear by thousands and ten thousands.
14 われらの牡牛はよく物をおひ われらの衢にはせめいることなく亦おしいづることなく叫ぶこともなからん
May our cattle be fat, our walls unbreached, may no cry of distress ring in our streets.
15 かかる状の民はさいはひなり ヱホバをおのが神とする民はさいはひなり
Happy the people who fares so well: and so fares the people whose God is the Lord.
