Psm144:1 A psalm of David . Blessed be my Lord God, that teacheth mine hands to war; and my fingers to battle. ( A song of David . Blessed be the Lord my God, who traineth my hands for war; and my fingers for battle.)
Psm144:2 My mercy, and my refuge; my taker up, and my deliverer. My defender, and I hoped in him; and thou makest subject my people under me. (My mercy, and my refuge; my defender, and my deliverer. Yea, my defender, and in whom I trust; and thou makest the peoples to be subject under me.)
Psm144:3 Lord, what is a man, for thou hast made (thyself) known to him; either the son of man, for thou areckonest him of some value? (Lord, what is man, that thou hast taken notice of him?/that thou carest for him? or the son of a man, that thou reckonest, or esteemest , him of some value?)
Psm144:4 A man is made like vanity; his days pass as shadow. (A person is but like vanity, yea , but a puff of air ; his days pass like a shadow.)
Psm144:5 Lord, bow down thine heavens, and come thou down; touch thou [the] hills, and they shall make smoke.
Psm144:6 Light thou shining, and thou shalt scatter them (Send thou forth thy lightning, and thou shalt scatter thy enemies); send thou out thine arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Psm144:7 Send out thine hand from on high, ravish me out, and deliver thou me from many waters; and from the hand of alien sons. (Send out thy hand from on high, and take me out of here, that is , rescue me ; save thou me from the deep waters, and from the power of foreigners, or of strangers .)
Psm144:8 The mouth of whom spake vanity (Their mouths spoke lies); and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness.
Psm144:9 God, I shall sing to thee a new song; I shall say psalm to thee in psaltery of ten strings (yea, I shall sing a song to thee to the strains of a ten-stringed lute).
Psm144:10 Which givest health to kings, which again-boughtest David, thy servant; from the wicked sword ravish thou out me. (Who givest salvation, or deliverance , to kings, and redeemest thy servant David; rescue thou me from the wicked sword.)
Psm144:11 And deliver thou me from the hand of alien sons; the mouth of which spake vanity, and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness. (And save thou me from the power of foreigners, or of strangers ; whose mouths spoke lies, and whose right hands be the right hands of wickedness, that is , they always break their oaths, or their pledges .)
Psm144:12 Whose sons be as new plantings in their youth. The daughters of them be arrayed; adorned about as the likeness of a temple. (May our sons be like plants fully grown in their youth; may our daughters be arrayed, or adorned, like a palace.)
Psm144:13 The cellars of them be full; bringing out from this vessel into that/from one vessel into another. The sheep of them be with lambs, plenteous in their goings out; (May our cellars be full; and we be able to bring forth from this vessel into that one/and we be able to bring forth from one vessel into another. May our sheep be with lambs; yea, plentiful and innumerable.)
Psm144:14 their kine be fat. There is no falling of their wall, neither passing over (of it); neither cry is in the streets of them. (May all our kine be fat; and be there no parting in the walls of their wombs, nor any passing over of them. And may there be no cries of distress in all our streets.)
Psm144:15 They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it. (And so we say, Happy be the people, who have things like we do; happy be the people, whose God is the Lord.)