祈求拯救与丰裕

大卫的诗。

144 耶和华——我的磐石当受称颂,
祂使我能争善战。
祂是我慈爱的上帝,
我的堡垒,我的避难所,
我的拯救者,我的盾牌,
我投靠祂。
祂使列国臣服于我。

耶和华啊,
人算什么,你竟顾念他?
世人算什么,你竟眷顾他?
因为人不过像一口气,
他的年日不过像影子转眼消逝。
耶和华啊,
求你打开天门,亲自降临;
求你触摸群山,使群山冒烟。
求你发出闪电驱散敌人,
求你射出利箭击溃他们。
求你从天上伸手从惊涛骇浪中拯救我,
从外族人手中拯救我。
他们满口谎言,
起誓也心怀诡诈。
上帝啊,我要向你唱新歌,
用十弦琴歌颂你。
10 你使君王得胜,
救你的仆人大卫逃离刀剑的杀戮。
11 求你从外族人手中拯救我,
他们满口谎言,
起誓也心怀诡诈。

12 愿我们的儿子年轻时像茁壮的树木,

我们的女儿像宫殿中精雕的柱子。
13 愿我们的仓库堆满各样的谷物,
我们的羊在田野繁衍众多,
成千上万。
14 愿我们的牲口驮满货物[a]
我们的城墙固若金汤,
无人被掳,街上没有哭叫声。
15 生活在这种光景里的人有福了!
尊耶和华为上帝的人有福了!

Footnotes

  1. 144:14 牲口驮满货物”或译“繁殖众多”。

Prayer for rescue. A happy people described.

A Psalm of David.

144 Blessed be Jehovah my rock,
Who teacheth my hands to war,
And my fingers to fight:
My lovingkindness, and my fortress,
My high tower, and my deliverer;
My shield, and he in whom I take refuge;
Who subdueth my people under me.
Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Man is like to [a]vanity:
His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;
Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Stretch forth thy hand from above;
Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens;
Whose mouth speaketh deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:
Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings;
Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,
Whose mouth speaketh deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth,
And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
13 When our garners are full, affording all manner of store,
And our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
14 When our oxen are well laden;
When there is no breaking in, and no [b]going forth,
And no outcry in our streets:
15 Happy is the people that is in such a case;
Yea, happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 144:4 Hebrew a breath.
  2. Psalm 144:14 Or, sallying