Psaumes 144
Segond 21
Prière pour la libération du peuple
144 De David.
Béni soit l’Eternel, mon rocher,
qui exerce mes mains pour le combat,
mes doigts pour la bataille.
2 Il est mon bienfaiteur et ma forteresse,
mon refuge et mon libérateur.
Il est mon bouclier: c’est en lui que je me réfugie.
Il me soumet mon peuple.
3 Eternel, qu’est-ce que l’homme pour que tu le connaisses,
le fils de l’homme pour que tu penses à lui?
4 L’homme est pareil à un souffle,
sa vie passe comme une ombre.
5 Eternel, incline ton ciel et descends,
touche les montagnes, et qu’elles soient fumantes!
6 Fais briller les éclairs, disperse mes ennemis,
lance tes flèches et mets-les en déroute!
7 Interviens d’en haut, délivre-moi,
sauve-moi des grandes eaux, des étrangers
8 dont la bouche est menteuse
et la main droite[a] parjure!
9 O Dieu, je chanterai en ton honneur un cantique nouveau,
je te célébrerai sur le luth à dix cordes.
10 Toi qui donnes la victoire aux rois,
qui sauves ton serviteur David de l’épée meurtrière,
11 délivre-moi, sauve-moi des étrangers
dont la bouche est menteuse et la main droite parjure!
12 Ainsi nos fils seront comme des plantes
qui poussent dans leur jeunesse,
nos filles ressembleront aux colonnes sculptées
qui font l’ornement des palais.
13 Nos greniers seront pleins,
ils regorgeront de toutes sortes de provisions.
Nos troupeaux se multiplieront par milliers,
par dizaines de milliers, dans nos campagnes,
14 nos bœufs seront bien gros.
Pas de brèche dans nos murs ni de déportation,
pas de cris dans nos rues!
15 Heureux le peuple comblé de ces bienfaits,
heureux le peuple dont l’Eternel est le Dieu!
Footnotes
- Psaumes 144:8 La main droite: celle que l'on a levée pour faire un serment.
Psalm 144
EasyEnglish Bible
This is a song that David wrote.
God is strong and we praise him
144 Lord, I praise you!
You are my strong Rock!
You teach me how to fight well.
You show me how to use my weapons.
2 You always love me.
You are the strong place where I am safe.
You save me from the power of my enemies.
You are like a shield for me.
I know that I am safe with you.
You give me power over nations.[a]
3 Lord, why do you even think about men and women?
Why do you take care of humans?
4 People soon pass away, just like a breath.
Their life is like a shadow that soon goes.
5 Lord, open up the heavens!
Leave your home and come down to earth!
Touch the mountains so that they burn with smoke.
6 Send bright lightning to frighten your enemies.
Shoot your arrows at them
so that they run away.[b]
7 Put your hand down from heaven,
and pick me out from the deep water.[c]
Save me from the power of foreign people.
8 Their mouths speak lies.
Even when they make a promise,
they are deceiving people.
9 I will sing to you a new song, God.
I will make music to you on my harp.[d]
10 You help kings to win against their enemies.
You also save me, your servant David, from my enemies,
when they try to kill me with their dangerous swords.
11 Keep me safe from the power of foreign people.
They speak lies.
Even when they make a promise, it is false.
12 When our sons are young,
may they grow quickly, like strong plants.
May our daughters become tall and beautiful,
like the beautiful pillars in a king's house.
13 May our homes have plenty of different kinds of food.
May our sheep have thousands of lambs,
so that there is no space in our fields.
14 May our cows become fat.[e]
I pray that our enemies will never knock down our city's walls.
I pray that none of us will become their prisoners.
I pray that nobody will cry in our city's streets because they are afraid.
15 When God does that for a nation,
he has surely blessed those people!
If people know that the Lord is their God,
then God has blessed them!
Footnotes
- 144:2 ‘power over nations’ or ‘power over my people’.
- 144:6 The lightning is like arrows that come from God.
- 144:7 David feels like he is in deep and dangerous water, because his enemies are giving him a lot of trouble.
- 144:9 David prays for help (maybe against Goliath and the Philistines). If God saves David from death by the sword, David will make music to the Lord.
- 144:14 ‘May our cows become fat’ or ‘May our cows give birth to many babies’ or ‘May our bulls have heavy loads of food to carry’.
Psalm 144
English Standard Version
My Rock and My Fortress
Of David.
144 Blessed be the Lord, my (A)rock,
(B)who trains my hands for war,
and my fingers for battle;
2 he is my (C)steadfast love and my (D)fortress,
my (E)stronghold and my deliverer,
my (F)shield and he in whom I take refuge,
who (G)subdues peoples[a] under me.
3 O Lord, (H)what is man that you (I)regard him,
or the son of man that you think of him?
4 (J)Man is like a breath;
his days are like (K)a passing (L)shadow.
5 (M)Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!
(N)Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
6 (O)Flash forth the lightning and scatter them;
(P)send out your arrows and rout them!
7 (Q)Stretch out your hand from on high;
(R)rescue me and deliver me from the many waters,
from the hand (S)of foreigners,
8 whose mouths speak (T)lies
and whose right hand is (U)a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing (V)a new song to you, O God;
upon (W)a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,
10 who gives victory to kings,
who (X)rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me
from the hand (Y)of foreigners,
whose mouths speak (Z)lies
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 May our sons in their youth
be like (AA)plants full grown,
our daughters like (AB)corner pillars
cut for the structure of a palace;
13 (AC)may our granaries be full,
(AD)providing all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our fields;
14 may our cattle be heavy with young,
suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;[b]
may there be no (AE)cry of distress in our streets!
15 (AF)Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!
(AG)Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!
Footnotes
- Psalm 144:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Dead Sea Scroll, Jerome, Syriac, Aquila; most Hebrew manuscripts subdues my people
- Psalm 144:14 Hebrew with no breaking in or going out
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