Book of Psalms, No. 144
Psalms 144 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 144 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ Blessed be Jehovah my Rock,1
Who is teaching my hands for fighting,2
My fingers for warfare; - ¶ My loving-kindness and my stronghold,3
My secure height and my Provider of escape for me,4
¶ My shield5 and the One in whom I have taken refuge,6
The One subduing peoples[a] under me.7 - ¶ O Jehovah, what is man[b] that you should notice him,8
The son of mortal man[c]9 that you should take account of him? - ¶ Man himself bears resemblance to a mere exhalation;10
His days are like a passing shadow.11 - ¶ O Jehovah, bend down your heavens that you may descend;12
Touch the mountains that they may smoke.13 - ¶ Lighten with lightning that you may scatter them;14
Send out your arrows that you may throw them into confusion.15 - ¶ Thrust your hands out from the height;16
Set me free and deliver me from the many waters,17
From the hand of the foreigners,[d]18 - ¶ Whose mouth has spoken what is untrue19
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.20 - ¶ O God, a new song I will sing to you.21
On an instrument of ten strings I will make melody to you,22 - ¶ The One giving salvation to kings,23
The One setting David his servant free from the injurious sword.24 - ¶ Set me free and deliver me from the hand of the foreigners,25
Whose mouth has spoken what is untrue26
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood,27 - ¶ Who [say]: “Our sons are like little plants grown up in their youth,28
Our daughters like corners carved in palace style, - ¶ Our garners full, furnishing products of one sort after another,[e]29
Our flocks multiplying by thousands, ten thousand to one, in our streets, - ¶ Our cattle loaded down, without any rupture and with no abortion,30
And with no outcry in our public squares.31 - ¶ Happy is the people for whom it is just like [that]!”
Happy is the people whose God is Jehovah!32
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “Peoples,” TSy and many Heb. mss; MLXXVg, “my people.”
- ^ Or, “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ “Mortal man.” Heb., ʼenohshʹ.
- ^ Lit., “sons of a foreign (country).”
- ^ Lit., “from sort to sort.”
REFERENCES
- ^ De 32:4; 2Sa 23:3; Ps 18:2; 95:1
- ^ 2Sa 22:35; Ps 18:34
- ^ 2Sa 22:2; Je 16:19
- ^ 2Sa 22:3; Ps 18:2; 40:17
- ^ Ge 15:1; Pr 30:5
- ^ Ps 141:8
- ^ Ps 18:47
- ^ Jb 7:17; Ps 8:4; Heb 2:6
- ^ Ps 10:18; 104:15
- ^ Ps 39:5; 62:9
- ^ 1Ch 29:15; Jb 8:9; 14:2; Ps 102:11; Ec 8:13
- ^ Ps 18:9; Is 64:1
- ^ Ex 19:18; Ps 104:32
- ^ 2Sa 22:15; Jb 36:32; Ps 18:14; 77:18; 97:4; Zc 9:14
- ^ De 32:42; Ps 21:12; 45:5
- ^ 2Sa 22:17; Ps 18:16
- ^ Ps 69:1; Re 12:15
- ^ Ne 9:2; Ps 54:3
- ^ Ps 10:7; 12:2; 109:2
- ^ Is 44:20
- ^ Ps 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; Is 42:10; Re 5:9; 14:3
- ^ 1Ch 25:1; Ps 33:2; 92:3
- ^ 2Sa 5:19; Ps 18:50
- ^ 1Sa 17:46; 2Sa 21:17
- ^ 2Sa 10:6
- ^ 2Sa 10:3; Ps 73:9
- ^ Ps 7:14; 73:8; 119:118
- ^ Ps 37:35
- ^ Ps 73:12
- ^ Ps 73:5
- ^ Ps 73:3
- ^ Ps 33:12; 37:9, 37; 89:15; 146:5; Lu 11:28; Jm 1:25
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