1 Of David. Blessed [be] Jehovah my rock, training my hands to fight, my fingers for war.
2 My mercy and my fortress, my high place, and my deliverer for me; my shield and he in whom I trust, the subduer of my people under me.
3 Jehovah, what [is] man, that (and) thou shouldest know him, son of man that thou shouldest think of him?
4 Man is like a breath, his days as a passing shadow.
5 Jehovah, bow thy heavens and come down; touch (on) the mountains, and they smoke.
6 Shine out lightnings, and scatter them; send thine arrows, and discomfit them.
7 Stretch (send) thy heads from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from hand of aliens (sons of strangeness)
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
9 O God, a new song I will sing to thee; with a ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms to thee,
10 That givest salvation to kings, that rescuest David his servant from an evil sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood;
12 That our sons [be] as plants grown up in their youth, our daughters as corner-stones hewn [in] the fashion of a palace;
13 Our granaries full, affording from kind to kind; our sheep bearing thousands, bearing ten thousands in our fields;
14 Our oxen laden; no breach, and no loss, and no outcry in our streets.
15 Blessed the people to which [it is] thus; Blessed the people whose God [is] Jehovah.
Notes on Psalm 144
This psalm blesses Jehovah in confidence and bright expectation. Why should man (Adam) son of enosh, weak and faint, stay blessing through divine judgment? For so Israel always expects, whatever the mercy also. The Christian stands in grace and looks into heaven, to which he belongs as in Christ. This psalm looks for judgment, not the gospel.