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Psalms 144 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare, | Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; | Of David. Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. | |
| 2 | he is my gracious love and my fortress, my strong tower and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I find refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | |
| 3 | LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him? | O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? | LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? | |
| 4 | The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow. | Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. | They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. | |
| 5 | Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder. | Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! | Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. | |
| 6 | Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them. | Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! | Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them. | |
| 7 | Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners. | Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, | Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners | |
| 8 | Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand deceives, | whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. | |
| 9 | God, I will sing a new song to you. On a harp of ten strings I will play to you— | I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, | I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, | |
| 10 | to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords. | who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. | to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword | |
| 11 | Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives. | Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. | |
| 12 | May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace. | May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; | Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. | |
| 13 | May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields. | may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; | Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields; | |
| 14 | May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets! | may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! | our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. | |
| 15 | Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. | Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! | Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD. | |
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