Tehillim 144

1 Baruch Hashem my Tzur (rock)

which teacheth my hands for war,

and my fingers for milchamah (battle) ;

²My Chesed, and my Metzudah (Fortress) ;

my Stronghold, and my Deliverer;

my Mogen, and He in Whom I take refuge;

Who subdueth my people under me.

³Hashem , what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him!

Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him!

⁴Adam is like hevel;

his days are as a tzel that passeth away.

⁵Part Thy heavens, Hashem , and come down;

touch the harim, and they shall smoke.

⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;

shoot Thine khitzim (arrows) , and destroy them.

⁷Send Thine Yad from above; rescue me,

and deliver me out of mayim rabbim,

from the yad Bnei Nekhar;

⁸Whose mouth speaketh shav (lies) ,

and their right hand is a right hand of sheker.

⁹I will sing a shir chadash unto Thee, O Elohim;

upon a nevel of ten strings will I make music unto Thee.

¹⁰It is He that giveth Teshu'ah (deliverance, salvation) unto melachim;

Who delivereth Dovid His eved from the cherev ra'ah.

¹¹Rescue me, and save me

from the yad Bnei Nekhar,

whose mouth speaketh shav (lies)

and their right hand is a right yad of sheker.

¹²In their youth, may baneinu (our sons) be like plants full grown;

may benoteinu (our daughters) be like cornerstones,

columns wrought for the Heikhal;

¹³That our barns may be full,

affording all manner of provision;

that our tzon may bring forth thousands

and ten thousands in our meadows;

¹⁴That our oxen may be strong to labor;

that there be no peretz (breach) nor golus;

that there be no cry of anquish in our streets.

¹⁵Ashrei are such people;

Ashrei is the people that Hashem is Elohav.