Psalms 144
1(Mizmor of Dovid) 1 which teacheth my hands for war, 1 and my fingers for milchamah (battle); 1
2My Chesed, and my Metzudah (Fortress); 1 my Stronghold, and my Deliverer; 1 my Mogen, and He in Whom I take refuge; 1 Who subdueth my people under me. 1
3Hashem, what is adam, that Thou takest knowledge of him! 1 Or the ben enosh, that Thou takest account of him! 1
4Adam is like hevel; 1 his days are as a tzel that passeth away. 1
5Part Thy heavens, Hashem, and come down; 1 touch the harim, and they shall smoke. 1
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; 1 shoot Thine khitzim (arrows), and destroy them. 1
7Send Thine Yad from above; rescue me, 1 and deliver me out of mayim rabbim, 1 from the yad Bnei Nekhar; 1
8Whose mouth speaketh shav (lies), 1 and their right hand is a right hand of sheker. 1
9I will sing a shir chadash unto Thee, O Elohim; 1 upon a nevel of ten strings will I make music unto Thee. 1
10It is He that giveth Teshu'ah (deliverance, salvation) unto melachim; 1 Who delivereth Dovid His eved from the cherev ra'ah. 1
11Rescue me, and save me 1 from the yad Bnei Nekhar, 1 whose mouth speaketh shav (lies) 1 and their right hand is a right yad of sheker. 1
12In their youth, may baneinu (our sons) be like plants full grown; 1 may benoteinu (our daughters) be like cornerstones, 1 columns wrought for the Heikhal; 1
13That our barns may be full, 1 affording all manner of provision; 1 that our tzon may bring forth thousands 1 and ten thousands in our meadows; 1
14That our oxen may be strong to labor; 1 that there be no peretz (breach) nor golus; 1 that there be no cry of anquish in our streets. 1
15Ashrei are such people; 1 Ashrei is the people that Hashem is Elohav.