Psalms 143
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
1A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplications; in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.
2My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
2And enter not into judgment with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.
3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath crushed my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
4And my spirit fainteth within me; my heart within me is appalled.
5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Thy doing; I muse on the work of Thy hands.
6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
6I spread forth my hands unto Thee; my soul thirsteth after Thee, as a weary land. Selah
7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
7Answer me speedily, O LORD, my spirit faileth; hide not Thy face from me; lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
8Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
8Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning, for in Thee do I trust; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto Thee have I lifted up my soul.
9To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
9Deliver me from mine enemies, O LORD; with Thee have I hidden myself.
10Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
10Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God; let Thy good spirit lead me in an even land.
11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
11For Thy name's sake, O LORD, quicken me; in Thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
12And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that harass my soul; for I am Thy servant.
13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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14Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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