143:1 Psalmus David. Adversus Goliath. Benedictus Dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad prælium, et digitos meos ad bellum.

143:1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

143:2 Misericordia mea et refugium meum ; susceptor meus et liberator meus ; protector meus, et in ipso speravi, qui subdit populum meum sub me.

143:2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

143:3 Domine, quid est homo, quia innotuisti ei ? aut filius hominis, quia reputas eum ?

143:3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

143:4 Homo vanitati similis factus est ; dies ejus sicut umbra prætereunt.

143:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

143:5 Domine, inclina cælos tuos, et descende ; tange montes, et fumigabunt.

143:5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

143:6 Fulgura coruscationem, et dissipabis eos ; emitte sagittas tuas, et conturbabis eos.

143:6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

143:7 Emitte manum tuam de alto : eripe me, et libera me de aquis multis, de manu filiorum alienorum :

143:7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

143:8 quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.

143:8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

143:9 Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi ; in psalterio decachordo psallam tibi.

143:9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

143:10 Qui das salutem regibus, qui redemisti David servum tuum de gladio maligno,

143:10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

143:11 eripe me, et erue me de manu filiorum alienorum, quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.

143:11 Deliver 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:

143:12 Quorum filii sicut novellæ plantationes in juventute sua ; filiæ eorum compositæ, circumornatæ ut similitudo templi.

143:12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

143:13 Promptuaria eorum plena, eructantia ex hoc in illud ; oves eorum fœtosæ, abundantes in egressibus suis ;

143:13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

143:14 boves eorum crassæ. Non est ruina maceriæ, neque transitus, neque clamor in plateis eorum.

143:14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

143:15 Beatum dixerunt populum cui hæc sunt ; beatus populus cujus Dominus Deus ejus.

143:15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.