Psalm 144 #catechesis/bible/psalm
[!abstract] The prophet praises God, and prays to be delivered from his enemies. No worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God.
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GR τῷ Δαυιδ πρὸς τὸν Γολιαδ εὐλογητὸς κύριος ὁ θεός μου ὁ διδάσκων τὰς χεῖράς μου εἰς παράταξιν τοὺς δακτύλους μου εἰς πόλεμον
LA Benedictus Dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad prælium, et digitos meos ad bellum.
EN Blessed be the Lord my God, who teaches my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
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GR ἔλεός μου καὶ καταφυγή μου ἀντιλήμπτωρ μου καὶ ῥύστης μου ὑπερασπιστής μου καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἤλπισα ὁ ὑποτάσσων τὸν λαόν μου ὑπ’ ἐμέ
LA Misericordia mea et refugium meum; susceptor meus et liberator meus; protector meus, et in ipso speravi, qui subdit populum meum sub me.
EN My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdues my people under me.
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GR κύριε τί ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος ὅτι ἐγνώσθης αὐτῷ ἢ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου ὅτι λογίζῃ αὐτόν
LA Domine, quid est homo, quia innotuisti ei? aut filius hominis, quia reputas eum?
EN Lord, what is man, that you are made known to him? Or the son of man, that you make account of him?
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GR ἄνθρωπος ματαιότητι ὡμοιώθη αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ σκιὰ παράγουσιν
LA Homo vanitati similis factus est; dies ejus sicut umbra prætereunt.
EN Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
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GR κύριε κλῖνον οὐρανούς σου καὶ κατάβηθι ἅψαι τῶν ὀρέων καὶ καπνισθήσονται
LA Domine, inclina cælos tuos, et descende; tange montes, et fumigabunt.
EN Lord, bow down your heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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GR ἄστραψον ἀστραπὴν καὶ σκορπιεῖς αὐτούς ἐξαπόστειλον τὰ βέλη σου καὶ συνταράξεις αὐτούς
LA Fulgura coruscationem, et dissipabis eos; emitte sagittas tuas, et conturbabis eos.
EN Send forth lightning, and you shall scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and you shall trouble them.
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GR ἐξαπόστειλον τὴν χεῖρά σου ἐξ ὕψους ἐξελοῦ με καὶ ῥῦσαί με ἐξ ὑδάτων πολλῶν ἐκ χειρὸς υἱῶν ἀλλοτρίων
LA Emitte manum tuam de alto: eripe me, et libera me de aquis multis, de manu filiorum alienorum:
EN Put forth your hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
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GR ὧν τὸ στόμα ἐλάλησεν ματαιότητα καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτῶν δεξιὰ ἀδικίας
LA quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.
EN Whose mouth has spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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GR ὁ θεός ᾠδὴν καινὴν ᾄσομαί σοι ἐν ψαλτηρίῳ δεκαχόρδῳ ψαλῶ σοι
LA Deus, canticum novum cantabo tibi; in psalterio decachordo psallam tibi.
EN To you, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to you.
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GR τῷ διδόντι τὴν σωτηρίαν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν τῷ λυτρουμένῳ Δαυιδ τὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ ἐκ ῥομφαίας πονηρᾶς
LA Qui das salutem regibus, qui redemisti David servum tuum de gladio maligno,
EN Who give salvation to kings: who have redeemed your servant David from the malicious sword:
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GR ῥῦσαί με καὶ ἐξελοῦ με ἐκ χειρὸς υἱῶν ἀλλοτρίων ὧν τὸ στόμα ἐλάλησεν ματαιότητα καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτῶν δεξιὰ ἀδικίας
LA eripe me, et erue me de manu filiorum alienorum, quorum os locutum est vanitatem, et dextera eorum dextera iniquitatis.
EN Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth has spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
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GR ὧν οἱ υἱοὶ ὡς νεόφυτα ἡδρυμμένα ἐν τῇ νεότητι αὐτῶν αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῶν κεκαλλωπισμέναι περικεκοσμημέναι ὡς ὁμοίωμα ναοῦ
LA Quorum filii sicut novellæ plantationes in juventute sua; filiæ eorum compositæ, circumornatæ ut similitudo templi.
EN Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
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GR τὰ ταμίεια αὐτῶν πλήρη ἐξερευγόμενα ἐκ τούτου εἰς τοῦτο τὰ πρόβατα αὐτῶν πολυτόκα πληθύνοντα ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις αὐτῶν
LA Promptuaria eorum plena, eructantia ex hoc in illud; oves eorum fœtosæ, abundantes in egressibus suis;
EN Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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GR οἱ βόες αὐτῶν παχεῖς οὐκ ἔστιν κατάπτωμα φραγμοῦ οὐδὲ διέξοδος οὐδὲ κραυγὴ ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις αὐτῶν
LA boves eorum crassæ. Non est ruina maceriæ, neque transitus, neque clamor in plateis eorum.
EN Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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GR ἐμακάρισαν τὸν λαόν ᾧ ταῦτά ἐστιν μακάριος ὁ λαός οὗ κύριος ὁ θεὸς αὐτοῦ
LA Beatum dixerunt populum cui hæc sunt; beatus populus cujus Dominus Deus ejus.
EN They have called the people happy, that has these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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