Psalms · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Psalm 143 (144) Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 144 · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalms follow the Greek/Latin numbering.
Psalm 143 in DRB = Psalm 144 in RV1909, WEB.
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
144:1 Salmo de David. BENDITO sea Jehová, mi roca, que enseña mis manos á la batalla, y mis dedos á la guerra:
144:1 By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands to war, and my fingers to battle—
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.
144:2 Misericordia mía y mi castillo, altura mía y mi libertador, escudo mío, en quien he confiado; el que allana mi pueblo delante de mí.
144:2 my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
144:3 Oh Jehová, ¿qué es el hombre, para que de él conozcas? ¿ó el hijo del hombre, para que lo estimes?
144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
144:4 El hombre es semejante á la vanidad: sus días son como la sombra que pasa.
144:4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
144:5 Oh Jehová, inclina tus cielos y desciende: toca los montes, y humeen.
144:5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
144:6 Despide relámpagos, y disípalos; envía tus saetas, y contúrbalos.
144:6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
144:7 Envía tu mano desde lo alto; redímeme, y sácame de las muchas aguas, de la mano de los hijos extraños;
144:7 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
144:8 Cuya boca habla vanidad, y su diestra es diestra de mentira.
144:8 whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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.
144:9 Oh Dios, á ti cantaré canción nueva: con salterio, con decacordio cantaré á ti.
144:9 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
144:10 Tú, el que da salud á los reyes, el que redime á David su siervo de maligna espada.
144:10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
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:
144:11 Redímeme, y sálvame de mano de los hijos extraños, cuya boca habla vanidad, y su diestra es diestra de mentira.
144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
144:12 Que nuestros hijos sean como plantas crecidas en su juventud; nuestras hijas como las esquinas labradas á manera de [las de] un palacio;
144:12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
144:13 Nuestros graneros llenos, provistos de toda suerte [de grano]; nuestros ganados, que paran á millares y diez millares en nuestras plazas:
144:13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
144:14 [Que] nuestros bueyes estén fuertes para el trabajo; [que] no [tengamos] asalto, ni [que hacer] salida, ni grito de alarma en nuestras plazas.
144:14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
144:15 Bienaventurado el pueblo que tiene esto: bienaventurado el pueblo cuyo Dios es Jehová.
144:15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in DRB.
- 1 Psalm 18:34; Psalm 18:2; 2 Samuel 22:35; Psalm 44:3–4; Ephesians 6:10–11
- 2 2 Samuel 22:2–3; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 91:2; Psalm 59:9; Psalm 18:47
- 3 Psalm 8:4; Job 7:17; Hebrews 2:6; Job 15:14; Psalm 146:3–4
- 4 Psalm 102:11; Psalm 109:23; Job 8:9; Psalm 39:5–6; Ecclesiastes 12:8
- 5 Psalm 104:32; Psalm 18:9; Habakkuk 3:3–6; Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 64:1–2
- 6 Deuteronomy 32:23; Psalm 18:13–14; Deuteronomy 32:42; Psalm 21:12; Psalm 45:5
- 7 Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 18:16; Psalm 54:3; Revelation 17:15; Matthew 27:43
- 8 Psalm 12:2; Psalm 41:6; Isaiah 44:20; Psalm 62:4; Matthew 5:30
- 9 Psalm 33:2–3; Psalm 40:3; Psalm 150:3–5; Psalm 149:1; Psalm 81:1–3
- 10 Psalm 18:50; Psalm 140:7; Psalm 33:16–18; 2 Samuel 5:19–25; 2 Samuel 21:16–17
- 11 Psalm 144:7–8; Isaiah 44:20; Psalm 12:2; 2 Samuel 17:1–14; 2 Samuel 10:6–19
- 12 Psalm 128:3; 1 Peter 3:3–6; Isaiah 44:3–5; Psalm 115:14–15; Job 42:15
- 13 Deuteronomy 7:13–14; Deuteronomy 28:8; Deuteronomy 28:4; Leviticus 26:10; Deuteronomy 8:3
- 14 Zechariah 8:3–5; Deuteronomy 28:7; Judges 6:6; 1 Samuel 13:17–23; Jeremiah 13:17–19
- 15 Psalm 33:12; Ephesians 1:3; Psalm 146:5; Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 65:4
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 144.
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The title of the Psalm is, "To David himself, when his son was pursuing him." We know from the Books of Kings that this happened:...but we must recognise here another David, truly "strong in hand," which is the explanation of David, even our Lord Jesus Christ. For all those events of past time were figures of things to come.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
And so do men live in opposition to the three and seven, that psaltery "of ten strings," Thy ten commandments, O God most high and most sweet.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
And another of the Prophets entreated, saying, Bow the heavens, O Lord and come down.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
19. And Thou sendedst Thine hand from above, and drewest my soul out of that profound darkness, when my mother, Thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than mothers are wont to weep the bodily death of their children.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
O Lord, Lord, who hast bowed the heavens and come down, touched the mountains and they did smoke, by what means didst Thou convey Thyself into that bosom?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)