患難中的苦訴

大衛的詩歌,交給樂長。

109 我所讚美的上帝啊,
求你不要沉默不語。
因為邪惡和詭詐的人開口攻擊我,
用謊言譭謗我。
他們惡言惡語地圍著我,
無緣無故地攻擊我。
我愛他們,他們卻控告我,
但我為他們禱告。
他們對我以惡報善,
以恨報愛。
求你差惡人攻擊我的仇敵,
派人站在他右邊控告他。
當他受審時,
願他被判為有罪,
他的禱告也算為罪過。
願他的年日短少,
願別人取代他的職位。
願他的孩子失去父親,
妻子成為寡婦。
10 願他的孩子流浪行乞,
被趕出自己破敗的家。
11 願債主奪取他所有的財產,
陌生人搶走他的勞動成果。
12 願無人向他施恩,
無人同情他的孤兒。
13 願他斷子絕孫,
他的姓氏傳不到下一代。
14 願耶和華記住他祖輩的罪惡,
不除去他母親的罪過。
15 願耶和華永不忘記他的罪惡,
把他從世上剷除。
16 因為他毫無仁慈,
迫害困苦、貧窮和傷心的人,
置他們於死地。
17 他喜歡咒詛人,
願咒詛臨到他;
他不喜歡祝福人,
願祝福遠離他。
18 他咒詛成性,
願咒詛如水侵入他的身體,
如油浸透他的骨頭。
19 願咒詛不離其身,
如同身上的衣服和腰間的帶子。
20 願耶和華這樣報應那些誣告我,
以惡言攻擊我的人。
21 主耶和華啊,
求你因自己的名恩待我,
因你的美善和慈愛拯救我。
22 因為我貧窮困苦,
內心飽受創傷。
23 我像黃昏的日影一樣消逝,
如蝗蟲一般被抖落。
24 禁食使我雙腿發軟,
瘦骨嶙峋。
25 仇敵都嘲笑我,
他們看見我就連連搖頭。
26 我的上帝耶和華啊,
求你幫助我,施慈愛拯救我,
27 讓他們都看見這是你耶和華的作為。
28 任憑他們咒詛吧,
你必賜福給我。
攻擊我的人必蒙羞,
你的僕人必歡喜。
29 願誣告我的人滿面羞辱,
無地自容。
30 我要竭力頌揚耶和華,
在眾人面前讚美祂。
31 因為祂保護貧窮的人,
拯救他們脫離置他們於死地的人。

109 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21 But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26 Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.