诗篇 140
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
祈求上帝保护
大卫的诗，交给乐长。
140 耶和华啊！
求你拯救我脱离恶人，
保护我脱离残暴之徒。
2 他们心怀叵测，整天挑拨离间。
3 他们的言语恶毒如蛇，
嘴唇有蛇的毒液。（细拉）
4 耶和华啊，
求你使我免遭恶人的毒手，
保护我脱离残暴之徒。
他们图谋害我。
5 傲慢人在我的路上暗设网罗，
布下圈套，挖了陷阱。（细拉）
6 耶和华啊，
我说：“你是我的上帝。”
耶和华啊，求你垂听我的呼求。
7 主耶和华，我大能的拯救者啊，
在战争的日子，你保护我。
8 耶和华啊，
求你不要让恶人的愿望实现，
不要让他们的阴谋得逞，
免得他们狂妄自大。（细拉）
9 愿那些围攻我的人自食恶果。
10 愿火炭落在他们身上，
愿他们被丢进火里，
被抛进深坑，不得翻身。
11 愿毁谤者在地上无法立足，
愿祸患毁灭残暴之徒。
12 我知道耶和华必为贫穷人伸张正义，
为困苦者申冤。
13 义人必赞美你的名，
正直人必活在你面前。
Psalm 140
New English Translation
Psalm 140[a]
For the music director, a psalm of David.
140 O Lord, rescue me from wicked men.[b]
Protect me from violent men,[c]
2 who plan ways to harm me.[d]
All day long they stir up conflict.[e]
3 Their tongues wound like a serpent;[f]
a viper’s[g] venom is behind[h] their lips. (Selah)
4 O Lord, shelter me from the power[i] of the wicked.
Protect me from violent men,
who plan to knock me over.[j]
5 Proud men hide a snare for me;
evil men[k] spread a net by the path.
They set traps for me. (Selah)
6 I say to the Lord, “You are my God.”
O Lord, pay attention to my plea for mercy.
7 O Sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer,[l]
you shield[m] my head in the day of battle.
8 O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way.[n]
Do not allow their[o] plan to succeed when they attack.[p] (Selah)
9 As for the heads of those who surround me—
may the harm done by[q] their lips overwhelm them.
10 May he rain down[r] fiery coals upon them.
May he throw them into the fire.
From bottomless pits they will not escape.[s]
11 A slanderer[t] will not endure on[u] the earth;
calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.[v]
12 I know[w] that the Lord defends the cause of the oppressed
and vindicates the poor.[x]
13 Certainly the godly will give thanks to your name;
the morally upright will live in your presence.
Footnotes
- Psalm 140:1 sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.
- Psalm 140:1 tn Heb “from a wicked man.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).
- Psalm 140:1 tn Heb “a man of violent acts.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).
- Psalm 140:2 tn Heb “they devise wicked [plans] in [their] mind.”
- Psalm 140:2 tc Heb “they attack [for] war.” Some revocalize the verb (which is a Qal imperfect from גּוּר, gur, “to attack”) as יְגָרוּ (yegaru), a Piel imperfect from גָרָה (garah, “stir up strife”). This is followed in the present translation.
- Psalm 140:3 tn Heb “they sharpen their tongue like a serpent.” Ps 64:3 reads, “they sharpen their tongues like sword.” Perhaps Ps 140:3 uses a mixed metaphor, the point being that “they sharpen their tongues [like a sword],” as it were, so that when they speak, their words wound like a serpent’s bite. Another option is that the language refers to the pointed or forked nature of a serpent’s tongue, which is viewed metaphorically as “sharpened.”
- Psalm 140:3 tn The Hebrew term is used only here in the OT.
- Psalm 140:3 tn Heb “under.”
- Psalm 140:4 tn Heb “hands.”
- Psalm 140:4 tn Heb “to push down my steps.”
- Psalm 140:5 tn Heb “and ropes,” but many prefer to revocalize the noun as a participle (חֹבְלִים, khovelim) from the verb חָבַל (khaval, “act corruptly”).
- Psalm 140:7 tn Heb “the strength of my deliverance.”
- Psalm 140:7 tn Heb “cover.”
- Psalm 140:8 tn Heb “do not grant the desires of the wicked.”
- Psalm 140:8 tn Heb “his.” The singular is used in a representative sense (see v. 1).
- Psalm 140:8 tn Heb “his plot do not promote, they rise up.” The translation understands the final verb as being an unmarked temporal clause. Another option is to revocalize the verb as a Hiphil and take the verb with the next verse, “those who surround me lift up [their] head,” which could refer to their proud attitude as they anticipate victory (see Ps 27:6).
- Psalm 140:9 tn Heb “harm of their lips.” The genitive here indicates the source or agent of the harm.
- Psalm 140:10 tn The verb form in the Kethib (consonantal Hebrew text) appears to be a Hiphil imperfect from the root מוּט (mut, “to sway”), but the Hiphil occurs only here and in Ps 55:3, where it is preferable to read יַמְטִירוּ (yamtiru, “they rain down”). In Ps 140:10 the form יַמְטֵר (yamter, “let him rain down”) should probably be read.
- Psalm 140:10 tn Heb “into bottomless pits, they will not arise.” The translation assumes that the preposition ב (bet) has the nuance “from” here. Another option is to connect the line with what precedes, take the final clause as an asyndetic relative clause, and translate, “into bottomless pits [from which] they cannot arise.” The Hebrew noun מַהֲמֹרָה (mahamorah, “bottomless pit”) occurs only here in the OT.
- Psalm 140:11 tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”
- Psalm 140:11 tn Heb “be established in.”
- Psalm 140:11 tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.
- Psalm 140:12 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading a first person verb form here. The Kethib reads the second person.
- Psalm 140:12 tn Heb “and the just cause of the poor.”
Salmos 140
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Salmo 140
Plegaria pidiendo protección
Para el director del coro. Salmo de David.
140 Líbrame(A), oh Señor, de los hombres malignos;
Guárdame de los hombres violentos(B),
2 Que traman maldades en su corazón(C);
Que cada día provocan guerras(D).
3 Aguzan su lengua como serpiente(E);
Veneno de víbora hay bajo sus labios(F). (Selah)
4 ¶Guárdame, Señor, de las manos del impío;
Protégeme de los hombres violentos(G),
Que se han propuesto hacerme tropezar(H).
5 Los soberbios han ocultado trampa y cuerdas para mí(I);
Han tendido red al borde del sendero(J);
Me han puesto lazos(K). (Selah)
6 ¶Dije al Señor: «Tú eres mi Dios(L);
Escucha(M), oh Señor, la voz de mis súplicas(N).
7 -»Oh Dios, Señor, poder de mi salvación(O),
Tú cubriste mi cabeza en el día de la batalla(P).
8 -»No concedas, Señor, los deseos del impío(Q);
No hagas prosperar sus malos designios(R), para que no se exalten. (Selah)
9 ¶»En cuanto a los que me rodean,
Que la malicia de sus labios los cubra(S).
10 -»Caigan sobre ellos carbones encendidos(T);
Sean arrojados en el fuego(U),
En abismos profundos de donde no se puedan levantar(V).
11 -»Que el hombre de mala lengua no permanezca en la tierra;
Que al hombre violento lo persiga el mal implacablemente(W)».
12 ¶Yo sé que el Señor sostendrá la causa del afligido(X),
Y el derecho de los pobres(Y).
13 Ciertamente los justos darán gracias a Tu nombre(Z),
Y los rectos morarán en Tu presencia(AA).
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