诗篇 29
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
上帝威严的声音
大卫的诗。
29 上帝的众子啊,
要赞美耶和华,
赞美祂的荣耀和能力,
2 要赞美祂荣耀的名,
穿上圣洁的衣服敬拜祂。
3 耶和华的声音回荡在海上,
荣耀的上帝打雷,
在洪涛之上打雷。
4 耶和华的声音充满能力;
耶和华的声音充满威严。
5 耶和华的声音震断香柏树,
耶和华劈碎黎巴嫩的香柏树,
6 使黎巴嫩山跳跃如小牛,
西连山跳跃如野牛。
7 耶和华的声音携闪电而来,
8 震动旷野,
震动加低斯的旷野。
9 耶和华的声音击倒橡树[a],
使树木凋零。
众人在祂殿中高呼:
“荣耀归于耶和华!”
10 耶和华坐在洪涛之上,
耶和华永远坐着为王。
11 耶和华赐力量给自己的子民,
赐给他们平安的福乐。
Footnotes
- 29:9 “击倒橡树”或译“使母鹿生产”。
Psalm 29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 29[a]
The Lord of Majesty Acclaimed as King of the World
1 A psalm of David.
I
Give to the Lord, you sons of God,[b]
give to the Lord glory and might;
2 Give to the Lord the glory due his name.
Bow down before the Lord’s holy splendor!(A)
II
3 The voice of the Lord[c] is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
the Lord, over the mighty waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is power;
the voice of the Lord is splendor.(B)
5 The voice of the Lord cracks the cedars;
the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon,
6 Makes Lebanon leap like a calf,
and Sirion[d] like a young bull.
7 The voice of the Lord strikes with fiery flame;
8 the voice of the Lord shakes the desert;
the Lord shakes the desert of Kadesh.
9 [e]The voice of the Lord makes the deer dance
and strips the forests bare.
All in his Temple say, “Glory!”
III
10 The Lord sits enthroned above the flood
The Lord reigns as king forever!
11 May the Lord give might to his people;[g]
may the Lord bless his people with peace!(D)
Footnotes
- Psalm 29 The hymn invites the members of the heavenly court to acknowledge God’s supremacy by ascribing glory and might to God alone (Ps 29:1–2a, 9b). Divine glory and might are dramatically visible in the storm (Ps 29:3–9a). The storm apparently comes from the Mediterranean onto the coast of Syria-Palestine and then moves inland. In Ps 29:10 the divine beings acclaim God’s eternal kingship. The Psalm concludes with a prayer that God will impart the power just displayed to the Israelite king and through the king to Israel.
- 29:1 Sons of God: members of the heavenly court who served Israel’s God in a variety of capacities.
- 29:3 The voice of the Lord: the sevenfold repetition of the phrase imitates the sound of crashing thunder and may allude to God’s primordial slaying of Leviathan, the seven-headed sea monster of Canaanite mythology.
- 29:6 Sirion: the Phoenician name for Mount Hermon, cf. Dt 3:9.
- 29:9b–10 Having witnessed God’s supreme power (Ps 29:3–9a), the gods acknowledge the glory that befits the king of the divine and human world.
- 29:10 The flood: God defeated the primordial waters and made them part of the universe, cf. Ps 89:10–13; 93:3–4.
- 29:11 His people: God’s people, Israel.
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