诗篇 58
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
祈愿恶人遭报
大卫的金诗，交给诗班长，调用“休要毁坏”。
58 掌权者啊！你们真的讲公义吗（本句或译：“你们默然不语，真的讲公义吗”）？
你们真的按照正直审判世人吗？
2 不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；
你们的手在地上施行强暴（本句原文作“你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴”）。
3 恶人一出母胎，就走上歧路；
他们一离母腹，就走偏了路，常说谎话。
4 他们的毒气好象蛇的毒气，
又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，
5 不听行法术者的声音，
就是极灵的咒语，也是无效。
6 神啊！求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿；
耶和华啊！求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。
7 愿他们像流水般消逝；
愿他们射箭的时候，箭头折断（本句原文意义不甚明确）。
8 愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融，
如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。
9 你们用荆棘烧火，锅还未热，
他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。
10 义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜；
他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。
11 因此，人必说：“义人果然有善报；
在世上确有一位施行审判的 神。”
Psalm 58
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 58[a]
The Dethroning of Unjust Rulers
1 For the leader. Do not destroy.[b] A miktam of David.
I
2 Do you indeed pronounce justice, O gods;[c]
do you judge fairly you children of Adam?(A)
3 No, you freely engage in crime;
your hands dispense violence to the earth.
II
4 The wicked have been corrupt since birth;
liars from the womb, they have gone astray.
5 [d]Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a serpent stopping its ears,(B)
6 So as not to hear the voice of the charmer
or the enchanter with cunning spells.
III
7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths;
break the fangs of these lions, Lord!(C)
8 Make them vanish like water flowing away;(D)
trodden down, let them wither like grass.(E)
9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away,[e]
like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.(F)
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles,
have the whirlwind snatch them away.(G)
11 Then the just shall rejoice to see the vengeance
and bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.(H)
12 Then people will say:
“Truly there is a reward for the just;
there is a God who is judge on earth!”
Footnotes
- Psalm 58 A lament expressing trust in God’s power to dethrone all powers obstructing divine rule of the world. First condemned are “the gods,” the powers that were popularly imagined to control human destinies (Ps 58:2–3), then “the wicked,” the human instruments of these forces (Ps 58:4–6). The psalmist prays God to prevent them from harming the just (Ps 58:7–10). The manifestation of justice will gladden the just; they will see that their God is with them (Ps 58:11). The Psalm is less concerned with personal vengeance than with public vindication of God’s justice now.
- 58:1 Do not destroy: probably the title of the melody to which the Psalm was to be sung.
- 58:2 Gods: the Bible sometimes understands pagan gods to be lesser divine beings who are assigned by Israel’s God to rule the foreign nations. Here they are accused of injustice, permitting the human judges under their patronage to abuse the righteous, cf. Ps 82.
- 58:5–6 The image is that of a poisonous snake that is controlled by the voice or piping of its trainer.
- 58:9 A snail that oozes away: empty shells suggested to ancients that snails melted away as they left a slimy trail.
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