求上帝眷顾

可拉后裔的诗,就是以斯拉人希幔的训诲诗,交给乐长,调用“麻哈拉利暗俄”[a]

88 耶和华,拯救我的上帝啊,
我昼夜不停地呼求你。
求你垂听我的祷告,
倾听我的呼求。
我饱经患难,
生命在死亡的边缘。
我被列在下坟墓的人中,
我的精力耗尽。
我被扔在死人中,
如同被杀的人躺在坟墓里,
被你遗忘,不再蒙你眷顾。
你已经把我扔在漆黑的深渊。
你的烈怒重重地压着我,
如汹涌波涛把我淹没。(细拉)

你使我众叛亲离,遭人唾弃。
我陷入困境,无路可逃。
我的眼睛因哭泣而视力模糊。
耶和华啊,我天天呼求你,
举手向你呼求。
10 你要行神迹给死人看吗?
死人会起来赞美你吗?(细拉)
11 坟墓里的死人怎能宣扬你的慈爱呢?
灭亡的人怎能传扬你的信实呢?
12 黑暗之地有谁知道你的神迹呢?
在被遗忘之地有谁知道你的公义作为呢?
13 耶和华啊,我向你呼求,
我在清晨向你祷告。
14 耶和华啊,你为何弃绝我?
为何掩面不理我?
15 我从小受苦,几乎丧命。
你使我惊恐不已,陷入绝望。
16 你的烈怒吞噬了我,
你可怕的攻击毁灭了我。
17 这些灾难如洪涛整天环绕我,
彻底围住我。
18 你使我的亲朋好友离我而去,
只有黑暗与我相伴。

Footnotes

  1. 88:0 麻哈拉利暗俄”意为“受苦”。

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of (A)the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to (B)Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil[a] of (C)Heman the Ezrahite.

88 O Lord, (D)God of my salvation,
    I (E)cry out day and night before you.
Let my prayer come before you;
    (F)incline your ear to my cry!

For my soul is full of troubles,
    and (G)my life draws near to (H)Sheol.
I am counted among those who (I)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom (J)you remember no more,
    for they are (K)cut off from your hand.
You have put me in (L)the depths of the pit,
    in the (M)regions dark and (N)deep.
Your wrath (O)lies heavy upon me,
    and you overwhelm me with (P)all your waves. Selah

You have caused (Q)my companions to shun me;
    you have made me (R)a horror[b] to them.
I am (S)shut in so that I cannot escape;
    (T)my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
    I (U)spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
    (V)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
    or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your (W)wonders known in (X)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of (Y)forgetfulness?

13 But I, O Lord, cry (Z)to you;
    (AA)in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 O Lord, why (AB)do you cast my soul away?
    Why (AC)do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.[c]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
    your (AD)dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They (AE)surround me like a flood (AF)all day long;
    they (AG)close in on me together.
18 You have caused (AH)my beloved and my friend to shun me;
    my companions have become darkness.[d]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms
  2. Psalm 88:8 Or an abomination
  3. Psalm 88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  4. Psalm 88:18 Or darkness has become my only companion

88 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.