詩篇 88
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Traditional)
瀕死求主眷顧
88 可拉後裔的詩歌，就是以斯拉人希幔的訓誨詩，交於伶長。調用麻哈拉利暗俄。
1 耶和華拯救我的神啊，我晝夜在你面前呼籲。
2 願我的禱告達到你面前，求你側耳聽我的呼求。
3 因為我心裡滿了患難，我的性命臨近陰間。
4 我算和下坑的人同列，如同無力[a]的人一樣。
5 我被丟在死人中，好像被殺的人躺在墳墓裡，他們是你不再記念的，與你隔絕了。
6 你把我放在極深的坑裡，在黑暗地方，在深處。
7 你的憤怒重壓我身，你用一切的波浪困住我。（細拉）
8 你把我所認識的隔在遠處，使我為他們所憎惡。我被拘困，不得出來。
9 我的眼睛因困苦而乾癟。耶和華啊，我天天求告你，向你舉手。
10 你豈要行奇事給死人看嗎？難道陰魂還能起來稱讚你嗎？（細拉）
11 豈能在墳墓裡述說你的慈愛嗎？豈能在滅亡中述說你的信實嗎？
12 你的奇事豈能在幽暗裡被知道嗎？你的公義豈能在忘記之地被知道嗎？
13 耶和華啊，我呼求你，我早晨的禱告要達到你面前。
14 耶和華啊，你為何丟棄我？為何掩面不顧我？
15 我自幼受苦，幾乎死亡；我受你的驚恐，甚至慌張。
16 你的烈怒漫過我身，你的驚嚇把我剪除。
17 這些終日如水環繞我，一齊都來圍困我。
18 你把我的良朋密友隔在遠處，使我所認識的人進入黑暗裡。
Footnotes
- 詩篇 88:4 「無力」或作「沒有幫助」。
Psalm 88
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 88[a]
A Despairing Lament
1 A song; a psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; according to Mahalath. For singing; a maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
I
2 Lord, the God of my salvation, I call out by day;
at night I cry aloud in your presence.(A)
3 Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry.(B)
4 [b]For my soul is filled with troubles;(C)
my life draws near to Sheol.
5 I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a warrior without strength.
6 My couch is among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave.
You remember them no more;
they are cut off from your influence.
7 You plunge me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
8 Your wrath lies heavy upon me;
all your waves crash over me.(D)
Selah
II
9 Because of you my acquaintances shun me;
you make me loathsome to them;(E)
Caged in, I cannot escape;
10 my eyes grow dim from trouble.
All day I call on you, Lord;
I stretch out my hands to you.
11 [c]Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the shades arise and praise you?(F)
Selah
III
12 Is your mercy proclaimed in the grave,
your faithfulness among those who have perished?[d]
13 Are your marvels declared in the darkness,
your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
IV
14 But I cry out to you, Lord;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
15 Why do you reject my soul, Lord,
and hide your face from me?
16 I have been mortally afflicted since youth;
I have borne your terrors and I am made numb.
17 Your wrath has swept over me;
your terrors have destroyed me.(G)
18 All day they surge round like a flood;
from every side they encircle me.
19 Because of you friend and neighbor shun me;(H)
my only friend is darkness.
Footnotes
- Psalm 88 A lament in which the psalmist prays for rescue from the alienation of approaching death. Each of the three stanzas begins with a call to God (Ps 88:2, 10, 14) and complains of the death that separates one from God. The tone is persistently grim.
- 88:4–8 In imagination the psalmist already experiences the alienation of Sheol.
- 88:11–13 The psalmist seeks to persuade God to act out of concern for divine honor: the shades give you no worship, so keep me alive to offer you praise.
- 88:12 Perished: lit., “Abaddon,” the deepest part of Sheol.
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