稱頌上帝的公義

大衛的詩,交給樂長,調用「慕拉辨」[a]

耶和華啊,
我要全心全意地讚美你,
傳揚你一切奇妙的作為。
我要因你歡喜快樂,
至高者啊,我要歌頌你的名。
我的仇敵必在你面前敗退,
倒地身亡。
你坐在寶座上按公義審判,
你為我主持公道。
你斥責列國,消滅惡人,
永永遠遠抹去他們的名字。
仇敵永遠滅亡了,
你把他們的城池連根拔起,
無人再記得他們。
耶和華永遠掌權,
祂已設立施行審判的寶座。
祂要以公義審判世界,
在萬民中伸張正義。
耶和華是受欺壓之人的避難所,
是他們患難之時的避風港。
10 耶和華啊,
凡認識你名的人都必信靠你,
因為你從來不丟棄尋求你的人。
11 要歌頌住在錫安的耶和華,
在列邦傳揚祂的作為。
12 祂追討血債,顧念受害者,
不忘傾聽受苦者的呼求。
13 耶和華啊,
看看仇敵對我的迫害!
求你憐憫我,
救我離開死亡之門,
14 我好在錫安的城門口稱頌你,
因你的拯救而歡樂。
15 列邦挖了陷阱卻自陷其中,
設下網羅卻纏住自己的腳。
16 耶和華彰顯了自己的公義,
使惡人自食其果。(細拉)
17 惡人必下陰間,這是所有忘記上帝之人的結局。
18 貧乏人不會永遠被遺忘,
受苦人的希望也不會一直落空。
19 耶和華啊,求你起來,
別讓人向你誇勝,
願你審判列邦。
20 耶和華啊,
求你使列邦恐懼戰抖,
讓他們明白自己不過是人。(細拉)

Footnotes

  1. 9·0 慕拉辨」希伯來文的意思是「喪子」。

Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Righteous Judgments

To the Chief Musician. To the tune of [a]“Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.

I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
I will be glad and (A)rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, (B)O Most High.

When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
You have rebuked the [b]nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have (C)blotted out their name forever and ever.

O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has (D)perished.
(E)But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
(F)He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

The Lord also will be a (G)refuge[c] for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
10 And those who (H)know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
(I)Declare His deeds among the people.
12 (J)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the [d]humble.

13 Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of [e]the daughter of Zion.
I will (K)rejoice in Your salvation.

15 (L)The [f]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
16 The Lord is (M)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
(N)Meditation.[g] Selah

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the [h]nations (O)that forget God.
18 (P)For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
(Q)The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the [i]nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the [j]nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9:1 Heb. Muth Labben
  2. Psalm 9:5 Gentiles
  3. Psalm 9:9 Lit. secure height
  4. Psalm 9:12 afflicted
  5. Psalm 9:14 Jerusalem
  6. Psalm 9:15 Gentiles
  7. Psalm 9:16 Heb. Higgaion
  8. Psalm 9:17 Gentiles
  9. Psalm 9:19 Gentiles
  10. Psalm 9:20 Gentiles