患难中的苦诉

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109 我所赞美的上帝啊,
求你不要沉默不语。
因为邪恶和诡诈的人开口攻击我,
用谎言毁谤我。
他们恶言恶语地围着我,
无缘无故地攻击我。
我爱他们,他们却控告我,
但我为他们祷告。
他们对我以恶报善,
以恨报爱。
求你差恶人攻击我的仇敌,
派人站在他右边控告他。
当他受审时,
愿他被判为有罪,
他的祷告也算为罪过。
愿他的年日短少,
愿别人取代他的职位。
愿他的孩子失去父亲,
妻子成为寡妇。
10 愿他的孩子流浪行乞,
被赶出自己破败的家。
11 愿债主夺取他所有的财产,
陌生人抢走他的劳动成果。
12 愿无人向他施恩,
无人同情他的孤儿。
13 愿他断子绝孙,
他的姓氏传不到下一代。
14 愿耶和华记住他祖辈的罪恶,
不除去他母亲的罪过。
15 愿耶和华永不忘记他的罪恶,
把他从世上铲除。
16 因为他毫无仁慈,
迫害困苦、贫穷和伤心的人,
置他们于死地。
17 他喜欢咒诅人,
愿咒诅临到他;
他不喜欢祝福人,
愿祝福远离他。
18 他咒诅成性,
愿咒诅如水侵入他的身体,
如油浸透他的骨头。
19 愿咒诅不离其身,
如同身上的衣服和腰间的带子。
20 愿耶和华这样报应那些诬告我,
以恶言攻击我的人。
21 主耶和华啊,
求你因自己的名恩待我,
因你的美善和慈爱拯救我。
22 因为我贫穷困苦,
内心饱受创伤。
23 我像黄昏的日影一样消逝,
如蝗虫一般被抖落。
24 禁食使我双腿发软,
瘦骨嶙峋。
25 仇敌都嘲笑我,
他们看见我就连连摇头。
26 我的上帝耶和华啊,
求你帮助我,施慈爱拯救我,
27 让他们都看见这是你耶和华的作为。
28 任凭他们咒诅吧,
你必赐福给我。
攻击我的人必蒙羞,
你的仆人必欢喜。
29 愿诬告我的人满面羞辱,
无地自容。
30 我要竭力颂扬耶和华,
在众人面前赞美祂。
31 因为祂保护贫穷的人,
拯救他们脱离置他们于死地的人。

To the Director. A Davidic psalm.

A Prayer against the Evil One

109 God, whom I praise,
    do not be silent,
for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people
    are opened against me;
        they speak against me with lying tongues.
They surround me with hate-filled words,
    attacking me for no reason.
Instead of receiving[a] my love, they accuse me,
    though I continue in prayer.
They devise evil against me instead of good,
    and hatred in place of my love.

Appoint an evil person over him;
    may an accuser stand at his right side.[b]
When he is judged, may he be found guilty;
    may his prayer be regarded as sin.
May his days be few;
    may another take over his position.[c]
May his children become fatherless,
    and his wife a widow.
10 May his children roam around begging,
    seeking food[d] while driven far[e] from their ruined homes.
11 May creditors seize all his possessions,
    and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired.[f]
12 May no one extend gracious love to him,
    or show favor to his fatherless children.
13 May his descendants[g] be eliminated,
    and their memory[h] be erased from the next generation.
14 May his ancestors’ guilt be remembered in the Lord’s presence,
    and may his mother’s guilt not be erased.
15 May what[i] they have done[j] be continually in the Lord’s presence;
    and may their memory be excised from the earth.

16 For he didn’t think to extend gracious love;
    he harassed to death the poor, the needy, and the broken hearted.[k]
17 He loved to curse—may his curses[l] return upon him!
    He took no delight in blessing others[m]
        so may blessings[n] be far from him.
18 He wore curses like a garment—
    may they[o] enter his inner being like water
        and his bones like oil.
19 May those curses[p] wrap around him like a garment,
    or like a belt that one always wears.
20 May this be the way the Lord repays my accuser,
    those who speak evil against me.

21 Now you, Lord my God, defend[q] me for your name’s sake;
    because your gracious love is good, deliver me!
22 Indeed, I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am fading[r] away like a shadow late in the day;
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees give way[s] from fasting,
    and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.
25 I have become an object of derision to them—
    they shake their heads whenever they see me.

26 Help me, Lord my God!
    Deliver me in accord with your gracious love!
27 Then they will realize that your hand is in this—
    that you, Lord, have accomplished it.
28 They will curse,
    but you will bless.
When they attack,[t] they will[u] be humiliated,
    while your servant rejoices.
29 May my accusers be clothed with shame
    and wrapped in their humiliation as with a robe.

30 I will give many thanks to the Lord with my mouth,
    praising him publicly,
31 for he stands[v] at the right hand of the needy one,
    to deliver him from his accusers.[w]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:4 The Heb. lacks receiving
  2. Psalm 109:6 Lit. hand
  3. Psalm 109:8 Or office
  4. Psalm 109:10 The Heb. lacks food
  5. Psalm 109:10 So LXX; the Heb. lacks while driven far
  6. Psalm 109:11 Or the result of his labor
  7. Psalm 109:13 Lit. May those after him
  8. Psalm 109:13 Or their name
  9. Psalm 109:15 The Heb. lacks what
  10. Psalm 109:15 The Heb. lacks have done
  11. Psalm 109:16 Or downhearted
  12. Psalm 109:17 Lit. may it
  13. Psalm 109:17 The Heb. lacks others
  14. Psalm 109:17 Lit. it
  15. Psalm 109:18 Lit. it
  16. Psalm 109:19 Lit. may it
  17. Psalm 109:21 Lit. God, do to
  18. Psalm 109:23 Or walking
  19. Psalm 109:24 Or knees stagger
  20. Psalm 109:28 Lit. arise
  21. Psalm 109:28 So MT DSS 4QPsf 11QPsa; LXX reads arise, let my opponents
  22. Psalm 109:31 So MT; LXX DSS 11QPsa read he has stood
  23. Psalm 109:31 Or from those who condemn him