患难中的苦诉

大卫的诗歌,交给乐长。

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。

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

109 God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
    for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.
    They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
    and fought against me without a cause.
In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
    but I am in prayer.
They have rewarded me evil for good,
    and hatred for my love.
Set a wicked man over him.
    Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
When he is judged, let him come out guilty.
    Let his prayer be turned into sin.
Let his days be few.
    Let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless,
    and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be wandering beggars.
    Let them be sought from their ruins.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has.
    Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
    neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off.
    In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh.
    Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Yahweh continually,
    that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
16 because he didn’t remember to show kindness,
    but persecuted the poor and needy man,
    the broken in heart, to kill them.
17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
    He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.
    It came into his inward parts like water,
    like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,
    for the belt that is always around him.
20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,
    of those who speak evil against my soul.

21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord,[a] for your name’s sake,
    because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
22     for I am poor and needy.
    My heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow.
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting.
    My body is thin and lacks fat.
25 I have also become a reproach to them.
    When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, Yahweh, my God.
    Save me according to your loving kindness;
27 that they may know that this is your hand;
    that you, Yahweh, have done it.
28 They may curse, but you bless.
    When they arise, they will be shamed,
    but your servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.
    Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.
    Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
    to save him from those who judge his soul.

Footnotes

  1. 109:21 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”