求助的早祷

大卫逃避儿子押沙龙时作的诗。

耶和华啊,我的敌人何其多!
反对我的人何其多!
他们都说上帝不会来救我。(细拉)[a]

可是,耶和华啊!
你是四面保护我的盾牌,
你赐我荣耀,使我昂首而立。
我向耶和华呼求,
祂就从祂的圣山上回应我。(细拉)
我躺下,我睡觉,我醒来,
都蒙耶和华看顾。
我虽被千万仇敌围困,
也不会惧怕。
耶和华啊,求你起来!
我的上帝啊,求你救我!
求你掴我一切仇敌的脸,
打碎恶人的牙齿。
耶和华啊,你是拯救者,
愿你赐福你的子民!(细拉)

Footnotes

  1. 3:2 细拉”语意不明,常在诗篇中出现,可能是一种音乐术语。

Trust in God under Adversity

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

O Lord, how many are my foes!
    Many are rising against me;
many are saying of me,
    there is no help for him in God.Selah

But thou, O Lord, art a shield about me,
    my glory, and the lifter of my head.
I cry aloud to the Lord,
    and he answers me from his holy hill.Selah

I lie down and sleep;
    I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.
I am not afraid of ten thousands of people
    who have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, O Lord!
    Deliver me, O my God!
For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek,
    thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.

Deliverance belongs to the Lord;
    thy blessing be upon thy people!Selah