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58 掌權者啊!你們真的講公義嗎(本句或譯:“你們默然不語,真的講公義嗎”)?

你們真的按照正直審判世人嗎?

不是的,你們心中策劃奸惡;

你們的手在地上施行強暴(本句原文作“你們在地上稱出你們手中的強暴”)。

惡人一出母胎,就走上歧路;

他們一離母腹,就走偏了路,常說謊話。

他們的毒氣好像蛇的毒氣,

又像耳朵塞住的聾虺,

不聽行法術者的聲音,

就是極靈的咒語,也是無效。

 神啊!求你敲掉他們口中的牙齒;

耶和華啊!求你打斷少壯獅子的顎骨。

願他們像流水般消逝;

願他們射箭的時候,箭頭折斷(本句原文意義不甚明確)。

願他們像蝸牛般蠕行消融,

如同婦人流產未見天日的胎兒。

你們用荊棘燒火,鍋還未熱,

他要用旋風把燒著的和未燒著的一起颳去。

10 義人看見仇敵遭報就歡喜;

他要在惡人的血中洗自己的腳。

11 因此,人必說:“義人果然有善報;

在世上確有一位施行審判的 神。”

祈求上帝懲罰惡人

大衛作的詩,交給樂長,調用「休要毀壞」。

58 你們做官長的主持公道嗎?
你們的審判公正嗎?
不,你們心中圖謀不義,
你們在地上行兇作惡。
惡人生下來就步入歧途,
一出母胎就離開正道,
謊話連篇。
他們像噴出毒液的毒蛇,
又像耳聾的眼鏡蛇,
任法師的邪術再高超,
也聽不見他的咒語。
上帝啊,求你敲碎他們的牙齒;
耶和華啊,
求你拔掉這些猛獅的利齒。
願他們如流水逝去,
願他們彎弓搭箭時箭頭折斷。
願他們像蝸牛一樣溶為爛泥,
又如流產的胎兒不見天日。
刹那間,
荊棘還沒有把鍋燒熱的工夫,
上帝必除滅他們。
10 義人必因惡人遭報而歡欣,
並用惡人的血洗腳。
11 這樣,人們必說:
「義人終有善報,
確實有一位審判天下的上帝。」

Psalm 58

A Cry against Injustice

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David.

Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones?[a]
Do you judge people fairly?(A)
No, you practice injustice in your hearts;
with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.(B)

The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars wander about from birth.(C)
They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,(D)
that does not listen to the sound of the charmers
who skillfully weave spells.(E)

God, knock the teeth out of their mouths;
Lord, tear out the young lions’ fangs.(F)
May they vanish like water that flows by;
may they aim their blunted arrows.[b](G)
Like a slug that moves along in slime,
like a woman’s miscarried child,
may they not see the sun.(H)

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether green or burning—
he will sweep them away.[c](I)
10 The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;(J)
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.(K)
11 Then people will say,
“Yes, there is a reward for the righteous!
There is a God who judges on earth!” (L)

Footnotes

  1. 58:1 Or Can you really speak righteousness in silence?
  2. 58:7 Hb obscure
  3. 58:9 Or thorns, he will sweep it away, whether raw or cooking

58 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.