詩篇 58
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
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？
2 不，你們心中圖謀不義，
你們在地上行兇作惡。
3 惡人生下來就步入歧途，
一出母胎就離開正道，
謊話連篇。
4 他們像噴出毒液的毒蛇，
又像耳聾的眼鏡蛇，
5 任法師的邪術再高超，
也聽不見他的咒語。
6 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。
7 願他們如流水逝去，
願他們彎弓搭箭時箭頭折斷。
8 願他們像蝸牛一樣溶為爛泥，
又如流產的胎兒不見天日。
9 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
EasyEnglish Bible
This is for the music leader, and he should use special music.
David wrote this prayer.
God will judge all people[a]
58 Do you rulers really say what is right?
Do you judge people in a fair way?
2 No! You do not!
You like to think of evil things to do.
You make cruel things happen
everywhere in the land.
3 Wicked people do wrong things from their birth.
As soon as they are born,
they start telling lies.
4 Their words hurt people
like a snake's poison.
They listen to nobody,
like a deaf cobra.
5 It does not obey the voice of the magician,
even if he sings very well![b]
6 God, break the teeth of my enemies!
Yes, Lord, break into pieces
the teeth of those lions!
7 Cause them to run away like water and disappear.
Cause them to die like dry grass in hot weather.
8 Cause them to be like a worm that melts as it moves along.
Cause them to be like a child that is born dead
and never sees the light of day.
9 Remove them quickly,
more quickly than pots become hot over a fire of thorn bushes.[c]
10 When God punishes those wicked people,
righteous people will be very happy.
They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked people!
11 People who see it will say,
‘It is true! God helps good people!
There is a God who judges people on earth in a fair way.’
Footnotes
- 58:1 In this psalm, David asks God to punish his enemies. He knows that God is fair. He always does what is right. God is the one who judges everybody in a fair way. The Hebrew in some of the verses is very hard to understand. If you read other Bible translations, you will find that some of the verses seem different.
- 58:5 These wicked people will not listen to God. Some magicians can make snakes obey them when they sing or make music. The wicked people are like snakes that are deaf and they cannot obey.
- 58:9 David asks God to punish these bad people. David wants God to remove them very quickly. He used pictures of different things to say what he means.
Psalm 58
King James Version
58 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
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