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祈愿恶人遭报

大卫的金诗,交给诗班长,调用“休要毁坏”。

58 掌权者啊!你们真的讲公义吗(本句或译:“你们默然不语,真的讲公义吗”)?

你们真的按照正直审判世人吗?

不是的,你们心中策划奸恶;

你们的手在地上施行强暴(本句原文作“你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴”)。

恶人一出母胎,就走上歧路;

他们一离母腹,就走偏了路,常说谎话。

他们的毒气好象蛇的毒气,

又像耳朵塞住的聋虺,

不听行法术者的声音,

就是极灵的咒语,也是无效。

 神啊!求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿;

耶和华啊!求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。

愿他们像流水般消逝;

愿他们射箭的时候,箭头折断(本句原文意义不甚明确)。

愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融,

如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。

你们用荆棘烧火,锅还未热,

他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。

10 义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜;

他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。

11 因此,人必说:“义人果然有善报;

在世上确有一位施行审判的 神。”

God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David.

58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
    your hands (C)deal out violence on earth.

The wicked are (D)estranged from the womb;
    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
(E)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
so that it (F)does not hear the voice of charmers
    or of the cunning enchanter.

O God, (G)break the teeth in their mouths;
    tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Let them (H)vanish like water that runs away;
    when he (I)aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
Let them be like the snail (J)that dissolves into slime,
    like (K)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (L)thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he (M)sweep them away![c]

10 (N)The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
    he will (O)bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, “Surely there is (P)a reward for the righteous;
    surely there is a God who (Q)judges on earth.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
  3. Psalm 58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain