祈求上帝拯救的祷告

大卫作的诗,交给乐长,调用“百合花”。

69 上帝啊,求你拯救我,
因为洪水快把我淹没;
我深陷泥沼,无法站稳脚;
我落入深渊,被洪流淹没。
我连连呼救,已声嘶力竭;
我期盼上帝的帮助,望眼欲穿。
无故恨我的人不计其数,
无故害我的仇敌势力强大,
逼我偿还我没有偷过的东西。
上帝啊,你知道我的愚昧,
我的罪恶也瞒不过你。
主——万军之耶和华啊,
求你不要使等候你的人因我而受辱;
以色列的上帝啊,
求你不要让信靠你的人因我而蒙羞。
我为了你的缘故遭受辱骂,
羞辱满面。
我的弟兄视我为陌生人,
我的手足看我为外人。
我对你的殿充满炙热的爱,
辱骂你之人的辱骂都落在我身上。
10 我悲伤禁食,
他们就羞辱我。
11 我披上麻衣,
他们就讥笑我。
12 我成了街谈巷议的话题,
醉汉作歌取笑我。

13 可是,耶和华啊,
在你悦纳人的时候,
我向你祷告。
上帝啊,
求你以你的大爱和信实拯救我。
14 求你救我脱离泥沼,
不要让我沉下去;
求你救我脱离恨我的人,
使我离开深渊。
15 求你不要让洪水淹没我,
深渊吞灭我,
坟墓吞噬我。

16 耶和华啊,求你答应我的祷告,
因为你充满慈爱和良善;
求你以无限的怜悯眷顾我。
17 求你不要掩面不理你的仆人。
我正身陷困境,
求你快快答应我。
18 求你前来拯救我,
把我从仇敌手中救赎出来。
19 你知道我受的辱骂、欺凌和羞辱,
你看到了我仇敌的所作所为。
20 他们的辱骂使我心碎,
令我绝望无助。
我渴望有人同情,却没有一个;
期望有人安慰,却无一人。
21 他们给我苦胆当食物,
又拿醋给我解渴。

22 愿他们面前的宴席变为网罗,
成为他们的陷阱。
23 愿他们眼目昏暗,无法看见;
愿他们哆哆嗦嗦,直不起腰来。
24 求你把烈怒倾倒在他们身上,
将怒气撒向他们。
25 愿他们的家园一片荒凉,
愿他们的帐篷无人居住。
26 因为他们迫害你击打过的人,
嘲笑你所打伤之人的痛苦。
27 求你清算他们的种种罪行,
不要让他们有份于你的拯救之恩。
28 愿他们的名字从生命册上被抹去,
不得和义人的名字列在一起。
29 上帝啊,
我陷入痛苦和忧伤,
求你拯救我,保护我。
30 我要用歌声赞美上帝的名,
以感恩的心尊崇祂。
31 这要比献上有蹄有角的公牛等祭牲更讨耶和华喜悦。
32 卑微的人看见这一切就欢喜快乐,
愿你们寻求上帝的人精神振奋。
33 耶和华垂听穷苦人的祈求,
不轻看祂被囚的子民。
34 愿天地都赞美祂,
愿海和其中的一切都赞美祂!
35 因为上帝必拯救锡安,
重建犹大的城邑。
祂的子民要住在那里,
拥有那片土地。
36 祂仆人的后裔要承受那地方为业,
凡爱祂的人都要住在那里。

A Plea for Deliverance from Persecution

For the music director, according to The Lilies. Of David.[a]

69 Save me, O God,
because waters have come up to my neck.[b]
I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold.
I have come to watery depths,
and the torrent floods over me.
I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched.
My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
More numerous than the hairs of my head
are those hating me without a cause.
Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully[c]— are mighty.
What I did not steal, I then must restore.
O God, you yourself know[d] my foolishness,
and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me,
O Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
O God of Israel.
Because on account of you I have borne reproach;
disgrace has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
because the zeal for your house[e] has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept in the fasting of my soul,
it became reproaches for me.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became for them a byword.
12 Those sitting at the gate talk about me
as also[f] the songs of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time,
O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love.
Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
14 Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me
and from the watery depths.
15 Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me,
or the deep swallow me,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good;
according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
17 and do not hide your face from your servant.
Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
18 Draw near to my soul; redeem it.
Because of my enemies, ransom me.
19 You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace.
Fully known[g] to you are all my adversaries.
20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick.
And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for food,[h]
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table before them be a trap,
and their times of peace a snare.
23 Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see,
and make their loins continually tremble.
24 Pour out your indignation on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 Let their camp be desolate.
Let none dwell in their tents,
26 because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck,
and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.
27 Add guilt on top of their guilt,[i]
and do not let them be acquitted.[j]
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and let them not be recorded with the righteous.
29 But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained,
your salvation will protect[k] me, O God.
30 I will praise the name of God in song,
and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull,
horned and hoofed.[l]
32 The afflicted will see and rejoice.
O God seekers, let your heart revive,[m]
33 because Yahweh hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are prisoners.
34 Let heavens and earth praise him,
the seas and all that moves in them,
35 because God will save Zion
and build the cities of Judah,
that they may dwell there and possess it.
36 And the offspring of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will abide in it.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 69:1 Hebrew “soul” or “life”
  3. Psalm 69:4 Or, “those who oppose me with falsehood”
  4. Psalm 69:5 Literally “you, you know”
  5. Psalm 69:9 Or “temple”
  6. Psalm 69:12 Hebrew “and”
  7. Psalm 69:19 Literally “right in front of”
  8. Psalm 69:21 Or “they put poison in my food”
  9. Psalm 69:27 Literally “Give guilt on their guilt”
  10. Psalm 69:27 Literally “come into your righteousness”
  11. Psalm 69:29 The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress
  12. Psalm 69:31 That is, mature and ritually clean
  13. Psalm 69:32 Or “live”

Psalm 69[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David.

Save me, O God,
    for the waters(A) have come up to my neck.(B)
I sink in the miry depths,(C)
    where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
    the floods engulf me.
I am worn out calling for help;(D)
    my throat is parched.
My eyes fail,(E)
    looking for my God.
Those who hate me(F) without reason(G)
    outnumber the hairs of my head;
many are my enemies without cause,(H)
    those who seek to destroy me.(I)
I am forced to restore
    what I did not steal.

You, God, know my folly;(J)
    my guilt is not hidden from you.(K)

Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    may those who hope in you
    not be disgraced because of me;
God of Israel,
    may those who seek you
    not be put to shame because of me.
For I endure scorn(L) for your sake,(M)
    and shame covers my face.(N)
I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;(O)
for zeal for your house consumes me,(P)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(Q)
10 When I weep and fast,(R)
    I must endure scorn;
11 when I put on sackcloth,(S)
    people make sport of me.
12 Those who sit at the gate(T) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(U)

13 But I pray to you, Lord,
    in the time of your favor;(V)
in your great love,(W) O God,
    answer me with your sure salvation.
14 Rescue me from the mire,
    do not let me sink;
deliver me from those who hate me,
    from the deep waters.(X)
15 Do not let the floodwaters(Y) engulf me
    or the depths swallow me up(Z)
    or the pit close its mouth over me.(AA)

16 Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;(AB)
    in your great mercy turn to me.
17 Do not hide your face(AC) from your servant;
    answer me quickly,(AD) for I am in trouble.(AE)
18 Come near and rescue me;
    deliver(AF) me because of my foes.

19 You know how I am scorned,(AG) disgraced and shamed;
    all my enemies are before you.
20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(AH) but I found none.(AI)
21 They put gall in my food
    and gave me vinegar(AJ) for my thirst.(AK)

22 May the table set before them become a snare;
    may it become retribution and[b] a trap.(AL)
23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
    and their backs be bent forever.(AM)
24 Pour out your wrath(AN) on them;
    let your fierce anger overtake them.
25 May their place be deserted;(AO)
    let there be no one to dwell in their tents.(AP)
26 For they persecute those you wound
    and talk about the pain of those you hurt.(AQ)
27 Charge them with crime upon crime;(AR)
    do not let them share in your salvation.(AS)
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life(AT)
    and not be listed with the righteous.(AU)

29 But as for me, afflicted and in pain—
    may your salvation, God, protect me.(AV)

30 I will praise God’s name in song(AW)
    and glorify him(AX) with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the Lord more than an ox,
    more than a bull with its horns and hooves.(AY)
32 The poor will see and be glad(AZ)
    you who seek God, may your hearts live!(BA)
33 The Lord hears the needy(BB)
    and does not despise his captive people.

34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
    the seas and all that move in them,(BC)
35 for God will save Zion(BD)
    and rebuild the cities of Judah.(BE)
Then people will settle there and possess it;
36     the children of his servants will inherit it,(BF)
    and those who love his name will dwell there.(BG)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 In Hebrew texts 69:1-36 is numbered 69:2-37.
  2. Psalm 69:22 Or snare / and their fellowship become