詩篇 73
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
卷三：詩篇73—89
上帝的公正審判
亞薩的詩。
73 上帝實在善待以色列人，
恩待那些內心純潔的人。
2 我卻身陷險地，
幾乎失腳跌倒。
3 我看見狂傲的惡人亨通就心懷不平。
4 他們一生平順，健康強壯。
5 他們不像別人受苦，
不像世人遭難。
6 他們把驕傲作項鏈戴在頸上，
把暴力作外袍裹在身上。
7 他們胖得眼睛凸出，
心中充滿罪惡。
8 他們譏諷嘲笑，言語惡毒，
狂妄地以暴力相威脅。
9 他們褻瀆上天，詆譭大地。
10 上帝的子民也跟隨他們，
聽從他們的話。
11 他們說：
「上帝怎能知道？
至高者會察覺嗎？」
12 看這些惡人，
他們總是生活安逸，財富日增。
13 我潔身自愛，保持清白，
實屬徒然。
14 我天天遭災，日日受苦。
15 要是我這樣說，
我就是背叛了你的子民。
16 我想明白這一切，
卻百思不得其解。
17 直到我進入你的聖所，
才明白他們的結局。
18 你把他們放在容易滑倒的地方，
使他們落入毀滅中。
19 他們頃刻間被毀滅，
在恐怖中徹底滅亡。
20 他們不過是人醒來後的一場夢。
主啊，你一行動，
他們必灰飛煙滅。
21 我曾感到悲傷，心如刀絞。
22 我當時愚昧無知，
在你面前如同畜類。
23 然而，我一直和你在一起，
你牽著我的手引導我。
24 你以諄諄教誨指引我，
以後必接我到榮耀中。
25 除你以外，在天上我還有誰？
除你以外，在地上我別無愛慕。
26 儘管我身心俱衰，
上帝永遠是我心中的力量，
永遠屬於我。
27 那些遠離你的人必滅亡，
你必滅絕不忠於你的人。
28 對於我，到上帝面前是何等美好。
我以主耶和華為我的避難所，
並宣揚祂的一切作為。
Psalm 73
Easy-to-Read Version
Book 3
(Psalms 73-89)
Asaph’s song of praise.
73 God is so good to Israel,
to those whose hearts are pure.
2 But I almost slipped and lost my balance.
I almost fell into sin.
3 I saw that wicked people were successful,
and I became jealous of those proud people.
4 They are healthy.
They don’t have to struggle to survive.[a]
5 They don’t suffer like the rest of us.
They don’t have troubles like other people.
6 So they are proud and hateful.
This is as easy to see as the jewels and fancy clothes they wear.
7 If they see something they like, they go and take it.
They do whatever they want.
8 They make fun of others and say cruel things about them.
In their pride they make plans to hurt people.
9 They think they are gods!
They think they are the rulers of the earth.
10 [b] Even God’s people turn to them
and do what they say.
11 Those evil people say, “God does not know what we are doing!
God Most High does not know!”
12 Those proud people are wicked,
but they are rich and getting richer.
13 Clearly, then, I gain nothing by keeping my thoughts pure!
What good is it to keep myself from sin?
14 God, I suffer all day long,
and you punish me every morning.
15 I wanted to tell others these things,
but that would have made me a traitor to your people.
16 I tried hard to understand all this,
but it was too hard for me.
17 But then, God, I went to your Temple,
and I understood what will happen to the wicked.
18 Clearly, you have put them in danger.
You make it easy for them to fall and be destroyed.
19 Trouble can come suddenly,
and they will be ruined.
Terrible things can happen to them,
and they will be finished.
20 Then they will be like a dream
that we forget when we wake up.
You will make them disappear
like the monsters in our dreams.
21-22 I was so stupid.
I thought about such people and became upset.
God, I was upset and angry with you!
I acted like a senseless animal.
23 But I am always with you.
You hold my hand.
24 You lead me and give me good advice,
and later you will lead me to glory.[c]
25 In heaven, God, I have only you.
And if I am with you, what on earth could I want?
26 Maybe my mind[d] and body will become weak,
but God is my source of strength.[e]
He is mine forever!
27 God, people who leave you will be lost.
You will destroy all who are not faithful to you.
28 As for me, all I need is to be close to God.
I have made the Lord God my place of safety.
And, God, I will tell about all that you have done.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:4 Literally, “They have no bonds to their death.”
- Psalm 73:10 The Hebrew text here is hard to understand.
- Psalm 73:24 lead me to glory Or “receive me in honor.”
- Psalm 73:26 mind Literally, “heart.”
- Psalm 73:26 my … strength Literally, “the Rock of my heart.”
Psalm 73
King James Version
73 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
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