诗篇 79
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哀诉耶路撒冷屠毁之苦
79 亚萨的诗。
1 神啊，外邦人进入你的产业，污秽你的圣殿，使耶路撒冷变成荒堆，
2 把你仆人的尸首交于天空的飞鸟为食，把你圣民的肉交于地上的野兽，
3 在耶路撒冷周围流他们的血如水，无人葬埋。
4 我们成为邻国的羞辱，成为我们四围人的嗤笑讥刺。
5 耶和华啊，这到几时呢？你要动怒到永远吗？你的愤恨要如火焚烧吗？
6 愿你将你的愤怒倒在那不认识你的外邦，和那不求告你名的国度，
7 因为他们吞了雅各，把他的住处变为荒场。
8 求你不要记念我们先祖的罪孽，向我们追讨。愿你的慈悲快迎着我们，因为我们落到极卑微的地步！
望神以大能救援
9 拯救我们的神啊，求你因你名的荣耀帮助我们，为你名的缘故搭救我们，赦免我们的罪。
10 为何容外邦人说：“他们的神在哪里呢？”愿你使外邦人知道你在我们眼前，申你仆人流血的冤。
11 愿被囚之人的叹息达到你面前，愿你按你的大能力存留那些将要死的人。
12 主啊，愿你将我们邻邦所羞辱你的羞辱加七倍归到他们身上。
13 这样，你的民，你草场的羊，要称谢你直到永远，要述说赞美你的话直到万代。
Psalm 79
New English Translation
Psalm 79[a]
A psalm of Asaph.
79 O God, foreigners[b] have invaded your chosen land;[c]
they have polluted your holy temple
and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
2 They have given the corpses of your servants
to the birds of the sky,[d]
the flesh of your loyal followers
to the beasts of the earth.
3 They have made their blood flow like water
all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.[e]
4 We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;
those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.[f]
5 How long will this go on, O Lord?[g]
Will you stay angry forever?
How long will your rage[h] burn like fire?
6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you,[i]
on the kingdoms that do not pray to you.[j]
7 For they have devoured Jacob
and destroyed his home.
8 Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations.[k]
Quickly send your compassion our way,[l]
for we are in serious trouble.[m]
9 Help us, O God, our deliverer!
For the sake of your glorious reputation,[n] rescue us.
Forgive our sins for the sake of your reputation.[o]
10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
be avenged among the nations.[p]
11 Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners.[q]
Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die.[r]
12 Pay back our neighbors in full.[s]
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord.[t]
13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will continually thank you.[u]
We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.[v]
Footnotes
- Psalm 79:1 sn Psalm 79. The author laments how the invading nations have destroyed the temple and city of Jerusalem. He asks God to forgive his people and to pour out his vengeance on those who have mistreated them.
- Psalm 79:1 tn Or “nations.”
- Psalm 79:1 tn Heb “have come into your inheritance.”
- Psalm 79:2 tn Heb “[as] food for the birds of the sky.”
- Psalm 79:3 tn Heb “they have poured out their blood like water, all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.”
- Psalm 79:4 tn Heb “an [object of] taunting and [of] mockery to those around us.” See Ps 44:13.
- Psalm 79:5 tn Heb “How long, O Lord?”
- Psalm 79:5 tn Or “jealous anger.”
- Psalm 79:6 tn Heb “which do not know you.” Here the Hebrew term “know” means “acknowledge the authority of.”
- Psalm 79:6 sn The kingdoms that do not pray to you. The people of these kingdoms pray to other gods, not the Lord, because they do not recognize his authority over them.
- Psalm 79:8 tn Heb “do not remember against us sins, former.” Some understand “former” as an attributive adjective modifying sins, “former [i.e., chronologically prior] sins” (see BDB 911 s.v. רִאשׁוֹן). The present translation assumes that רִאשֹׁנִים (riʾshonim, “former”) here refers to those who lived formerly, that is, the people’s ancestors (see Lam 5:7). The word is used in this way in Lev 26:45; Deut 19:14 and Eccl 1:11.
- Psalm 79:8 tn Heb “may your compassion quickly confront us.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive, indicating a tone of prayer.
- Psalm 79:8 tn Heb “for we are very low.”
- Psalm 79:9 tn Heb “the glory of your name.” Here and in the following line “name” stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
- Psalm 79:9 tn Heb “your name.”
- Psalm 79:10 tn Heb “may it be known among the nations, to our eyes, the vengeance of the shed blood of your servants.”
- Psalm 79:11 tn Heb “may the painful cry of the prisoner come before you.”
- Psalm 79:11 tn Heb “according to the greatness of your arm leave the sons of death.” God’s “arm” here symbolizes his strength to deliver. The verbal form הוֹתֵר (hoter) is a Hiphil imperative from יָתַר (yatar, “to remain; to be left over”). Here it must mean “to leave over; to preserve.” However, it is preferable to emend the form to הַתֵּר (hatter), a Hiphil imperative from נָתַר (natar, “be free”). The Hiphil form is used in Ps 105:20 of Pharaoh freeing Joseph from prison. The phrase “sons of death” (see also Ps 102:21) is idiomatic for those condemned to die.
- Psalm 79:12 tn Heb “Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.” The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase שִׁבְעָתַיִם (shivʿatayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.
- Psalm 79:12 tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”
- Psalm 79:13 tn Or (hyperbolically) “will thank you forever.”
- Psalm 79:13 tn Heb “to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.” Here “praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.
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