歌颂上帝的恩惠

亚萨的诗,交给乐长,用迦特乐器。

81 要歌颂赐我们力量的上帝,
向雅各的上帝欢呼。
要唱诗,击鼓,弹起琴瑟。
要在我们过节的朔日和望日[a]吹响号角。
这是以色列的律例,
是雅各的上帝所定的法令。
上帝攻击埃及的时候,
为约瑟立下此法度。
我在那里听见陌生的声音说:
“我卸下了你肩上的重担,
使你的双手不再做苦工,
你在苦难中向我呼求,
我就拯救了你,
从雷声隆隆的密云中应允了你。
我在米利巴泉边考验你。(细拉)
我的子民啊,
要听我的警告。
以色列人啊,
但愿你们听从我的话。
你们断不可供奉别的神明,
也不可向外族的神明下拜,
10 我是你们的上帝耶和华,
曾把你们带出埃及。
张开你们的口吧,
我必使你们饱足。
11 我的子民却不肯听我的话,
以色列不愿意顺从我。
12 因此我就任凭他们顽固不化,
为所欲为。
13 但愿我的子民肯听从我,
以色列人肯遵行我的道。
14 那时,我必迅速制服他们的敌人,
伸手攻击他们的仇敌。
15 憎恶我的人要在我面前屈膝投降,永远沉沦。
16 我要以上好的麦子供养我的子民,
让他们饱享磐石间的蜂蜜。”

Footnotes

  1. 81:3 朔日和望日”即每月的初一和十五。

A Call to Obedience

For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph.(A)

81 Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.(B)
Lift up a song – play the tambourine,
the melodious lyre, and the harp.(C)
Blow the ram’s horn on the day of our feasts[a]
during the new moon(D)
and during the full moon.
For this is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.(E)
He set it up as a decree for Joseph
when he went throughout[b] the land of Egypt.(F)

I heard an unfamiliar language:
‘I relieved his shoulder from the burden;
his hands were freed from carrying the basket.(G)
You called out in distress, and I rescued you;
I answered you from the thundercloud.(H)
I tested you at the Waters of Meribah.(I) Selah
Listen, my people, and I will admonish you.
Israel, if you would only listen to me!(J)
There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.(K)
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.(L)
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.(M)

11 ‘But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel did not obey me.(N)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.(O)
13 If only my people would listen to me
and Israel would follow my ways,(P)
14 I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.’(Q)
15 Those who hate the Lord
would cower to him;(R)
their doom would last for ever.(S)
16 But he would feed Israel[c] with the best wheat.
‘I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.’(T)

Footnotes

  1. 81:3 Lit feast
  2. 81:5 Or he gained authority over
  3. 81:16 Lithim