稱頌上帝的公義

大衛的詩,交給樂長,調用「慕拉辨」[a]

耶和華啊,
我要全心全意地讚美你,
傳揚你一切奇妙的作為。
我要因你歡喜快樂,
至高者啊,我要歌頌你的名。
我的仇敵必在你面前敗退,
倒地身亡。
你坐在寶座上按公義審判,
你為我主持公道。
你斥責列國,消滅惡人,
永永遠遠抹去他們的名字。
仇敵永遠滅亡了,
你把他們的城池連根拔起,
無人再記得他們。
耶和華永遠掌權,
祂已設立施行審判的寶座。
祂要以公義審判世界,
在萬民中伸張正義。
耶和華是受欺壓之人的避難所,
是他們患難之時的避風港。
10 耶和華啊,
凡認識你名的人都必信靠你,
因為你從來不丟棄尋求你的人。
11 要歌頌住在錫安的耶和華,
在列邦傳揚祂的作為。
12 祂追討血債,顧念受害者,
不忘傾聽受苦者的呼求。
13 耶和華啊,
看看仇敵對我的迫害!
求你憐憫我,
救我離開死亡之門,
14 我好在錫安的城門口稱頌你,
因你的拯救而歡樂。
15 列邦挖了陷阱卻自陷其中,
設下網羅卻纏住自己的腳。
16 耶和華彰顯了自己的公義,
使惡人自食其果。(細拉)
17 惡人必下陰間,這是所有忘記上帝之人的結局。
18 貧乏人不會永遠被遺忘,
受苦人的希望也不會一直落空。
19 耶和華啊,求你起來,
別讓人向你誇勝,
願你審判列邦。
20 耶和華啊,
求你使列邦恐懼戰抖,
讓他們明白自己不過是人。(細拉)

Footnotes

  1. 9·0 慕拉辨」希伯來文的意思是「喪子」。

Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness

For the choir director. [a]Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.

Aleph

[b]I will give thanks to Yahweh with all (A)my heart;
I will (B)recount all Your [c]wondrous deeds.

Aleph

I will be glad and (C)exult in You;
I will (D)sing praise to Your name, O (E)Most High.

Beth

When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and (F)perish before You.
For You have (G)maintained my [d]justice and my cause;
You have sat on the throne [e](H)judging righteously.

Gimel

You have (I)rebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have (J)blotted out their name forever and ever.

He

[f]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual [g]ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very (K)memory of them has perished.

Vav

But (L)Yahweh [h]abides forever;
He has established His (M)throne for judgment,

Vav

And He will (N)judge the world in righteousness;
He will render justice for the peoples with equity.

Vav

[i]Yahweh also will be a (O)stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of [j]distress;

Vav

10 And [k]those who (P)know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Yahweh, have not (Q)forsaken those who seek You.

Zayin

11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who (R)abides in Zion;
(S)Declare among the peoples His acts.
12 For (T)He who [l]requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget (U)the cry of the afflicted.

Heth

13 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those (V)who hate me,
You who (W)lift me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may recount (X)all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may (Y)rejoice in Your [m]salvation.

Teth

15 The nations have sunk down (Z)in the pit which they have made;
In the (AA)net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 Yahweh has (AB)made Himself known;
He has (AC)executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. [n]Higgaion [o]Selah.

Yodh

17 The wicked will [p](AD)return to Sheol,
Even all the nations who (AE)forget God.

Kaph

18 For the (AF)needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the (AG)hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 (AH)Arise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be (AI)judged before You.
20 Put them (AJ)in fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are (AK)but men. Selah.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9 Title Or According to the Death of the Son; possibly a title for a tune
  2. Psalm 9:1 This poem loosely follows an acrostic pattern
  3. Psalm 9:1 Or miracles
  4. Psalm 9:4 Or right
  5. Psalm 9:4 Or a righteous Judge
  6. Psalm 9:6 Or O enemy, desolations are finished forever; And their cities You have plucked up
  7. Psalm 9:6 Or waste places
  8. Psalm 9:7 Or sits as king
  9. Psalm 9:9 Or Let Yahweh also be
  10. Psalm 9:9 Or trouble
  11. Psalm 9:10 Or let those...name put
  12. Psalm 9:12 Avenges bloodshed
  13. Psalm 9:14 Or deliverance
  14. Psalm 9:16 Possibly resounding music or meditation
  15. Psalm 9:16 Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
  16. Psalm 9:17 Or turn