诗篇 94
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
神必为义人伸冤灭绝恶人
94 耶和华啊！你是伸冤的 神；
伸冤的 神啊！求你显出荣光。
2 审判大地的主啊！求你起来，
使骄傲的人得到应得的报应。
3 耶和华啊！恶人得意要到几时呢？
恶人欢乐要到几时呢？
4 他们不住地说骄傲的话，
所有作孽的人都夸耀自己。
5 耶和华啊！他们欺压你的子民，
苦害你的产业。
6 他们杀死寡妇和寄居的，
又杀害孤儿。
7 他们还说：“耶和华必看不见，
雅各的 神并不留意。”
8 民间的愚昧人哪！你们要留心；
愚顽人哪！你们要到几时才能明白呢？
9 那造耳朵的，自己不能听见吗？
那造眼睛的，自己不能看见吗？
10 那管教万国的，不施行审判吗？
那教导人的，自己没有知识吗？
11 耶和华知道人的意念是虚妄的。
12 耶和华啊！你所管教，
用律法教导的人，是有福的。
13 在患难的日子，你使他得享平安，
直到为恶人所预备的坑挖好了。
14 因为耶和华必不丢弃他的子民，
必不离弃他的产业。
15 因为审判必再转向公义，
所有心里正直的都必顺从。
16 谁肯为我起来攻击作恶的人呢？
谁肯为我挺身而起对抗作孽的人呢？
17 如果不是耶和华帮助我，
我早就不在人世了（“我早就不在人世了”原文作“我早就住在寂静中”）。
18 我说：“我失了脚”，
耶和华啊！那时你的慈爱就扶持我。
19 我心里充满忧虑的时候，
你就安慰我，使我的心欢乐。
20 凭着律例制造奸恶，
借着权位行毁灭的，怎能和你相交呢？
21 他们集结起来攻击义人，
把无辜的人定了死罪。
22 但耶和华作了我的高台，
我的 神作了我避难的盘石。
23 他必使他们的罪孽归到他们身上，
他必因他们的罪恶灭绝他们；
耶和华我们的 神必把他们灭绝。
詩篇 94
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
上帝是審判者
94 耶和華啊，你是伸冤的上帝；
伸冤的上帝啊，
求你彰顯你的榮光。
2 審判世界的主啊，
求你起來使驕傲人受到應得的報應。
3 耶和華啊，
惡人洋洋得意，要到何時呢？
要到何時呢？
4 他們大放厥詞，狂妄自大。
5 耶和華啊，他們壓迫你的子民，
苦害你的產業。
6 他們謀害寡婦、外族人和孤兒，
7 並說：「耶和華看不見，
雅各的上帝不會知道。」
8 愚昧的人啊，你們要思想；
無知的人啊，你們何時才能明白呢？
9 難道創造耳朵的上帝聽不見嗎？
難道創造眼睛的上帝看不見嗎？
10 管教列國的上帝難道不懲罰你們嗎？
賜知識的上帝難道不知道嗎？
11 耶和華洞悉人的思想，
祂知道人的思想虛妄，
12 耶和華啊，蒙你管教並用律法訓誨的人有福了！
13 你使他們在患難中有平安，
惡人終必滅亡。
14 耶和華不會丟棄祂的子民，
也不會遺棄祂的產業。
15 公正的審判必重現，
心地正直的人都必擁護。
16 誰肯為我奮起攻擊惡人？
誰肯為我起來抵擋作惡的人？
17 耶和華若不幫助我，
我早已歸入死亡的沉寂中了。
18 我說：「我要倒下了！」
耶和華啊，你便以慈愛扶助我。
19 當我憂心忡忡的時候，
你的撫慰帶給我歡樂。
20 藉律例製造不幸的首領，
豈能與你聯盟？
21 他們結黨攻擊義人，
殘害無辜。
22 但耶和華是我的堡壘，
我的上帝是保護我的磐石。
23 祂必使惡人自食惡果，
因他們的罪惡而毀滅他們。
我們的上帝耶和華必毀滅他們。
Psalm 94
New English Translation
Psalm 94[a]
94 O Lord, the God who avenges!
O God who avenges, reveal your splendor.[b]
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth.
Pay back the proud.
3 O Lord, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked celebrate?[c]
4 They spew out threats[d] and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast.[e]
5 O Lord, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you.[f]
6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner,
and they murder the fatherless.[g]
7 Then they say, “The Lord does not see this;
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”[h]
8 Take notice of this,[i] you ignorant people.[j]
You fools, when will you ever understand?
9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?
Does the one who forms the human eye not see?[k]
10 Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?
He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
11 The Lord knows that peoples’ thoughts
are morally bankrupt.[l]
12 How blessed is the one[m] whom you instruct, O Lord,
the one whom you teach from your law,
13 in order to protect him from times of trouble,[n]
until the wicked are destroyed.[o]
14 Certainly[p] the Lord does not forsake his people;
he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.[q]
15 For justice will prevail,[r]
and all the morally upright[s] will be vindicated.[t]
16 Who will rise up to defend me[u] against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?[v]
17 If the Lord had not helped me,
I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.[w]
18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.
19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me,[x]
your soothing touch makes me happy.[y]
20 Cruel rulers[z] are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.[aa]
21 They conspire against[ab] the blameless,[ac]
and condemn to death the innocent.[ad]
22 But the Lord will protect me,[ae]
and my God will shelter me.[af]
23 He will pay them back for their sin.[ag]
He will destroy them because of[ah] their evil;
the Lord our God will destroy them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 94:1 sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.
- Psalm 94:1 tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).
- Psalm 94:3 tn Or “exult.”
- Psalm 94:4 tn Heb “they gush forth [words].”
- Psalm 94:4 tn The Hitpael of אָמַר (ʾamar) occurs only here (and perhaps in Isa 61:6).
- Psalm 94:5 tn Or “your inheritance.”
- Psalm 94:6 tn The Hebrew noun יָתוֹם (yatom) refers to one who has lost his father (not necessarily his mother, see Ps 109:9). Because they were so vulnerable and were frequently exploited, fatherless children are often mentioned as epitomizing the oppressed (see Pss 10:14; 68:5; 82:3; 146:9; as well as Job 6:27; 22:9; 24:3, 9; 29:12; 31:17, 21).
- Psalm 94:7 tn Heb “does not understand.”
- Psalm 94:8 tn Heb “understand.” The verb used in v. 7 is repeated here for rhetorical effect. The people referred to here claim God is ignorant of their actions, but the psalmist corrects their faulty viewpoint.
- Psalm 94:8 tn Heb “[you] brutish among the people.”
- Psalm 94:9 tn Heb “The one who plants an ear, does he not hear? The one who forms an eye, does he not see?”
- Psalm 94:11 tn Heb “the Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are emptiness.” The psalmist thinks specifically of the “thoughts” expressed in v. 7.
- Psalm 94:12 tn Heb “[Oh] the happiness [of] the man.” Hebrew wisdom literature often assumes and reflects the male-oriented perspective of ancient Israelite society. The principle of the psalm is certainly applicable to all people, regardless of their gender or age. To facilitate modern application, we translate the gender and age specific “man” with the more neutral “one.” The generic masculine pronoun is used in v. 2.
- Psalm 94:13 tn Heb “to give him rest from the days of trouble.”
- Psalm 94:13 tn Heb “until a pit is dug for the wicked.”
- Psalm 94:14 tn Or “for.”
- Psalm 94:14 tn Or “his inheritance.”
- Psalm 94:15 tn Heb “for judgment will return to justice.”
- Psalm 94:15 tn Heb “all the pure of heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the seat of one’s moral character and motives. The “pure of heart” are God’s faithful followers who trust in and love the Lord and, as a result, experience his deliverance (see Pss 7:10; 11:2; 32:11; 36:10; 64:10; 97:11).
- Psalm 94:15 tn Heb “and after it [are] the pure of heart.”
- Psalm 94:16 tn Heb “for me.”
- Psalm 94:16 sn Who will stand up for me…? The questions anticipate the answer, “No one except God” (see v. 17).
- Psalm 94:17 tn Heb “If the Lord [were] not my help, quickly my life would have dwelt in silence.” The psalmist, perhaps speaking as the nation’s representative, recalls God’s past intervention. For other examples of conditional sentences with the term לוּלֵי (lule, “if not”) in the protasis and a perfect verbal form in the apodosis, see Pss 119:92 and 124:2-5.
- Psalm 94:19 tn Heb “when my worries are many within me.”
- Psalm 94:19 tn Heb “your comforts cause my soul to delight.”
- Psalm 94:20 tn Heb “a throne of destruction.” “Throne” stands here by metonymy for rulers who occupy thrones.
- Psalm 94:20 tn Heb “Is a throne of destruction united to you, one that forms trouble upon a statute?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “Of course not!” The translation, while not preserving the interrogative form of the statement, reflects its rhetorical force.
- Psalm 94:21 tn Or “attack.”
- Psalm 94:21 tn Heb “the life of the blameless.”
- Psalm 94:21 tn Heb “and the blood of the innocent they declare guilty.”
- Psalm 94:22 tn Heb “and the Lord has become my elevated place.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.
- Psalm 94:22 tn Heb “and my God [has become] a rocky summit of my safety.”
- Psalm 94:23 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.
- Psalm 94:23 tn Or “in.”
Psalm 94
King James Version
94 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
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