上帝是审判者

94 耶和华啊,你是申冤的上帝;
申冤的上帝啊,
求你彰显你的荣光。
审判世界的主啊,
求你起来使骄傲人受到应得的报应。
耶和华啊,
恶人洋洋得意,要到何时呢?
要到何时呢?
他们大放厥词,狂妄自大。
耶和华啊,他们压迫你的子民,
苦害你的产业。
他们谋害寡妇、外族人和孤儿,
并说:“耶和华看不见,
雅各的上帝不会知道。”

愚昧的人啊,你们要思想;
无知的人啊,你们何时才能明白呢?
难道创造耳朵的上帝听不见吗?
难道创造眼睛的上帝看不见吗?
10 管教列国的上帝难道不惩罚你们吗?
赐知识的上帝难道不知道吗?
11 耶和华洞悉人的思想,
祂知道人的思想虚妄,

12 耶和华啊,蒙你管教并用律法训诲的人有福了!
13 你使他们在患难中有平安,
恶人终必灭亡。
14 耶和华不会丢弃祂的子民,
也不会遗弃祂的产业。
15 公正的审判必重现,
心地正直的人都必拥护。

16 谁肯为我奋起攻击恶人?
谁肯为我起来抵挡作恶的人?
17 耶和华若不帮助我,
我早已归入死亡的沉寂中了。
18 我说:“我要倒下了!”
耶和华啊,你便以慈爱扶助我。
19 当我忧心忡忡的时候,
你的抚慰带给我欢乐。

20 借律例制造不幸的首领,
岂能与你联盟?
21 他们结党攻击义人,
残害无辜。
22 但耶和华是我的堡垒,
我的上帝是保护我的磐石。
23 祂必使恶人自食恶果,
因他们的罪恶而毁灭他们。
我们的上帝耶和华必毁灭他们。

God judges all people

94 Lord, you are the God
    who punishes guilty people.
God, show your power
    to punish people as they deserve![a]
Judge of all people on the earth, do something!
    Punish proud people as they deserve!
How long will wicked people continue to be happy?
    Yes, Lord, how long?
Those people who do evil things
    speak many proud words.
They boast about how great they are.
Lord, see how they hurt your own people.
    They are cruel to the people that belong to you.
They kill widows
    and foreign people who live in our land.
They murder children that have no family.
They say, ‘The Lord does not see us.
    Israel's God does not see what we are doing.’
Think again, all you fools among the people!
    Stupid people, become wise!
God made our ears!
    Can he himself not hear?
He made our eyes!
    Does he not see?
10 He teaches the nations what is right.
Will he not punish you,
    when you do what is wrong?
He teaches people what they should know.
11 The Lord knows what people think.
    He knows that their thoughts are empty.
12 Lord, when you teach people what is right,
    you have really blessed them.
You use your Law to teach them.
13 When those people have troubles,
    you keep them safe.
Then the wicked people fall into a deep hole
    that you have dug to catch them.
14 The Lord will not leave his people alone.
    He will not forget to help the people that belong to him.
15 Once again, judges will do what is right and fair,
    and good, honest people will agree.
16 Who would fight for me
    against the wicked people?[b]
Who would keep me safe
    from the people who do evil things?
17 Unless the Lord had helped me,
    I would soon have become silent in death.
18 When I think, ‘I am falling down,’
    your faithful love keeps me safe, Lord.
19 When I have troubles in my mind,
    so that I am afraid,
you help me to be happy again.
20 You will not become a friend of cruel rulers.
    They make laws that only hurt people.
21 They join together to work against good people.
They say that people are guilty
    who have done nothing wrong.
They say that they must die.
22 But the Lord is a strong place for me.
Yes, my God is a rock
    where I can hide and be safe.
23 He will punish those wicked leaders.
He will destroy them,
    because they do evil things.
The Lord our God will completely destroy them.

Footnotes

  1. 94:1 The writer asks God to punish wicked people. He trusts that God will do what is right, as the great judge.
  2. 94:16 Now the writer thinks about himself. The Lord God is the only one who can really help him when he is in trouble.