诗篇 94
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求耶和华兴起报复选民之仇
94 耶和华啊，你是申冤的神。申冤的神啊，求你发出光来！
2 审判世界的主啊，求你挺身而立，使骄傲人受应得的报应！
3 耶和华啊，恶人夸胜要到几时呢？要到几时呢？
4 他们絮絮叨叨说傲慢的话，一切作孽的人都自己夸张。
5 耶和华啊，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。
6 他们杀死寡妇和寄居的，又杀害孤儿。
7 他们说：“耶和华必不看见，雅各的神必不思念。”
8 你们民间的畜类人当思想！你们愚顽人到几时才有智慧呢？
9 造耳朵的，难道自己不听见吗？造眼睛的，难道自己不看见吗？
10 管教列邦的，就是叫人得知识的，难道自己不惩治人吗？
11 耶和华知道人的意念是虚妄的。
为耶和华惩责训诲者其人有福
12 耶和华啊，你所管教，用律法所教训的人是有福的！
13 你使他在遭难的日子得享平安，唯有恶人陷在所挖的坑中。
14 因为耶和华必不丢弃他的百姓，也不离弃他的产业。
15 审判要转向公义，心里正直的必都随从。
16 谁肯为我起来攻击作恶的？谁肯为我站起抵挡作孽的？
17 若不是耶和华帮助我，我就住在寂静之中了。
18 我正说“我失了脚”，耶和华啊，那时你的慈爱扶助我。
19 我心里多忧多疑，你安慰我，就使我欢乐。
20 那借着律例架弄残害，在位上行奸恶的，岂能与你相交吗？
21 他们大家聚集攻击义人，将无辜的人定为死罪。
22 但耶和华向来做了我的高台，我的神做了我投靠的磐石。
23 他叫他们的罪孽归到他们身上，他们正在行恶之中，他要剪除他们——耶和华我们的神要把他们剪除！
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.”
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