诗篇 116
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
赞美主俯听其祈免于死亡
116 我爱耶和华，因为他听了我的声音和我的恳求。
2 他既向我侧耳，我一生要求告他。
3 死亡的绳索缠绕我，阴间的痛苦抓住我，我遭遇患难愁苦。
4 那时我便求告耶和华的名说：“耶和华啊，求你救我的灵魂！”
5 耶和华有恩惠，有公义，我们的神以怜悯为怀。
6 耶和华保护愚人，我落到卑微的地步，他救了我。
7 我的心哪，你要仍归安乐，因为耶和华用厚恩待你。
8 主啊，你救我的命免了死亡，救我的眼免了流泪，救我的脚免了跌倒。
9 我要在耶和华面前行活人之路。
10 我因信，所以如此说话：“我受了极大的困苦。”
11 我曾急促地说：“人都是说谎的。”
12 我拿什么报答耶和华向我所赐的一切厚恩？
13 我要举起救恩的杯，称扬耶和华的名。
14 我要在他众民面前向耶和华还我的愿。
15 在耶和华眼中，看圣民之死极为宝贵。
16 耶和华啊，我真是你的仆人；我是你的仆人，是你婢女的儿子，你已经解开我的绑索。
17 我要以感谢为祭献给你，又要求告耶和华的名。
18 我要在他众民面前，在耶和华殿的院内，在耶路撒冷当中，向耶和华还我的愿。你们要赞美耶和华！
Psalm 116
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 116[a]
Thanksgiving to God Who Saves from Death
I
1 I love the Lord, who listened
to my voice in supplication,
2 Who turned an ear to me
on the day I called.
3 I was caught by the cords of death;[b](A)
the snares of Sheol had seized me;
I felt agony and dread.
4 Then I called on the name of the Lord,
“O Lord, save my life!”
II
5 Gracious is the Lord and righteous;
yes, our God is merciful.(B)
6 The Lord protects the simple;
I was helpless, but he saved me.
7 Return, my soul, to your rest;
the Lord has been very good to you.(C)
8 For my soul has been freed from death,
my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.(D)
9 I shall walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.[c](E)
III
10 [d]I kept faith, even when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted!”(F)
11 I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars!”(G)
12 How can I repay the Lord
for all the great good done for me?
13 I will raise the cup of salvation[e]
and call on the name of the Lord.
14 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
15 [f]Dear in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his devoted.(H)
16 Lord, I am your servant,
your servant, the child of your maidservant;(I)
you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer a sacrifice of praise
and call on the name of the Lord.(J)
18 I will pay my vows to the Lord(K)
in the presence of all his people,
19 In the courts of the house of the Lord,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Hallelujah!
Footnotes
- Psalm 116 A thanksgiving in which the psalmist responds to divine rescue from mortal danger (Ps 116:3–4) and from near despair (Ps 116:10–11) with vows and Temple sacrifices (Ps 116:13–14, 17–19). The Greek and Latin versions divide the Psalm into two parts: Ps 116:1–9 and Ps 116:10–19, corresponding to its two major divisions.
- 116:3 The cords of death: death is personified here; it attempts to capture the psalmist with snares and nets, cf. Ps 18:6.
- 116:9 The land of the living: the phrase elsewhere is an epithet of the Jerusalem Temple (cf. Ps 27:13; 52:5; Is 38:11). Hence the psalmist probably refers to being present to God in the Temple.
- 116:10 I kept faith, even when I said: even in the days of despair, the psalmist did not lose all hope.
- 116:13 The cup of salvation: probably the libation of wine poured out in gratitude for rescue, cf. Ex 25:29; Nm 15:5, 7, 10.
- 116:15 Dear in the eyes of the Lord: the meaning is that the death of God’s faithful is grievous to God, not that God is pleased with the death, cf. Ps 72:14. In Wis 3:5–6, God accepts the death of the righteous as a sacrificial burnt offering.
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