信靠上帝的祷告

大卫作的诗,交给乐长,调用“远方无声鸽”,大卫在迦特被非利士人抓住时所作。

56 上帝啊,求你怜悯我,
因为仇敌攻击我,整日迫害我。
我的仇敌整日攻击我,
许多人狂妄地迫害我。
我害怕的时候,
仍要倚靠你。
我赞美上帝的应许,
我信靠祂,就不惧怕,
区区世人能把我怎样?
他们整天歪曲我的话,
总是图谋害我。
他们勾结起来,
暗中监视我的行踪,
伺机害我。
上帝啊,
不要让这些作恶的人逃脱,
求你在怒中毁灭他们。
你知道我的哀伤,
你把我的眼泪收在袋中。
我的遭遇都记录在你的册子上。
我向你求救的时候,
敌人都落荒而逃。
我知道上帝是我的帮助。
10 我因上帝的应许而赞美祂,
我因耶和华的应许而赞美祂。
11 我信靠上帝,就不惧怕,
区区世人能把我怎样?
12 上帝啊,
我要恪守向你发的誓言,
献上感恩祭。
13 因为你救我脱离死亡,
使我没有跌倒,
让我可以活在你面前,
沐浴生命之光。

Supplication for deliverance, and grateful trust in God.

For the Chief Musician; set to [a]Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.

56 Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up:
All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
[b]Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long;
For they are many that fight proudly against me.
What time I am afraid,
I will put my trust in thee.
In God (I will praise his word),
In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can flesh do unto me?
All the day long they wrest my words:
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
[c]Even as they have waited for my soul.
[d]Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
Thou numberest my wanderings:
Put thou my tears into thy bottle;
Are they not in thy [e]book?
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
This I know, [f]that God is for me.
10 In God (I will praise his word),
In Jehovah (I will praise his word),
11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can man do unto me?
12 Thy vows are upon me, O God:
I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of [g]the living?

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:1 That is, The silent dove of them that are afar off. Or, as otherwise read, The dove of the distant terebinths.
  2. Psalm 56:2 Or, They that lie in wait for me
  3. Psalm 56:6 Or, Inasmuch as
  4. Psalm 56:7 Or, They think to escape
  5. Psalm 56:8 Or, record
  6. Psalm 56:9 Or, for
  7. Psalm 56:13 Or, life