第 74 篇
祈求上帝眷顧祂的子民
亞薩的訓誨詩。
1上帝啊，
你為何永遠丟棄了我們？
你為何對自己草場上的羊大發雷霆？
2求你眷顧你在古時所救贖的子民，
你揀選為產業的族類，
求你眷顧你所居住的錫安山。
3求你前去觀看那久已荒涼之地，
看看敵人對聖所的破壞。
4他們在你聖所中高聲叫嚷，
豎立起自己的旗幟。
5他們大肆毀壞，
好像人掄起斧頭砍伐樹林。
6他們用斧頭、錘子把雕刻的牆板都搗毀了。
7他們縱火焚燒你的聖所，
把它夷為平地，
褻瀆了你的居所。
8他們心裡說：「我們要徹底毀滅一切。」
於是他們燒毀了境內所有敬拜上帝的地方。
9我們再也看不到你的徵兆，
先知也沒有了。
無人知道這一切何時才會結束。
10上帝啊，
仇敵嘲笑你的名要到何時呢？
他們要永無休止地辱罵你嗎？
11你為何不伸出大能的右手？
求你出手給他們致命的一擊。
12上帝啊，
你自古以來就是我的王，
你給世上帶來拯救。
13你曾用大能分開海水，
打碎水中巨獸的頭。
14你曾打碎海怪的頭，
把牠丟給曠野的禽獸吃。
15你曾開闢泉源和溪流，
也曾使滔滔河水枯乾。
16白晝和黑夜都屬於你，
你設立了日月。
17你劃定大地的疆界，
又創造了盛夏和寒冬。
18耶和華啊，
求你記住敵人對你的嘲笑和愚妄人對你的褻瀆。
19求你不要把你的子民交給仇敵74·18-19 「子民」希伯來文是「鴿子」；「仇敵」希伯來文是「野獸」。，
不要永遠對你受苦的子民棄置不顧。
20求你顧念你的應許，
因地上黑暗之處充滿了暴力。
21求你不要讓受壓迫的人羞愧而去。
願貧窮困苦的人讚美你的名。
22上帝啊，求你起來維護自己，
別忘記愚妄人怎樣整天嘲笑你。
23不要對你仇敵的喧嚷置之不理，
與你為敵的人不停地叫囂。
Maschil of Asaph.
1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?74.1 Maschil…: or, A Psalm for Asaph to give instruction
2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.74.2 rod: or, tribe
3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.74.7 They have cast…: Heb. They have sent thy sanctuary unto the fire
8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.74.8 destroy: Heb. break
9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.74.13 divide: Heb. break74.13 dragons: or, whales
14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.74.15 mighty…: Heb. rivers of strength
16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.74.17 made: Heb. made them
18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.74.23 increaseth: Heb. ascendeth
