第109篇
患难中的苦诉
大卫的诗，交给乐长。
1我所赞美的上帝啊，
求你不要沉默不语。
2因为邪恶和诡诈的人开口攻击我，
用撒谎的舌头毁谤我。
3他们对我恶语相向，
无缘无故地攻击我。
4我爱他们，他们却控告我，
但我专心祷告。
5他们对我以恶报善，
以恨报爱。
6求你差恶人攻击我的仇敌，
派对头站在他右边控告他。
7当他受审时，
愿他被判为有罪，
他的祷告也算为罪过。
8愿他的年日短少，
愿别人取代他的职位。
9愿他的孩子失去父亲，
妻子成为寡妇。
10愿他的孩子流浪行乞，
被赶出自己破败的家。
11愿债主夺取他所有的财产，
陌生人抢走他的劳动成果。
12愿无人向他施恩，
无人同情他的孤儿。
13愿他断子绝孙，
他的姓氏传不到下一代。
14愿耶和华记住他祖辈的罪恶，
不除去他母亲的罪过。
15愿耶和华永不忘记他的罪恶，
把他的名号从世上铲除。
16因为他毫无仁慈，
迫害困苦、贫穷和伤心的人，
置他们于死地。
17他喜欢咒诅人，
愿咒诅临到他；
他不喜欢祝福人，
愿祝福远离他。
18他咒诅成性，
愿咒诅如水侵入他的身体，
如油浸透他的骨头。
19愿咒诅不离其身，
如同身上的衣服和腰间的带子。
20愿耶和华这样报应那些控告我，
以恶言攻击我的人。
21主耶和华啊，
求你因自己的名恩待我，
因你的美善和慈爱拯救我。
22因为我贫穷困苦，
内心饱受创伤。
23我像黄昏的日影一样消逝，
如蝗虫一般被抖落。
24禁食使我双腿发软，
瘦骨嶙峋。
25仇敌都嘲笑我，
他们看见我就连连摇头。
26我的上帝耶和华啊，
求你帮助我，施慈爱拯救我，
27让他们知道这是你的作为，
你耶和华行了此事。
28任凭他们咒诅吧，
你必赐福给我。
攻击我的人必蒙羞，
但你的仆人必欢喜。
29愿控告我的人满面羞辱，
愿他们浑身被耻辱包裹。
30我要竭力颂扬耶和华，
在人群中赞美祂。
31因为祂保护贫穷的人，
救他们脱离定他们死罪的人。
Psalm 109
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1My God, whom I praise,
do not remain silent,
2for people who are wicked and deceitful
have opened their mouths against me;
they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
3With words of hatred they surround me;
they attack me without cause.
4In return for my friendship they accuse me,
but I am a man of prayer.
5They repay me evil for good,
and hatred for my friendship.
6Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;
let an accuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is tried, let him be found guilty,
and may his prayers condemn him.
8May his days be few;
may another take his place of leadership.
9May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
10May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven109:10 Septuagint; Hebrew sought from their ruined homes.
11May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.
13May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.
14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15May their sins always remain before the Lord,
that he may blot out their name from the earth.
16For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy and the brokenhearted.
17He loved to pronounce a curse—
may it come back on him.
He found no pleasure in blessing—
may it be far from him.
18He wore cursing as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,
into his bones like oil.
19May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.
20May this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil of me.
21But you, Sovereign Lord,
help me for your name’s sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
23I fade away like an evening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.
24My knees give way from fasting;
my body is thin and gaunt.
25I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, Lord my God;
save me according to your unfailing love.
27Let them know that it is your hand,
that you, Lord, have done it.
28While they curse, may you bless;
may those who attack me be put to shame,
but may your servant rejoice.
29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace
and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30With my mouth I will greatly extol the Lord;
in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.
31For he stands at the right hand of the needy,
to save their lives from those who would condemn them.
