聖詠集:Chapter 78

聖詠集:Chapter 78

聖詠集	Psalms
¹阿撒夫的訓誨歌。我的百姓，請傾聽我的指教。請你們側耳，聽我口的訓導。	¹A maskil of Asaph. Attend, my people, to my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
²我要開口講述譬喻，我要說出古代謎語。	² I will open my mouth in story, drawing lessons from of old.
³凡我們所聽見所知道的，我們祖先傳報給我們的，	³We have heard them, we know them; our ancestors have recited them to us.
⁴我們不願隱瞞他們的子孫；要將上主的光榮和威能，他所施展的奇蹟和異行，都要傳報給後代的眾生。	⁴We do not keep them from our children; we recite them to the next generation, The praiseworthy and mighty deeds of the LORD, the wonders that he performed.
⁵他曾在雅各伯頒佈了誡命，也曾在以色列立定了法令；凡他吩咐我們祖先的事情，都要一一告知自己的子孫，	⁵God set up a decree in Jacob, established a law in Israel: What he commanded our ancestors, they were to teach their children;
⁶叫那未來的一代也要明悉，他們生長後，也要告知後裔，	⁶That the next generation might come to know, children yet to be born. In turn they were to recite them to their children,
⁷叫他們仰望天主，不忘記他的工行，反而常要遵守天主的誡命，	⁷that they too might put their trust in God, And not forget the works of God, keeping his commandments.
⁸免得他們像他們的祖先，成為頑固背命的世代，成為意志薄弱不堅，而心神不忠於天主的世代。	⁸They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, whose spirit was not faithful to God,
⁹厄弗辣因的子孫，雖知挽弓射箭，但是在作戰的時日，卻轉背逃竄。	⁹ Like the ranks of Ephraimite archers, who retreated on the day of battle.
¹⁰他們沒有遵守同天主所立的盟約，他們更拒絕依照天主的法律生活。	¹⁰They did not keep God's covenant; they refused to walk by his law.
¹¹又忘卻了天主的作為，和他顯給他們的奇事：	¹¹They forgot his works, the wondrous deeds he had shown them.
¹²就是他昔日在埃及國和左罕地，當着他們祖先的面所行的奇蹟；	¹² In the sight of their ancestors God did wonders, in the land of Egypt, the plain of Zoan.
¹³他分開了大海，領他們出險，他使海水壁立，像一道堤岸；	¹³He split the sea and led them across, piling up the waters rigid as walls.
¹⁴白天以雲柱領導他們，黑夜以火柱光照他們；	¹⁴God led them with a cloud by day, all night with the light of fire.
¹⁵在曠野中，把岩石打破，水流如注，讓他們喝飽，	¹⁵He split rock in the desert, gave water to drink, abounding as the deep.
¹⁶由岩石中湧出小河，引水流出相似江河。	¹⁶He made streams flow from crags, drew out rivers of water.
¹⁷但是，他們依舊作惡而得罪上主，在沙漠地區仍然冒犯至高之主。	¹⁷But they went on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸他們在自己心內試探天主，要求滿足自己貪欲的食物；	¹⁸They tested God in their hearts, demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹並且出言反抗天主說：天主豈能設宴於沙漠？	¹⁹They spoke against God, and said, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
²⁰他雖能擊石，使水湧出好似湍流；但豈能給人民備辦鮮肉與食物？	²⁰True, when he struck the rock, water gushed forth, the wadis flooded. But can he also provide bread, give meat to his people?"
²¹天主聽到後，遂即大發憤怒，烈火燃起，要將雅各伯焚去，怒燄生出，要將以色列剷除；	²¹The LORD heard and grew angry; fire blazed up against Jacob; anger flared up against Israel.
²²因為他們不相信天主，也不肯依靠他的救助。	²²For they did not believe in God, did not trust in his saving power.
²³上主卻仍命令雲彩降下，開啟了天上的門閘，	²³ So he commanded the skies above; the doors of heaven he opened.
²⁴給他們降下瑪納使他們有飯吃，此外給他們賞賜了天上的糧食。	²⁴God rained manna upon them for food; bread from heaven he gave them.
²⁵天使的食糧，世人可以享受，他又賜下食物，使他們飽足。	²⁵All ate a meal fit for heroes; food he sent in abundance.
²⁶他由高天激起了東風，以他的能力引出南風，	²⁶He stirred up the east wind in the heavens; by his power God brought on the south wind.
²⁷給他們降下鮮肉多似微塵灰土，給他們降下飛禽，多似海岸沙數。	²⁷He rained meat upon them like dust, winged fowl like the sands of the sea,
²⁸降落在他們軍營的中央，在他們帳幕的左右四方，	²⁸Brought them down in the midst of the camp, round about their tents.
²⁹他們吃了，而且吃得十分飽飫，天主使他們的慾望得以滿足；	²⁹They ate and were well filled; he gave them what they had craved.
³⁰但他們的食慾還沒有完全滿足，當他們口中還銜着他們的食物，	³⁰But while they still wanted more, and the food was still in their mouths,
³¹天主便對他們大發怒憤，殺死了他們肥壯的勇兵，擊倒了以色列的青年人。	³¹God's anger attacked them, killed their best warriors, laid low the youth of Israel.
³²雖然如此，他們仍然犯罪，還是不信他的奇妙作為。	³²In spite of all this they went on sinning, they did not believe in his wonders.
³³他使他們的時日，迅速消逝，又使他們的歲月，猝然過去。	³³God ended their days abruptly, their years in sudden death.
³⁴上主擊殺他們，他們即來尋覓上主，他們回心轉意，也熱切地尋求天主，	³⁴When he slew them, they began to seek him; they again inquired of their God.
³⁵也想起天主是自己的磐石，至高者天主是自己的救主。	³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock, God Most High, their redeemer.
³⁶但是他們卻滿口欺騙，以舌頭向他說出謊言。	³⁶But they deceived him with their mouths, lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷他們的心對他毫無誠意，不忠於與他所立的約誓。	³⁷Their hearts were not constant toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸但是他卻慈悲為懷，赦免罪污，沒有消滅他們，且常抑止憤怒；也未曾把自己全部怒火洩露。	³⁸ But God is merciful and forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.
³⁹他又想起他們不過是血肉，是一陣去而不復返的唏噓。	³⁹He was mindful that they were flesh, a breath that passes and does not return.
⁴⁰他們多少次在曠野裏觸犯了他，在沙漠中激怒了他，	⁴⁰How often they rebelled against God in the desert, grieved him in the wasteland.
⁴¹三番五次試探了天主，侮辱了以色列的聖主。	⁴¹Again and again they tested God, provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²不再想念他那有力的手臂，拯救他們脫離敵手的時日：	⁴²They did not remember his power, the day he redeemed them from the foe,
⁴³那日，他曾在埃及國顯了奇蹟，在左罕地行了異事。	⁴³ When he displayed his wonders in Egypt, his marvels in the plain of Zoan.
⁴⁴血染了他們的江河與流溪，致使他們沒有了可飲的清水。	⁴⁴God changed their rivers to blood; their streams they could not drink.
⁴⁵他使蠅蚋傷害他們，又使蛤蟆侵害他們。	⁴⁵He sent insects that devoured them, frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶把他們的產物交給蚱蜢，將他們的收穫餵給蝗虫。	⁴⁶He gave their harvest to the caterpillar, the fruits of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷下冰雹把他們的葡萄打碎，降寒霜把他們的桑樹打毀，	⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸將他們的牲畜交給瘟疫，將他們的羊群交給毒疾。	⁴⁸He exposed their flocks to deadly hail, their cattle to lightning.
⁴⁹向他們燃起憤怒之火，赫赫的震怒，以及災禍，好像侵害人們的群魔。	⁴⁹He unleashed against them his fiery breath, roar, fury, and distress, storming messengers of death.
⁵⁰他為自己的憤怒開了路，未保存他們脫免於死途，瘟死了他們所有的牲畜，	⁵⁰He cleared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death; he delivered their beasts to the plague.
⁵¹擊殺了埃及所有的長子，將含帳幕內的頭胎殺死。	⁵¹He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, love's first child in the tents of Ham.
⁵²他如領羊一般地領出了自己的百姓，他在曠野中引領他們有如引領羊群。	⁵²God led forth his people like sheep; he guided them through the desert like a flock.
⁵³領他們平安走過，使他們一無所畏。而海洋卻把他們的仇人完全淹斃。	⁵³He led them on secure and unafraid, but the sea enveloped their enemies.
⁵⁴引領他們進入自己的聖地，到自己右手所佔領的山區。	⁵⁴He brought them to his holy land, the mountain his right hand had won.
⁵⁵親自在他們的面前把異民逐散，將那地方以抽籤方式分為家產，讓以色列各族住進他們的帳幔。	⁵⁵God drove out the nations before them, apportioned them a heritage by lot, settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
⁵⁶但他們仍然試探和觸犯上主，沒有遵守至高者的法律，	⁵⁶But they tested, rebelled against God Most High, his decrees they did not observe.
⁵⁷叛逆失信，如同他們的祖先，徘徊歧途，好像邪曲的弓箭。	⁵⁷They turned back, deceitful like their ancestors; they proved false like a bow with no tension.
⁵⁸因他們的丘壇，招惹了上主的義憤，因他們的雕像，激起了上主的怒恨。	⁵⁸They enraged him with their high places; with their idols they goaded him.
⁵⁹天主一聽到，即發憤怒，想將以色列完全擯除；	⁵⁹God heard and grew angry; he rejected Israel completely.
⁶⁰甚至他離棄了史羅的居處，就是他在人間所住的帳幕。	⁶⁰ He forsook the shrine at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt with humans.
⁶¹讓自己的力量為人俘擄，將自己的光榮交於敵手；	⁶¹He gave up his might into captivity, his glorious ark into the hands of the foe.
⁶²將自己的百姓交於刀劍，對自己的產業燃起怒燄。	⁶²God abandoned his people to the sword; he was enraged against his heritage.
⁶³烈火併吞了他們的青年，處女見不到婚嫁的喜宴；	⁶³Fire consumed their young men; their young women heard no wedding songs.
⁶⁴他們的司祭喪身刀劍，他們的寡婦不能弔唁。	⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵上主好似由睡夢中醒起，又好像酒後歡樂的勇士。	⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.
⁶⁶他由後方打擊自己的仇讎，使他們永永遠遠蒙羞受辱。	⁶⁶He put his enemies to flight; everlasting shame he dealt them.
⁶⁷他並且棄捨了若瑟的帳幕，不再揀選厄弗辣因的家族。	⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph, chose not the tribe of Ephraim.
⁶⁸但他卻把猶大的家族揀選；以及自己喜愛的熙雍聖山。	⁶⁸ God chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he favored.
⁶⁹他建築了聖殿如天之高遠，永遠奠定了它如地之牢堅。	⁶⁹He built his shrine like the heavens, like the earth which he founded forever.
⁷⁰揀選了自己的僕人達味，且自羊圈裏選拔了達味。	⁷⁰He chose David his servant, took him from the sheepfold.
⁷¹上主召叫了放羊時的達味，為牧放自己的百姓雅各伯，為牧放自己的人民以色列，	⁷¹From tending sheep God brought him, to shepherd Jacob, his people, Israel, his heritage.
⁷²他以純潔的心牧養了他們，他以明智的手領導了他們。	⁷²He shepherded them with a pure heart; with skilled hands he guided them.