| 1 | (亚萨的训诲诗。)我的民哪,你们要留心听我的训诲,侧耳听我口中的话。
A maskil of Asaph. O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
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| 2 | 我要开口说比喻。我要说出古时的谜语。
I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old--
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| 3 | 是我们所听见所知道的,也是我们的祖宗告诉我们的。
what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.
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| 4 | 我们不将这些事向他们的子孙隐瞒。要将耶和华的美德和他的能力,并他奇妙的作为,述说给后代听。
We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
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| 5 | 因为他在雅各中立法度,在以色列中设律法,是他吩咐我们祖宗,要传给子孙的。
He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
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| 6 | 使将要生的后代子孙,可以晓得。他们也要起来告诉他们的子孙。
so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
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| 7 | 好叫他们仰望神,不忘记神的作为。惟要守他的命令。
Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
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| 8 | 不要像他们的祖宗,是顽梗悖逆居心不正之辈,向着神心不诚实。
They would not be like their forefathers--a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
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| 9 | 以法莲的子孙,带着兵器,拿着弓,临阵之日,转身退后。
The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
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| 10 | 他们不遵守神的约,不肯照他的律法行。
they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
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| 11 | 又忘记他所行的,和他显给他们奇妙的作为。
They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
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| 12 | 他在埃及地,在琐安田,在他们祖宗的眼前,施行奇事。
He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
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| 13 | 他将海分裂,使他们过去。又叫水立起如垒。
He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
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| 14 | 他白日用云彩,终夜用火光,引导他们。
He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
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| 15 | 他在旷野分裂磐石,多多地给他们水喝,如从深渊而出。
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
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| 16 | 他使水从磐石涌出,叫水如江河下流。
he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
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| 17 | 他们却仍旧得罪他,在干燥之地悖逆至高者。
But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
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| 18 | 他们心中试探神,随自己所欲的求食物。
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
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| 19 | 并且妄论神,说,神在旷野岂能摆设筵席吗?
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
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| 20 | 他曾击打磐石,使水涌出,成了江河。他还能赐粮食吗?还能为他的百姓预备肉吗?
When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"
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| 21 | 所以耶和华听见,就发怒。有烈火向雅各烧起,有怒气向以色列上腾。
When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
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| 22 | 因为他们不信服神,不倚赖他的救恩。
for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
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| 23 | 他却吩咐天空,又敞开天上的门。
Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
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| 24 | 降吗哪像雨给他们吃,将天上的粮食赐给他们。
he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
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| 25 | 各人(或作人)吃大能者的食物。他赐下粮食,使他们饱足。
Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
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| 26 | 他领东风起在天空,又用能力引了南风来。
He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
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| 27 | 他降肉像雨在他们当中,多如尘土,又降飞鸟,多如海沙。
He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
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| 28 | 落在他们的营中,在他们住处的四面。
He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
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| 29 | 他们吃了,而且饱足。这样,就随了他们所欲的。
They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
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| 30 | 他们贪而无厌,食物还在他们口中的时候,
But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
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| 31 | 神的怒气,就向他们上腾,杀了他们内中的肥壮人。打倒以色列的少年人。
God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
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| 32 | 虽是这样,他们仍旧犯罪,不信他奇妙的作为。
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
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| 33 | 因此他叫他们的日子,全归虚空,叫他们的年岁,尽属惊恐。
So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
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| 34 | 他杀他们的时候,他们才求问他,回心转意,切切地寻求神。
Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
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| 35 | 他们也追念神是他们的磐石,至高的神,是他们的救赎主。
They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
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| 36 | 他们却用口谄媚他,用舌向他说谎。
But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
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| 37 | 因他们的心向他不正,在他的约上,也不忠心。
their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
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| 38 | 但他有怜悯,赦免他们的罪孽,不灭绝他们。而且屡次消他的怒气,不发尽他的忿怒。
Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
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| 39 | 他想到他们不过是血气,是一阵去而不返的风。
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
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| 40 | 他们在旷野悖逆他,在荒地叫他担忧,何其多呢?
How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
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| 41 | 他们再三试探神,惹动以色列的圣者。
Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
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| 42 | 他们不追念他的能力(原文作手),和赎他们脱离敌人的日子。
They did not remember his power--the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
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| 43 | 他怎样在埃及地显神迹,在琐安田显奇事。
the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
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| 44 | 把他们的江河,并河汊的水,都变为血,使他们不能喝。
He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.
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| 45 | 他叫苍蝇成群,落在他们当中,嘬尽他们。又叫青蛙灭了他们。
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
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| 46 | 把他们的土产交给蚂蚱,把他们辛苦得来的交给蝗虫。
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
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| 47 | 他降冰雹打坏他们的葡萄树。下严霜打坏他们的桑树。
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
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| 48 | 又把他们的牲畜交给冰雹,把他们的群畜交给闪电。
He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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| 49 | 他使猛烈的怒气,和忿怒,恼恨,苦难,成了一群降灾的使者,临到他们。
He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility--a band of destroying angels.
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| 50 | 他为自己的怒气修平了路,将他们交给瘟疫,使他们死亡。
He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
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| 51 | 在埃及击杀一切长子,在含的帐棚中,击杀他们强壮时头生的。
He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
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| 52 | 他却领出自己的民如羊,在旷野引他们如羊群。
But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.
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| 53 | 他领他们稳稳妥妥的,使他们不至害怕。海却淹没他们的仇敌。
He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
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| 54 | 他带他们到自己圣地的边界,到他右手所得的这山地。
Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
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| 55 | 他在他们面前赶出外邦人,用绳子将外邦的地量给他们为业,叫以色列支派的人,住在他们的帐棚里。
He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
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| 56 | 他们仍旧试探悖逆至高的神,不守他的法度。
But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
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| 57 | 反倒退后,行诡诈,像他们的祖宗一样。他们改变,如同翻背的弓。
Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
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| 58 | 因他们的丘坛,惹了他的怒气,因他们雕刻的偶像,触动他的愤恨。
They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
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| 59 | 神听见,就发怒,极其憎恶以色列人。
When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
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| 60 | 甚至他离弃示罗的帐幕,就是他在人间所搭的帐棚。
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
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| 61 | 又将他的约柜(原文作能力)交与人掳去,将他的荣耀交在敌人手中。
He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
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| 62 | 并将他的百姓交与刀剑,向他的产业发怒。
He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
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| 63 | 少年人被火烧灭。处女也无喜歌。
Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
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| 64 | 祭司倒在刀下。寡妇却不哀哭。
their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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| 65 | 那时主像世人睡醒,像勇士饮酒呼喊。
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
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| 66 | 他就打退了他的敌人,叫他们永蒙羞辱。
He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
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| 67 | 并且他弃掉约瑟的帐棚,不拣选以法莲支派,
Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
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| 68 | 却拣选犹大支派,他所喜爱的锡安山。
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
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| 69 | 盖造他的圣所,好像高峰,又像他建立永存之地。
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
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| 70 | 又拣选他的仆人大卫,从羊圈中将他召来。
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
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| 71 | 叫他不再跟从那些带奶的母羊,为要牧养自己的百姓雅各,和自己的产业以色列。
from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
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| 72 | 于是他按心中的纯正,牧养他们,用手中的巧妙,引导他们。
And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
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