Psalms 78

1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

1 我的百姓啊！ 你们要听我的教导， 侧耳倾听我的话。

2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

2 我要开口讲比喻， 道出古时的奥秘，

3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

3 是我们所闻所知、世代流传下来的事。

4 We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.

4 我们不要在子孙面前隐瞒事实， 要把耶和华可称颂的作为、 祂的权能和所行的奇事告诉下一代。

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

5 因为祂为雅各制定法度， 为以色列设立律法， 又吩咐我们的祖先把这些律法传给儿女，

6 that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

6 使子孙后代都知道， 世代相传。

7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

7 这样，他们就会信靠上帝， 遵行祂的命令， 不忘记祂的作为；

8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

8 也不会像自己的祖先那样顽梗叛逆， 对上帝不忠，心怀二意。

9 The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

9 以法莲人备上了弓箭， 却临阵逃命。

10 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

10 他们不遵守上帝的约， 拒绝遵行祂的律法。

11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

11 他们忘记了祂的作为， 忘记了祂彰显的奇事。

12 He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

12 祂曾在埃及，在琐安地区， 当着他们祖先的面行神迹。

13 He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

13 祂把海水分开，带领他们安然渡过； 祂使海水堆起如墙壁。

14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

14 祂白天以云柱带领他们， 晚上用火柱引导他们。

15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

15 祂在旷野劈开磐石， 供应他们丰沛的水源。

16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

16 祂使水从磐石中滚滚流出， 如滔滔江河。

17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

17 然而，他们仍旧犯罪， 在旷野反叛至高的上帝。

18 They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

18 他们顽梗地试探上帝， 索要他们想吃的食物。

19 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

19 他们抨击上帝，说： “难道上帝可以在旷野摆宴席吗？

20 When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

20 祂击打磐石， 水就涌出，流淌成河， 但祂能赐给祂子民食物和肉吗？”

21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

21 耶和华听后大怒， 祂的怒火烧向雅各， 祂的怒气发向以色列。

22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

22 因为他们不相信上帝，也不信靠祂的拯救。

23 Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

23 祂向穹苍发出命令， 又打开天门，

24 He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

24 降下吗哪给他们吃，赐下天粮。

25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

25 他们吃了天使的食物， 上帝赐给他们丰富的食物。

26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

26 祂使空中刮起东风， 用大能引来南风，

27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

27 使飞鸟如雨降下，多如尘埃， 使他们有多如海沙的肉吃。

28 He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

28 祂使飞鸟降落在他们营中的帐篷周围，

29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

29 让他们吃得极其饱足， 上帝遂了他们的心愿。

30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

30 但是，他们还没有吃完， 肉还在口中的时候，

31 God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

31 上帝就向他们发怒， 杀掉了他们当中最强壮的， 消灭了以色列的青年。

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

32 即使如此， 他们依旧犯罪， 不相信上帝奇妙的作为。

33 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

33 所以上帝使他们虚度一生， 让他们的岁月充满恐惧。

34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

34 直到上帝击杀他们的时候， 他们才回转，诚心寻求祂。

35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

35 他们才想起上帝是他们的磐石， 至高的上帝是他们的救赎主。

36 But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

36 他们却虚情假意，满口谎言。

37 Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

37 他们对祂不忠心， 也不信守祂的约。

38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

38 但上帝充满怜悯， 赦免了他们的罪， 没有毁灭他们。 祂多次收住怒气， 没有完全发出祂的烈怒。

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

39 祂顾念他们不过是血肉之躯， 像一阵风一去不复返。

40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

40 他们在旷野屡屡反叛祂， 在荒地使祂伤心。

41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

41 他们再三试探上帝， 惹怒以色列的圣者。

42 They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

42 他们忘记了祂的大能， 忘记了祂救赎他们脱离压迫的日子，

43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

43 也忘记了祂在埃及所行的神迹， 在琐安的田野所行的奇事。

44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

44 祂曾使江河溪流变成血， 以致无人能喝。

45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

45 祂曾使成群的苍蝇吞没他们， 使青蛙毁灭他们。

46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

46 祂把他们的五谷给蚱蜢， 让蝗虫吃尽他们的收成。

47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

47 祂用冰雹毁坏他们的葡萄树， 用严霜毁坏他们的桑树，

48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

48 又用冰雹毁灭他们的牛群， 用闪电毁灭他们的牲畜。

49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.

49 祂把怒火、烈怒、愤恨和祸患倾倒在他们身上， 遣下一群降灾的天使。

50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

50 祂的怒气尽发， 使他们被瘟疫吞噬，难逃一死。

51 He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

51 祂击杀了埃及人所有的长子， 就是含帐篷中头生的儿子。

52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

52 祂像带领群羊一样带出祂的子民， 像引领羊群一样领他们经过旷野，

53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

53 使他们一路平安，免受惊吓， 大海却淹没了他们的仇敌。

54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

54 祂带领他们来到祂圣地的边界， 来到祂右手为他们预备的山区，

55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

55 从他们面前赶出外族人， 把外族人的土地分给他们， 作为他们的产业， 使以色列各支派安顿下来。

56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

56 他们却仍旧试探、反叛至高的上帝， 不遵行祂的法度。

57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

57 他们跟祖先一样背信弃义， 像断弓一样毫不可靠。

58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

58 他们建造丘坛，惹祂发怒； 他们竖起偶像，令祂愤恨。

59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

59 上帝得知他们的恶行后大怒， 祂彻底弃绝了以色列人。

60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

60 祂离弃了设在示罗的圣幕， 就是祂在人间的居所，

61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

61 任凭祂大能的约柜被掳去， 让祂的荣耀落在敌人手中。

62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

62 祂使自己的子民被刀剑杀戮， 向自己的产业大发怒气。

63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

63 青年被烈火吞噬， 少女无婚礼颂歌。

64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

64 祭司丧身刀下， 寡妇无法哭丧。

65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

65 那时，主像从睡眠中醒来， 又如酒后醒来的勇士。

66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

66 祂击退仇敌， 叫他们永远蒙羞。

67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

67 祂丢弃了约瑟的帐篷， 没有拣选以法莲支派。

68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

68 祂拣选了犹大支派， 祂所喜爱的锡安山。

69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

69 祂为自己建造高耸的圣所， 使它像大地一样长存。

70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

70 祂拣选了祂的仆人大卫， 把他从羊圈中召来，

71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

71 让他离开牧羊的生活， 去牧养祂的子民雅各的后裔， 牧养祂的产业以色列。

72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

72 于是，大卫以正直的心牧养他们， 用灵巧的手带领他们。