今日讀經

神是我們的避難所

¹（可拉後裔的詩歌，交與伶長。調用女音。）　神是我們的避難所，是我們的力量，是我們在患難中隨時的幫助。For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

²所以，地雖改變，山雖搖動到海心，Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,

³其中的水雖匉訇翻騰，山雖因海漲而戰抖，我們也不害怕。（細拉）though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

有一道河使神的城歡喜

⁴有一道河，這河的分汊使　神的城歡喜；這城就是至高者居住的聖所。There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

⁵神在其中，城必不動搖；到天一亮，　神必幫助這城。God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

⁶外邦喧嚷，列國動搖；　神發聲，地便鎔化。Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

⁷萬軍之耶和華與我們同在；雅各的　神是我們的避難所！（細拉）The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

來看耶和華的作為

⁸你們來看耶和華的作為，看他使地怎樣荒涼。Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.

⁹他止息刀兵，直到地極；他折弓、斷槍，把戰車焚燒在火中。He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.

¹⁰你們要休息，要知道我是　神！我必在外邦中被尊崇，在遍地上也被尊崇。“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

¹¹萬軍之耶和華與我們同在；雅各的　神是我們的避難所！The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

萬民都要拍掌

¹（可拉後裔的詩，交與伶長。）萬民哪，你們都要拍掌！要用誇勝的聲音向　神呼喊！For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.

²因為耶和華至高者是可畏的；他是治理全地的大君王。How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!

³他叫萬民服在我們以下，又叫列邦服在我們腳下。He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.

⁴他為我們選擇產業，就是他所愛之雅各的榮耀。（細拉）He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

神上升，有角聲相送

⁵神上升，有喊聲相送；耶和華上升，有角聲相送。God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

⁶你們要向　神歌頌，歌頌！向我們王歌頌，歌頌！Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!

⁷因為　神是全地的王；你們要用悟性歌頌。For God is King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise.

⁸神作王治理萬國；　神坐在他的聖寶座上。God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.

⁹列邦的君王聚集要作亞伯拉罕之　神的民。因為世界的盾牌是屬　神的；他為至高！The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

錫安，大君王的城

¹（可拉後裔的詩歌。）耶和華本為大！在我們　神的城中，在他的聖山上，該受大讚美。A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

²錫安山─大君王的城，在北面居高華美，為全地所喜悅。Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

³神在其宮中，自顯為避難所。God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

眾王見了就驚慌逃跑

⁴看哪，眾王會合，一同經過。For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

⁵他們見了這城就驚奇喪膽，急忙逃跑。They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.

⁶他們在那裡被戰兢疼痛抓住，好像產難的婦人一樣。Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

⁷神啊，你用東風打破他施的船隻。With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

⁸我們在萬軍之耶和華的城中─就是我們　神的城中─所看見的，正如我們所聽見的。　神必堅立這城，直到永遠。（細拉）As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

在殿中想念神的慈愛

⁹神啊，我們在你的殿中想念你的慈愛。Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

¹⁰神啊，你受的讚美正與你的名相稱，直到地極！你的右手滿了公義。Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹因你的判斷，錫安山應當歡喜，猶大的城邑（原文是女子）應當快樂。Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

周遊錫安，傳給後代

¹²你們當周遊錫安，四圍旋繞，數點城樓，March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

¹³細看她的外郭，察看她的宮殿，為要傳說到後代。consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

¹⁴因為這　神永永遠遠為我們的　神；他必作我們引路的，直到死時。For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.

萬民都當聽

¹（可拉後裔的詩，交與伶長。）萬民哪，你們都當聽這話！世上一切的居民，For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

²無論上流下流，富足貧窮，都當留心聽！both low and high, rich and poor alike.

³我口要說智慧的言語；我心要想通達的道理。My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.

⁴我要側耳聽比喻，用琴解謎語。I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

錢財贖不了生命

⁵在患難的日子，奸惡隨我腳跟，四面環繞我，我何必懼怕？Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

⁶那些倚仗財貨自誇錢財多的人，They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

⁷一個也無法贖自己的弟兄，也不能替他將贖價給　神，No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

^8–9叫他長遠活著，不見朽壞；因為贖他生命的價值極貴，只可永遠罷休。For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice, that he should live on forever and not see decay.

¹⁰他必見智慧人死，又見愚頑人和畜類人一同滅亡，將他們的財貨留給別人。For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

¹¹他們心裡思想：他們的家室必永存，住宅必留到萬代；他們以自己的名稱自己的地。Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

¹²但人居尊貴中不能長久，如同死亡的畜類一樣。But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³他們行的這道本為自己的愚昧；但他們以後的人還佩服他們的話語。（細拉）This is the fate of the foolish and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

¹⁴他們如同羊群派定下陰間；死亡必作他們的牧者。到了早晨，正直人必管轄他們；他們的美容必被陰間所滅，以致無處可存。Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

神必救贖我脫離陰間

¹⁵只是　神必救贖我的靈魂脫離陰間的權柄，因他必收納我。（細拉）But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

見人發財，不要懼怕

¹⁶見人發財、家室增榮的時候，你不要懼怕；Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.

¹⁷因為，他死的時候甚麼也不能帶去；他的榮耀不能隨他下去。For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

¹⁸他活著的時候，雖然自誇為有福（你若利己，人必誇獎你）；Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—

¹⁹他仍必歸到他歷代的祖宗那裡，永不見光。he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

²⁰人在尊貴中而不醒悟，就如死亡的畜類一樣。A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

以色列失腳，救恩臨到外邦人

¹¹我且說，他們失腳是要他們跌倒嗎？斷乎不是！反倒因他們的過失，救恩便臨到外邦人，要激動他們發憤。I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

¹²若他們的過失為天下的富足，他們的缺乏為外邦人的富足，何況他們的豐滿呢？But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

外邦人的使徒盼望激動同胞

¹³我對你們外邦人說這話；因我是外邦人的使徒，所以敬重（原文是榮耀）我的職分，I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

¹⁴或者可以激動我骨肉之親發憤，好救他們一些人。in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

¹⁵若他們被丟棄，天下就得與　神和好，他們被收納，豈不是死而復生嗎？For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

¹⁶所獻的新麵若是聖潔，全團也就聖潔了；樹根若是聖潔，樹枝也就聖潔了。If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

橄欖樹的比喻：不可誇口

¹⁷若有幾根枝子被折下來，你這野橄欖得接在其中，一同得著橄欖根的肥汁，Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,

¹⁸你就不可向舊枝子誇口；若是誇口，當知道不是你托著根，乃是根托著你。do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

¹⁹你若說，那枝子被折下來是特為叫我接上。You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

²⁰不錯！他們因為不信，所以被折下來；你因為信，所以立得住；你不可自高，反要懼怕。That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

²¹神既不愛惜原來的枝子，也必不愛惜你。For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

²²可見，　神的恩慈和嚴厲向那跌倒的人是嚴厲的，向你是有恩慈的，只要你長久在他的恩慈裡；不然，你也要被砍下來。Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

²³而且他們若不是長久不信，仍要被接上，因為　神能夠把他們重新接上。And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴你是從那天生的野橄欖上砍下來的，尚且逆著性得接在好橄欖上，何況這本樹的枝子，要接在本樹上呢！For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

以色列全家得救的奧祕

²⁵弟兄們，我不願意你們不知道這奧祕（恐怕你們自以為聰明），就是以色列人有幾分是硬心的，等到外邦人的數目添滿了，I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

²⁶於是以色列全家都要得救。如經上所記：必有一位救主從錫安出來，要消除雅各家的一切罪惡；And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.

²⁷又說：我除去他們罪的時候，這就是我與他們所立的約。And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

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²⁸就著福音說，他們為你們的緣故是仇敵；就著揀選說，他們為列祖的緣故是蒙愛的。Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

²⁹因為　神的恩賜和選召是沒有後悔的。For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

³⁰你們從前不順服　神，如今因他們的不順服，你們倒蒙了憐恤。Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,

³¹這樣，他們也是不順服，叫他們因著施給你們的憐恤，現在也就蒙憐恤。so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.

³²因為　神將眾人都圈在不順服之中，特意要憐恤眾人。For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

深哉，神的智慧和知識

³³深哉，　神豐富的智慧和知識！他的判斷何其難測！他的蹤跡何其難尋！O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³⁴誰知道主的心？誰作過他的謀士呢？“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

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³⁵誰是先給了他，使他後來償還呢？“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

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³⁶因為萬有都是本於他，倚靠他，歸於他。願榮耀歸給他，直到永遠。阿們！For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.