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把神的作為傳給後代

¹（亞薩的訓誨詩。）我的民哪，你們要留心聽我的訓誨，側耳聽我口中的話。A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

²我要開口說比喻；我要說出古時的謎語，I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

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³是我們所聽見、所知道的，也是我們的祖宗告訴我們的。that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

⁴我們不將這些事向他們的子孫隱瞞，要將耶和華的美德和他的能力，並他奇妙的作為，述說給後代聽。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.

⁵因為，他在雅各中立法度，在以色列中設律法；是他吩咐我們祖宗要傳給子孫的，For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

⁶使將要生的後代子孫可以曉得；他們也要起來告訴他們的子孫，that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

⁷好叫他們仰望　神，不忘記　神的作為，惟要守他的命令。that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

⁸不要像他們的祖宗，是頑梗悖逆、居心不正之輩，向著　神，心不誠實。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.

以色列忘記神的作為

⁹以法蓮的子孫帶著兵器，拿著弓，臨陣之日轉身退後。The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

¹⁰他們不遵守　神的約，不肯照他的律法行；They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

¹¹又忘記他所行的和他顯給他們奇妙的作為。They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

神在埃及和曠野行奇事

¹²他在埃及地，在瑣安田，在他們祖宗的眼前施行奇事。He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

¹³他將海分裂，使他們過去，又叫水立起如壘。He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

¹⁴他白日用雲彩，終夜用火光引導他們。He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

¹⁵他在曠野分裂磐石，多多地給他們水喝，如從深淵而出。He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

¹⁶他使水從磐石湧出，叫水如江河下流。He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

他們在曠野試探神

¹⁷他們卻仍舊得罪他，在乾燥之地悖逆至高者。But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

¹⁸他們心中試探　神，隨自己所欲的求食物，They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

¹⁹並且妄論　神說：　神在曠野豈能擺設筵席嗎？They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰他曾擊打磐石，使水湧出，成了江河；他還能賜糧食嗎？還能為他的百姓預備肉嗎？When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

²¹所以，耶和華聽見就發怒；有烈火向雅各燒起；有怒氣向以色列上騰；Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

²²因為他們不信服　神，不倚賴他的救恩。because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

神從天上降嗎哪

²³他卻吩咐天空，又敞開天上的門，Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

²⁴降嗎哪，像雨給他們吃，將天上的糧食賜給他們。He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

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²⁵各人（或譯：人）吃大能者的食物；他賜下糧食，使他們飽足。Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

²⁶他領東風起在天空，又用能力引了南風來。He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

²⁷他降肉，像雨在他們當中，多如塵土，又降飛鳥，多如海沙，He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

²⁸落在他們的營中，在他們住處的四面。He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

²⁹他們吃了，而且飽足；這樣就隨了他們所欲的。So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

³⁰他們貪而無厭，食物還在他們口中的時候，Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

³¹神的怒氣就向他們上騰，殺了他們內中的肥壯人，打倒以色列的少年人。God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

屢次犯罪，神屢次憐憫

³²雖是這樣，他們仍舊犯罪，不信他奇妙的作為。In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

³³因此，他叫他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

³⁴他殺他們的時候，他們才求問他，回心轉意，切切地尋求　神。When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

³⁵他們也追念　神是他們的磐石，至高的　神是他們的救贖主。And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

³⁶他們卻用口諂媚他，用舌向他說謊。But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

³⁷因他們的心向他不正，在他的約上也不忠心。Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

³⁸但他有憐憫，赦免他們的罪孽，不滅絕他們，而且屢次消他的怒氣，不發盡他的忿怒。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.

³⁹他想到他們不過是血氣，是一陣去而不返的風。He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

忘記神在埃及降的災

⁴⁰他們在曠野悖逆他，在荒地叫他擔憂，何其多呢！How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

⁴¹他們再三試探　神，惹動以色列的聖者。Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²他們不追念他的能力（原文是手）和贖他們脫離敵人的日子；They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

⁴³他怎樣在埃及地顯神蹟，在瑣安田顯奇事，when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴把他們的江河並河汊的水都變為血，使他們不能喝。He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

⁴⁵他叫蒼蠅成群落在他們當中，嘬盡他們，又叫青蛙滅了他們，He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

⁴⁶把他們的土產交給螞蚱，把他們辛苦得來的交給蝗蟲。He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷他降冰雹打壞他們的葡萄樹，下嚴霜打壞他們的桑樹，He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸又把他們的牲畜交給冰雹，把他們的群畜交給閃電。He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹他使猛烈的怒氣和忿怒、惱恨、苦難成了一群降災的使者，臨到他們。He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰他為自己的怒氣修平了路，將他們交給瘟疫，使他們死亡，He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

⁵¹在埃及擊殺一切長子，在含的帳棚中擊殺他們強壯時頭生的。He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

領百姓如羊群進入聖地

⁵²他卻領出自己的民如羊，在曠野引他們如羊群。He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³他領他們穩穩妥妥地，使他們不致害怕；海卻淹沒他們的仇敵。He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴他帶他們到自己聖地的邊界，到他右手所得的這山地。He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

⁵⁵他在他們面前趕出外邦人，用繩子將外邦的地量給他們為業，叫以色列支派的人住在他們的帳棚裡。He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

神離棄示羅的帳幕

⁵⁶他們仍舊試探、悖逆至高的　神，不守他的法度，But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

⁵⁷反倒退後，行詭詐，像他們的祖宗一樣；他們改變，如同翻背的弓。They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

⁵⁸因他們的邱壇惹了他的怒氣；因他們雕刻的偶像觸動他的憤恨。They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

⁵⁹神聽見就發怒，極其憎惡以色列人。On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

⁶⁰甚至他離棄示羅的帳幕，就是他在人間所搭的帳棚；He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

⁶¹又將他的約櫃（原文是能力）交與人擄去，將他的榮耀交在敵人手中；He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

⁶²並將他的百姓交與刀劍，向他的產業發怒。He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

⁶³少年人被火燒滅；處女也無喜歌。Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

⁶⁴祭司倒在刀下，寡婦卻不哀哭。His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

神揀選猶大和大衛

⁶⁵那時，主像世人睡醒，像勇士飲酒呼喊。Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

⁶⁶他就打退了他的敵人，叫他們永蒙羞辱；He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷並且他棄掉約瑟的帳棚，不揀選以法蓮支派，He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁸卻揀選猶大支派─他所喜愛的錫安山；But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹蓋造他的聖所，好像高峰，又像他建立永存之地；He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

⁷⁰又揀選他的僕人大衛，從羊圈中將他召來，He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹叫他不再跟從那些帶奶的母羊，為要牧養自己的百姓雅各和自己的產業以色列。from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

⁷²於是，他按心中的純正牧養他們，用手中的巧妙引導他們。So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

外邦人污穢你的聖殿

¹（亞薩的詩。）　神啊，外邦人進入你的產業，污穢你的聖殿，使耶路撒冷變成荒堆，A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

²把你僕人的屍首交與天空的飛鳥為食，把你聖民的肉交與地上的野獸，They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

³在耶路撒冷周圍流他們的血如水，無人葬埋。They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

⁴我們成為鄰國的羞辱，成為我們四圍人的嗤笑譏刺。We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

這要到幾時呢

⁵耶和華啊，這到幾時呢？你要動怒到永遠嗎？你的憤恨要如火焚燒嗎？How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶願你將你的忿怒倒在那不認識你的外邦和那不求告你名的國度。Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

⁷因為他們吞了雅各，把他的住處變為荒場。for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

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為你名的緣故赦免我們

⁸求你不要記念我們先祖的罪孽，向我們追討；願你的慈悲快迎著我們，因為我們落到極卑微的地步。Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

⁹拯救我們的　神啊，求你因你名的榮耀幫助我們！為你名的緣故搭救我們，赦免我們的罪。Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

¹⁰為何容外邦人說他們的　神在哪裡呢？願你使外邦人知道你在我們眼前伸你僕人流血的冤。Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

¹¹願被囚之人的歎息達到你面前；願你按你的大能力存留那些將要死的人。May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.

¹²主啊，願你將我們鄰邦所羞辱你的羞辱加七倍歸到他們身上。Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

¹³這樣，你的民，你草場的羊，要稱謝你，直到永遠；要述說讚美你的話，直到萬代。Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

只傳耶穌基督並他釘十字架

¹弟兄們，從前我到你們那裡去，並沒有用高言大智對你們宣傳　神的奧祕。When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

²因為我曾定了主意，在你們中間不知道別的，只知道耶穌基督並他釘十字架。For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

聖靈和大能的明證

³我在你們那裡，又軟弱，又懼怕又甚戰兢。I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

⁴我說的話、講的道，不是用智慧委婉的言語，乃是用聖靈和大能的明證，My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

⁵叫你們的信不在乎人的智慧，只在乎　神的大能。so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

神奧祕的智慧

⁶然而，在完全的人中，我們也講智慧。但不是這世上的智慧，也不是這世上有權有位、將要敗亡之人的智慧。Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

⁷我們講的，乃是從前所隱藏、　神奧祕的智慧，就是　神在萬世以前預定使我們得榮耀的。No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.

⁸這智慧世上有權有位的人沒有一個知道的，他們若知道，就不把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹如經上所記：　神為愛他的人所預備的是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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聖靈參透萬事

¹⁰只有　神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了，因為聖靈參透萬事，就是　神深奧的事也參透了。But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹¹除了在人裡頭的靈，誰知道人的事？像這樣，除了　神的靈，也沒有人知道　神的事。For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

¹²我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈，乃是從　神來的靈，叫我們能知道　神開恩賜給我們的事。We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

¹³並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事（或譯：將屬靈的事講與屬靈的人）。And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

屬血氣的人與屬靈的人

¹⁴然而，屬血氣的人不領會　神聖靈的事，反倒以為愚拙，並且不能知道，因為這些事惟有屬靈的人才能看透。The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵屬靈的人能看透萬事，卻沒有一人能看透了他。The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

¹⁶誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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