詩篇94:1-23

94:1 耶和華啊，你是伸冤的上帝；伸冤的上帝啊，求你發出光來！
94:2 審判世界的主啊，求你挺身而立，使驕傲人受應得的報應！
94:3 耶和華啊，惡人誇勝要到幾時呢？要到幾時呢？
94:4 他們絮絮叨叨說傲慢的話；一切作孽的人都自己誇張。
94:5 耶和華啊，他們強壓你的百姓，苦害你的產業。
94:6 他們殺死寡婦和寄居的，又殺害孤兒。
94:7 他們說：耶和華必不看見；雅各的上帝必不思念。
94:8 你們民間的畜類人當思想；你們愚頑人到幾時才有智慧呢？
94:9 造耳朵的，難道自己不聽見嗎？造眼睛的，難道自己不看見嗎？
94:10 管教列邦的，就是叫人得知識的，難道自己不懲治人嗎？
94:11 耶和華知道人的意念是虛妄的。
94:12 耶和華啊，你所管教、用律法所教訓的人是有福的！
94:13 你使他在遭難的日子得享平安；惟有惡人陷在所挖的坑中。
94:14 因為耶和華必不丟棄他的百姓，也不離棄他的產業。
94:15 審判要轉向公義；心裡正直的，必都隨從。
94:16 誰肯為我起來攻擊作惡的？誰肯為我站起抵擋作孽的？
94:17 若不是耶和華幫助我，我就住在寂靜之中了。
94:18 我正說我失了腳，耶和華啊，那時你的慈愛扶助我。
94:19 我心裡多憂多疑，你安慰我，就使我歡樂。
94:20 那藉著律例架弄殘害、在位上行奸惡的，豈能與你相交嗎？
94:21 他們大家聚集攻擊義人，將無辜的人定為死罪。
94:22 但耶和華向來作了我的高臺；我的上帝作了我投靠的磐石。
94:23 他叫他們的罪孽歸到他們身上。他們正在行惡之中，他要剪除他們；耶和華─我們的上帝要把他們剪除。

¹ The Lord is a God who avenges.
    O God who avenges, shine forth.
² Rise up, Judge of the earth;
    pay back to the proud what they deserve.
³ How long, Lord, will the wicked,
    how long will the wicked be jubilant?

⁴ They pour out arrogant words;
    all the evildoers are full of boasting.
⁵ They crush your people, Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.
⁶ They slay the widow and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.
⁷ They say, “The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob takes no notice.”

⁸ Take notice, you senseless ones among the people;
    you fools, when will you become wise?
⁹ Does he who fashioned the ear not hear?
    Does he who formed the eye not see?
¹⁰ Does he who disciplines nations not punish?
    Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?
¹¹ The Lord knows all human plans;
    he knows that they are futile.

¹² Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord,
    the one you teach from your law;
¹³ you grant them relief from days of trouble,
    till a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not reject his people;
    he will never forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
    and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
    Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless the Lord had given me help,
    I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
    your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
¹⁹ When anxiety was great within me,
    your consolation brought me joy.

²⁰ Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—
    a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
²¹ The wicked band together against the righteous
    and condemn the innocent to death.
²² But the Lord has become my fortress,
    and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their sins
    and destroy them for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will destroy them.

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    玩弄權勢是人犯罪墮落之後的表現，但是上帝都知道，因為人的傾向在祂創造萬物以前就知道、就明白，所以祂在創世已先就為人設立救恩，要透過基督的拯救來改變人會犯罪、會自我中心、會玩弄權勢、…等等！甚至人還沒有造出來，祂就已經設立這預旨，當然這不是我們被造之物可以完全明白的！

    也因為這樣，要明白上帝的作為，必須以聖經為基礎，祂要我們透過祂的啟示，看清楚我們真正的狀況，我們不能常以為我們是被壓迫者，反過來我們正是壓迫別人的人，因為我們自出生以來，就像雅各一般，一直在抓、在奪，總是不願上自己吃虧！進而為了自己的利益，是在欺壓別人！怪不得俗話說：「一將功成萬骨枯！」

    當我們今天讀到這首詩歌，反而要求主赦免我們，因為我們是罪孽深重，不知傷害多少人的惡者、大罪人！真的需要基督的寶血洗淨，使我們能真正捨己愛鄰舍，為榮耀主而活！