詩篇44:1-26

44:1 （可拉後裔的訓誨詩，交與伶長。）上帝啊，你在古時，我們列祖的日子所行的事，我們親耳聽見了；我們的列祖也給我們述說過。

44:2 你曾用手趕出外邦人，卻栽培了我們列祖；你苦待列邦，卻叫我們列祖發達。

44:3 因為他們不是靠自己的刀劍得地土，也不是靠自己的膀臂得勝，乃是靠你的右手、你的膀臂，和你臉上的亮光，因為你喜悅他們。

44:4 上帝啊，你是我的王；求你出令使雅各得勝。

44:5 我們靠你要推倒我們的敵人，靠你的名要踐踏那起來攻擊我們的人。

44:6 因為，我必不靠我的弓；我的刀也不能使我得勝。

44:7 惟你救了我們脫離敵人，使恨我們的人羞愧。

44:8 我們終日因上帝誇耀，還要永遠稱謝你的名。（細拉）

44:9 但如今你丟棄了我們，使我們受辱，不和我們的軍兵同去。

44:10 你使我們向敵人轉身退後；那恨我們的人任意搶奪。

44:11 你使我們當作快要被吃的羊，把我們分散在列邦中。

44:12 你賣了你的子民也不賺利，所得的價值並不加添你的資財。

44:13 你使我們受鄰國的羞辱，被四圍的人嗤笑譏刺。

44:14 你使我們在列邦中作了笑談，使眾民向我們搖頭。

44:15 我的凌辱終日在我面前，我臉上的羞愧將我遮蔽，

44:16 都因那辱罵毀謗人的聲音，又因仇敵和報仇人的緣故。

44:17 這都臨到我們身上，我們卻沒有忘記你，也沒有違背你的約。

44:18 我們的心沒有退後；我們的腳也沒有偏離你的路。

44:19 你在野狗之處壓傷我們，用死蔭遮蔽我們。

44:20 倘若我們忘了上帝的名，或向別神舉手，

44:21 上帝豈不鑒察這事嗎？因為他曉得人心裡的隱祕。

44:22 我們為你的緣故終日被殺；人看我們如將宰的羊。

44:23 主啊，求你睡醒，為何儘睡呢？求你興起，不要永遠丟棄我們！

44:24 你為何掩面，不顧我們所遭的苦難和所受的欺壓？

44:25 我們的性命伏於塵土；我們的肚腹緊貼地面。

44:26 求你起來幫助我們！憑你的慈愛救贖我們！

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.^[b]

¹ We have heard it with our ears, O God;
    our ancestors have told us
what you did in their days,
    in days long ago.
² With your hand you drove out the nations
    and planted our ancestors;
you crushed the peoples
    and made our ancestors flourish.
³ It was not by their sword that they won the land,
    nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
    and the light of your face, for you loved them.

⁴ You are my King and my God,
    who decrees^[c] victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through you we push back our enemies;
    through your name we trample our foes.
⁶ I put no trust in my bow,
    my sword does not bring me victory;
⁷ but you give us victory over our enemies,
    you put our adversaries to shame.
⁸ In God we make our boast all day long,
    and we will praise your name forever.^[d]

⁹ But now you have rejected and humbled us;
    you no longer go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You made us retreat before the enemy,
    and our adversaries have plundered us.
¹¹ You gave us up to be devoured like sheep
    and have scattered us among the nations.
¹² You sold your people for a pittance,
    gaining nothing from their sale.

¹³ You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,
    the scorn and derision of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads at us.
¹⁵ I live in disgrace all day long,
    and my face is covered with shame
¹⁶ at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,
    because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

¹⁷ All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our hearts had not turned back;
    our feet had not strayed from your path.
¹⁹ But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;
    you covered us over with deep darkness.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
²¹ would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?
²² Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³ Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?
    Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do you hide your face
    and forget our misery and oppression?

²⁵ We are brought down to the dust;
    our bodies cling to the ground.
²⁶ Rise up and help us;
    rescue us because of your unfailing love.

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    詩人紀念上帝曾經如何的幫助以色列人，使以色列人可以靠耶和華的幫助得迦南地為業！但是，如今以色列人遭大難，所以詩人呼籲上帝要照以前的方式，繼續幫助以色列人度過難關！

    當然詩人在此用強烈的語氣向上帝禱告說：「主啊，求你睡醒，為何儘睡呢？求你興起，不要永遠丟棄我們！你為何掩面，不顧我們所遭的苦難和所受的欺壓？我們的性命伏於塵土；我們的肚腹緊貼地面。求你起來幫助我們！憑你的慈愛救贖我們！」

    其實上帝並沒有放棄以色列人，祂盼望以色列人經過苦難之後，可以悔改歸向祂。祂藉著詩人的話語，像以色列人保證祂必保守到底，雖然詩人這樣的禱告，好像失去了信心，上帝仍然記念與幫助，今日也是如此！