詩篇102:1-28

102:1 （困苦人發昏的時候，在耶和華面前吐露苦情的禱告。）耶和華啊，求你聽我的禱告，容我的呼求達到你面前！
102:2 我在急難的日子，求你向我側耳；不要向我掩面！我呼求的日子，求你快快應允我！
102:3 因為，我的年日如煙雲消滅；我的骨頭如火把燒著。
102:4 我的心被傷，如草枯乾，甚至我忘記吃飯。
102:5 因我唉哼的聲音，我的肉緊貼骨頭。
102:6 我如同曠野的鵜鶘；我好像荒場的鴞鳥。
102:7 我警醒不睡；我像房頂上孤單的麻雀。
102:8 我的仇敵終日辱罵我；向我猖狂的人指著我賭咒。
102:9 我吃過爐灰，如同吃飯；我所喝的與眼淚攙雜。
102:10 這都因你的惱恨和忿怒；你把我拾起來，又把我摔下去。
102:11 我的年日如日影偏斜；我也如草枯乾。
102:12 惟你─耶和華必存到永遠；你可記念的名也存到萬代。
102:13 你必起來憐恤錫安，因現在是可憐她的時候，日期已經到了。
102:14 你的僕人原來喜悅她的石頭，可憐她的塵土。
102:15 列國要敬畏耶和華的名；世上諸王都敬畏你的榮耀。
102:16 因為耶和華建造了錫安，在他榮耀裡顯現。
102:17 他垂聽窮人的禱告，並不藐視他們的祈求。
102:18 這必為後代的人記下，將來受造的民要讚美耶和華。
102:19 因為，他從至高的聖所垂看；耶和華從天向地觀察，
102:20 要垂聽被囚之人的歎息，要釋放將要死的人，
102:21 使人在錫安傳揚耶和華的名，在耶路撒冷傳揚讚美他的話，
102:22 就是在萬民和列國聚會事奉耶和華的時候。
102:23 他使我的力量中道衰弱，使我的年日短少。
102:24 我說：我的上帝啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年數世世無窮！
102:25 你起初立了地的根基；天也是你手所造的。
102:26 天地都要滅沒，你卻要長存；天地都要如外衣漸漸舊了。你要將天地如裡衣更換，天地就都改變了。
102:27 惟有你永不改變；你的年數沒有窮盡。
102:28 你僕人的子孫要長存；他們的後裔要堅立在你面前。

A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.

¹ Hear my prayer, Lord;
    let my cry for help come to you.
² Do not hide your face from me
    when I am in distress.
Turn your ear to me;
    when I call, answer me quickly.

³ For my days vanish like smoke;
    my bones burn like glowing embers.
⁴ My heart is blighted and withered like grass;
    I forget to eat my food.
⁵ In my distress I groan aloud
    and am reduced to skin and bones.
⁶ I am like a desert owl,
    like an owl among the ruins.
⁷ I lie awake; I have become
    like a bird alone on a roof.
⁸ All day long my enemies taunt me;
    those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
⁹ For I eat ashes as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears
¹⁰ because of your great wrath,
    for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow;
    I wither away like grass.

¹² But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever;
    your renown endures through all generations.
¹³ You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
    for it is time to show favor to her;
    the appointed time has come.
¹⁴ For her stones are dear to your servants;
    her very dust moves them to pity.
¹⁵ The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
    all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord will rebuild Zion
    and appear in his glory.
¹⁷ He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;
    he will not despise their plea.

¹⁸ Let this be written for a future generation,
    that a people not yet created may praise the Lord:
¹⁹ “The Lord looked down from his sanctuary on high,
    from heaven he viewed the earth,
²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners
    and release those condemned to death.”
²¹ So the name of the Lord will be declared in Zion
    and his praise in Jerusalem
²² when the peoples and the kingdoms
    assemble to worship the Lord.

²³ In the course of my life^[b] he broke my strength;
    he cut short my days.
²⁴ So I said:
“Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days;
    your years go on through all generations.
²⁵ In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
    and the heavens are the work of your hands.
²⁶ They will perish, but you remain;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
Like clothing you will change them
    and they will be discarded.
²⁷ But you remain the same,
    and your years will never end.
²⁸ The children of your servants will live in your presence;
    their descendants will be established before you.”

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    詩篇一開始的標題是：「困苦人發昏的時候，在耶和華面前吐露苦情的禱告」。讓我們可以感受到寫詩歌的人的處境，讓讀者也體會在這樣的處境中，人該如何向上帝禱告！

    然而這個發昏的人，仍有聖靈的引導，能夠認識上帝的屬性，發出讚美的言語：「你起初立了地的根基；天也是你手所造的。天地都要滅沒，你卻要長存；天地都要如外衣漸漸舊了。你要將天地如裡衣更換，天地就都改變了。惟有你永不改變；你的年數沒有窮盡。你僕人的子孫要長存；他們的後裔要堅立在你面前。」

    將現況的苦境向上帝述說是必要的，也唯有上帝可以垂聽人在面前陳述的苦情，所以我們不用害怕上帝會不會因此責怪我們，因為一切的狀況祂都清楚的，都明白的，祂不會用懷疑的心來垂聽，祂不是人、祂完全明白！

     向上帝述說之後，要對上帝有信心，祂不僅會了解，更會讓我們的將來有所轉變，因為祂要將永遠的福樂賜給祂的僕人和他們的子孫，正如詩人頌讚一般，我們也唯有因著上帝要賜的永生之福，我們的心才能得真正的安慰！