詩篇103:1-22

103:1 （大衛的詩。）我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華！凡在我裡面的，也要稱頌他的聖名！
103:2 我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華！不可忘記他的一切恩惠！
103:3 他赦免你的一切罪孽，醫治你的一切疾病。
103:4 他救贖你的命脫離死亡，以仁愛和慈悲為你的冠冕。
103:5 他用美物使你所願的得以知足，以致你如鷹返老還童。
103:6 耶和華施行公義，為一切受屈的人伸冤。
103:7 他使摩西知道他的法則，叫以色列人曉得他的作為。
103:8 耶和華有憐憫，有恩典，不輕易發怒，且有豐盛的慈愛。
103:9 他不長久責備，也不永遠懷怒。
103:10 他沒有按我們的罪過待我們，也沒有照我們的罪孽報應我們。
103:11 天離地何等的高，他的慈愛向敬畏他的人也是何等的大！
103:12 東離西有多遠，他叫我們的過犯離我們也有多遠！
103:13 父親怎樣憐恤他的兒女，耶和華也怎樣憐恤敬畏他的人！
103:14 因為他知道我們的本體，思念我們不過是塵土。
103:15 至於世人，他的年日如草一樣。他發旺如野地的花，
103:16 經風一吹，便歸無有；它的原處也不再認識它。
103:17 但耶和華的慈愛歸於敬畏他的人，從亙古到永遠；他的公義也歸於子子孫孫─
103:18 就是那些遵守他的約、記念他的訓詞而遵行的人。
103:19 耶和華在天上立定寶座；他的權柄（原文是國）統管萬有。
103:20 聽從他命令、成全他旨意、有大能的天使，都要稱頌耶和華！
103:21 你們作他的諸軍，作他的僕役，行他所喜悅的，都要稱頌耶和華！
103:22 你們一切被他造的，在他所治理的各處，都要稱頌耶和華！我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華！

Of David.

¹ Praise the Lord, my soul;
    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
² Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
³ who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases,
⁴ who redeems your life from the pit
    and crowns you with love and compassion,
⁵ who satisfies your desires with good things
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶ The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all the oppressed.

⁷ He made known his ways to Moses,
    his deeds to the people of Israel:
⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
    slow to anger, abounding in love.
⁹ He will not always accuse,
    nor will he harbor his anger forever;
¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve
    or repay us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love for those who fear him;
¹² as far as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed,
    he remembers that we are dust.
¹⁵ The life of mortals is like grass,
    they flourish like a flower of the field;
¹⁶ the wind blows over it and it is gone,
    and its place remembers it no more.
¹⁷ But from everlasting to everlasting
    the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
    and his righteousness with their children’s children—
¹⁸ with those who keep his covenant
    and remember to obey his precepts.

¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in heaven,
    and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰ Praise the Lord, you his angels,
    you mighty ones who do his bidding,
    who obey his word.
²¹ Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,
    you his servants who do his will.
²² Praise the Lord, all his works
    everywhere in his dominion.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

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     許多人想到上帝的公義，就認為上帝是嚴厲的法官，心裡就害怕與抗拒！殊不知言立的法官主持正義所發的威嚴，正是要拯救被害的人，使被害的人獲的原本該有權利，這本是好的且是應該的！

    而這位公義的上帝為什麼要為我們伸冤和拯救我們呢﹖這是出於祂的慈愛和豐盛的恩典，也因為如此，我們就要像詩人一般的讚美上帝，先中油然發出讚嘆說：「耶和華有憐憫，有恩典，不輕易發怒，且有豐盛的慈愛。」

    詩人也在這裡說到我們倚靠上帝有什麼好處與恩典：「但耶和華的慈愛歸於敬畏他的人，從亙古到永遠；他的公義也歸於子子孫孫─就是那些遵守他的約、記念他的訓詞而遵行的人。」也因為這樣使徒約翰告訴我們：「這世界和其上的情慾都要過去，惟獨遵行上帝旨意的，是永遠常存。」（約翰一書2:17）

    所以詩人在最後還是囑咐讀者：「你們一切被他造的，在他所治理的各處，都要稱頌耶和華！我的心哪，你要稱頌耶和華！」

    是的！我們要稱頌耶和華！