99:1 耶和華作王;萬民當戰抖!他坐在二基路伯上,地當動搖。
99:2 耶和華在錫安為大;他超乎萬民之上。
99:3 他們當稱讚他大而可畏的名;他本為聖!
99:4 王有能力,喜愛公平,堅立公正,在雅各中施行公平和公義。
99:5 你們當尊崇耶和華─我們的上帝,在他腳凳前下拜。他本為聖!
99:6 在他的祭司中有摩西和亞倫;在求告他名的人中有撒母耳。他們求告耶和華,他就應允他們。
99:7 他在雲柱中對他們說話;他們遵守他的法度和他所賜給他們的律例。
99:8 耶和華─我們的上帝啊,你應允他們;你是赦免他們的上帝,卻按他們所行的報應他們。
99:9 你們要尊崇耶和華─我們的上帝,在他的聖山下拜,因為耶和華─我們的上帝本為聖!
1 The Lord reigns,
let the nations tremble;
he sits enthroned between the cherubim,
let the earth shake.
2 Great is the Lord
in Zion;
he is exalted over all the nations.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name—
he is holy.
4 The
King is mighty, he loves justice—
you have established equity;
in Jacob you have done
what is just and right.
5 Exalt the Lord
our God
and worship at his footstool;
he is holy.
6 Moses
and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel was among those who called on his name;
they called on the Lord
and he answered them.
7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;
they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.
8 Lord our God,
you answered them;
you were to Israel a forgiving God,
though you punished their misdeeds.[a]
9 Exalt the Lord
our God
and worship at his holy mountain,
for the Lord
our God is holy.
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這首詩篇出現三次「本為聖」來宣告上帝的「獨一性」!這也就是說上帝是無法用其他的事物來比擬的,是無法用人的想像、或雕刻、或圖畫、或言語、或音樂、…來表達!也因為這樣,上帝是人無法掌控,無法馴化的,如同其他的受造物!
反過來人應當受到上帝的約束和掌管,是人要敬拜上帝,要受上帝的審判,而且是無法逃避祂的!也唯有祂是實實在在的存有,是永恆的!祂所創造的天地和我們,有一天是會過去的!也因為如此,我們要謙卑俯伏在祂面前!
然而這一位大而可畏的上帝,竟然對我們施恩與憐憫!因為人類是按他自己的形象和樣式造的,祂是多麼珍寶我們,甚至為了我們因為罪和祂隔離,犧牲自己的愛子為挽回祭,使祂的心被挽回不丟棄祂所愛的人類,又賜下聖靈引導我們活出上帝兒女的樣式,使基督成形在我們心中,又讓我們在基督裡享受永生之福!
思想到這些,不必等詩人說:「他們當稱讚他大而可畏的名;他本為聖!」「你們當尊崇耶和華─我們的上帝,在他腳凳前下拜。他本為聖!」「你們要尊崇耶和華─我們的上帝,在他的聖山下拜,因為耶和華─我們的上帝本為聖!」就已經心尊祂為聖了!
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