7:9 你是公義的上帝,你審察人的心腸肺腑。求你阻止邪惡者的惡行,獎賞廣行善事的人。
7:10 上帝是保護我的盾牌;他拯救胸懷正直的人。
7:11 上帝是公義的審判者;他日夜懲罰作惡的人。
7:12 他們若不悔改,上帝要磨快他的劍;他彎弓搭箭,
7:13 預備好致命的武器,要發射燃燒著的箭。
7:14 邪惡的人圖謀惡事;他們製造紛擾,慣行欺詐。
7:15 他們挖了坑,要陷害別人,自己反而掉了進去。
7:16 他們要因自己的邪惡被懲罰,因自己的暴行受傷害。
7:17 我要感謝上主的公義;我要頌揚至高者的尊名。
O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure. My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day. If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows. He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment. He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head. I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
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在這罪惡滿盈的世界,說到上帝是公義的上帝,需要用信心的眼來眺望。因為唯有上帝國實現之那日,上帝的公義才能真正實現。
雖然如此,上帝仍然差遣聖靈內住在屬於祂的人之心中,天天引導他們,使這些重生的人知道何為「公義」,也願意順應上帝的旨意而行。所以,基督徒在這世界上,如同深夜中之點點星光,雖然不是非常的亮,讓人仍然有希望,期待那「真正」的大光降臨。
所以,當我們說到「公義之上帝」,我們必須忍耐,不過是充滿盼望的,耶穌基督再來,一切將要更新,也唯有那日,受害之人心裡的積怨,才能得到真正的滿足。
故,我們盼望耶穌基督快再來,我們以歡喜快樂的心,迎接「新天新地」之上帝國完全實現!
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