78:42 他們不追念他的能力(原文是手)和贖他們脫離敵人的日子;
78:43 他怎樣在埃及地顯神蹟,在瑣安田顯奇事,
78:44 把他們的江河並河汊的水都變為血,使他們不能喝。
78:45 他叫蒼蠅成群落在他們當中,嘬盡他們,又叫青蛙滅了他們,
78:46 把他們的土產交給螞蚱,把他們辛苦得來的交給蝗蟲。
78:47 他降冰雹打壞他們的葡萄樹,下嚴霜打壞他們的桑樹,
78:48 又把他們的牲畜交給冰雹,把他們的群畜交給閃電。
78:49 他使猛烈的怒氣和忿怒、惱恨、苦難成了一群降災的使者,臨到他們。
78:50 他為自己的怒氣修平了路,將他們交給瘟疫,使他們死亡,
78:51 在埃及擊殺一切長子,在含的帳棚中擊殺他們強壯時頭生的。
78:52 他卻領出自己的民如羊,在曠野引他們如羊群。
78:53 他領他們穩穩妥妥地,使他們不致害怕;海卻淹沒他們的仇敵。
78:54 他帶他們到自己聖地的邊界,到他右手所得的這山地。
42 They did not remember his power—
the day he redeemed them
from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region
of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
they could not drink from
their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated
them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their produce to the
locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore-figs
with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts
of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and
hostility—
a band of destroying
angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from
death
but gave them over to the
plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstfruits of manhood
in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
he led them like sheep
through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their
enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy
land,
to the hill country his
right hand had taken.
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詩人再一次深究為何以色列人無法有真正的悔改,與他們不去追念上帝如何領他們出埃及的事蹟又很大的關係!正如再42-43節所說:「他們不追念他的能力(原文是手)和贖他們脫離敵人的日子;他怎樣在埃及地顯神蹟,在瑣安田顯奇事」。
作者要讀者回想:上帝使用十災來攻擊埃及法老、過紅海的事蹟,以及上帝如何在曠野照顧他們和頒布律法的事蹟。這些事蹟,一一數來,無不讓人感受到上帝的慈愛與憐憫,更是大有能力,豈可忘記去從別的神明?
怪不得以色列人在被擄歸回之後,努力重建聖殿、編輯聖經,來恢復對上帝的敬拜。甚至在主耶穌之後聖殿被毀,流落四方時,仍然將出埃及的故事在每個安息日的家庭聚會時念念不忘,成為身分的認同!