3:55 耶和華啊,我從深牢中求告你的名。
3:56 你曾聽見我的聲音;我求你解救,你不要掩耳不聽。
3:57 我求告你的日子,你臨近我,說:不要懼怕!
3:58 主啊,你伸明了我的冤;你救贖了我的命。
3:59 耶和華啊,你見了我受的委屈;求你為我伸冤。
3:60 他們仇恨我,謀害我,你都看見了。
3:61 耶和華啊,你聽見他們辱罵我的話,知道他們向我所設的計,
3:62 並那些起來攻擊我的人口中所說的話,以及終日向我所設的計謀。
3:63 求你觀看,他們坐下,起來,都以我為歌曲。
3:64 耶和華啊,你要按著他們手所做的向他們施行報應。
3:65 你要使他們心裡剛硬,使你的咒詛臨到他們。
3:66 你要發怒追趕他們,從耶和華的天下除滅他們。
55 "I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 you heard my plea, 'Do not close
your ear to my cry for help! '
57 You came near when I called on you;
you said, 'Do not fear! '
58 "You have taken up my cause, O
Lord;
you have redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O
Lord;
judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me.
61 "You have heard their taunts, O
Lord,
all their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts of my assailants
are against me all the day long.
63 Behold their sitting and their rising;
I am
the object of their taunts.
64 "You will repay them, O Lord,
according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them dullness of heart;
your curse will be on them.
66 You will pursue them in anger and
destroy them
from under your heavens, O Lord."
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先知雖然承認自己的罪,但是他更清楚這一切都需要上帝的恩典,尤其是上帝的救贖和伸冤,好使自己在仇敵面前站立得住,使仇敵知道上帝的同在和支持,而不敢來侵犯!
的確,上帝是我們向惡者誇勝的理由,因為惡者喜歡在我們心中與上帝面前來控告我們,好使我們感到羞愧,以致不敢來倚靠上帝,讓我們覺得自己是沒資格,是不配得著上帝幫助的人!
但是有耶穌基督的救恩,我們就不怕自己配不配,因為主權在上帝,是上帝主動來拯救我們,使我們被祂的愛所感動,就不再羞愧,可以勇敢來信靠上帝在基督裡所預備的救恩!