42:6 我的上帝啊,我的心在我裡面憂悶,所以我從約旦地,從黑門嶺,從米薩山記念你。
42:7 你的瀑布發聲,深淵就與深淵響應;你的波浪洪濤漫過我身。
42:8 白晝,耶和華必向我施慈愛;黑夜,我要歌頌禱告賜我生命的上帝。
42:9 我要對上帝─我的磐石說:你為何忘記我呢?我為何因仇敵的欺壓時常哀痛呢?
42:10 我的敵人辱罵我,好像打碎我的骨頭,不住地對我說:你的上帝在哪裡呢?
6 My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
8 By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?”
10 My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
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詩人雖然內心憂悶,但是心中仰望上帝,使他得著永生的盼望!也因為這樣的盼望,就不怕環境的惡劣,和敵人的攻擊。
上帝要我們來倚靠祂和仰望祂,因為只有上帝才能拯救我們,我們無法自己救自己。也就是說,我們不能成為自己的拯救者,自己已被罪所轄制,以至於成為一位無能者。
然而在救贖的事情,只有上帝主動拯救,我們才能得拯救!而上帝真的是主動來拯救我們,我們因為確信肯定上帝必定能拯救我們!