< Psalms 83 >

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.
詠【求消滅聯盟的異民】阿撒夫的詩歌。 上主，求您不要一言不發，天主，您們不要靜默無話！
2 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
因為您的仇敵騷擾狂吼，惱恨您的人都搖頭昂首；
3 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.
相聚密謀，陷害您的百姓，商議攻擊您保護的人民，
4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
說：大家來，由萬民將要他們驅散，使以色列的名不再被記念。
5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;
於是，他們心齊謀同，締結盟約，向您進攻，
6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;
即厄東部落及依市瑪耳，又有摩阿布以及哈革爾。
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
還有革巴耳、阿孟和阿瑪肋克人，且有培肋舍特人和提洛的居民，
8 Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)
亞述人也與他們串通，作了羅特子民的幫兇。
9 Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.
求你對待他們像對待米德楊人，像在克雄河對待息色辣和雅賓，
10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
他們都喪亡於恩多爾，全變成了田裏的糞泥，
11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:
使他們的王侯要與敖勒布和東一樣，使他們的將領與巴黑和匝耳慕一樣，
12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
因為他們都曾如此說過：我們去佔領天主的住所。
13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
我的天主，求您使他們像旋風捲起的落葉，求您使他們像狂風吹起的碎楷，
14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;
好像被火燐焚燒的樹林，又似被火燄燃燒的山陵；
15 so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.
求您也這樣以您的颶風驅散他們，以您的暴雨驚嚇他們。
16 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
上主，求您羞辱他們的面容，是為叫他們尋求您的聖名；
17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
使他們永遠受辱恐慌，叫他們個個蒙羞喪亡。
18 And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
從此，認識您的名號是雅威，惟有您在普天下至尊無對。

< Psalms 83 >