Psalms 94
1 The Lord is a God of vengeance! God of vengeance, shine out!
上主，您是伸冤的天主，伸冤的天主，求您顯出！
2 Stand up, judge of the earth, and pay back those who are proud what they deserve.
審判大地的天主，請您起來！給驕傲人施以應得的禍災！
3 How long, Lord? How long will the wicked celebrate in triumph?
上主，惡人洋洋得意，要到何時？歹徒沾沾自喜，要到何時？
4 How long will you let them pour out their arrogant words? How long will these evil people go on boasting?
他們大言不慚，要到何時？作惡的人自誇，要到何時？
5 Lord, they crush your people; they oppress those you call your own.
上主，他們蹂躪您的百姓，他們磨難您的子民，
6 They kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans.
屠殺寡婦與旅客，將孤兒置於死地，
7 They say, “The Lord can't see what we're doing. Israel's God doesn't pay any attention to us.”
他們還說：上主看不見，雅各伯的天主決不管。
8 Take another look, you stupid people! Fools—when will you ever get the point?
民間的愚昧者！您們應該知悉，糊塗的人！您們何時才能明白？
9 Do you think the creator of the ear can't hear? Do you think the maker of the eye can't see?
裝置耳朵的，難道自己聽不著？製造眼睛的，難道自己看不到？
10 Do you think that the one who punishes nations won't punish you too? Do you think that the one who teaches human beings knowledge doesn't know anything?
訓戒萬民者，難道自己不懲治？教導人類者，難道自己無知識？
11 The Lord knows the thoughts of human beings—he knows they are pointless.
上主認透人的思念，原來都是虛幻。
12 Those you discipline are happy, Lord; those you teach from your Law.
上主那些受您教訓的人，守您法律者是有福的的人，
13 You give them peace in days of trouble, until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.
您叫他在患難獲享安穩，直到給惡人們掘下了陷阱。
14 For the Lord will not give up on his people; he will not abandon his own.
因為上主不拒絕自己的百姓，上主不遺棄自己的人民。
15 Justice will once again be based on what is right; those who are sincere will support it.
原來公理必歸正義的人士，心地公正的人必追求公理。
16 Who came to my defense against the wicked; who stood up for me against those who do evil?
誰肯奮起替我攻打行兇的人？誰肯站起替我抵抗作惡的人？
17 If the Lord hadn't helped me, I would have soon gone down into the silence of the grave.
若不是上主扶助我，我的靈魂已歸冥所。
18 I shouted out, “My foot's slipping!” and your trustworthy love, Lord, kept me from falling.
我工在想說：我的腳步快要滑倒。上主，您就以您的仁慈來扶助我。
19 When my mind was full of worries, you comforted me and encouraged me.
憂愁焦思雖然齊集我的心神，您的安慰卻舒暢了我的靈魂。
20 Can unjust judges really be on your side, Lord, when their corrupt use of the law causes misery?
若有人冒充法律，製造苦惱，不義的法庭，豈能與您相好？
21 They work together to destroy good people; they condemn those who are innocent to death.
他們殘害義人的性命，判決無辜人的流血刑。
22 But the Lord protects me like a fortress; my God is the rock that keeps me safe.
然而上主必定作堡壘，我的天主作我避難的磐石。
23 He will turn the wickedness of evil people back upon them; he will destroy them because of their sins; the Lord our God will destroy them.
祂必以他們罪過來報復他們；必要用他們的凶惡來消滅他們，上主我們的天主必要消滅他們。
