Psalms 18
1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
【凱旋感恩歌】 上主的僕人達味作，向上主唱了這篇詩歌： 上主，我的力量，我愛慕你。
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
上主，你是我的磐石、我的保障，我的避難所；你是我的天主，我一心依靠的磐石；你是我的護盾，我救恩的角，我的堡壘。
3 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
我一呼求應受頌揚的上主，我便會從仇敵的手中得救。
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
死亡的狂瀾環圍著我，凶惡的險波驚嚇著我，
陰府的繩韁纏繞著我，喪命的羅網拘絆著我。 (Sheol h7585)
6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
我在急難難當中呼求了上主，向我的天主求助；他由殿中聽我禱告，我的聲音進入祂的耳鼓。
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
因為上主憤怒填胸，大地立即戰慄震驚，山基陵根搖撼移動。
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
由祂的鼻孔湧出濃煙，由祂的口中噴出烈焰，由祂身上射出火炭。
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
祂使諸天低垂，親自降臨，在祂的腳下面密布濃雲。
10 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
祂乘坐革魯賓飛揚；藉著風的翼羽翱翔。
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
祂四周以黑暗作帷帳，以含雨的濃雲為屏障。
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
閃電在祂前輝煌，紅炭發出了火光。
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
上主由高天發出雷鳴，至高者吼出祂的呼聲。
14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
祂射出羽箭，將人驅散；祂發出閃電，使人逃竄。
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
上主的呵斥一呼，鼻孔的怒氣一出，滄海的海底出現，大地的地基露綻。
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
祂由高處伸手將我拉住，祂由洪水之中將我提出；
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
救我脫離了我的敵手，擺脫了強於我的仇讎。
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
他們在我困厄之日襲擊我，然而上主卻作了我的城堡；
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
祂引領我步入廣闊的平原，祂因喜愛我而給了我救援。
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
上主照我的正義酬答了我，按我隻手的清白賞報了我；
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
因我遵行了上主的道路，沒有作惡背棄我的天主。
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
祂的一切法令常在我的眼前，祂的任何誡命我總沒有棄損；
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
我在祂前常保持成全，我自知防範各種罪愆。
24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
因此，上主我在祂眼前的正道，並我隻手的清白給了我賞報。
25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
仁慈的人，你待他仁慈；正直的人，你待他正直；
26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.
純潔的人，你待他純潔；乖戾的人，你待他乖戾。
27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
卑微的人，你必要救起；傲慢的人，你必要輕視。
28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
上主，是你使我的燈籠放光，我主，是你把我的黑暗照亮。
29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
仗著你的助祐，我衝上了戰場；靠著我的天主，我跳過了城牆。
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
天主的道路是完善的；上主的言語是精鍊的；凡是投奔祂的人，祂必作他的後盾。
31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
除了上主以外，還有誰是天主？我們天主以外，還有誰是磐石？
32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
是天主使我腰纏英武，使我的道路平坦無阻；
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.
使我的雙腳敏捷與鹿蹄相同，使我能穩立於高山的危峰；
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
是祂教導我的手上陣進攻，使我伸出臂膊開張了銅弓。
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
你把救生的盾賜給了我，你的右手不斷扶持了我，使我日漸強大因你愛我。
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
你為我的腳步拓展了道路，我的雙腳總沒有顛簸躊躇。
37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
我追擊我的仇敵，並且把他們捕捉，決不返回，直到將他們除盡滅絕。
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
我將他們打得一敗塗地，叫他們在我的腳下倒斃。
39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
你使我腰纏英武奮勇作戰，叫敵對我的人都向我就範；
40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
使我的敵人在我前轉背逃竄，使我把一切仇恨我的人驅散。
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.
他們吶喊，卻沒有人救援，呼號上主，也得不到矜憐。
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
我粉碎他們像風吹的灰塵，我踐踏他們似道上的糞土。
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
你救我脫離了判亂的人民，又封立了我為列國的元勳，我不認識的民族，也都來給我服務。
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.
外邦的子民向我諂媚奉承，一聽到是我，即刻向我服膺。
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
外方的子民驚惶失色，戰戰兢兢走出了堡壘。
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
上主萬歲! 願我的磐石備受讚頌！救我的天主備受尊崇！
47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
天主，是你為我伸冤復仇，求你使萬民都向我屈服；
48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
是你拯救我脫離我的仇敵，從凌駕我者的拳下，把我提起，救我免於向我施暴人的手裏。
49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.
上主，為此，我要在異民中稱謝你，我要對你的聖名讚不已：
50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.
因為是你使你的君王大獲勝利，對你的受傅者：達味和他的後裔，廣施仁愛慈惠，至於無窮之世。
