< Psalms 83 >

1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
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 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
因為您的仇敵騷擾狂吼,惱恨您的人都搖頭昂首;
3 They are secretly planning to do things to harm [us], your people; they are (conspiring together against/planning how to defeat) the people whom you protect.
相聚密謀,陷害您的百姓,商議攻擊您保護的人民,
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
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 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
於是,他們心齊謀同,締結盟約,向您進攻,
6 [The people who have done that are] the people of Edom [region], the descendants of Ishmael [who live on the east side of the Jordan River], the Moab [people-group], the descendants of Hagar [who also live on the east side of the Jordan River],
即厄東部落及依市瑪耳,又有摩阿布以及哈革爾。
7 Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
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 [The people of] have joined them; they are strong allies of the [Moab and Ammon people-groups, who are] descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot.
亞述人也與他們串通,作了羅特子民的幫兇。
9 [God], do to those people things like you did to the Midian [people-group], like [you did] to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.
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 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
他們都喪亡於恩多爾,全變成了田裏的糞泥,
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
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, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
因為他們都曾如此說過:我們去佔領天主的住所。
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
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 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
好像被火燐焚燒的樹林,又似被火燄燃燒的山陵;
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
求您也這樣以您的颶風驅散他們,以您的暴雨驚嚇他們。
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
上主,求您羞辱他們的面容,是為叫他們尋求您的聖名;
17 Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
使他們永遠受辱恐慌,叫他們個個蒙羞喪亡。
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on 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 >