歌颂上帝的恩惠

亚萨的诗,交给乐长,用迦特乐器。

81 要歌颂赐我们力量的上帝,
向雅各的上帝欢呼。
要唱诗,击鼓,弹起琴瑟。
要在我们过节的朔日和望日[a]吹响号角。
这是以色列的律例,
是雅各的上帝所定的法令。
上帝攻击埃及的时候,
为约瑟立下此法度。
我在那里听见陌生的声音说:
“我卸下了你肩上的重担,
使你的双手不再做苦工,
你在苦难中向我呼求,
我就拯救了你,
从雷声隆隆的密云中应允了你。
我在米利巴泉边考验你。(细拉)
我的子民啊,
要听我的警告。
以色列人啊,
但愿你们听从我的话。
你们断不可供奉别的神明,
也不可向外族的神明下拜,
10 我是你们的上帝耶和华,
曾把你们带出埃及。
张开你们的口吧,
我必使你们饱足。
11 我的子民却不肯听我的话,
以色列不愿意顺从我。
12 因此我就任凭他们顽固不化,
为所欲为。
13 但愿我的子民肯听从我,
以色列人肯遵行我的道。
14 那时,我必迅速制服他们的敌人,
伸手攻击他们的仇敌。
15 憎恶我的人要在我面前屈膝投降,永远沉沦。
16 我要以上好的麦子供养我的子民,
让他们饱享磐石间的蜂蜜。”

Footnotes

  1. 81:3 朔日和望日”即每月的初一和十五。

For the Director: On the Gittith. By Asaph.

Celebrating and Remembering God

81 Sing joyfully to God, our strength.
    Raise a shout to the God of Jacob.
Sing a song and play the tambourine,
    the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp.
Blow the ram’s horn when there is a New Moon,
    when there is a full moon,
        on our festival day,
because it is a statute in Israel,
    an ordinance by the God of Jacob,
a decree that he prescribed for Joseph
    when he went throughout the land of Egypt,
        speaking a language I did not recognize.[a]

I removed the burden from your[b] shoulder;
    your[c] hands were freed of the burdensome basket.[d]
In a time of need you called out and I delivered you;
    I answered you from the dark thundercloud;
        I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Interlude

Listen, My people and I will warn you.
    Israel, if only you would obey me!
You must neither have a foreign god over you
    or worship a strange god.
10 I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
        open your mouth that I may fill it.
11 Yet my people didn’t obey my voice;
    Israel didn’t submit to me.
12 So I allowed them[e] to continue in their stubbornness,
    living by their own advice.
13 If only my people would obey me,
    if only Israel would walk in my ways!
14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies.
    I would turn against their foes.
15 Those who hate the Lord will cringe before him;
    their punishment will be permanent.
16 But I will feed Israel[f] with the finest wheat,
    satisfying you with honey from the rock.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:5 Lit. hear
  2. Psalm 81:6 Lit. his
  3. Psalm 81:6 Lit. his
  4. Psalm 81:6 Lit. hands let pass through the basket
  5. Psalm 81:12 Or it/ her
  6. Psalm 81:16 Lit. him