| 78:1 | 〔亞薩的訓誨詩。〕我的民哪、你們要留心聽我的訓誨、側耳聽我口中的話。 | Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
| 78:2 | 我要開口說比喻.我要說出古時的謎語. | I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: |
| 78:3 | 是我們所聽見所知道的、也是我們的祖宗告訴我們的。 | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. |
| 78:4 | 我們不將這些事向他們的子孫隱瞞.要將耶和華的美德和他的能力、並他奇妙的作為、述說給後代聽。 | We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. |
| 78:5 | 因為他在雅各中立法度、在以色列中設律法、是他吩咐我們祖宗、要傳給子孫的. | For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: |
| 78:6 | 使將要生的後代子孫、可以曉得.他們也要起來告訴他們的子孫. | That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: |
| 78:7 | 好叫他們仰望 神、不忘記 神的作為.惟要守他的命令. | That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
| 78:8 | 不要像他們的祖宗、是頑梗悖逆居心不正之輩、向着 神心不誠實。 | And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
| 78:9 | 以法蓮的子孫、帶着兵器、拿着弓、臨陣之日、轉身退後。 | The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
| 78:10 | 他們不遵守 神的約、不肯照他的律法行. | They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
| 78:11 | 又忘記他所行的、和他顯給他們奇妙的作為。 | And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
| 78:12 | 他在埃及地、在瑣安田、在他們祖宗的眼前、施行奇事。 | Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
| 78:13 | 他將海分裂、使他們過去.又叫水立起如壘。 | He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. |
| 78:14 | 他白日用雲彩、終夜用火光、引導他們。 | In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. |
| 78:15 | 他在曠野分裂磐石、多多的給他們水喝、如從深淵而出。 | He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. |
| 78:16 | 他使水從磐石湧出、叫水如江河下流。 | He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
| 78:17 | 他們卻仍舊得罪他、在乾燥之地悖逆至高者。 | And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. |
| 78:18 | 他們心中試探 神、隨自己所欲的求食物. | And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. |
| 78:19 | 並且妄論 神、說、 神在曠野豈能擺設筵席麼。 | Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? |
| 78:20 | 他曾擊打磐石、使水湧出、成了江河.他還能賜糧食麼.還能為他的百姓預備肉麼。 | Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? |
| 78:21 | 所以耶和華聽見、就發怒.有烈火向雅各燒起、有怒氣向以色列上騰. | Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
| 78:22 | 因為他們不信服 神、不倚賴他的救恩。 | Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
| 78:23 | 他卻吩咐天空、又敞開天上的門、 | Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, |
| 78:24 | 降嗎哪像雨給他們喫、將天上的糧食賜給他們。 | And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. |
| 78:25 | 各人〔或作人〕喫大能者的食物.他賜下糧食、使他們飽足。 | Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. |
| 78:26 | 他領東風起在天空、又用能力引了南風來。 | He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. |
| 78:27 | 他降肉像雨在他們當中、多如塵土、又降飛鳥、多如海沙、 | He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
| 78:28 | 落在他們的營中、在他們住處的四面。 | And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. |
| 78:29 | 他們喫了、而且飽足.這樣、就隨了他們所欲的。 | So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
| 78:30 | 他們貪而無厭、食物還在他們口中的時候、 | They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, |
| 78:31 | 神的怒氣、就向他們上騰、殺了他們內中的肥壯人、打倒以色列的少年人。 | The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
| 78:32 | 雖是這樣、他們仍舊犯罪、不信他奇妙的作為。 | For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. |
| 78:33 | 因此他叫他們的日子、全歸虛空、叫他們的年歲、盡屬驚恐。 | Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. |
| 78:34 | 他殺他們的時候、他們才求問他、回心轉意、切切的尋求 神。 | When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. |
| 78:35 | 他們也追念 神是他們的磐石、至高的 神、是他們的救贖主。 | And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
| 78:36 | 他們卻用口諂媚他、用舌向他說謊。 | Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
| 78:37 | 因他們的心向他不正、在他的約上也不忠心。 | For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
| 78:38 | 但他有憐憫、赦免他們的罪孽、不滅絕他們.而且屢次消他的怒氣、不發盡他的忿怒。 | But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. |
| 78:39 | 他想到他們不過是血氣、是一陣去而不返的風。 | For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
| 78:40 | 他們在曠野悖逆他、在荒地叫他擔憂、何其多呢。 | How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! |
| 78:41 | 他們再三試探 神、惹動以色列的聖者。 | Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. |
| 78:42 | 他們不追念他的能力、〔原文作手〕和贖他們脫離敵人的日子. | They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. |
| 78:43 | 他怎樣在埃及地顯神蹟、在瑣安田顯奇事、 | How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: |
| 78:44 | 把他們的江河、並河汊的水、都變為血、使他們不能喝。 | And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. |
| 78:45 | 他叫蒼蠅成群、落在他們當中、嘬盡他們.又叫青蛙滅了他們. | He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
| 78:46 | 把他們的土產交給螞蚱、把他們辛苦得來的交給蝗蟲。 | He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. |
| 78:47 | 他降冰雹打壞他們的葡萄樹.下嚴霜打壞他們的桑樹. | He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. |
| 78:48 | 又把他們的牲畜交給冰雹.把他們的群畜交給閃電。 | He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
| 78:49 | 他使猛烈的怒氣、和忿怒、惱恨、苦難、成了一群降災的使者、臨到他們。 | He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
| 78:50 | 他為自己的怒氣修平了路、將他們交給瘟疫、使他們死亡. | He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
| 78:51 | 在埃及擊殺一切長子、在含的帳棚中、擊殺他們強壯時頭生的。 | And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
| 78:52 | 他卻領出自己的民如羊、在曠野引他們如羊群。 | But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
| 78:53 | 他領他們穩穩妥妥的、使他們不至害怕.海卻淹沒他們的仇敵。 | And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
| 78:54 | 他帶他們到自己聖地的邊界、到他右手所得的這山地。 | And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. |
| 78:55 | 他在他們面前趕出外邦人、用繩子將外邦的地量給他們為業、叫以色列支派的人住在他們的帳棚裏。 | He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
| 78:56 | 他們仍舊試探悖逆至高的 神、不守他的法度. | Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
| 78:57 | 反倒退後、行詭詐、像他們的祖宗一樣.他們改變、如同翻背的弓。 | But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
| 78:58 | 因他們的丘壇、惹了他的怒氣、因他們雕刻的偶像、觸動他的憤恨。 | For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
| 78:59 | 神聽見、就發怒、極其憎惡以色列人. | When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
| 78:60 | 甚至他離棄示羅的帳幕、就是他在人間所搭的帳棚. | So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; |
| 78:61 | 又將他的約櫃〔原文作能力〕交與人擄去、將他的榮耀交在敵人手中。 | And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. |
| 78:62 | 並將他的百姓交與刀劍、向他的產業發怒。 | He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. |
| 78:63 | 少年人被火燒滅.處女也無喜歌。 | The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. |
| 78:64 | 祭司倒在刀下.寡婦卻不哀哭。 | Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. |
| 78:65 | 那時主像世人睡醒、像勇士飲酒呼喊。 | Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
| 78:66 | 他就打退了他的敵人、叫他們永蒙羞辱。 | And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
| 78:67 | 並且他棄掉約瑟的帳棚、不揀選以法蓮支派、 | Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
| 78:68 | 卻揀選猶大支派、他所喜愛的錫安山. | But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
| 78:69 | 蓋造他的聖所、好像高峰、又像他建立永存之地。 | And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. |
| 78:70 | 又揀選他的僕人大衛、從羊圈中將他召來. | He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
| 78:71 | 叫他不再跟從那些帶奶的母羊、為要牧養自己的百姓雅各、和自己的產業以色列。 | From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
| 78:72 | 於是他按心中的純正、牧養他們、用手中的巧妙、引導他們。 | So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |