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上帝和他的子民

(代上16.8-22)

  1你们要称谢耶和华,求告他的名,
   在万民中传扬他的作为!
  2要向他唱诗,向他歌颂,
   述说他一切奇妙的作为!
  3要夸耀他的圣名!
   愿寻求耶和华的人心中欢喜!
  4要寻求耶和华与他的能力,
   时常寻求他的面。
  5-6他仆人亚伯拉罕的后裔,
   他所拣选雅各的子孙哪,
  要记念他奇妙的作为和他的奇事,
   并他口中的判语。

  7他是耶和华-我们的上帝,
   全地都有他的判断。
  8他记念他的约,直到永远;
   记念他吩咐的话,直到千代,
  9就是与亚伯拉罕所立的约,
   向以撒所起的誓。
  10他将这约向雅各定为律例,
   向以色列定为永远的约,
  11说:“我必将迦南地赐给你,
   作你们应得的产业。”

  12当时,他们人丁有限,
   数目稀少,在那地寄居。
  13他们从这邦游到那邦,
   从这国去到另一民族。
  14他不容人欺负他们,
   为他们的缘故责备君王:
  15“不可伤害我的受膏者,
   也不可恶待我的先知。”

  16他命饥荒降在那地,
   断绝日用的粮食
  17在他们以先差遣一个人前往,
   约瑟被卖为奴。
  18人用脚镣伤他的脚,
   他被铁的项链捆锁。
  19耶和华的话试炼他,
   直等所说的应验了。
  20王差人将他解开,
   治理万民的把他释放,
  21立他为王家之主,
   掌管他一切所有的,
  22使他随意捆绑他的臣宰,
   将智慧教导他的长老。

  23以色列也到了埃及
   雅各地寄居。
  24耶和华使他的百姓生养众多,
   使他们比敌人强盛,
  25他使敌人的心转去恨他的百姓,
   用诡计待他的仆人。

  26他差遣他的仆人摩西
   和他所拣选的亚伦
  27在敌人中间显他的神迹,
   在地显他的奇事。
  28他差遣黑暗,就有黑暗;
   他们没有违背他的话。
  29他使埃及的水变为血,
   令他们的鱼死了。
  30在他们的地上,青蛙多多滋生,
   王宫的内室也是如此。
  31他一吩咐,苍蝇就成群飞来,
   并有蚊子进入他们四境。
  32他给他们降下冰雹为雨,
   在他们的地上降下火焰。
  33他击打他们的葡萄树和无花果树,
   毁坏他们境内的树木。
  34他一吩咐,就有蝗虫蝻子上来,
   不计其数,
  35吃光他们地上各样的菜蔬,
   吞尽他们田地的出产。
  36他又击杀他们国内所有的长子,
   就是他们强壮时头生的。

  37他却带领自己的百姓带着金子银子出来,
   他支派中没有一个走不动的。
  38他们出来的时候,埃及人就欢喜;
   因为埃及人惧怕他们。
  39他铺张云彩当遮蔽,
   夜间使火光照。
  40他们祈求,他就使鹌鹑飞来,
   并用天上的粮食使他们饱足。
  41他敲开磐石,水就涌出;
   在干旱之处,水流成河。
  42这都因他记念他的圣言
   和他的仆人亚伯拉罕

  43他带领自己的百姓欢乐而出,
   带领自己的选民欢呼前往。
  44他把列国的地赐给他们,
   他们就承受万民劳碌得来的,
  45好让他们遵他的律例,
   守他的律法。

  哈利路亚!

105

The Eternal Faithfulness of the Lord

  1Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
   Call upon His name;
   Make known His deeds among the peoples!
   2Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
   Talk of all His wondrous works!
   3Glory in His holy name;
   Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!
   4Seek the Lord and His strength;
   Seek His face evermore!
   5Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
   His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
   6O seed of Abraham His servant,
   You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
  7He is the Lord our God;
   His judgments are in all the earth.
   8He remembers His covenant forever,
   The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
   9The covenant which He made with Abraham,
   And His oath to Isaac,
   10And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
   To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
   11Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
   As the allotment of your inheritance,”
   12When they were few in number,
   Indeed very few, and strangers in it.
  13When they went from one nation to another,
   From one kingdom to another people,
   14He permitted no one to do them wrong;
   Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,
   15Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,
   And do My prophets no harm.”
  16Moreover He called for a famine in the land;
   He destroyed all the provision of bread.
   17He sent a man before them—
   Joseph—whowas sold as a slave.
   18They hurt his feet with fetters,
   He was laid in irons.
   19Until the time that his word came to pass,
   The word of the Lord tested him.
   20The king sent and released him,
   The ruler of the people let him go free.
   21He made him lord of his house,
   And ruler of all his possessions,
   22To bind his princes at his pleasure,
   And teach his elders wisdom.
  23Israel also came into Egypt,
   And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
   24He increased His people greatly,
   And made them stronger than their enemies.
   25He turned their heart to hate His people,
   To deal craftily with His servants.
  26He sent Moses His servant,
   And Aaron whom He had chosen.
   27They performed His signs among them,
   And wonders in the land of Ham.
   28He sent darkness, and made it dark;
   And they did not rebel against His word.
   29He turned their waters into blood,
   And killed their fish.
   30Their land abounded with frogs,
   Even in the chambers of their kings.
   31He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
   And lice in all their territory.
   32He gave them hail for rain,
   And flaming fire in their land.
   33He struck their vines also, and their fig trees,
   And splintered the trees of their territory.
   34He spoke, and locusts came,
   Young locusts without number,
   35And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
   And devoured the fruit of their ground.
   36He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land,
   The first of all their strength.
  37He also brought them out with silver and gold,
   And there was none feeble among His tribes.
   38Egypt was glad when they departed,
   For the fear of them had fallen upon them.
   39He spread a cloud for a covering,
   And fire to give light in the night.
   40The people asked, and He brought quail,
   And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
   41He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
   It ran in the dry places like a river.
  42For He remembered His holy promise,
   And Abraham His servant.
   43He brought out His people with joy,
   His chosen ones with gladness.
   44He gave them the lands of the Gentiles,
   And they inherited the labor of the nations,
   45That they might observe His statutes
   And keep His laws.
  Praise the Lord!