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Psalms 1 1 2 A psalm of the Korahites. A song. 科辣黑后裔的诗歌。 2 Great is the LORD and highly praised in the city of our God: The holy mountain, 在我们天主的城池中，上主至大，应受到赞颂。 3 3 fairest of heights, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon, the city of the great king. 他的圣山巍峨高耸，是普世的欢喜，北方中心熙雍圣山，是大王的城邑。 4 God is its citadel, renowned as a stronghold. 天主居于堡垒的中央，显自己为稳固的保障。 5 See! The kings assembled, together they invaded. 请看，众王纷纷相聚，他们蜂拥走向前去， 6 4 When they looked they were astounded; terrified, they were put to flight! 他们一见，惊魂丧胆，张惶失措，抱头鼠窜。 7 Trembling seized them there, anguish, like a woman's labor, 他们在那里惶惧恐怖，苦痛有如临盆的孕妇； 8 5 As when the east wind wrecks the ships of Tarshish! 好象塔尔史士的船只，为强烈的东风所袭击。 9 6 What we had heard we now see in the city of the LORD of hosts, In the city of our God, founded to last forever. Selah 在万军上主的城里，即我们天主的城堡，我们所见正如所闻：天主必使城堡永固。 10 O God, within your temple we ponder your steadfast love. 天主，我们在你的殿里，沉思默念着你的仁慈。 11 Like your name, O God, your praise reaches the ends of the earth. Your right hand is fully victorious. 天主，你的名号远达地极，你受的赞美亦应该如此。你的右手全充满了正义， 12 Mount Zion is glad! The cities of Judah rejoice because of your saving deeds! 熙雍山因你的公正而喜乐；犹大女子要因此欢欣踊跃。 13 Go about Zion, walk all around it, note the number of its towers. 你们环绕熙雍巡游，你们数点她的城楼， 14 Consider the ramparts, examine its citadels, that you may tell future generations: 观察她的城廓，巡视她的碉堡，叫你们好能向后代子孙陈述： 15 7 "Yes, so mighty is God, our God who leads us always!" 他的确是伟大的天主，也永远是我们的天主，始终领导我们的天主。 Footnotes（注解） 1 [Psalm 48] A Zion hymn, praising the holy city as the invincible dwelling place of God. Unconquerable, it is an apt symbol of God who has defeated all enemies. After seven epithets describing the city (Psalm 48:2-3), the psalm describes the victory by the Divine Warrior over hostile kings (Psalm 48:4-8). The second half proclaims the dominion of the God of Zion over all the earth (Psalm 48:9-12) and invites pilgrims to announce that God is eternally invincible like Zion itself (13-14). 2 [1] Korahites: Psalm 48: see note on Psalm 42:1. 3 [3] The heights of Zaphon: the mountain abode of the Canaanite storm-god Baal in comparable texts. To speak of Zion as if it were Zaphon was to claim for Israel's God what Canaanites claimed for Baal. Though topographically speaking Zion is only a hill, viewed religiously it towers over other mountains as the home of the supreme God (cf Psalm 68:16-17). 4 [6] When they looked: the kings are stunned by the sight of Zion, touched by divine splendor. The language is that of holy war, in which the enemy panics and flees at the sight of divine glory. 5 [8] The ships of Tarshish: large ships, named after the distant land or port of Tarshish, probably ancient Tartessus in southern Spain, although other identifications have been proposed. Cf Isaiah 2:16; 60:9; Jonah 1:3. 6 [9] What we had heard we now see: the glorious things that new pilgrims had heard about the holy city--its beauty and awesomeness- -they now see with their own eyes. The seeing here contrasts with the seeing of the hostile kings in Psalm 48:6. 7 [15] So mighty is God: Israel's God is like Zion in being eternal and invincible. The holy city is therefore a kind of "sacrament" of God |
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