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| 可拉後裔的訓誨詩，交與伶長。 1 神啊，我的心切慕祢， 如鹿切慕溪水。 2 我的心渴想 神，就是永生 神； 我幾時得朝見 神呢？ 3 我晝夜以眼淚當飲食， 人不住地對我說： 『祢的 神在哪裡呢？』 4 我從前與眾人同往， 用歡呼稱讚的聲音領他們到 神的殿裏， 大家守節。 我追想這些事， 我的心極其悲傷。 5 我的心哪，你為何憂悶？ 為何在我裏面煩躁？ 應當仰望 神，因祂笑臉幫助我； 我還要稱讚祂。 6 我的 神啊， 我的心在我裏面憂悶， 所以我從約但地， 從黑門嶺， 從米薩山記念祢。 7 祢的瀑布發聲， 深淵就與深淵響應； 祢的波浪洪濤漫過我身。 8 白晝，耶和華必向我施慈愛； 黑夜，我要歌頌禱告賜我生命的 神。 9 我要對 神──我的磐石說： 『祢為何忘記我呢？ 我為何因仇敵的欺壓時常哀痛呢？』 10 我的敵人辱罵我， 好像打碎我的骨頭， 不住地對我說： 『你的 神在哪裡呢？』 11 我的心哪，你為何憂悶？ 為何在我裏面煩躁？ 應當仰望 神， 因我還要稱讚祂。 祂是我臉上的光榮（原文是幫助）， 是我的 神。 | To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar. 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me. 8 The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. |
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| 詩 Psalm 42:1 神啊，我的心切慕祢，如鹿切慕溪水。 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. | |
| 靈性的低潮人皆有之，即使再屬靈的人也不能倖免─大先知以利亞在迦密山上鬦法大獲全勝後便陷入了屬靈的低谷在羅藤樹下求死，今時今日也有越來越多的人陷入憂鬱症。在這首詩裡，詩人見不到神便心裏憂悶、煩躁不安，可是詩人懂得仰望神、稱讚神，知道這是走出憂鬱、走出屬靈低谷的不二法則。當我們身心疲憊不想參加聚會的時候，當我們孤單寂寞找不到傾訴對象時，當我們屢遭失敗被魔鬼控告的時候，當我們從退修會經歷神的同在回到現實生活中時，要記得像詩人那樣仰望神、讚美神。即使我們當時不知道神在哪裡，神也沒有停止向我們施慈愛、賜生命，並用笑臉幫助我們。當我們的心繼續切慕神，我們的口繼續讚美祂的時候，祂的笑臉就要變成我們臉上的光榮，成為我們喜樂的泉源。 | Everyone has his time of spiritual downcast, even the very spiritual man cannot be exempted - after a sweeping victory on Mount Carmel, the great prophet Ilijah slipped into spiritual trough begging for death under a broom tree. Nowadays, more and more people fall into depression too. In this psalm, the psalmist became downcast and disturbed for not seeing God, but he knew to put his hope in God and praise God, knowing that this is the only way to walk out of depression and spiritual trough. When we are tired and do not want to attend church, when we are lonely without anybody to talk to, when we fail repeatedly thereby being accused by the Devil, when we return from the presence of God in a retreat to everyday life, we should remember to put our hope in God and praise Him like the psalmist. Even though we may not know where's God, He never stops commanding His lovingkindness to us, giving us life and the help of His countenance. As our hearts continue to pant for God, and our mouths continue to praise Him, the help of His countenance becomes the help of our countenance, and the source of our joy. |
