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Ps 58:1-11.
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Ps 58:1-11.
David's critical condition in some period of the Sauline persecution probably occasioned this Psalm, in which the Psalmist teaches that the innate and actual sinfulness of men deserves, and shall receive, God's righteous vengeance, while the pious may be consoled by the evidence of His wise and holy government of men.
1. O congregation--literally, "Oh, dumb"; the word used is never translated "congregation." "Are ye dumb? ye should speak righteousness," may be the translation. In any case, the writer remonstrates with them, perhaps a council, who were assembled to try his cause, and bound to give a right decision.
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2. 這並非他們所設計的；但
稱量...強暴——或作作出強暴的判斷。稱量是表達審判官作為的比餓。
在地上——公然地。
英語原文
2. This they did not design; but
weigh . . . violence--or give decisions of violence. Weigh is a figure to express the acts of judges.
in the earth--publicly.
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3-5. 描述一般惡人的性情：他們犯罪是出於天性、容易、惡毒而頑梗。
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3-5. describe the wicked generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.
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4. 塞耳——按字面作「他的」。
耳——即惡人（單數作集合用法），因而如同不聽的耳聾蝮蛇。
英語原文
4. stoppeth her--literally, "his."
ear--that is, the wicked man (the singular used collectively), who thus becomes like the deaf adder which has no ear.
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6. 他以兇猛野獸的比喻，禱告求神毀滅他們
（Ps 3:7; 7:2）。
英語原文
6. He prays for their destruction, under the figure of ravenous beasts
(Ps 3:7; 7:2).
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7. 直往……奔流——按字面作「他們要歸回自己」，即完全退去，如山中的急流。
拉滿……箭——即預備。預備弓的詞應用於箭
（Ps 64:3）。
讓他們……碎——按字面作「如同他們把自己砍斷」——即變鈍而無用。
英語原文
7. which run continually--literally, "they shall go to themselves," utterly depart, as rapid mountain torrents.
he bendeth . . . his arrows--prepares it. The term for preparing a bow applied to arrows
(Ps 64:3).
let them . . . pieces--literally, "as if they cut themselves off"--that is, become blunted and of no avail.
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8, 9. 其他比喻描述這徹底的毀滅；末者表示迅速。比荊棘火令鍋感覺到熱的時間更短——
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8, 9. Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire--
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9. 他們必如暴風一齊被除滅——按字面作「把他（們）吹去」。
活的……怒氣——按字面作「如同活的」，或新鮮如熱的或燃燒的——即荊棘——都易被吹去，惡人也是如此輕易迅速。「蝸牛」的比喻或許暗指其移動時所失的涎沫。雖然各分句隱晦，全段的意思卻清楚。
英語原文
9. he shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, "blow him (them) away."
both living . . . wrath--literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown away, so easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the "snail" perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.
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10, 11. 洗……惡人——指大肆殺戮。因惡人消滅而喜樂，是因他們乃神的仇敵，其傾覆顯明神已作王掌權（參
詩 52:5-7；54:7）。
既有此確據，願天地同樂
（詩 96:10；97:1
等）。
英語原文
10, 11. wash . . . wicked--denoting great slaughter. The joy of triumph over the destruction of the wicked is because they are God's enemies, and their overthrow shows that He reigneth (compare
Ps 52:5-7; 54:7).
In this assurance let heaven and earth rejoice
(Ps 96:10; 97:1,
&c.).
Ps 58:1-11.
大衛在掃羅迫害某段時期的危急處境，可能正是本篇的緣由。詩人在此教導：人類天生的與實際的罪惡當受、也必受神公義的報應，而敬虔之人則可因神對人明智且聖潔的治理之明證而得安慰。
1. 世人哪——字面作「你們默然不語嗎」；所用的詞從不譯作「會眾」。「你們默然不語嗎？你們當講公義」可能是其譯法。無論如何，作者向他們——或許是一個受召審理他的案件、且有義務作出公正判斷的議會——提出規勸。