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This psalm was penned at a time when the church of God was brought low and trampled upon; some think it was when the Jews were captives in Babylon, though that was not the only time that they were insulted over by the proud. The psalmist begins as if he spoke for himself only (Ps 123:1), but presently speaks in the name of the church. Here is, I. Their expectation of mercy from God, Ps 123:1,2. II. Their plea for mercy with God, Ps 123:3,4. In singing it we must have our eye up to God's favour with a holy concern, and then an eye down to men's reproach with a holy contempt.
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Grateful Acknowledgments
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感恩的承认
上行之诗。
¹ 坐在天上的主啊，我向你举目。
² 看哪，仆人的眼睛怎样望主人的手，使女的眼睛怎样望主母的手，我们的眼睛也照样望耶和华我们的神，直到他怜悯我们。
³ 耶和华啊，求你怜悯我们，怜悯我们；因为我们被藐视，已到极处。
⁴ 我们的心被那些安逸人的讥诮，并骄傲人的藐视，极尽填满。
我们在此看到，
一、神的百姓对神所作的信心与盼望的庄严宣告，诗 123:1,2。请留意，1. 此处给神的称呼：坐在天上的主啊。 我们的主耶稣教导我们在祷告中视神为我们在天上的父；这不是说他被局限在那里，而是他特别在那里彰显他的荣耀，如王在宫中。天是可观览之处，也是有权能之处；住在那里的，从那里俯察他百姓的一切患难，也能从那里施行拯救。有时神似乎丢弃了大地，神的仇敌就问说，你们的神在哪里呢？ 但那时他们可安慰地说，我们的神在天上。 「坐在天上的」（有人如此读），即在天上坐堂审判；因为耶和华在天上立定宝座，受屈的无辜者可向那宝座申诉。2. 此处向神所存的心意。诗人自己举目仰望他。善人的眼目常常仰望耶和华（诗 25:15）。我们每次祷告，都是将我们的灵魂——我们灵魂的眼目——举向神，尤其在患难中如此，此处正是这情形。百姓的眼睛仰望耶和华（诗 123:2）。我们看见怜悯临到一百姓，是当人——以色列各支派——的眼目都仰望耶和华之时（亚 9:1）。肉身的眼睛向天仰望。神使人仰面，正要教导我们心眼当向何方仰望。我们的眼目仰望耶和华——渴慕与祈求的眼目，乞求的眼目，并倚靠、盼望、期待的眼目，恋慕的眼目。我们的眼目当仰望神，视他为主、为我们的神，直到他怜悯我们。我们渴望从他得怜悯，盼望他将怜悯赐给我们，并要持续倚候，直到怜悯临到。这以（诗 123:2）一比喻说明：我们的眼目向神，如同仆人与使女的眼目望着主人与主母的手。仆人的眼睛望主人的手，（1）为他的指导之手，盼他指派工作，为他划出当作的事，并指示他当如何行。主啊，你要我作什么？（2）为他的供应之手。仆人指望从主人或主母按时得自己的分（箴 31:15）。我们当日用的饮食仰望神，求充足的恩典；并从他存感谢的心领受。（3）为他的帮助之手。仆人若不能独自完成工作，除向主人求帮助外，还能向谁求呢？我们当靠主神的力量前进并前行。（4）为他的保护之手。仆人若在工作中遭遇反对，若因所作的被盘问，若被冤屈伤害，谁当为他撑腰、为他伸冤，岂不是派他作工的主人吗？神的百姓受逼迫时，可向他们的主申诉：我们是属你的，求你拯救我们。（5）为他的管教之手。仆人若惹动主人责打他，他不会呼人救他脱离主人，而是望着那击打他的手，直到那手说：「够了；我必不永远争辩。」神的百姓此时正在他的责罚之下；他们当转向哪里，岂不是转向那击打他们的（赛 9:13）？他们当向谁恳求，岂不是向他们的审判主？他们不愿如夏甲那样——主母加给她一些难处时便逃离主母（创 16:6）——而是顺服神、在神大能的手下自卑。（6）为他的赏赐之手。仆人指望从主人得工价、得好的称赞。假冒为善的人眼目望世界之手；他们已经得了他们的赏赐（太 6:2）；但真基督徒的眼目仰望神为赏赐人的主。
二、神的百姓在灾难境况中向他呈上的恳求（诗 123:3,4），其中，1. 他们求怜悯，并不指示神当为他们作什么，也不以自己任何功劳为由求他如此行，只是说，耶和华啊，求你怜悯我们，怜悯我们！ 我们在人那里少有怜悯；他们的怜悯也是残忍；有残忍的戏弄。但我们的安慰是，主那里有怜悯，我们不必再求别的来解救我们、使我们得安舒——神的怜悯已足。无论教会有何患难，神的怜悯都是至高的良药。2. 他们陈述自己的苦情：我们被藐视，已到极处。 毁谤是他们所抱怨的伤、所背负的重担。请留意，（1）谁被毁谤：「我们这向你举目的人。」那些蒙神悦纳的，常被世人藐视践踏。有人将我们译作那些安逸人与骄傲人的话，译为那些被讥诮、被藐视的人。「我们心里不安，看见那些平安无事的人、那些尊贵人，竟被讥诮、被轻看。」圣徒本是爱好和平的民，却仍被虐待（诗 35:20）；本是地上的尊贵人，却仍被低估（哀 4:1,2）。（2）谁毁谤他们。按我们所读的译法，他们是那些纵情享乐、生活安逸、属肉体的纵欲之人（伯 12:5）。讥诮的人是那些随从自己情欲而行、服事自己肚腹的人；骄傲的人是那些连神自己也敢藐视、对自己评价极高的人；他们践踏神的百姓，以为借着贬低他们来高举自己。（3）被毁谤到何等地步：「我们被充满，我们饱受其苦。我们的心被极尽填满。」仇敌以为讥诮他们永不嫌多，话也永不嫌多，不足以使他们面目可憎；他们不能不放在心上；这是刺入他们骨中的剑（诗 42:10）。请留意，〔1〕讥诮与藐视素来是、现今是、将来也必是神百姓在世上当受的分。以实玛利戏弄以撒，这被称为逼迫他；如今也是如此（加 4:29）。〔2〕对于人的讥诮与藐视，我们的安慰是神那里有怜悯——当我们的好名声被人野蛮糟蹋时，神有怜悯。我们的神啊，求你垂听，因为我们被藐视。
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Grateful Acknowledgments
A song of degrees.
¹ Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
² Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
We have here,
I. The solemn profession which God's people make of faith and hope in God, Ps 123:1,2. Observe, 1. The title here given to God: O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Our Lord Jesus has taught us, in prayer, to have an eye to God as our Father in heaven; not that he is confined there, but there especially he manifests his glory, as the King in his court. Heaven is a place of prospect and a place of power; he that dwells there beholds thence all the calamities of his people and thence can send to save them. Sometimes God seems to have forsaken the earth, and the enemies of God's people ask, Where is now your God? But then they can say with comfort, Our God is in the heavens. O thou that sittest in the heavens (so some), sittest as Judge there; for the Lord has prepared his throne in the heavens, and to that throne injured innocency may appeal. 2. The regard here had to God. The psalmist himself lifted up his eyes to him. The eyes of a good man are ever towards the Lord, Ps 25:15. In every prayer we lift up our soul, the eye of our soul, to God, especially in trouble, which was the case here. The eyes of the people waited on the Lord, Ps 123:2. We find mercy coming towards a people when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, are towards the Lord, Zec 9:1. The eyes of the body are heaven-ward. Os homini sublime dedit—To man he gave an erect mien, to teach us which way to direct the eyes of the mind. Our eyes wait on the Lord, the eye of desire and prayer, the begging eye, and the eye of dependence, hope, and expectation, the longing eye. Our eyes must wait upon God as the Lord, and our God, until that he have mercy upon us. We desire mercy from him, we hope he will show us mercy, and we will continue our attendance on him till the mercy come. This is illustrated (Ps 123:2) by a similitude: Our eyes are to God as the eyes of a servant, and handmaid, to the hand of their master and mistress. The eyes of a servant are, (1.) To his master's directing hand, expecting that he will appoint him his work, and cut it out for him, and show him how he must do it. Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? (2.) To his supplying hand. Servants look to their master, or their mistress, for their portion of meat in due season, Pr 31:15. And to God must we look for daily bread, for grace sufficient; from him we must receive it thankfully. (3.) To his assisting hand. If the servant cannot do his work himself, where must he look for help but to his master? And in the strength of the Lord God we must go forth and go on. (4.) To his protecting hand. If the servant meet with opposition in his work, if he be questioned for what he does, if he be wronged and injured, who should bear him out and right him, but his master that set him on work? The people of God, when they are persecuted, may appeal to their Master, We are thine; save us. (5.) To his correcting hand. If the servant has provoked his master to beat him, he does not call for help against his master, but looks at the hand that strikes him, till it shall say, "It is enough; I will not contend for ever." The people of God were now under his rebukes; and whither should they turn but to him that smote them? Isa 9:13. To whom should they make supplication but to their Judge? They will not do as Hagar did, who ran away from her mistress when she put some hardships upon her (Ge 16:6), but they submit themselves to and humble themselves under God's mighty hand. (6.) To his rewarding hand. The servant expects his wages, his well-done, from his master. Hypocrites have their eye to the world's hand; thence they have their reward (Mt 6:2); but true Christians have their eye to God as their rewarder.
II. The humble address which God's people present to him in their calamitous condition (Ps 123:3,4), wherein, 1. They sue for mercy, not prescribing to God what he shall do for them, nor pleading any merit of their own why he should do it for them, but, Have mercy upon us, O Lord! have mercy upon us. We find little mercy with men; their tender mercies are cruel; there are cruel mockings. But this is our comfort, that with the Lord there is mercy and we need desire no more to relieve us, and make us easy, than the mercy of God. Whatever the troubles of the church are, God's mercy is a sovereign remedy. 2. They set forth their grievances: We are exceedingly filled with contempt. Reproach is the wound, the burden, they complain of. Observe, (1.) Who were reproached: "We, who have our eyes up to thee." Those who are owned of God are often despised and trampled on by the world. Some translate the words which we render, those that are at ease, and the proud, so as to signify the persons that are scorned and contemned. "Our soul is troubled to see how those that are at peace, and the excellent ones, are scorned and despised." The saints are a peaceable people and yet are abused (Ps 35:20), the excellent ones of the earth and yet undervalued, La 4:1,2. (2.) Who did reproach them. Taking the words as we read them, they were the epicures who lived at ease, carnal sensual people, Job 12:5. The scoffers are such as walk after their own lusts and serve their own bellies, and the proud such as set God himself at defiance and had a high opinion of themselves; they trampled on God's people, thinking they magnified themselves by vilifying them. (3.) To what degree they were reproached: "We are filled, we are surfeited with it. Our soul is exceedingly filled with it." The enemies thought they could never jeer them enough, nor say enough to make them despicable; and they could not but lay it to heart; it was a sword in their bones, Ps 42:10. Note, [1.] Scorning and contempt have been, and are, and are likely to be, the lot of God's people in this world. Ishmael mocked Isaac, which is called persecuting him; and so it is now, Ga 4:29. [2.] In reference to the scorn and contempt of men it is matter of comfort that there is mercy with God, mercy to our good names when they are barbarously used. Hear, O our God! for we are despised.
本篇是在神的教会遭贬低、被践踏之时所写;有人以为是在犹太人被囚于巴比伦之时,虽然那并非他们被骄傲之人凌辱的唯一时机。诗人开始时似乎只为自己说话(诗123:1),随即却奉教会之名发言。本篇结构如下:一、他们对神怜悯的指望(诗123:1,2);二、他们向神求怜悯的恳求(诗123:3,4)。我们唱时当举目仰望神的恩眷,怀着圣洁的关切;又垂目下视人的辱骂,怀着圣洁的轻蔑。