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英文原文
This psalm is adapted to a state of affliction; it is copied almost word for word from the fortieth, and, some think for that reason, is entitled, "a psalm to bring to remembrance;" for it may be of use sometimes to pray over the prayers we have formerly made to God upon similar occasions, which may be done with new affections. David here prays that God would send, I. Help to himself, Ps 70:1,5. II. Shame to his enemies, Ps 70:2,3. III. Joy to his friends, Ps 70:4. These five verses were the Ps 40:13-17,70:1-5 He seems to have intended this short prayer to be both for himself and us a salve for every sore, and therefore to be always in mind; and in singing we may apply it to our particular troubles, whatever they are.
1-5
Urgent Petitions
懇切的祈求
交與伶長。大衛的記念詩。
¹ 神啊，求你快快搭救我！耶和華啊，求你速速幫助我！ ² 願那些尋索我命的，抱愧蒙羞！願那些喜悅我遭害的，退後受辱！ ³ 願那些對我說「啊哈、啊哈」的，因羞愧退後！ ⁴ 願一切尋求你的，因你高興歡喜；又願那些喜愛你救恩的，常說：「當尊神為大！」 ⁵ 但我是困苦窮乏的；神啊，求你速速到我這裏來！你是幫助我的，搭救我的；耶和華啊，求你不要耽延！
標題告訴我們，這篇詩是為記念而作的；就是說，是要使神記念他的憐憫和應許（因為我們向他禱告、向他懇求之時，便被說成是如此行——賽 43:26：「你要提醒我」）——這不是說永恒的心思需要一位提醒者，而是他樂意將這尊榮歸給信心的禱告。或作：是要使自己或別人記念從前的患難，好使我們永不自恃安穩，總是期待患難；也記念從前的敬虔操練，好使當雨後雲彩返回之時，我們可以重新使用從前發現為有效、能引進安慰與解救的同樣途徑。我們在禱告中可以使用我們從前常常使用的話：我們的救主在痛苦中三次禱告，所說的是同樣的話；照樣大衛在此使用了他從前用過的話，卻並非沒有一些更改，為要表明他無意將自己或別人綁在其中作為固定格式。神看的是內心，不是言語。
一、大衛在此求神快快解救他、幫助他（詩 70:1、5）：「我是困苦窮乏的」——在缺乏和困境中，自己內裏也十分為難。貧窮和需要，在向那位無限憐憫、不輕看痛悔之心所發之歎息、曾宣告虛心的人有福、又以美物充滿饑餓者的神禱告時，乃是很好的懇求。他祈求：1. 神肯在適當的時候為他顯現，救他脫離患難。2. 在此期間神肯來幫助他、在他患難之下扶持他，免得他下沉昏厥。3. 神肯快快如此行：「快快」（詩 70:1），又（詩 70:5）「速速……求你不要耽延」。有時神似乎延遲幫助他自己的百姓，為要激發如此懇切的願望。「信的人必不著急」——不至於搶先或越過神的旨意，不至於強行開路脫逃或採取任何不合法的解救之法；但他可以藉著謙卑的禱告迎見神、求神快快賜下所渴望的解救而急切。「求你速速到我這裏來」——因為我靈魂的渴慕向著你；我若不快快得幫助便要滅亡了。我別無他人可以期待解救：*「你是幫助我的，搭救我的。」*你已應許作一切尋求你的人如此行的神；我仰望你為我如此行；我曾屢次經歷你如此行；你又充足——全然充足——可以如此行；所以求你速速到我這裏來。
二、他求神使仇敵滿麵羞愧（詩 70:2、3）。請留意：1. 他如何描述他們：他們尋索他的命——尋索他的性命，要毀滅它——尋索他的心思，要攪擾它，要引他離開神、去犯罪並绝望。他們喜悅他遭害、喜悅他滅亡；每逢災禍臨到他或威脅他之時，他們便說：「啊哈、啊哈！我們正要如此；如今我們必能達到目的，看見他滅亡了。」他們就是如此惡毒、如此狂妄。2. 他對他們的禱告是甚麼：「願他們抱愧」——願他們被帶到悔改，以致滿了羞愧而尋求你的名（詩 83:16）；願他們看見自己攻擊你所保護之人的錯誤和愚昧，並*「因嫉妒而羞愧」（賽 26:11）。無論如何，願他們對我的計謀受挫、計策破壞；願他們從惡意的追擊中退後，那時他們便要抱愧蒙羞，如同猶太人的仇敵「在自己眼中看為可恥」*一般（創 6:16——別譯）。
三、他求神使朋友心中充滿喜樂（詩 70:4）——願一切尋求神、愛慕他救恩、切慕它、以它為樂、又倚靠它的人，常有喜樂和讚美的因由、並有兩者的心；那時他便不懷疑自己必在他所求的福分中有分；我們若與這特徵相符，也是如此。1. 讓我們以事奉神為我們的大事，以神的恩寵為我們的大喜樂和愉悅，因為這就是尋求他、愛慕他的救恩。讓我們以追求在神裏麵的福樂為我們的大關切，以享受它為我們的大滿足。一顆愛慕耶和華救恩、並將之置於任何世俗利益之上、以致甘願為之舍棄一切而不願危害自己救恩的心，乃是我們在其中有趣分、對它有權利的好憑據。2. 那麼讓我們確信：若不是我們自己的過失，主的喜樂必充滿我們的心思，主至高的讚美必充滿我們的口。那些尋求神的人——若及早尋求、殷勤尋求——必在他裏麵高興歡喜，因為他們尋求他乃是他對他們美意的憑據、也是他們尋見他的憑據（詩 105:3）。即使在尋求神之中也有愉快和喜樂，因為這是宗教基本原則之一：神是*「賞賜那殷勤尋求他的人」的。那些愛慕神救恩的人必樂意說——常常樂意地說（因為讚美神若成為我們常作的事，便必成為我們持續的筵席）——「當尊神為大」——正如他在他百姓的救恩中必被尊為大，直到永遠。一切祝願聖徒得安慰、並祝願神得榮耀的人，不能不對這禱告從心中說「阿們」——願那些愛慕神救恩的人常說：「當尊神為大。」*
英文原文
Urgent Petitions
To the chief musician. A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
¹ Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
² Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
³ Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
⁴ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
⁵ But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
The title tells us that this psalm was designed to bring to remembrance; that is, to put God in remembrance of his mercy and promises (for so we are said to do when we pray to him and plead with him. Isa 43:26, Put me in remembrance)—not that the Eternal Mind needs a remembrancer, but this honour he is pleased to put upon the prayer of faith. Or, rather, to put himself and others in remembrance of former afflictions, that we may never be secure, but always in expectation of troubles, and of former devotions, that when the clouds return after the rain we may have recourse to the same means which we have formerly found effectual for fetching in comfort and relief. We may in prayer use the words we have often used before: our Saviour in his agony prayed thrice, saying the same words; so David here uses the words he had used before, yet not without some alterations, to show that he did not design to tie himself or others to them as a form. God looks at the heart, not at the words.
I. David here prays that God would make haste to relieve and succour him (Ps 70:1,5): I am poor and needy, in want and distress, and much at a loss within myself. Poverty and necessity are very good pleas in prayer to a God of infinite mercy, who despises not the sighing of a contrite heart, who has pronounced a blessing upon the poor in spirit, and who fills the hungry with good things. He prays, 1. That God would appear for him to deliver him from his troubles in due time. 2. That in the mean time he would come in to his aid, to help him under his troubles, that he might not sink and faint. 3. That he would do this quickly: Make haste (Ps 70:1), and again (Ps 70:5), Make haste, make no tarrying. Sometimes God seems to delay helping his own people, that he may excite such earnest desires as these. He that believes does not make haste, so as to anticipate or outrun the divine counsels, so as to force a way of escape or to take any unlawful methods of relief; but he may make haste by going forth to meet God in humble prayer that he would hasten the desired succour. "Make haste unto me, for the longing desire of my soul is towards thee; I shall perish if I be not speedily helped. I have no other to expect relief from: Thou art my help and my delivered. Thou hast engaged to be so to all that seek thee; I depend upon thee to be so to me; I have often found thee so; and thou art sufficient, all-sufficient, to be so; therefore make haste to me."
II. He prays that God would fill the faces of his enemies with shame, Ps 70:2,3. Observe, 1. How he describes them; they sought after his soul—his life, to destroy that—his mind, to disturb that, to draw him from God to sin and to despair. They desired his hurt, his ruin; when any calamity befel him or threatened him they said, "Aha, aha! so would we have it; we shall gain our point now, and see him ruined." Thus spiteful, thus insolent, were they. 2. What his prayer is against them: "Let them be ashamed; let them be brought to repentance, so filled with shame as that they may seek thy name (Ps 83:16); let them see their fault and folly in fighting against those whom thou dost protect, and be ashamed of their envy, Isa 26:11. However, let their designs against me be frustrated and their measures broken; let them be turned back from their malicious pursuits, and then they will be ashamed and confounded, and, like the enemies of the Jews, much cast down in their own eyes," Ge 6:16.
III. He prays that God would fill the hearts of his friends with joy (Ps 70:4), that all those who seek God and love his salvation, who desire it, delight in it, and depend upon it, may have continual matter for joy and praise and hearts for both; and then he doubts not but that he should put in for a share of the blessing he prays for; and so may we if we answer the character. 1. Let us make the service of God our great business and the favour of God our great delight and pleasure, for that is seeking him and loving his salvation. Let the pursuit of a happiness in God be our great care and the enjoyment of it our great satisfaction. A heart to love the salvation of the Lord, and to prefer it before any secular advantages whatsoever, so as cheerfully to quit all rather than hazard our salvation, is a good evidence of our interest in it and title to it. 2. Let us then be assured that, if it be not our own fault, the joy of the Lord shall fill our minds and the high praises of the Lord shall fill our mouths. Those that seek God, if they seek him early and seek him diligently, shall rejoice and be glad in him, for their seeking him is an evidence of his good-will to them and an earnest of their finding him, Ps 105:3. There is pleasure and joy even in seeking God, for it is one of the fundamental principles of religion that God is the rewarder of all those that diligently seek him. Those that love God's salvation shall say with pleasure, with constant pleasure (for praising God, if we make it our continual work, will be our continual feast), Let God be magnified, as he will be, to eternity, in the salvation of his people. All who wish well to the comfort of the saints, and to the glory of God, cannot but say a hearty amen to this prayer, that those who love God's salvation may say continually, Let God be magnified.
本篇適用於受苦的境況；它幾乎是逐字從第四十篇抄錄而來，有人因此認為它被題為「紀念的詩」；因為有時將我們從前在類似境遇中向神所作的禱告重新禱告一遍，是很有用的——這可以帶着新的情感來作。大衛在此求神賜下：一、對他自己的幫助（詩七十1、5）。二、使他仇敵羞愧（詩七十2、3）。三、使他朋友喜樂（詩七十4）。這五節原是詩四十13-17、七十1-5。他似乎有意使這簡短的禱告成為他自己和我們各樣創傷的良藥，因此當常存於心；我們唱時可將它應用於我們各樣特殊的患難，無論是甚麼。