1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
"We have a strong city.
God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter:
the one which keeps faith.
3 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in Yahweh forever;
for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city.
He lays it low.
He lays it low even to the ground.
He brings it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down,
even the feet of the poor
and the steps of the needy."
7 The way of the just is uprightness.
You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
9 With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;
for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked,
yet he will not learn righteousness.
In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully,
and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see;
but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed.
Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us,
but we will only acknowledge your name.
14 The dead shall not live.
The departed spirits shall not rise.
Therefore you have visited and destroyed them,
and caused all memory of them to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh.
You have increased the nation!
You are glorified!
You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.
They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
so we have been before you, Yahweh.
18 We have been with child.
We have been in pain.
We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Your dead shall live.
Their dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms,
and shut your doors behind you.
Hide yourself for a little moment,
until the indignation is past.
21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
1 到那日， 在犹大地必有人唱这歌： "我们有座坚固的城； 耶和华把救恩作为城墙和外郭。
2 打开城门吧！ 好让公义和信实的国民， 可以进入。
3 专心倚靠你的， 你必保护他一切平安， 因为他倚靠你。
4 你们要倚靠耶和华， 直到永远， 因为耶和华是永存的磐石。
5 他使那些骄傲的降卑， 使那些高耸的城败落； 把它拆毁， 散在地上， 变作尘土。
6 它要被脚践踏， 就是困苦人的脚和贫穷人的脚。
7 义人的路是正直的， 正直的主啊！ 你必修平义人的路。
8 耶和华啊！ 我们等候你那审判的路径； 你的名字和称号， 都是我们心里所爱慕的。
9 夜间我的心渴想你， 我里面的灵切切寻求你， 因为你的审判临到大地的时候， 世上的居民就会学习到什么是公义了。
10 恶人虽然蒙了恩待， 他仍不知道什么是公义； 在公义的地上， 他仍然行恶， 也看不见耶和华的威严。
11 耶和华啊！ 你的手高举， 他们还是看不见。愿他们因看见你对子民的热心而惭愧； 愿那为你的敌人预备的火吞灭他们。
12 耶和华啊！ 你必使我们得平安， 因为我们所作的， 都是你为我们成就的。
13 耶和华我们的 神啊！ 在你以外， 曾有别的主管辖我们， 但只有你， 我们要承认你的名。
14 死去的不能再活， 离世的不能再起来， 因为你惩罚他们， 消灭了他们， 使他们完全不再被记念。
15 耶和华啊！ 你增添国民； 你增添国民， 你得了荣耀， 又拓展了地的四境。
16 耶和华啊！ 我们在急难中寻求你； 你的惩罚临到我们身上的时候， 我们就倾心吐意低声祷告。
17 怀孕的妇人临产时怎样疼痛， 在绞痛中喊叫； 耶和华啊！ 我们在你面前也是这样。
18 我们也曾像怀孕一般疼痛， 但所生的像风； 我们未曾在地上行过拯救的事， 世上的居民也未曾因我们生下来。
19 属你的死人要活过来， 他们的尸体要起来； 那些住在尘土里的必醒起， 并且欢呼。因为你的甘露像早晨的甘露般临到， 使地交出离世的人来。
20 我的子民哪！ 快来， 进入你们的内室， 把你们的门关上； 隐藏片刻， 直到 神的忿怒过去。
21 因为你看！ 耶和华从他的居所出来， 要惩罚地上居民的罪孽； 大地要露出其上所流的血， 不再遮盖被杀的人。"