大卫的诗。
1 我要一心称谢祢，在诸神面前歌颂祢。
2 我要向祢的圣殿下拜，为祢的慈爱和诚实称赞祢的名；因祢使祢的话显为大，过于祢所应许的。
3 我呼求的日子，祢就应允我，鼓励我，使我心里有能力。
4 耶和华啊，地上的君王都要称谢祢，因他们听见了祢口中的言语。
5 他们要歌颂耶和华的作为，因耶和华大有荣耀。
6 耶和华虽高，仍看顾低微的人，祂却从远处看出骄傲的人。
7 我虽行在患难中，祢必将我救活。我的仇敌发怒，祢必伸手抵挡他们，祢的右手也必救我。
8 耶和华必成全关乎我的事。耶和华啊，祢的慈爱永远长存，求祢不要离弃祢手所造的。
大卫说他要一心称谢神，我们都明白，但是为何要在诸神面前歌颂神？难道除了耶和华之外还有神吗？
这里是引用〈撒母耳记〉上第26章里的一句话。那时扫罗在西弗地区追杀大卫，晚上安营睡觉时，大卫和几个从人到了扫罗的营，从他的头旁拿走枪和水瓶，然后跑到与他们相距甚远的一个山顶上，呼叫押尼珥，扫罗的元帅，问他为何没有好好保护扫罗。然后把扫罗的枪和水瓶拿出来，证明押尼珥的失职。
1我们曾在巴比伦的河边坐下，一追想锡安就哭了。
2 我们把琴挂在那里的柳树上。
3 因为在那里，掳掠我们的要我们唱歌，抢夺我们的要我们作乐，说：「给我们唱一首锡安歌吧！」
4 我们怎能在外邦唱耶和华的歌呢？
5 耶路撒冷啊，我若忘记你，情愿我的右手忘记技巧！
6 我若不记念你，若不看耶路撒冷过于我所最喜乐的，情愿我的舌头贴于上膛！
7 耶路撒冷遭难的日子，以东人说：「拆毁！拆毁！直拆到根基！」耶和华啊，求你记念这仇！
8 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊，报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
9 拿你的婴孩摔在磐石上的，那人便为有福！
这是一首很悲伤的流浪者之歌。当时犹大被灭，许多犹大人被掳到巴比伦。当他们走到迦巴鲁河边坐下来休息时，那些巴比伦的士兵要求他们弹唱作乐，因为犹太人善于歌唱跳舞。这些巴比伦之囚被强迫，在外邦异地做亡国奴，怎能强颜欢唱？当他们回想锡安故土，以及曾经享有的荣耀就忍不住哭了，为何会落到这样的地步呢?
在〈以西结书〉里，以西结在异象中看到神怎样一步步被赶离圣殿。犹大人在圣殿里拜偶像，拜太阳，污秽圣殿，以致神无法驻留，只得远离，成为流浪的神（结8-10章）。“耶和华的荣耀从殿的门槛那里出去（结10:18a ）”，当神在圣殿中不再有地位时，祂就走了。犹大人以为乭以倚靠所拜的偶像和假神，却尝到呼天天不应，叫地地不灵的情况。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Job 15:1-16. Let’s go!
Job 15:4-9 (NIV)
4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
7 “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
On verses 1-16: Even after Job has lost virtually everything and has told his friends exactly what he needs from them – he needs them to shut up and just listen to him (Job 13:5-6) – Eliphaz cannot help himself. Eliphaz insists on speaking up one more time. With even more vitriol and accusation on his tongue than before, Eliphaz accuses Job of being foolish (v2-3), undevoted to God (v4), sinful (v5), self-condemning (v6), prideful and arrogant (v7-9), ungrateful to God (v11), rageful (v12-13), vile and corrupt (v14-16).
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Job 14:13-22.
Job 14:13-15 (NIV)
13 “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
15 You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
On verses 13-22: Job longs for life after death, that somehow God would gloriously resurrect his life after he dies (v13-15) and no longer count his sins against him (v16-17). But as much as Job hopes for this, Job sees resurrection as an unrealistic possibility and concludes that life is hopeless (v18-22).
1你们要称谢耶和华，因祂本为善，祂的慈爱永远长存！
2 你们要称谢万神之神，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
3 你们要称谢万主之主，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
4 称谢那独行大奇事的，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
5 称谢那用智慧造天的，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
6 称谢那铺地在水以上的，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
7 称谢那造成大光的，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
8 祂造日头管白昼，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
9 祂造月亮星宿管黑夜，因祂的慈爱永远长存！
10 称谢那击杀埃及人之长子的，因祂的慈爱永远长存！…….
今天是大年初三，在新春读这首诗篇再合宜不过了，因为它的主题是：「因祂的慈爱永远长存！」尤其是在新型冠状病毒肆虐之际，大陆己有十几个城巿封城；而温哥华虽然还没有确诊病例，却己经有一些教会取消春节的庆祝，做礼拜的人数也急速消减。人的心何等软弱，只要一些风声，就吓得心颤脚软了。
我们都很胆小，不要说有一些人没胆，胆被拿掉了；就是有胆的人，在疾病和死亡面前也无法明目张胆。平常口花花的人，现在己经把口罩买到断巿了。这就是人的本相。但是在我们心存恐惧时，我们还可以转眼仰望神，因为祂的慈爱永远长存！在古时如此，现今依然如是。人不能靠自己，唯一可靠的只有神。
1你们要赞美耶和华！你们要赞美耶和华的名！
2耶和华的仆人站在耶和华殿中，站在我们神殿院中的，你们要赞美祂！
3 你们要赞美耶和华，耶和华本为善；要歌颂祂的名，因为这是美好的。
4 耶和华拣选雅各归自己，拣选以色列特做自己的子民。
5 原来我知道耶和华为大，也知道我们的主超乎万神之上。
6 耶和华在天上，在地下，在海中，在一切的深处，都随自己的意旨而行。
7 祂使云雾从地极上腾，造电随雨而闪，从府库中带出风来。
8 祂将埃及头生的，连人带牲畜都击杀了。
9 埃及啊，他施行神蹟奇事在你当中，在法老和他一切臣仆身上。
10 祂击杀许多的民，又杀戮大能的王，……
耶和华的仆人要赞美祂，耶和华的仆人是指谁呢？相信神的人，有谁不是祂的仆人，而是祂的主人呢？这样一想，我们就明白，我们都是神的仆人，只是事工不同。
诗人谈到神的拣选，谈到神的本质，神的性情，用来比较外邦人所拜的偶像。今天是农历年的大年初一，这时候有很多人去庙里上香拜拜，有很多人预言，有很多人论风水，当我们处在这样的环境中时，怎样坚持我们所信的？会不会有人也很想去抽一支签，来看看自己今年的运道如何？会不会有时心痒痒，好想知道鼠年自己该穿什么颜色的衣服才会有财运？
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Job 14:1-12. Let’s go!
Job 14:1-2 (NIV)
1 “Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
On verses 1-2: In Job’s pain, anger and frustration, not everything that Job says should be taken as gospel. Just as we had to do with Job’s friends, we need to fact check Job, separating the wheat from the chaff in his words. Here in verses 1-2 Job speaks of how finite and short man’s life on earth is. This is true. It resonates with other verses in Scripture such as Psalm 103:15-16 where it says, “As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.” Part of living humbly before God is recognizing that life is short and that every day is a gift. So make the most of today.
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Job 13:20-28.
Job 13:20-28 (NIV)
20 “Only grant me these two things, O God, and then I will not hide from you: 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
22 Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply. 23 How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin………
On verses 20-28: Here Job asks God to withdraw His hand from him and to stop frightening him so that he can have a conversation with Him (v21-22). Job invites God to show him in what way he has sinned (v23). Job goes on to describe God as a mysterious attacker who torments and chases a weak and helpless person (v25), who considers Job his enemy (v24) and who has judgment and bitter things in store for Job (v26). Job sees God as a prison warden and himself as His prisoner (v27), whose life is wasting away for as long as God is focusing on him (v28).
上行之诗。
1 耶和华的仆人，夜间站在耶和华殿中的，你们当称颂耶和华！
2 你们当向圣所举手，称颂耶和华！
3 愿造天地的耶和华，从锡安赐福给你们！
上行到耶路撒冷是朝圣者的心愿，这些人一来希望能够有机会去圣殿敬拜神，二来希望能享受到与属灵肢体的沟通，三来则希望领受到神的祝福。因此在〈诗篇〉第133篇里说到弟兄和睦同居是何等的美，何等的善，似乎在讲一个属灵的高峰就是享受与主内肢体和睦同居的关系，也就是说倘若在主里有很好的人际关系，是灵里生活的一个非常美好的境界。但是134篇向我们指出了另一个事实，就是当朝圣者都散去回家时，入夜后，圣殿里只留下几个看守圣殿的祭司，和在圣殿服侍的人。朝圣者回家后也要面对类似的，灵性上的孤独和寂寞。
在享受过肢体交通的喜乐之后，在教会的敬拜之后，在团契的聚会结束之后，你可记得有哪些人留下来默默地收拾？这些在事后收拾的，神的仆人，即使感到孤独、冷清或有点寂寞，诗人说，在这样的情况下，应当称颂耶和华！夜间的守望者，是孤独的，却不孤单，因为圣殿里的主角，我们信仰的尊者，仍然与他们同在，也与每一个敬拜神的人同在。
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is Job 13:1-19. Let’s go!
Job 13:4-5 (NIV)
4 You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
5 If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
On verses 1-5: Job is frustrated and fed up with hearing from his so-called “friends”. He tells them that whatever they have already told him he already knows (v1-2) – “what you know, I already know. I am not inferior to you” (v2). He calls his friends “worthless physicians” (v4), lie-smearing accusers whose advice did not help. He tells them it would be wiser for them just to shut their mouths (“If only you were altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.” (v5)).
What can we learn from this? Sometimes the best thing you can do as a friend is to lend your ear and hold your tongue. Job’s friends would have helped Job far more, and been much better off themselves, had they been “quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry” (James 1:19). As Proverbs 21:23 (MSG) says, “Watch your words and hold your tongue; you’ll save yourself a lot of grief.”
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