Shīpiān 81

1 ( Yà sà de shī , jiāo yǔ líng zhǎng , yòng Jiātè yuè qì ) nǐmen dāng xiàng shén wǒmen de lìliang dàshēng huānhū , xiàng Yǎgè de shén fā shēng huānlè ,

2 Chàng qǐ shīgē , dá shǒu gǔ , tán mĕi qín yǔ sè .

3 Dāng zaì yuè shuò , bìng yuè wàng , wǒmen guo jié de rìqī , chuī jiǎo .

4 Yīn zhè shì wèi Yǐsèliè déng de lǜ lì , shì Yǎgè shén de diǎnzhāng .

5 Tā qù gōngjī Āijí dì de shíhou , zaì Yūesè zhōngjiān lì cǐ wèi zhèng . wǒ zaì nàli tīngjian wǒ suǒ bù míngbai de yányǔ .

6 Shén shuō , wǒ shǐ nǐde jiān dé tuō zhòngdàn , nǐde shǒu fàng xià kuāngzi .

7 Nǐ zaì jí nán zhōng hū qiú , wǒ jiù dājiù nǐ . wǒ zaì léi de yǐn mì chù yīngyún nǐ , zaì Mǐlìbā shuǐ nàli shìyàn nǐ . ( xì lā )

8 Wǒde mín nǎ , nǐ dāng tīng . wǒ yào quànjiè nǐ . Yǐsèliè a , shén yuàn nǐ kĕn tīng cóng wǒ .

9 Zaì nǐ dāngzhōng bùkĕ yǒu biéde shén . waì bāng de shén , nǐ yĕ bùkĕ xià baì .

10 Wǒ shì Yēhéhuá nǐde shén , céng bǎ nǐ cóng Āijí dì lǐng shang lái . nǐ yào dàdà zhāng kǒu , wǒ jiù gĕi nǐ chōngmǎn .

11 Wúnaì wǒde mín bù tīng wǒde shēngyīn . Yǐsèliè quán bù lǐ wǒ .

12 Wǒ biàn rènpíng tāmen xīnli gāng yìng , suí zìjǐ de jì móu ér xíng .

13 Shén yuàn wǒde mín kĕn tīng cóng wǒ , Yǐsèliè kĕn xíng wǒde dào .

14 Wǒ biàn sù sù zhì fù tāmende chóudí , fǎn shǒu gōngjī tāmende dírén .

15 Hèn Yēhéhuá de rén bì lái tóu jiàng , dàn tāde bǎixìng , bì yǒng jiǔ chángcún .

16 Tā yĕ bì ná shang hǎo de maìzi gĕi tāmen chī . yǒu ná cóng pánshí chū de fēngmì , jiào tāmen bǎozú .

Shīpiān 81 Commentary

Chapter 81

God is praised for what he has done for his people. (1-7) Their obligations to him. (8-16)

Verses 1-7 All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, more glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we are delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the base and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin, and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews, on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by our Lord Jesus Christ, from worse bondage.

Verses 8-16 We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People are not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon themselves. The Lord is unwilling that any should perish. What enemies sinners are to themselves! It is sin that makes our troubles long, and our salvation slow. Upon the same conditions of faith and obedience, do Christians hold those spiritual and eternal good things, which the pleasant fields and fertile hills of Canaan showed forth. Christ is the Bread of life; he is the Rock of salvation, and his promises are as honey to pious minds. But those who reject him as their Lord and Master, must also lose him as their Saviour and their reward.

Chapter Summary

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A [Psalm] of Asaph. Of "gittith," See Gill on "Ps 8:1." The Targum renders it, "upon the harp which came from Gath;" and so Jarchi says it was a musical instrument that came from Gath. The Septuagint, and the versions which follow that, render it, "for the winepresses." This psalm, according to Kimchi, is said concerning the going out of the children of Israel from Egypt; and was composed in order to be sung at their new moons and solemn feasts, which were typical of Gospel things in Gospel times; see Colossians 2:16 and so the Syriac version, "a psalm of Asaph, when David by him prepared himself for the solemnities."