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span data-lang="jpn" data-trans="kyb" data-ref="psa.18.1" class="versetxt"> 1 わが力なる主よ、わたしはあなたを愛します。2 主はわが岩、わが城、わたしを救う者、わが神、わが寄り頼む岩、わが盾、わが救の角、わが高きやぐらです。3 わたしはほめまつるべき主に呼ばわって、わたしの敵から救われるのです。4 死の綱は、わたしを取り巻き、滅びの大水は、わたしを襲いました。5 陰府の綱は、わたしを囲み、死のわなは、わたしに立ちむかいました。6 わたしは悩みのうちに主に呼ばわり、わが神に叫び求めました。主はその宮からわたしの声を聞かれ、主にさけぶわたしの叫びがその耳に達しました。7 そのとき地は揺れ動き、山々の基は震い動きました。主がお怒りになったからです。8 煙はその鼻から立ちのぼり、火はその口から出て焼きつくし、炭はそれによって燃えあがりました。9 主は天をたれて下られ、暗やみがその足の下にありました。10 主はケルブに乗って飛び、風の翼をもってかけり、11 やみをおおいとして、自分のまわりに置き、水を含んだ暗い濃き雲をその幕屋とされました。12 そのみ前の輝きから濃き雲を破って、ひょうと燃える炭とが降ってきました。13 主はまた天に雷をとどろかせ、いと高き者がみ声を出されると、ひょうと燃える炭とが降ってきました。14 主は矢を放って彼らを散らし、いなずまをひらめかして彼らを打ち敗られました。15 主よ、そのとき、あなたのとがめと、あなたの鼻のいぶきとによって、海の底はあらわれ、地の基があらわになったのです。16 主は高い所からみ手を伸べて、わたしを捕え、大水からわたしを引きあげ、17 わたしの強い敵と、わたしを憎む者とからわたしを助け出されました。彼らはわたしにまさって強かったからです。18 彼らはわたしの災の日にわたしを襲いました。しかし主はわたしのささえとなられました。19 主はわたしを広い所につれ出し、わたしを喜ばれるがゆえに、わたしを助けられました。20 主はわたしの義にしたがってわたしに報い、わたしの手の清きにしたがってわたしに報いかえされました。21 わたしは主の道を守り、悪意をもって、わが神を離れたことがなかったのです、22 そのすべてのおきてはわたしの前にあって、わたしはその定めを捨てたことがなかったのです。23 わたしは主の前に欠けたところがなく、自分を守って罪を犯しませんでした。24 このゆえに主はわたしの義にしたがい、その目の前にわたしの手の清きにしたがってわたしに報いられました。25 あなたはいつくしみある者には、いつくしみある者となり、欠けたところのない者には、欠けたところのない者となり、26 清い者には、清い者となり、ひがんだ者には、ひがんだ者となられます。27 あなたは苦しんでいる民を救われますが、高ぶる目をひくくされるのです。28 あなたはわたしのともしびをともし、わが神、主はわたしのやみを照されます。29 まことに、わたしはあなたによって敵軍を打ち破り、わが神によって城壁をとび越えることができます。30 この神こそ、その道は完全であり、主の言葉は真実です。主はすべて寄り頼む者の盾です。31 主のほかに、だれが神でしょうか。われらの神のほかに、だれが岩でしょうか。32 神はわたしに力を帯びさせ、わたしの道を安全にされました。33 神はわたしの足をめじかの足のようにされ、わたしを高い所に安全に立たせ、34 わたしの手を戦いに慣らされたので、わたしの腕は青銅の弓をもひくことができます。35 あなたはその救の盾をわたしに与え、あなたの右の手はわたしをささえ、あなたの助けはわたしを大いなる者とされました。36 あなたがわたしの歩む所を広くされたので、わたしの足はすべらなかったのです。37 わたしは敵を追って、これに追いつき、これを滅ぼしつくすまでは帰らなかったのです。38 わたしが彼らを突き通したので、彼らは立ちあがることができず、わたしの足もとに倒れました。39 あなたは戦いのためにわたしに力を帯びさせ、わたしに立ち向かう者らをわたしのもとに、かがませられました。40 あなたは敵にその後をわたしに向けさせられたので、わたしは自分を憎む者を滅ぼしました。41 彼らは助けを叫び求めたが、救う者はなく、主にむかって叫んだけれども、彼らに答えられなかったのです。42 わたしは彼らを風の前のちりのように細かに砕き、ちまたの泥のように打ち捨てました。43 あなたは民の争いからわたしを救い、わたしをもろもろの国民のかしらとされました。わたしの知らなかった民がわたしに仕えました。44 彼らはわたしの事を聞くと、ただちにわたしに従い、異邦の人々はきて、わたしにへつらいました。45 異邦の人々は打ちしおれて、その城から震えながら出てきました。46 主は生きておられます。わが岩はほむべきかな。わが救の神はあがむべきかな。47 神はわたしにあだを報いさせ、もろもろの民をわたしのもとに従わせ、48 わたしの敵からわたしを救い出されました。まことに、あなたはわたしに逆らって起りたつ者の上にわたしをあげ、不法の人からわたしを救い出されました。49 このゆえに主よ、わたしはもろもろの国民のなかであなたをたたえ、あなたのみ名をほめ歌います。50 主はその王に大いなる勝利を与え、その油そそがれた者に、ダビデとその子孫とに、とこしえにいつくしみを加えられるでしょう。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Earthquakes;   God;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Earthquakes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Earthquake;   Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Earthquake;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Foundation;   Heaven;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   Earthquake;   English Versions;   Foundation;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Kingdom of God;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Foundation;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Earthquake;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Earthquake;   Hill;   Text of the Old Testament;   Tribulation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Corner-Stone;   Theophany;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

earth: Psalms 114:4-7, Matthew 28:2, Acts 4:31, Acts 16:25, Acts 16:26

foundations: Psalms 46:2, Deuteronomy 32:22, Jeremiah 4:24, Ezekiel 38:19, Ezekiel 38:20, Habakkuk 3:6, Habakkuk 3:10, Zechariah 14:4, 1 Corinthians 13:2

Reciprocal: Judges 5:4 - the earth 2 Samuel 22:8 - the earth Job 26:11 - pillars Psalms 29:8 - shaketh Psalms 50:3 - it shall Isaiah 5:25 - the hills Isaiah 24:18 - the foundations Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 42:15 - General Isaiah 64:1 - Oh that Jeremiah 10:10 - at Ezekiel 38:18 - that Joel 2:10 - earth Amos 8:8 - the land Nahum 1:3 - his way Habakkuk 3:5 - and Matthew 27:51 - the earth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the earth shook and trembled,.... As it did quickly after Christ called upon the Lord, and cried to his God upon the cross,

Matthew 27:50; and so some time after, when his people were praying together, the place where they were assembled was shaken, Acts 4:31; as a token of God's presence being with them: and the shaking and trembling of the earth is often used as a symbol of the presence of God, and of the greatness of his majesty; as when he brought the children of Israel through the Red sea, went before them in the wilderness, and descended on Mount Sinai, which mountain then moved and quaked exceedingly; see Psalms 104:32; and it is easy to observe, that in this, and other parts of this majestic account of the appearance of God on the behalf of the person the subject of this psalm, and against his enemies, there are manifest allusions to the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; though it may be this shaking of the earth, and what follows, are to be understood in a figurative sense;

the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken; and design the shaking of the earth and heavens, prophesied of in Haggai 2:6; and which is explained in Hebrews 12:26; of the removing the ordinances of the ceremonial law, that Gospel ordinances might remain unshaken; for in 2 Samuel 22:8; the words are, "the foundations of heaven moved and shook"; and the shaking and moving of the earth and mountains may denote the abolition and destruction of kingdoms and nations; and first of the civil polity of the Jews, and of their ecclesiastical state, which quickly ensued upon the death of Christ; and next of the ruin of Rome Pagan, and then of Rome Papal; which are both signified by an earthquake, and by the removal of mountains, Revelation 6:12;

because he was wroth; with the people of the Jews, for disbelieving and rejecting the Messiah; for setting themselves, and taking counsel together against him, and putting him to death; for these things God was angry with them, and wrath came upon them to the uttermost, and their nation, city, and temple were destroyed, Psalms 2:1; and with the Pagan empire and antichristian powers, Revelation 6:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then the earth shook and trembled - The description which follows here is one of the most sublime that is to be found in any language. It is taken from the fury of the storm and tempest, when all the elements are in commotion; when God seems to go forth in the greatness of his majesty and the terror of his power, to prostrate everything before him. We are not to regard this as descriptive of anything which literally occurred, but rather as expressive of the fact of the divine interposition, as if he thus came forth in the greatness of his power. There is no improbability indeed in supposing that in some of the dangerous periods of David’s life, when surrounded by enemies, or even when in the midst of a battle, a furious tempest may have occurred that seemed to be a special divine interposition in his behalf, but we have no distinct record of such an event, and it is not necessary to suppose that such an event occurred in order to a correct understanding of the passage. All that is needful is to regard this as a representation of the mighty interposition of God; to suppose that his intervention was as direct, as manifest, and as sublime, as if he had thus interposed. There are frequent references in the Scriptures to such storms and tempests as illustrative of the majesty, the power, and the glory of God, and of the manner in which he interposes on behalf of his people. See Psalms 144:5-7; Psalms 46:6-8; Psalms 29:1-11; Job 37:21-24; Job 38:1; Nahum 1:3; and particularly Habakkuk 3:3-16. The description in Habakkuk strongly resembles the passage before us, and both were drawn doubtless from an actual observation of the fury of a tempest.

The foundations also of the hills moved - The mountains seemed to rock on their foundations. In the corresponding place in 2 Samuel 22:8 the expression is, “The foundations of heaven moved and shook;” that is, that on which the heavens seem to rest was agitated. Many suppose that the expression refers to the mountains as if they bore up the heavens; but DeWette more properly supposes that the reference is to the heavens as a building or an edifice resting on foundations. Why the change was made in revising the psalm from the “foundations of the heavens” to the “foundations of the hills,” it is impossible now to determine.

Because he was wroth - literally,” Because it was inflamed (or enkindled) to him;” that is, because he was angry. Anger is often compared to a raging flame, because it seems to consume everything before it. Hence, we speak of it as “heated,” as “burning.” So we say of one that he is “inflamed by passion.” The expression here is sublime in the highest degree. God seemed to be angry, and hence, he came forth in this awful manner, and the very earth trembled before him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:7. Then the earth shook and trembled — "In this and the following verses David describes, by the sublimest expressions and grandest terms, the majesty of God, and the awful manner in which he came to his assistance. The representation of the storm in these verses must be allowed by all skilful and impartial judges to be truly sublime and noble, and in the genuine spirit of poetry. The majesty of God, and the manner in which he is represented as coming to the aid of his favourite king, surrounded with all the powers of nature as his attendants and ministers, and arming (as it were) heaven and earth to fight his battles, and execute his vengeance, is described in the loftiest and most striking terms. The shaking of the earth; the trembling of the mountains and pillars of heaven; the smoke that drove out of his nostrils; the flames of devouring fire that flashed from his mouth; the heavens bending down to convey him to the battle; his riding upon a cherub, and rapidly flying on the wings of a whirlwind; his concealing his majesty in the thick clouds of heaven; the bursting of the lightnings from the horrid darkness; the uttering of his voice in peals of thunder; the storm of fiery hail; the melting of the heavens, and their dissolving into floods of tempestuous rain; the cleaving of the earth, and disclosing of the bottom of the hills, and the subterraneous channels or torrents of water, by the very breath of the nostrils of the Almighty; are all of them circumstances which create admiration, excite a kind of horror, and exceed every thing of this nature that is to be found in any of the remains of heathen antiquity. See Longinus on the Sublime, sec. 9, and Hesiod's description of Jupiter fighting against the Titans, which is one of the grandest things in all pagan antiquity; though upon comparison it will be found infinitely short of this description of the psalmist's; throughout the whole of which God is represented as a mighty warrior going forth to fight the battles of David, and highly incensed at the opposition his enemies made to his power and authority.

"When he descended to the engagement the very heavens bowed down to render his descent more awful, his military tent was substantial darkness; the voice of his thunder was the warlike alarm which sounded to the battle; the chariot in which he rode was the thick clouds of heaven, conducted by cherubs, and carried on by the irresistible force and rapid wings of an impetuous tempest; and the darts and weapons he employed were thunderbolts, lightnings, fiery hail, deluging rains, and stormy winds!

"No wonder that when God thus arose, all his enemies should be scattered, and those who hated him should flee before him.

"It does not appear from any part of David's history that there was any such storm as is here described, which proved destructive to his enemies, and salutary to himself. There might, indeed, have been such a one, though there is no particular mention of it: unless it may be thought that something of this nature is intimated in the account given of David's second battle with the Philistines, 2 Samuel 5:23-24. It is undoubted, however, that the storm is represented as real; though David, in describing it, has heightened and embellished it with all the ornaments of poetry. See Chandler, Delaney, and Lowth's ninth Prelection.


 
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