大衛的詩。交給聖詠團長。遭難者的訴苦
我所讚美的神啊,
求你不要閉口不言。 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2因为恶人的嘴和诡诈人的口张开攻击我, 他们用撒谎的舌头对我说话。For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3他们围绕我,说怨恨的话, 又无故地攻打我。They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4他们与我作对回报我的爱, 但我专心祈祷。For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5他们向我以恶报善, 以恨报爱。And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6求你派恶人辖制他, 派对头站在他右边!Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7他受审判的时候, 愿他背负罪名而出! 愿他的祈祷反成为罪!When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8愿他的年岁短少! 愿别人得他的职分!Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9愿他的儿女成为孤儿, 他的妻子成为寡妇!Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10愿他的儿女飘流讨饭, 从荒凉之处出来求乞☛“从荒凉之处出来求乞”:七十士译本是“愿他们从荒凉之处被赶出来”。!Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11愿债主牢笼他一切所有的! 愿陌生人抢走他劳碌得来的!Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12愿无人向他布施恩惠, 无人恩待他的孤儿!Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13愿他的后人断绝, 名字被涂去,不传于下代!Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14愿耶和华记得他祖宗的罪孽, 不涂去他母亲的罪过!Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15愿这些罪常在耶和华面前! 愿他们的名字☛“名字”:原文是“纪念”。从地上除灭!Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16因为他从未想过要施恩, 却迫害困苦贫穷的和伤心的人, 把他们处死。Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17他爱咒骂,咒骂就临到他; 他不喜爱祝福,祝福就远离他!As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18他拿咒骂当衣服穿上; 这咒骂就如水进到他里面, 如油进入他骨头。As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19愿这咒骂当他遮身的衣服, 作他经常束腰的带子!Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20这就是那些与我作对、用恶言议论我的人 从耶和华所受的报应。Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21但是你,主-耶和华啊, 求你因你的名采取行动; 因你的慈爱美好,求你搭救我!But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22因为我困苦贫穷, 内心受伤。For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23我如日影偏斜而去, 如蝗虫被抖出来。I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24我因禁食,膝盖软弱; 我身体消瘦,不再丰润。My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25我受他们的羞辱, 他们看见我就摇头。I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
26耶和华-我的神啊,求你帮助我, 照你的慈爱拯救我,Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27好让他们知道这是你的手, 是你-耶和华所做的事。That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28任凭他们咒骂,你却要赐福; 他们几时起来就必蒙羞, 你的仆人却要欢喜。Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29愿与我作对的人披戴羞辱! 愿他们以自己的羞愧作外袍遮身!Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30我要用口极力称谢耶和华, 我要在众人中间赞美他;I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31因为他必站在贫穷人的右边, 救他脱离定他死罪的人。For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.