1 我所赞美的 神啊！ 求你不要缄默无声， （本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）
2 因为邪恶的人的嘴和诡诈的人的口， 已经张开攻击我； 他们用虚谎的舌头对我说话。
3 他们说毒恨的话围攻我， 无缘无故攻击我。
4 他们以敌对的态度来回报我的爱； 至于我， 我只有祷告。
5 他们对我以恶报善， 以憎恨回报我的爱。
6 求你派一个恶人对付他； 派一个对头站在他的右边。
7 他受审判的时候， 愿他被判为有罪； 愿他的祷告成为罪。
8 愿他的年日短少， 愿别人取代他的职分。
9 愿他的儿女成为孤儿； 愿他的妻子成为寡妇。
10 愿他的儿女流离失所， 到处求乞； 愿他们从他们破毁的家中被赶逐出去。
11 愿债主夺去他一切所有的； 愿外人都劫掠他劳碌得来的。
12 愿无人对他施仁慈； 愿无人恩待他的孤儿。
13 愿他的后人被除灭， 愿他们的名字在下一代被涂抹。
14 愿他列祖的罪孽被耶和华谨记； 愿他母亲的罪恶不被涂抹。
15 愿这些罪常在耶和华面前， 好使他们的名号从地上被除掉。
16 因为他从没有想起要施慈爱， 只知道迫害困苦、贫穷和伤心的人， 要把他们置于死地。
17 他爱咒诅， 愿咒诅临到他； 他不喜爱祝福， 愿福乐远离他。
18 他以咒诅当作衣服穿上， 咒诅就像水一般进入他的内脏， 像油一样进入他的骨头。
19 愿这咒诅像衣服一般给他披上， 并当作他常常束上的腰带。
20 愿敌对我和用恶言攻击我的， 都从耶和华那里得到这报应。
21 至于你， 主耶和华啊！ 求你为你名的缘故恩待我； 按着你美好的慈爱拯救我。
22 因为我困苦贫穷， 我的内心伤痛。
23 我像日影倾斜， 渐渐消逝， 又像蝗虫被抖掉。
24 我因禁食， 双膝软弱无力； 我的身体消瘦枯干。
25 我成了他们羞辱的对象； 他们一看见我， 就摇头。
26 耶和华我的 神啊！ 求你帮助我； 求你按着你的慈爱拯救我，
27 好让人知道这是出于你的手， 是你耶和华所作的事。
28 任凭他们咒诅， 只愿你赐福； 愿起来攻击我的都蒙羞， 你的仆人却要欢喜。
29 愿敌对我的披戴羞辱； 愿他们以自己的耻辱为外袍披在身上。
30 我要用口极力称谢耶和华； 我要在众人中间赞美他。
31 因为他必站在贫穷人的右边， 拯救他脱离定他死罪的人。
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries:
But I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him;
And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;
And let his prayer be turned into sin.
8 Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16 Because he remembered not to show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
22 For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I am become also a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from them that judge his soul.