1 愿以色列说: "从我幼年以来, 敌人就多次苦害我。(本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题)
2 从我幼年以来, 敌人虽然多次苦害我, 却没有胜过我。
3 他们好像犁田的人犁在我的背上, 所犁的沟甚长。
4 但耶和华是公义的, 他砍断了恶人的绳索。"
5 愿所有恨恶锡安的, 都蒙羞退后。
6 愿他们像屋顶上的草, 尚未长大, 就枯干了;
7 收割的不够一把, 捆禾的不够满怀。
8 过路的人也不说: "愿耶和华所赐的福临到你们; 我们奉耶和华的名祝福你们。"
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back;
They made long their furrows.
4 Jehovah is righteous:
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withereth before it groweth up;
7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,
Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:
8 Neither do they that go by say,
The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Jehovah.