1 我的民哪！ 你们要留心听我的教训， 侧耳听我口中的言语。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）
2 我要开口用比喻， 把古时隐秘的事说出来，
3 就是我们所听过所知道的， 也是我们的列祖告诉我们的，
4 我们不把这些事向他们的子孙隐瞒， 却要把耶和华应得的赞美、他的能力， 和他所行的奇事， 都向后代的人述说。
5 他在雅各设立法度， 在以色列中制订律法， 就是他吩咐我们的列祖， 去教训他们的子孙的，
6 好使后代的人， 包括将要出生的儿女， 都可以知道； 他们也要起来， 告诉他们的子孙，
7 使他们信靠 神， 不忘记 神的作为， 谨守他的诫命；
8 免得他们像他们的列祖， 成了顽梗悖逆的一代， 心不坚定的一代， 他们的心对 神不忠。
9 以法莲的子孙， 虽然备有弓箭， 在争战的日子， 却转身逃走。
10 他们不谨守 神的约， 不肯遵行他的律法。
11 他们忘记了 神的作为， 和他显给他们看的奇事。
12 他在埃及地， 在琐安的田野， 在他们列祖的眼前， 行了奇事。
13 他把海分开， 领他们走过去， 又使海水直立像一道堤坝。
14 白日他用云彩， 夜间他用火光引导他们。
15 他在旷野使磐石裂开， 给他们水喝， 多如深渊的水。
16 他使水从磐石中涌出来， 使水好像江河一般流下。
17 但他们仍然犯罪顶撞他， 在干旱之地仍然悖逆至高者。
18 他们心里试探 神， 随着自己的欲望要求食物。
19 他们妄论 神， 说： " 神可以在旷野摆设筵席吗？
20 他虽曾击打磐石， 使水涌出来， 好像江河泛滥， 他还能赐粮食吗？他还能为自己的子民预备肉食吗？"
21 因此耶和华听见了， 就大怒； 有烈火在雅各烧起， 有怒气向以色列发作。
22 因为他们不相信 神， 不倚靠他的拯救。
23 然而， 他吩咐天上的云彩， 打开天上的门户。
24 他降吗哪给他们吃， 把天上的食物赐给他们。
25 于是人吃了天使的食物， 是 神赐下的食粮， 使他们饱足。
26 他从天空刮起东风， 施能力领出南风。
27 他降肉食给他们， 多如尘土； 又降飞鸟给他们， 多如海沙。
28 他使飞鸟落在他们的营中， 在他们住处的四围。
29 他们吃了， 而且吃得很饱， 这样， 神把他们所愿的都赐给他们了。
30 他们还没有因所愿的满足， 食物仍在他们口中的时候，
31 神的怒气就向他们发作， 杀了他们中间最肥壮的人， 击倒了以色列的年轻人。
32 虽然经历了这一切， 他们仍然犯罪； 尽管看见这些奇事， 他们仍不相信。
33 所以 神使他们的日子在虚空中消逝， 使他们的岁月在惊恐中完结。
34 神击杀他们的时候， 他们就寻求他； 他们回转过来， 切切求问 神。
35 他们也想起 神是他们的磐石， 至高的 神是他们的救赎主。
36 但他们仍然用口欺骗他， 用舌头向他说谎。
37 他们的心对他不坚定， 也不忠于和他所立的约。
38 他却有怜悯， 赦免罪孽， 没有把他们灭绝， 并且多次抑制自己的怒气， 没有完全宣泄他的烈怒。
39 他顾念他们不过是人， 是一阵吹去不再返回的风。
40 他们多少次在旷野悖逆他， 在沙漠使他担忧；
41 他们再三试探 神， 使以色列的圣者忧伤。
42 他们忘记了他的能力， 就是他救赎他们脱离敌人的日子，
43 他怎样在埃及显神迹， 在琐安的田野行奇事。
44 他把他们的江河都变为血， 使他们不能喝河流的水。
45 他使成群的苍蝇到他们中间来， 吞吃他们； 又使青蛙来毁灭他们。
46 他把他们的农产交给蚱蜢， 把他们辛劳的收获交给蝗虫。
47 他用冰雹摧毁他们的葡萄树， 用严霜冻坏他们的桑树。
48 又把他们的牲畜交给冰雹， 把他们的群畜交给闪电。
49 他使猛烈的怒气、忿怒、愤恨、患难， 好像一群降灾的使者， 临到他们中间。
50 他为自己的怒气修平了路， 不惜使他们死亡， 把他们的性命交给瘟疫。
51 他在埃及击杀了所有的长子， 在含的帐棚中击杀了他们强壮时生的头胎子。
52 他却把自己的子民领出来好像领羊群， 在旷野引导他们像引导群畜一样。
53 他带领他们平平安安地走过去， 所以他们不惧怕； 海却淹没了他们的仇敌。
54 他领他们进入自己圣地的境界， 到他右手所得的这山地。
55 他在他们面前把外族人赶出去， 用绳子量地， 分给他们作为产业， 又使以色列众支派的人居住在自己的帐棚里。
56 但他们仍然试探和悖逆至高的 神， 不谨守他的法则。
57 他们背信不忠， 像他们的列祖一样； 他们改变了， 如同不可靠的弓。
58 因他们的邱坛， 惹起他的怒气， 因他们雕刻的偶像， 激起他的愤恨。
59 神听见就大怒， 完全弃绝了以色列。
60 他丢弃了在示罗的居所， 就是他在世人中间居住的帐棚。
61 他又把象征他权能的约柜交给人掳去， 把他的荣美交在敌人的手里，
62 并且把自己的子民交给刀剑， 向自己的产业大发烈怒。
63 他们的青年被火吞灭， 他们的少女也听不见结婚的喜歌。
64 他们的祭司倒在刀下， 他们的寡妇却不能哀哭。
65 那时主好像从睡眠中醒过来， 如同勇士酒后清醒一样。
66 他击退了他的敌人， 使他们永远蒙羞受辱。
67 他弃绝约瑟的帐棚， 不拣选以法莲支派，
68 却拣选了犹大支派， 他所爱的锡安山。
69 他建造了自己的圣所好像在高天之上， 又像他所建立永存的大地。
70 他拣选了自己的仆人大卫， 把他从羊圈中召出来；
71 他领他出来， 使他不再跟着那些母羊， 却要牧养他的子民雅各， 和他的产业以色列。
72 于是大卫以正直的心牧养他们， 灵巧地引导他们。
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law:
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah,
And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which he commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born;
Who should arise and tell them to their children,
7 That they might set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep his commandments,
8 And might not be as their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that set not their heart aright,
And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God,
And refused to walk in his law;
11 And they forgat his doings,
And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through;
And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud,
And all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 Yet went they on still to sin against him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 And they tempted God in their heart
By asking food according to their desire.
19 Yea, they spake against God;
They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out,
And streams overflowed;
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also went up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God,
And trusted not in his salvation.
23 Yet he commanded the skies above,
And opened the doors of heaven;
24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat,
And gave them food from heaven.
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty:
He sent them food to the full.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by his power he guided the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust,
And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,
Round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled;
And he gave them their own desire.
30 They were not estranged from that which they desired,
Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 When the anger of God went up against them,
And slew of the fattest of them,
And smote down the young men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still,
And believed not in his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
And their years in terror.
34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him;
And they returned and sought God earnestly.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouth,
And lied unto him with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not right with him,
Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not:
Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
And did not stir up all his wrath.
39 And he remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
And grieve him in the desert!
41 And they turned again and tempted God,
And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand,
Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 How he set his signs in Egypt,
And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
And frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
And their labor unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycomore-trees with frost.
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
A band of angels of evil.
50 He made a path for his anger;
He spared not their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not;
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
55 He drove out the nations also before them,
And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
And kept not his testimonies;
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers:
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth,
And greatly abhorred Israel;
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity,
And his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword,
And was wroth with his inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins had no marriage-song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword;
And their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his adversaries backward:
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph,
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
The mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him,
To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.