¹困苦人沮喪的時候，在耶和華面前傾吐苦情的禱告。耶和華啊！求你聽我的禱告；願我的呼求達到你那裡。

¹Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

²我在患難的日子，求你不要向我掩面；我呼求的時候，求你留心聽我，並且迅速應允我。

²Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

³因為我的年日好像煙一般消散；我的骨頭燒焦像爐中的炭。

³For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

⁴我的心受創傷，好像草一般枯乾，以致我連飯也忘了吃。

⁴My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

⁵因我唉哼的聲音，我就漸漸消瘦（“我就漸漸消瘦”原文作“我的骨頭緊貼著肉”）。

⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

⁶我像曠野的鵜鶘，又像廢墟裡的貓頭鷹。

⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

⁷我躺在床上警醒著，就像屋頂上孤單的麻雀。

⁸我的仇敵終日辱罵我；嘲弄我的指著我賭咒。

⁸My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

⁹我吃爐灰像吃飯一樣；我所喝的與眼淚混和。

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

¹⁰這都是因為你的憤恨和烈怒；你把我舉起來，又把我摔下去。

¹⁰Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

¹¹我的年日好像日影偏斜，我也好像草一般枯乾。

¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

¹²耶和華啊！你卻永遠坐著為王，你可記念的名也必存到萬代。

¹²But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

¹³你要起來，憐憫錫安，因為現在是恩待錫安的時候；所定的日期已經到了。

¹³You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

¹⁴因為你的眾僕人喜愛它的石頭，愛惜它的塵土。

¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

¹⁵萬國都必敬畏耶和華的名；世上列王都敬畏你的榮耀。

¹⁵So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; all the kings of the earth your glory.

¹⁶因為耶和華必建造錫安，在他自己的榮耀裡顯現。

¹⁶For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

¹⁷他要垂顧困苦人的禱告，必不藐視他們的祈求。

¹⁷He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

¹⁸這些事要記下來，傳給後代，好使將來出生的人民可以讚美耶和華。

¹⁸This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

¹⁹因為耶和華從他至高的聖所裡垂看，從天上觀看大地，

¹⁹For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

²⁰為要垂聽被囚的人的歎息，解救定了死罪的人；

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

²¹使人在錫安傳揚耶和華的名，在耶路撒冷傳揚讚美他的話。

²¹that men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

²²那時，萬民和萬國必一同聚集，要事奉耶和華。

²²when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

²³耶和華在我壯年的時候，使我的力量衰弱，縮短我的年日。

²³He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

²⁴所以我說：“我的　神啊！求你不要使我中年去世，你的年數萬代無疆。

²⁴I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

²⁵你起初立了地的根基；天也是你手的工作。

²⁵Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶天地都要毀滅，你卻長存；天地都要像衣服一樣漸漸殘舊；你要更換天地如同更換衣物一樣，天地就被更換。

²⁶They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

²⁷只有你永不改變，你的年數也沒有窮盡。

²⁷But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

²⁸你僕人的子孫必安然居住；他們的後裔必在你面前堅立。”

²⁸The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you.”