¹大衛的詩。耶和華啊！與我相爭的，求你與他們相爭；與我作戰的，求你與他們作戰。（本節在《馬索拉抄本》包括細字標題）

¹Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

²求你緊握大小的盾牌，起來幫助我。

²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

³拔出矛槍戰斧，迎擊那些追趕我的；求你對我說：“我是你的拯救。”

³Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

⁴願那些尋索我命的，蒙羞受辱；願設計陷害我的，退後羞愧。

⁴Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

⁵願他們像風前的糠秕，有耶和華的使者驅逐他們。

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

⁶願他們的路又暗又滑，有耶和華的使者追趕他們。

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

⁷因為他們無故為我暗設網羅，無故挖坑要陷害我的性命。

⁷For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁸願毀滅在不知不覺間臨到他身上，願他暗設的網羅纏住自己，願他落在其中遭毀滅。

⁸Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

⁹我的心必因耶和華快樂，因他的救恩高興。

⁹My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰我全身的骨頭都要說：“耶和華啊！有誰像你呢？你搭救困苦的人，脫離那些比他強盛的；搭救困苦和窮乏的人，脫離那些搶奪他的。”

¹⁰All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

¹¹強暴的見證人起來，盤問我所不知道的事。

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

¹²他們對我以惡報善，使我孤苦無依。

¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

¹³至於我，他們有病的時候，我就穿上麻衣，禁食刻苦己心；我心裡也不住地禱告（“我心裡也不住地禱告”原文作“我的禱告都回到自己的懷中”）。

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

¹⁴我往來奔走，看他們像自己的朋友兄弟；我哀痛屈身，如同哀悼母親。

¹⁴I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁵但我跌倒的時候，他們竟聚集一起歡慶；我素不相識的聚集一起攻擊我，他們不住地欺凌我。

¹⁵But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

¹⁶他們以最粗鄙的話譏笑我（本句按照《馬索拉抄本》應作“他們好像筵席上狂妄的譏笑者”；現參照《七十士譯本》翻譯），向我咬牙切齒。

¹⁶Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹⁷主啊！你還要看多久？求你救我的性命脫離他們的殘害，救我的生命脫離少壯獅子。

¹⁷Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

¹⁸我要在大會中稱謝你，我要在眾民中讚美你。

¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

¹⁹求你不容那些無理與我為敵的，向我誇耀；不讓那些無故恨我的，向我擠眼。

¹⁹Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

²⁰因為他們不說和睦的話，卻計劃詭詐的事，陷害世上的安靜人。

²⁰For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

²¹他們張大嘴巴攻擊我，說：“啊哈！啊哈！我們親眼看見了。”

²¹Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

²²耶和華啊！你已經看見了，求你不要緘默；主啊！求你不要遠離我。

²²You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

²³我的　神，我的主啊！求你激動醒起，為我伸冤辯護。

²³Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

²⁴耶和華我的　神啊！求你按著你的公義判斷我，不容他們向我誇耀。

²⁴Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

²⁵不要讓他們心裡說：“啊哈！這正是我們的心願！”不要讓他們說：“我們把他吞下去了！”

²⁵Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

²⁶願那些喜歡我遭難的，一同蒙羞抱愧；願那些對我妄自尊大的，都披上慚愧和恥辱。

²⁶Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

²⁷願那些喜悅我冤屈昭雪的，都歡呼快樂；願他們不住地說：“要尊耶和華為大，他喜悅他的僕人平安。”

²⁷Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

²⁸我的舌頭要述說你的公義，終日讚美你。