¹歌一首，可拉子孫的詩，就是以斯拉人希幔的訓誨詩，交給詩班長，調用“麻哈拉利暗俄”。耶和華、拯救我的　神啊！我晝夜都在你面前哀求。

¹Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

²願我的禱告達到你面前，求你留心聽我的呼求。

²Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

³因為我飽經憂患，我的性命臨近陰間。

³For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. .

⁴我被列在下坑的人中，就像一個沒有氣力的人一樣。

⁴I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

⁵我被棄在死人之中，好像被殺的人躺在墳墓裡；你不再記念他們，他們也和你（“你”原文作“你的手”）隔絕了。

⁵set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

⁶你把我放在最深的坑裡，把我放在黑暗的地方和深淵裡。

⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

⁷你的烈怒重重地壓著我，你的波浪從四方八面把我淹蓋。（細拉）

⁷Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

⁸你使我的知己都遠離我，使我成為他們所厭惡的。我被囚禁，不能外出。

⁸You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

⁹我的眼睛因困苦而昏花；耶和華啊，我天天向你呼求，向你舉手禱告。

⁹My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

¹⁰你要為死人行奇事嗎？陰魂會起來稱謝你嗎？（細拉）

¹⁰Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

¹¹在墳墓裡有人述說你的慈愛嗎？在滅亡之地（“滅亡之地”原文作“亞巴頓”）有人述說你的信實嗎？

¹¹Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

¹²你的奇事在黑暗裡有人知道嗎？你的公義在那遺忘之地有人知道嗎？

¹²Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³耶和華啊！我卻向你呼求，我的禱告在早晨達到你面前。

¹³But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

¹⁴耶和華啊！你為甚麼丟棄我？為甚麼掩面不顧我？

¹⁴Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

¹⁵我自幼受苦，幾乎死亡；我受了驚嚇，以致困惑不安（“困惑不安”原文意義難確定）。

¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

¹⁶你的烈怒把我淹沒，你的驚嚇把我除滅。

¹⁶Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

¹⁷這些終日像水一樣環繞我，一起把我圍困。

¹⁷They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

¹⁸你使我摯愛的和同伴都遠離我，黑暗成了我的知己。

¹⁸You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.