¹大卫的金诗，交给诗班长，调用“休要毁坏”。掌权者啊！你们真的讲公义吗（本句或译：“你们默然不语，真的讲公义吗”）？你们真的按照正直审判世人吗？

¹Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

²不是的，你们心中策划奸恶；你们的手在地上施行强暴（本句原文作“你们在地上称出你们手中的强暴”）。

²Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

³恶人一出母胎，就走上歧路；他们一离母腹，就走偏了路，常说谎话。

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

⁴他们的毒气好像蛇的毒气，又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁵不听行法术者的声音，就是极灵的咒语，也是无效。

⁵Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

⁶　神啊！求你敲掉他们口中的牙齿；耶和华啊！求你打断少壮狮子的颚骨。

⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁷愿他们像流水般消逝；愿他们射箭的时候，箭头折断（本句原文意义不甚明确）。

⁷Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁸愿他们像蜗牛般蠕行消融，如同妇人流产未见天日的胎儿。

⁸As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹你们用荆棘烧火，锅还未热，他要用旋风把烧着的和未烧着的一起刮去。

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

¹⁰义人看见仇敌遭报就欢喜；他要在恶人的血中洗自己的脚。

¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹因此，人必说：“义人果然有善报；在世上确有一位施行审判的　神。”

¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.