¹亚萨的诗。　神实在善待以色列，善待那些内心清洁的人。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）

¹A Psalm of Asaph. Only — good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I — as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

²至于我，我的脚几乎滑跌，我（“我”原文作“我的脚步”）险些跌倒。

²As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

³我看见恶人兴隆，我就嫉妒狂傲的人。

³The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

⁴他们没有痛苦，他们的身体又健康又肥壮（本节原文作“他们到死都没有痛苦，他们的身体肥壮”）。

⁴And their might [is] firm.

⁵他们没有一般人所受的苦难，也不像普通人一样遭遇灾害。

⁵In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

⁶所以，骄傲像链子戴在他们的颈项上，强暴好像衣裳穿在他们的身上。

⁶Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

⁷他们的罪孽是出于麻木的心（“他们的罪孽是出于麻木的心”按照《马索拉抄本》应作“他们的眼睛因体胖而凸出”；现参照《七十士译本》翻译），他们心里的恶念泛滥。

⁷Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

⁸他们讥笑人，怀着恶意说欺压人的话，他们说话自高。

⁸They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

⁹他们用口亵渎上天，他们用舌头毁谤全地。

⁹They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

¹⁰因此他的人民归回那里去，并且喝光了大量的水。

¹⁰Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

¹¹他们说：“　神怎会晓得？至高者有知识吗？”

¹¹And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?`

¹²看这些恶人，他们常享安逸，财富却增加。

¹²Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

¹³我谨守我心纯洁实在徒然；我洗手表明清白也是枉然。

¹³Only — a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

¹⁴因为我终日受伤害，每天早晨受惩罚。

¹⁴And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.

¹⁵如果我心里说：“我要说这样的话”，我就是对你这一代的众儿女不忠了。

¹⁵If I have said, `I recount thus,` Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

¹⁶我思想要明白这事，我就看为烦恼；

¹⁶And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,

¹⁷直到我进了　神的圣所，才明白他们的结局。

¹⁷Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

¹⁸你实在把他们安放在滑地，使他们倒下、灭亡。

¹⁸Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

¹⁹他们忽然间成了多么荒凉，被突然的惊恐完全消灭。

¹⁹How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.

²⁰人睡醒了怎样看梦，主啊！你睡醒了，也要照样轻看他们（“他们”原文作“他们的影像”）。

²⁰As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

²¹我心中酸苦，我肺腑刺痛的时候，

²¹For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

²²我是愚昧无知的；我在你面前就像畜类一般。

²²And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

²³但是，我仍常与你同在；你紧握着我的右手。

²³And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.

²⁴你要以你的训言引领我，以后还要接我到荣耀里去。

²⁴With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

²⁵除你以外，在天上，我还有谁呢？除你以外，在地上，我也无所爱慕。

²⁵Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

²⁶我的肉身和我的内心虽然渐渐衰弱，　神却永远是我心里的磐石，是我的业分。

²⁶Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.

²⁷看哪！远离你的，必定灭亡；凡是对你不贞的，你都要灭绝。

²⁷For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

²⁸对我来说，亲近　神是美好的，我以主耶和华为我的避难所；我要述说你的一切作为。

²⁸And I — nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!