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

¹大衛的金詩，交給詩班長，調用“休要毀壞”。掌權者啊！你們真的講公義嗎（本句或譯：“你們默然不語，真的講公義嗎”）？你們真的按照正直審判世人嗎？

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

²不是的，你們心中策劃奸惡；你們的手在地上施行強暴（本句原文作“你們在地上稱出你們手中的強暴”）。

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

³惡人一出母胎，就走上歧路；他們一離母腹，就走偏了路，常說謊話。

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

⁴他們的毒氣好像蛇的毒氣，又像耳朵塞住的聾虺，

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

⁵不聽行法術者的聲音，就是極靈的咒語，也是無效。

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

⁶　神啊！求你敲掉他們口中的牙齒；耶和華啊！求你打斷少壯獅子的顎骨。

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.

⁷願他們像流水般消逝；願他們射箭的時候，箭頭折斷（本句原文意義不甚明確）。

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.

⁸願他們像蝸牛般蠕行消融，如同婦人流產未見天日的胎兒。

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

⁹你們用荊棘燒火，鍋還未熱，他要用旋風把燒著的和未燒著的一起颳去。

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

¹⁰義人看見仇敵遭報就歡喜；他要在惡人的血中洗自己的腳。

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

¹¹因此，人必說：“義人果然有善報；在世上確有一位施行審判的　神。”