¹To the Overseer. — `Destroy not.` — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

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？

²Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

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”）。

³The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

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。

⁴Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

⁴他们的毒气好像蛇的毒气，又像耳朵塞住的聋虺，

⁵Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

⁵不听行法术者的声音，就是极灵的咒语，也是无效。

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

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。

⁷They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

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）。

⁸As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

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。

⁹Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

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。

¹⁰The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

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。

¹¹And man saith: `Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!`

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。”