¹Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Ya Allah, untuk selamanyakah Kautinggalkan kami? Mengapa Engkau terus marah kepada umat-Mu sendiri?

¹God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

²Ingatlah umat-Mu yang Kaupilih sejak dahulu, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan agar menjadi milik-Mu. Ingatlah akan Bukit Sion, yang Kaujadikan tempat kediaman-Mu.

²Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

³Jejakilah tempat yang sudah menjadi reruntuhan; segalanya di Rumah-Mu telah dihancurkan musuh.

³Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

⁴Musuh-musuh-Mu berteriak-teriak di Rumah-Mu, dan mendirikan panji-panji kemenangan di situ.

⁴Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

⁵Mereka seperti penebang kayu yang mengayunkan kapaknya, untuk menebang pohon-pohon di hutan.

⁵They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

⁶Semua ukiran kayu mereka hancurkan dengan kapak dan palu.

⁷Mereka membakar Rumah-Mu sampai musnah; dan menajiskan tempat Engkau disembah.

⁷They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

⁸Mereka mau menaklukkan kami sama sekali, dan membakar habis semua tempat ibadat di negeri ini.

⁸They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

⁹Nabi-nabi dan tanda-tanda ajaib tak tampak lagi, dan tak seorang pun tahu sampai kapan terus begini.

⁹We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

¹⁰Sampai kapan, ya Allah, musuh mengejek Engkau? Sampai selamanyakah mereka menghina nama-Mu?

¹⁰How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

¹¹Mengapa Engkau tidak lagi menolong kami? Mengapa Engkau lepas tangan dari kami?

¹¹Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

¹²Sejak semula Engkaulah rajaku, ya Allah, Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami.

¹²Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

¹³Dengan kekuatan yang dahsyat Engkau membelah laut, dan memecahkan kepala naga-naga laut.

¹³You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

¹⁴Engkau meremukkan kepala-kepala Lewiatan dan menjadikan dia makanan penghuni padang gurun.

¹⁴You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

¹⁵Engkau mengalirkan mata air dan sungai; sungai yang besar Kaujadikan kering.

¹⁵You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

¹⁶Engkaulah yang menciptakan siang dan malam, serta menentukan tempat matahari dan bulan.

¹⁶The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

¹⁷Engkau menetapkan batas-batas bumi, membuat musim kemarau dan musim hujan.

¹⁷You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

¹⁸Ingatlah bagaimana musuh menghina Engkau, ya TUHAN, bangsa yang tidak mengenal Engkau menghujat nama-Mu.

¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

¹⁹Jangan menyerahkan umat-Mu yang tak berdaya ke tangan musuh yang kejam. Jangan untuk selamanya melupakan nasib umat-Mu yang malang.

¹⁹Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

²⁰Ingatlah perjanjian yang Kaubuat dengan kami, sebab orang melakukan kekerasan di setiap tempat gelap di negeri ini.

²⁰Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

²¹Jangan membiarkan orang tertindas dipermalukan, semoga orang sengsara dan miskin memuji Engkau.

²¹Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

²²Bangkitlah ya Allah, belalah perkara-Mu! Sebab sepanjang hari Engkau dihina oleh orang-orang yang tidak percaya kepada-Mu.

²²Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

²³Jangan lupa teriakan musuh-musuh-Mu, keributan lawan-lawan-Mu yang semakin keras!

²³Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.