¹{Načelniku godbe. Psalm Davidov.} Blagor mu, kdor se sočutno ozira na siromaka: ob dnevu nesreče ga otme GOSPOD.

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

²GOSPOD ga bo zaslanjal in ga ohranil življenju, da ga bodo blagrovali na zemlji; in ne izdajaj ga želji sovražnikov njegovih.

²Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

³GOSPOD ga bo podpiral na postelji slabosti; vse ležišče mu v bolezni njegovi premeniš.

³Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

⁴Jaz sem rekel: GOSPOD, usmili se me, ozdravi dušo mojo, ker tebi sem grešil.

⁴I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁵Sovražniki moji pa govore hudo o meni: Kdaj bo umrl in izgine ime njegovo?

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

⁶In če me kdo pride obiskat, govori laž; srce njegovo si zbira krivico, in gre ven in jo raznaša.

⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

⁷Skupaj šepetajo zoper mene vsi sovražilci moji, zoper mene izmišljajo, kar bi mi bilo v zlo, govoreč:

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

⁸Stvar silno huda se ga je prijela, in ker je obležal, ne vstane več.

⁸“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

⁹Celo prijatelj moj, ki sem mu zaupal, ki je jedel moj kruh, je vzdignil peto proti meni.

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰Ti pa, GOSPOD, usmili se me in me vzdigni, da jim povrnem.

¹⁰But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

¹¹V tem spoznam, da se me veseliš, ko ne bo sovražnik moj ukal nad menoj.

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

¹²Mene pa vzdržuješ v brezmadežnosti moji in me staviš pred obličje svoje za večno. —Slava GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu, od vekomaj do vekomaj. Amen in Amen! Knjiga druga.

¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

¹³Slava GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu, od vekomaj do vekomaj. Amen in Amen! Knjiga druga.

¹³Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II