¹{Nauk, Asafov.} Zakaj, o Bog, nas zametaš vedno? zakaj se kadi jeza tvoja zoper čredo paše tvoje?

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

²Spomni se občine svoje, ki si jo pridobil oddavnaj in odkupil za rod posesti svoje, gore Sionske, ki si na njej prebival!

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.

³Prispej k podrtinam večnim! Vse zlo je storil sovražnik v svetišču.

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

⁴Rjuli so nasprotniki tvoji sredi zbirališča tvojega, postavili so svoja znamenja za znamenja.

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

⁵Bilo je videti, kakor da vsak dviga kvišku sekiro v goščavi gozdni.

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

⁶In zdaj razbijajo rezbe njegove vse s sekirami in s kladivi.

⁷Zažgali so svetišče tvoje, do tal so oskrunili prebivališče tvojega imena.

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

⁸Rekli so v srcu svojem: Ugonobimo jih vse vkup! Požgali so vsa zbirališča Boga mogočnega v deželi.

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

⁹Znamenj naših ne vidimo, ni več proroka, in ni ga med nami, ki bi vedel, doklej –?

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

¹⁰Doklej, o Bog, bo zasramoval stiskalec, večno li bo zaničeval sovražnik ime tvoje?

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

¹¹Zakaj odtezaš roko svojo in desnico svojo? Potegni jo iz nedrij svojih in naredi konec!

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

¹²Vendar pa je Bog kralj moj že od nekdaj, ki dela rešitve na zemlji.

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

¹³Ti si razklal v moči svoji morje, razbil si zmajem glave na vodah.

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

¹⁴Ti si raztreskal leviatanu glave, dal si ga za jed rodu, zverinam puščave.

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

¹⁵Ti si odprl studenec in potok, ti si posušil reke neusahljive.

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

¹⁶Tvoj je dan, tvoja tudi noč, ti si napravil luč njeno in solnce.

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

¹⁷Ti si določil vse meje zemlji, poletje in zimo napravil si ti.

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

¹⁸Spomni se vendar, da je sovražnik sramotil GOSPODA in da ljudstvo nespametno zaničuje ime tvoje.

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

¹⁹Ne daj tisti zveri duše grlice svoje, krdela ubožcev svojih ne zabi vekomaj.

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

²⁰Ozri se na zavezo, ker po kotih dežele je polno bivališč silovitosti.

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

²¹Ponižanec naj se ne vrne osramočen, ubožec in siromak naj hvalita ime tvoje.

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

²²Vstani, o Bog; potegni se za pravdo svojo, spomni se zasramovanja, ki ti ga delajo nespametneži vsak dan.Ne pozabi glasu sovražnikov svojih, ropota vzpenjajočih se zoper tebe, ki se vedno vzdiguje kvišku.

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

²³Ne pozabi glasu sovražnikov svojih, ropota vzpenjajočih se zoper tebe, ki se vedno vzdiguje kvišku.

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