¹Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

¹大卫的诗。耶和华啊！与我相争的，求你与他们相争；与我作战的，求你与他们作战。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）

²Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

²求你紧握大小的盾牌，起来帮助我。

³Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

³拔出矛枪战斧，迎击那些追赶我的；求你对我说：“我是你的拯救。”

⁴Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

⁴愿那些寻索我命的，蒙羞受辱；愿设计陷害我的，退后羞愧。

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

⁵愿他们像风前的糠秕，有耶和华的使者驱逐他们。

⁶Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

⁶愿他们的路又暗又滑，有耶和华的使者追赶他们。

⁷For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

⁷因为他们无故为我暗设网罗，无故挖坑要陷害我的性命。

⁸Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

⁸愿毁灭在不知不觉间临到他身上，愿他暗设的网罗缠住自己，愿他落在其中遭毁灭。

⁹My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

⁹我的心必因耶和华快乐，因他的救恩高兴。

¹⁰All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

¹⁰我全身的骨头都要说：“耶和华啊！有谁像你呢？你搭救困苦的人，脱离那些比他强盛的；搭救困苦和穷乏的人，脱离那些抢夺他的。”

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

¹¹强暴的见证人起来，盘问我所不知道的事。

¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

¹²他们对我以恶报善，使我孤苦无依。

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

¹³至于我，他们有病的时候，我就穿上麻衣，禁食刻苦己心；我心里也不住地祷告（“我心里也不住地祷告”原文作“我的祷告都回到自己的怀中”）。

¹⁴I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

¹⁴我往来奔走，看他们像自己的朋友兄弟；我哀痛屈身，如同哀悼母亲。

¹⁵But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

¹⁵但我跌倒的时候，他们竟聚集一起欢庆；我素不相识的聚集一起攻击我，他们不住地欺凌我。

¹⁶Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹⁶他们以最粗鄙的话讥笑我（本句按照《马索拉抄本》应作“他们好像筵席上狂妄的讥笑者”；现参照《七十士译本》翻译），向我咬牙切齿。

¹⁷Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

¹⁷主啊！你还要看多久？求你救我的性命脱离他们的残害，救我的生命脱离少壮狮子。

¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

¹⁸我要在大会中称谢你，我要在众民中赞美你。

¹⁹Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

¹⁹求你不容那些无理与我为敌的，向我夸耀；不让那些无故恨我的，向我挤眼。

²⁰For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

²⁰因为他们不说和睦的话，却计划诡诈的事，陷害世上的安静人。

²¹Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

²¹他们张大嘴巴攻击我，说：“啊哈！啊哈！我们亲眼看见了。”

²²You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

²²耶和华啊！你已经看见了，求你不要缄默；主啊！求你不要远离我。

²³Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

²³我的　神，我的主啊！求你激动醒起，为我伸冤辩护。

²⁴Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

²⁴耶和华我的　神啊！求你按着你的公义判断我，不容他们向我夸耀。

²⁵Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

²⁵不要让他们心里说：“啊哈！这正是我们的心愿！”不要让他们说：“我们把他吞下去了！”

²⁶Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

²⁶愿那些喜欢我遭难的，一同蒙羞抱愧；愿那些对我妄自尊大的，都披上惭愧和耻辱。

²⁷Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

²⁷愿那些喜悦我冤屈昭雪的，都欢呼快乐；愿他们不住地说：“要尊耶和华为大，他喜悦他的仆人平安。”

²⁸我的舌头要述说你的公义，终日赞美你。