1 I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
3 Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.
7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.
11 He has turned away my path,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14 I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
18 I said, "My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh."
19 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
20 My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
21 This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope.
22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.
23 They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
24 "Yahweh is my portion," says my soul.
"Therefore I will hope in him."
25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33 For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 "We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.
43 "You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.
46 "All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction."
48 My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
50 until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
51 My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city.
52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
54 Waters flowed over my head.
I said, "I am cut off."
55 I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
56 You heard my voice:
"Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry."
57 You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, "Don’t be afraid."
58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
62 the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.
64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
66 You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
1 我是在耶和华忿怒的杖下受过苦的人。
2 他领我， 使我行在黑暗中， 不行在光明里。
3 他真是终日不停地反手攻击我。
4 他使我的肌肤衰残， 折断我的骨头。
5 他筑垒围困我， 使毒害和艰难环绕我。
6 他使我住在黑暗之处， 好像死了许久的人一样。
7 他筑墙围住我， 使我不能逃出去； 他又加重我的钢链。
8 甚至我哀求呼救的时候， 他也掩耳不听我的祷告。
9 他用砍凿好的石头堵塞我的道路， 他使我的路径曲折。
10 他像熊埋伏着， 又像狮子在藏匿的地方， 等候攻击我。
11 他把我拖离大路， 把我撕碎， 弃我于荒野。
12 他拉开了他的弓， 立我作箭靶子。
13 他把他箭囊中的箭， 射进我的肺腑。
14 我成了众民讥笑的对象， 他们终日以我为歌嘲讽我。
15 他使我饱尝苦菜， 饱享苦堇。
16 他用沙石使我的牙齿破碎， 把我践踏在灰尘中。
17 你使我失去了平安， 我已忘记了福乐是什么。
18 所以我说： "我的力量已消失了， 我从耶和华所得的盼望也没有了。"
19 回忆起我的困苦飘流， 就像是苦堇和毒草。
20 每逢我的心想起往事， 我的心就消沉。
21 但我的心一想起下面这件事， 我就有指望。
22 耶和华的慈爱永不断绝， 他的怜悯永不止息。
23 每天早晨都是新的； 你的信实多么广大！
24 我心里说： "耶和华是我的业分， 所以， 我必仰望他。"
25 耶和华善待等候他的和心里寻求他的人。
26 安静等候耶和华的救恩， 是多么的美好！
27 人在幼年时就负轭， 是多么的美好！
28 他要无言独坐， 因为这是耶和华加在他身上的。
29 他要把自己的口埋于尘土中， 或者还有盼望。
30 他要让人打他的脸颊， 要饱受凌辱。
31 主必不会永远丢弃人。
32 他虽然使人忧愁， 却必照着他丰盛的慈爱施怜悯。
33 因为他心里本不是要人受困苦， 或是要世人愁苦。
34 人把地上所有被囚的， 都践踏在脚下，
35 或在至高者面前， 屈枉正直，
36 或在诉讼的事上颠倒是非， 主不都看见吗？
37 除非主命定， 谁能说成， 就成了呢？
38 或祸或福， 不都是出于至高者的口吗？
39 人活在世上， 因自己的罪受惩罚， 为什么发怨言呢？
40 我们要检讨和省察自己的行为， 然后归向耶和华。
41 我们要向天上的 神， 诚心举手祷告：
42 "我们犯罪悖逆， 你并不赦免。
43 你被怒气笼罩着， 你追赶我们， 杀戮我们， 毫不顾惜。
44 你用密云把自己遮蔽起来， 以致我们的祷告不能达到你那里。
45 你使我们在万族中， 成了渣滓和废物。
46 我们所有的仇敌， 都张开口攻击我们。
47 我们遭遇的， 只是恐惧、陷阱、毁坏和灭亡。"
48 我的眼泪像江河流下， 都因我的人民的灭亡。
49 我的眼泪涌流不停， 总不止息，
50 直到耶和华垂顾， 从天上关注。
51 因眼见我城中众民的遭遇， 我的心很痛苦。
52 那些无故与我为敌的人追捕我， 像追捕雀鸟一样。
53 他们把我投在坑中要结束我的性命， 又把石头拋在我身上；
54 水淹过我的头， 我说： "我要死了！ "
55 耶和华啊， 我从坑的最深处呼求你的名，
56 你曾经垂听我的声音， 现在求你不要掩耳不听我求救的呼声。
57 我每逢呼求你的时候， 你就靠近我， 说： "不要惧怕！ "
58 主啊！ 你为我的案件申辩， 赎回了我的性命。
59 耶和华啊， 你看见了我的冤屈， 求你为我主持公道。
60 你已看见了他们种种的仇恨， 以及所有害我的阴谋。
61 耶和华啊！ 你已听见了他们的辱骂， 以及所有害我的计谋；
62 你也听见了那些起来攻击我的人嘴里的话， 以及他们终日要攻击我的企图。
63 你看， 他们或坐下或起来， 我都成了他们歌唱嘲笑的对象。
64 耶和华啊！ 求你按着他们手所作的， 报应他们！
65 求你使他们的心顽梗， 愿你的咒诅临到他们。
66 求你在烈怒中追赶他们， 从耶和华管治的普天之下除灭他们。