我是因耶和华忿怒的杖，遇见困苦的人。
I am the man who has seen affliction / By the rod of His wrath.

祂驱赶我，使我行在黑暗中，不行在光明里。
He has driven me and brought me / Into darkness and not light.

祂真是终日再三反手攻击我。
Surely against me He has turned His hand / Again and again all the day.

祂使我的皮肉消损；祂折断了我的骨头。
He has wasted my flesh and my skin; / He has broken my bones.

祂筑垒攻击我，用苦胆和艰难围困我。
He has built up a siege against me / And encircled me with gall and travail.

祂使我住在幽暗之处，像死了许久的人一样。
He has made me dwell in dark places, / Like those who have long been dead.

祂筑墙围住我，使我不能出去；祂使我的铜链沉重。
He has walled me about so that I cannot go forth; / He has made my bronze chain heavy.

我哀号求救时，祂塞闭不听我的祷告。
Indeed, when I cry out and call for help, / He shuts out my prayer.

祂用凿过的石头，筑墙挡住我的道路；祂使我的路径弯曲。
He has walled in my ways with hewn stone; / He has made my paths crooked.

祂向我如熊埋伏，如狮子在隐密处。
He is to me like a bear lying in wait, / Like a lion in hidden places.

祂使我转离正路，将我撕碎，使我凄凉。
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; / He has made me desolate.

祂张弓将我当作箭靶。
He bent His bow / And set me as a target for the arrow.

祂把箭袋中的箭，射入我的肺腑。
He has caused the arrows of His quiver / To enter my inward parts.

我成了众民的笑话，成了他们终日嘲笑的歌曲。
I have become a derision to all my people, / Their mocking song all the day.

祂使苦楚充满我，使我喝足茵陈。
He has filled me with bitterness; / He has made me drunk with wormwood.

祂又用沙石碜断我的牙，用灰尘将我蒙盖。
He has also crushed my teeth with gravel; / He has covered me with ashes.

你使我的魂远离平安；我忘记了好处。
And You have removed my soul far from peace; / I have forgotten prosperity.

我就说，我的力量衰败，我在耶和华那里，毫无指望。
And I said, My strength has perished / As well as my hope in Jehovah.

耶和华啊，求你记念我如茵陈和苦胆的困苦流离。
Remember my affliction and my wandering, / The wormwood and the gall.

我的魂反复想念这些，就在里面消沉。
My soul remembers them well / And is bowed down within me.

我的心回想这事，我就有指望。
This I recall to my heart; / Therefore I have hope.

我们不至消灭，是出于耶和华的慈爱，因祂的怜恤不至断绝；
It is Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed, / For His compassions do not fail;

每早晨这些都是新的；你的信实，极其广大。
They are new every morning; / Great is Your faithfulness.

我的魂说，耶和华是我的分；因此，我要仰望祂。
Jehovah is my portion, says my soul; / Therefore I hope in Him.

等候耶和华，心里寻求祂的，耶和华必善待他。
Jehovah is good to those who wait on Him, / To the soul that seeks Him.

人仰望且静默等候耶和华的救恩，这原是好的。
It is good for one to hope, and to do so in silence, / For the salvation of Jehovah.

人在幼年负轭，这原是好的。
It is good for a man to bear / The yoke in his youth.

他当独坐静默，因为这是耶和华加在他身上的。
Let him sit alone and be silent, / Because He has laid it upon him.

他当口贴尘埃，或者还有指望。
Let him put his mouth in the dust — / Perhaps there is hope.

他当由人打他的腮颊；他当满受凌辱。
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; / Let him be filled with reproach.

因为主必不永远丢弃人。
For the Lord will not / Cast off forever.

主虽使人忧愁，还要照祂诸般的慈爱发怜恤。
But even if He causes grief, He will have compassion / According to the multitude of His lovingkindness;

因为祂并不存心使人受苦，使世人忧愁。
For He does not afflict willingly / Or grieve the children of men.

人将地上一切被囚的，都压在脚下，
The crushing under his foot / Of all the prisoners of the earth,

在至高者面前屈枉人，
The turning aside of the justice due a man / Before the face of the Most High,

在人的讼事上，颠倒是非──主岂不看这些么？
The wronging of a man in his cause — / Will not the Lord see all these?

主未曾命令的，谁能说了就成呢？
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, / What the Lord has not commanded?

祸福不都出于至高者的口么？
Out of the mouth of the Most High / Do there not proceed evil things and something good?

活人为何抱怨？人为何因自己的罪受罚发怨言？
Why does a living man complain, / A man for the punishment of his sins?

我们当探究察验自己的道路，再归向耶和华。
Let us examine our ways and try them, / And let us turn again to Jehovah.

我们当举起心，向天上的神举手祷告。
Let us lift up our heart with our hands / Unto God in the heavens.

我们犯罪背叛，你并不饶恕。
We have transgressed and rebelled; / You have not pardoned.

你以怒气遮蔽自己，追赶我们。你施行杀戮，并不顾惜。
You have covered Yourself with anger and have pursued us; / You have slain; You have not spared.

你用云遮蔽自己，以致祷告不得透过。
You have covered Yourself with a cloud / That prayer might not pass through.

你使我们在众民中成为污秽和渣滓。
You have made us offscouring and refuse / In the midst of the peoples.

我们的仇敌，都张口攻击我们。
All our enemies have opened / Their mouths against us.

恐惧和陷坑，残害和毁灭，都临及我们。
Fear and the pit are upon us, / Devastation and destruction.

因我民被毁灭，我就眼泪流下如河。
My eye runs down with streams of water / For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

我的眼泪倾流不停，总不止息，
My eye pours forth and does not stop; / There is no cessation,

直等耶和华垂顾，从天观看。
Until Jehovah looks down / And sees from the heavens.

因我本城的民，我的眼使我的魂伤痛。
My eye pains my soul / Because of all the daughters of my city.

无故与我为敌的追捕我，像追捕雀鸟一样。
They have hunted me down like a bird, / They who are my enemies without cause.

他们使我的命在坑中断绝，又抛石头在我身上。
They have brought my life to its end in the pit / And have thrown a stone upon me.

水流过我的头；我说，我被剪除了。
Water streamed over my head; / I said, I have been cut off.

耶和华啊，我从极深的坑里呼求你的名。
I called upon Your name, O Jehovah, / From the lowest pit.

你曾听见我的声音；求你不要掩耳不听我的呼吸，我的呼吁。
You have heard my voice; do not hide / Your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

我呼求你的日子，你临近我，说，不要惧怕。
You drew near in the day that I called upon You; / You said, Do not fear.

主啊，你伸明了我魂里的冤；你救赎了我的命。
Lord, You have pleaded my soul's case; / You have redeemed my life.

耶和华啊，你见了我受的委屈；求你为我伸冤。
You have seen, O Jehovah, my oppression; / Judge my cause.

他们向我报仇，设谋害我，你都看见了。
You have seen all their vengeance, / All their plans, against me.

耶和华啊，你听见他们辱骂我的话，知道他们向我所设的一切计谋，
You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, / All their plans against me,

并那些起来攻击我的人口中所说的话，以及终日所默想害我的计谋。
The lips of those who rise up against me / And their meditation against me all the day.

求你观看：他们坐下、起来；我成了他们嘲笑的歌曲。
Look upon their sitting down and their rising up; / I am their mocking song.

耶和华啊，你要按着他们手所作的，向他们施行报应。
You will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, / According to the work of their hands.

你要使他们的心刚硬，使你的咒诅临到他们。
You will give them hardness of heart; / Your curse be upon them.

你要在怒中追赶他们，从耶和华的天下除灭他们。
You will pursue them in anger and will destroy them / From under the heavens of Jehovah.