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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have heard my voice; do not hide / Your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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 drew near in the day that I called upon You; / You said, Do not fear.
我呼求你的日子，你临近我，说，不要惧怕。

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

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

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

You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, / 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，

The lips of those who rise up against me / And their meditation against me all the day.
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。

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

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

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

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