Psalms

（大衛的金詩，交與伶長。調用休要毀壞。）世人哪，你們默然不語，真合公義麼？施行審判，豈按正直麼？

[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? {Altaschith...: or, Destroy not} {Michtam: or, A golden Psalm}

不然！你們是心中作惡；你們在地上秤出你們手所行的強暴。

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

惡人一出母胎就與神疏遠，一離母腹便走錯路，說謊話。

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}

他們的毒氣好像蛇的毒氣；他們好像塞耳的聾虺，

Their poison {is} like the poison of a serpent: {they are} like the deaf adder {that} stoppeth her ear; {like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc} {adder: or, asp}

不聽行法術的聲音，雖用極靈的咒語也是不聽。

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. {charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning}

神啊，求你敲碎他們口中的牙；耶和華啊，求你敲掉少壯獅子的大牙！

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

願他們消滅，如急流的水一般；他們瞅準射箭的時候，願箭頭彷彿砍斷。

Let them melt away as waters {which} run continually: {when} he bendeth {his bow to shoot} his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

願他們像蝸牛消化過去，又像婦人墜落未見天日的胎。

As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.

你們用荊棘燒火，鍋還未熱，他要用旋風把青的和燒著的一齊颳去。

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in {his} wrath. {both...: Heb. as living as wrath}

義人見仇敵遭報就歡喜，要在惡人的血中洗腳。

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

因此，人必說：義人誠然有善報；在地上果有施行判斷的神！

So that a man shall say, Verily {there is} a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. {a reward...: Heb. fruit of the, etc}