| | 1 | （困苦人发昏的时候，在耶和华面前吐露苦情的祷告。）耶和华阿，求你听我的祷告，容我的呼求达到你面前。
A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you. | |
| | 2 | 我在急难的日子，求你向我侧耳，不要向我掩面。我呼求的日子，求你快快应允我。
Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. | |
| | 3 | 因为，我的年日如烟云消灭，我的骨头，如火把烧着。
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. | |
| | 4 | 我的心被伤，如草枯干，甚至我忘记吃饭。
My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. | |
| | 5 | 因我唉哼的声音，我的肉紧贴骨头。
Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones. | |
| | 6 | 我如同旷野的鹈鹕。我好像荒场的鸮鸟。
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. | |
| | 7 | 我儆醒不睡。我像房顶上孤单的麻雀。
I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof. | |
| | 8 | 我的仇敌终日辱骂我。向我猖狂的人指着我赌咒。
All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse. | |
| | 9 | 我吃过炉灰，如同吃饭。我所喝的与眼泪搀杂。
For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears | |
| | 10 | 这都因你的恼恨和忿怒。你把我拾起来，又把我摔下去。
because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside. | |
| | 11 | 我的年日，如日影偏斜。我也如草枯干。
My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass. | |
| | 12 | 惟你耶和华必存到永远。你可记念的名，也存到万代。
But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations. | |
| | 13 | 你必起来怜恤锡安，因现在是可怜她的时候。日期已经到了。
You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come. | |
| | 14 | 你的仆人原来喜悦她的石头，可怜她的尘土。
For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity. | |
| | 15 | 列国要敬畏耶和华的名。世上诸王都敬畏你的荣耀。
The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory. | |
| | 16 | 因为耶和华建造了锡安，在他荣耀里显现。
For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory. | |
| | 17 | 他垂听穷人的祷告，并不藐视他们的祈求。
He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea. | |
| | 18 | 这必为后代的人记下。将来受造的民，要赞美耶和华。
Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD: | |
| | 19 | 因为他从至高的圣所垂看。耶和华从天向地观察。
"The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth, | |
| | 20 | 要垂听被囚之人的叹息。要释放将要死的人。
to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death." | |
| | 21 | 使人在锡安传扬耶和华的名，在耶路撒冷传扬赞美他的话。
So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem | |
| | 22 | 就是在万民和列国聚会事奉耶和华的时候。
when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD. | |
| | 23 | 他使我的力量，中道衰弱，使我的年日短少。
In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days. | |
| | 24 | 我说，我的神阿，不要使我中年去世。你的年数世世无穷。
So I said: "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations. | |
| | 25 | 你起初立了地的根基。天也是你手所造的。
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. | |
| | 26 | 天地都要灭没，你却要长存。天地都要如外衣渐渐旧了。你要将天地如里衣更换，天地就改变了。
They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. | |
| | 27 | 惟有你永不改变。你的年数，没有穷尽。
But you remain the same, and your years will never end. | |
| | 28 | 你仆人的子孙要长存。他们的后裔，要坚立在你面前。
The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you." | |
