詩篇 140

1 上主，求您救拔我脫離兇惡的人； 上主，求您保護我脫離強暴的人！

Unto the end, a psalm for David. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.

2 他們心中策劃惡謀，他們終日挑撥爭鬥；

Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.

3 他們磨快自己的舌尖，有如蛇蝮，他們的雙脣的下面，含有蛇毒。 （休止）

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.

4 上主，求您拯救我脫離兇惡的人；上主，求您保護我擺脫強暴的人，因他們企圖要我腳步滑倒。

Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps.

5 驕傲人給我暗暗設網羅，張起繩索作為圈套，設下陷井等我路過。 （休止）

The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

6 我求上主說：您是我的天主；上主，求您聽我哀禱的苦訴！

I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

7 上主天主，您是我有力的救助，在作戰時，請您掩護我的頭顱。

O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

8 上主，求您不要順隨惡人的奢欲；上主，請不要完成他們的計謀。 （休止）

Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

9 願那些顯露頭而圍困我的人，出於他們口脣的詛咒，反歸己身。

The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.

10 願火降落在他們的身上，將他們拋入深坑免再高昂。

Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

11 搬弄是非的人，不得在世久存，災禍會突然使強暴的人被擒。

A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

12 我確知上主必為受壓迫的人伸冤，也必為貧窮的人主持正義的判斷。

I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

13 義人必定將您的聖名頌讚，善人必定居住在您的面前。

But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.