詩篇 17

1 【無辜者的懇禱】上主，請靜聽我的伸訴，俯聽我的呼號，請傾聽我出自絕虛偽唇舌的祈禱。

A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.

2 願我的案件在你面前判決，願你的眼睛細察何為清白!

My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.

3 任你考驗我的心靈，夜間來視察我，以火鍛鍊我，你總找不到我的邪惡。因我的口總未像人一樣犯了罪過。

You have proved my heart, You have inspected by night, You have tried me, You find nothing; My thoughts do not pass over my mouth.

4 我依照你的訓令，遵行法律的正道。

As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

5 我的雙腳緊隨了你的腳印，我的腳步決不致蹣跚不定。

To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.

6 天主，我向你呼號，請你回答我，求你側耳聽我，俯聽我的祈禱。

I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.

7 請你彰現你奇妙的慈愛，將投奔到你身右邊的人，從敵人的危害中救出來。

Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.

8 求你護衛我有如眼中的瞳仁，在你雙翼的庇護下叫我藏身，

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

9 使我脫離害我的暴民，及那企圖消滅我的仇人，

From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me.

10 他們關閉了鐵石的心腸，口中語言盡是誇大狂妄，

They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

11 他們的腳步現已把我緊逼，瞪著眼務要將我推倒在地。

“Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.

12 他們好似急於掠食的猛獅，他們又如伏在暗處的壯獅。

His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

13 上主，起來迎擊制服我的仇讎，上主揮動利劍救我脫離惡徒。

Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword,

14 上主，求你親手將他們治死，殺死他們，使他們離開此世，滅絕他們，使他們不再呼吸。求你使義人享用你的財富，使他們的子女也心滿意足，再把剩餘的給自己的子女。

From men, Your hand, O YHWH, From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, They are satisfied [with] sons, And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

15 我因我的正義能享見你的聖顏，我醒來得能盡情欣賞你的慈面

I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!