Psalms 73
1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
阿撒夫的詩歌。
2 But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
天主待正直的人多麼美善，上主對心裏潔淨的人亦然！
3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
我的腳幾乎要跌跤，我的腳險些要滑倒，
4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
因我看見惡人安寧幸福，就對驕橫的人心生嫉妒。
5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
原來他們總沒有受過重創，所以他們的身體健康肥胖；
6 Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
他們沒有別人所受的憂傷，也沒有常人所遭遇的災殃。
7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
故此，驕傲纏繞他們相似項鍊，殘暴遮蔽他們有如衣衫。
8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
他們的邪惡，出自肥胖的心田，讓他們自己的惡念，肆意氾濫。
9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
他們譏諷嘲弄，言惡語狂，他們欺壓恐嚇蠻橫倔強；
10 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
用自己的口褻瀆上天，以自己的舌詆毀塵寰。
11 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
因此我的百姓向他們依歸，滿口啜飲由他們供給的水，
12 Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
且說：天主豈能知悉，難道至高者能理會？
13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
看，這些人為非作歹，常享平安，積存錢財，
14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
的確，我白白清心寡欲，我徒然洗手表白無辜。
15 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
我時時遭受鞭擊，也天天遇到責斥。
16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
我若想：我說話若與他們相同，就等於放棄與您子民為同宗。
17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
我愈設法了解這事，我愈覺得神妙莫測。
18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
直到我接近天主的奧妙，直到我注意他們的結果。
19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
您的確將他們置於坡路，讓他們滑倒於消滅之途。
20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
他們瞬息之間變得如此悽涼，他們因受驚過度而從此滅亡。
21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
上主，世人睡醒，怎樣了解夢境；您醒時，也怎樣看他們的幻影。
22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
幾時我的心靈遭受酸苦，刺痛也會進入我的肺腑。
23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
原來是我愚昧毫無理性，在您面前竟燃好像畜牲。
24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
但以後，我要常與您同處，您已經握住了我的右手。
25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
您要以您的聖訓來領導我，最後引我進入您的榮耀。
26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
在天上除您以外，為我還能有誰﹖在地上除您以外，為我一無所喜。
27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
我的肉身和我的心靈，雖以憔瘁；天主卻永是我心的福分和磐石。
28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
看，遠離您的人必將趨於沉淪。您必消滅一切背棄您的人民。 親近天主對我是多麼的美好：只有上主天主是我的避難所。我要在熙雍女子門前，把您一切的工程宣傳。
