10 1-2 God, are you avoiding me?
    Where are you when I need you?
Full of hot air, the wicked
    are hot on the trail of the poor.
Trip them up, tangle them up
    in their fine-tuned plots.

3-4 The wicked are windbags,
    the swindlers have foul breath.
The wicked snub God,
    their noses stuck high in the air.
Their graffiti are scrawled on the walls:
    “Catch us if you can!” “God is dead.”

5-6 They care nothing for what you think;
    if you get in their way, they blow you off.
They live (they think) a charmed life:
    “We can’t go wrong. This is our lucky year!”

7-8 They carry a mouthful of spells,
    their tongues spit venom like adders.
They hide behind ordinary people,
    then pounce on their victims.

They mark the luckless,
    then wait like a hunter in a blind;
When the poor wretch wanders too close,
    they stab him in the back.

10-11 The hapless fool is kicked to the ground,
    the unlucky victim is brutally axed.
He thinks God has dumped him,
    he’s sure that God is indifferent to his plight.

12-13 Time to get up, God—get moving.
    The luckless think they’re Godforsaken.
They wonder why the wicked scorn God
    and get away with it,
Why the wicked are so cocksure
    they’ll never come up for audit.

14 But you know all about it—
    the contempt, the abuse.
I dare to believe that the luckless
    will get lucky someday in you.
You won’t let them down:
    orphans won’t be orphans forever.

15-16 Break the wicked right arms,
    break all the evil left arms.
Search and destroy
    every sign of crime.
God’s grace and order wins;
    godlessness loses.

17-18 The victim’s faint pulse picks up;
    the hearts of the hopeless pump red blood
    as you put your ear to their lips.
Orphans get parents,
    the homeless get homes.
The reign of terror is over,
    the rule of the gang lords is ended.

祈求 神究治恶人

10 耶和华啊!你为甚么远远地站着?在患难的时候,你为甚么隐藏起来呢?

恶人骄横地追逼困苦人,

愿恶人陷入自己所设的阴谋中。

恶人夸耀心中的欲望,

他称赞贪财的人,却藐视耶和华(“他称赞贪财的人,却藐视耶和华”或译:“贪财的人谤渎耶和华,并藐视他”)。

恶人面带骄傲,说:“耶和华必不追究!”

在他的一切思想中,都没有 神。

他的道路时常稳妥,

你的判断高超,他却不放在眼内;

他对所有的仇敌都嗤之以鼻。

他心里说:“我必永不摇动,

我决不会遭遇灾难。”

他口里充满咒诅、诡诈和欺压的话,

舌头底下尽是毒害与奸恶。

他在村庄里埋伏等候,

在隐密处杀害无辜的人,

他的眼睛暗地里窥探不幸的人。

他在隐密处埋伏,像狮子埋伏在丛林中;

他埋伏要掳走困苦人,

他把困苦人拉入自己的网中,掳走了他们。

10 他击打,他屈身蹲伏,

不幸的人就倒在他的爪下。

11 他心里说:“ 神已经忘记了,

他已经掩面,永远不看。”

12 耶和华啊!求你起来;

 神啊!求你举起手来,

不要忘记困苦的人。

13 恶人为甚么藐视 神,

心里说:“你必不追究”呢?

14 其实你已经看见了,

忧患与愁苦你都已经看到,并且放在自己的手中;

不幸的人把自己交托你;

你是帮助孤儿的。

15 愿你打断恶人和坏人的膀臂,

愿你追究他们的恶行,直到清清楚楚。

16 耶和华作王直到永永远远,

列国都从他的地上灭亡。

17 耶和华啊!困苦人的心愿你已经听见,

你必坚固他们的心,也必留心听他们的呼求;

18 好为孤儿和受欺压的人伸冤,

使地上的人不再施行恐吓。

Psalm 10[a]

Why, Lord, do you stand far off?(A)
    Why do you hide yourself(B) in times of trouble?

In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,(C)
    who are caught in the schemes he devises.
He boasts(D) about the cravings of his heart;
    he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.(E)
In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
    in all his thoughts there is no room for God.(F)
His ways are always prosperous;
    your laws are rejected by[b] him;
    he sneers at all his enemies.
He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.”
    He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”(G)

His mouth is full(H) of lies and threats;(I)
    trouble and evil are under his tongue.(J)
He lies in wait(K) near the villages;
    from ambush he murders the innocent.(L)
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
    like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;(M)
    he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.(N)
10 His victims are crushed,(O) they collapse;
    they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, “God will never notice;(P)
    he covers his face and never sees.”(Q)

12 Arise,(R) Lord! Lift up your hand,(S) O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.(T)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(U)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?(V)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(W) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(X)
    you are the helper(Y) of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man;(Z)
    call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
    that would not otherwise be found out.

16 The Lord is King for ever and ever;(AA)
    the nations(AB) will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;(AC)
    you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,(AD)
18 defending the fatherless(AE) and the oppressed,(AF)
    so that mere earthly mortals
    will never again strike terror.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:1 Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
  2. Psalm 10:5 See Septuagint; Hebrew / they are haughty, and your laws are far from