耶和华阿,求你应允我,怜恤我。耶和华阿,求你帮助我。
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
你已将我的哀哭变为跳舞,将我的麻衣脱去,给我披上喜乐。
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
雅基的儿子亚古珥的言语,就是真言。
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
这人对以铁和乌甲说,我比众人更蠢笨,也没有人的聪明。
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
我没有学好智慧。也不认识至圣者。
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
神的言语,句句都是炼净的,投靠他的,他便作他们的盾牌。
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
他的言语,你不可加添。恐怕他责备你,你就显为说谎言的。
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
我求你两件事,在我未死之先,不要不赐给我。
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
恐怕我饱足不认你,说,耶和华是谁呢。又恐怕我贫穷就偷窃,以致亵渎我神的名。
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
有一宗人,(宗原文作代下同)咒诅父亲,不给母亲祝福。
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.