神阿,求你敲碎他们口中的牙。耶和华阿,求你敲掉少壮狮子的大牙。
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
我所拣选的禁食,不是要松开凶恶的绳,解下轭上的索,使被欺压的得自由,折断一切的轭吗。
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
(大卫的金诗,交与伶长,调用休要毁坏)世人哪,你们默然不语,真合公义吗。施行审判,岂按正直吗。
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
不然,你们是心中作恶。你们在地上秤出你们手所行的强暴。
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
恶人一出母胎,就与神疏远。一离母腹,便走错路,说谎话。
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
他们的毒气,好像蛇的毒气。他们好像塞耳的聋虺,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
愿他们消灭如急流的水一般。他们瞅准射箭的时候,愿箭头彷佛砍断。
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
愿他们像蜗牛消化过去,又像妇人坠落未见天日的胎。
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
他们天天寻求我,乐意明白我的道。好像行义的国民,不离弃他们神的典章,向我求问公义的判语,喜悦亲近神。
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
他们说,我们禁食,你为何不看见呢。我们刻苦己心,你为何不理会呢。看哪,你们禁食的日子,仍求利益,勒逼人为你们作苦工。
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.