Psalms 73

1 A Psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!

阿撒夫的詩歌。

2 But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

天主待正直的人多麼美善，上主對心裏潔淨的人亦然！

3 For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

我的腳幾乎要跌跤，我的腳險些要滑倒，

4 For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and [they have] firmness under their affliction.

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 troubles of [other] men; and they shall not be scourged with [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 has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

他們沒有別人所受的憂傷，也沒有常人所遭遇的災殃。

7 Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.

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 taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

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 has gone through upon the earth.

他們譏諷嘲弄，言惡語狂，他們欺壓恐嚇蠻橫倔強；

10 Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them.

用自己的口褻瀆上天，以自己的舌詆毀塵寰。

11 And they said, How does 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] the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

且說：天主豈能知悉，難道至高者能理會？

13 And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

看，這些人為非作歹，常享平安，積存錢財，

14 For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof [was] every morning.

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] have broken covenant with the generation of your children.

我時時遭受鞭擊，也天天遇到責斥。

16 And I undertook to understand this, [but] it is too hard for me,

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 so] understand the latter end.

我愈設法了解這事，我愈覺得神妙莫測。

18 Surely you have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings: you have cast them down when they were lifted up.

直到我接近天主的奧妙，直到我注意他們的結果。

19 How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because 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 one awakening, O Lord, in your city you will despise their image.

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 has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened.

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 But I [was] vile and knew not: I became brutish before you.

幾時我的心靈遭受酸苦，刺痛也會進入我的肺腑。

23 Yet I am continually with you: you have holden my right hand.

原來是我愚昧毫無理性，在您面前竟燃好像畜牲。

24 You have guided me by your counsel, and you have taken me to yourself with glory.

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 [but you]? and what have I desired upon the earth beside you?

您要以您的聖訓來領導我，最後引我進入您的榮耀。

26 My heart and my flesh have failed: [but] God [is the strength] of my heart, and God 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 remove themselves far from you shall perish: you have destroyed every one that goes a whoring from you.

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 cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all your 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。