You have become cruel toward me. You use your power to persecute me.

你向我变心，待我残忍，又用大能追逼我，

你对我变得残忍，大能的手追逼我。

你对我变得残忍，大能的手追逼我。

你变得对我残酷无情，用你大能的手迫害我，

你变成待我残忍，用你大能的手迫害我，

你向我變心，待我殘忍，又用大能追逼我，

你對我變得殘忍，大能的手追逼我。

你對我變得殘忍，大能的手追逼我。

你變得對我殘酷無情，用你大能的手迫害我，

你變成待我殘忍，用你大能的手迫害我，

你變作以殘忍待我的了，你以大力的手逼迫我，

爾之於我、轉為殘酷、以手力迫我、

爾轉弗恤、以大力攻我。

主待我甚酷、以大力攻我、

You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.

You do mean things to me. You attack me with your mighty power.

You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.

You have turned against me with cruelty; you harass me with your strong hand.

You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You persecute me.

But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.

Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.

You have turned against me with cruelty; You harass me with Your strong hand.

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt.If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery.And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.

God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.People jeer and laugh at me. They slap my cheek in contempt. A mob gathers against me.God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.“ I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as his target,and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.

Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.

All your lovers— your allies— have left you and do not care about you anymore. I have wounded you cruelly, as though I were your enemy. For your sins are many, and your guilt is great.

Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?“ You write bitter accusations against me and bring up all the sins of my youth.You put my feet in stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.I waste away like rotting wood, like a moth eaten coat.

But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.“ I cry out,‘ Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will he never again be kind to me?Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he slammed the door on his compassion? Interlude

Would he use his great power to argue with me? No, he would give me a fair hearing.

Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?

So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.

If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you?Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.”