1.
"But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;"
惟愿神说话，愿他开口攻击你。
2.
"If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!"
惟愿我得着所求的，愿神赐我所切望的。
3.
But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
摩5:24惟愿公平如大水滚滚、公义如江河滔滔。
4.
"If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!"
惟愿我的景况如从前的月份，如神保守我的日子。
5.
"But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
惟愿公平如大水滚滚，使公义如江河滔滔。
6.
"If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!"
惟愿你们全然不作声。这就算为你们的智慧。
7.
"If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!"
惟愿他们有智慧，能明白这事，肯思念他们的结局。
8.
"If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!"
惟愿有一位肯听我。(看哪，在这里有我所划的押，愿全能者回答我)
9.
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
惟愿上帝赐与你天上的甘露，土地的肥沃，五谷美酒的丰裕！
10.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
2惟愿我在旷野有行路人住宿之处，使我可以离开我的民出去。
11.
"If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!"
惟愿你把我藏在阴间，存于隐密处，等你的忿怒过去。愿你为我定了日期，记念我。
12.
"May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!"
惟愿耶和华你们列祖的神使你们比如今更多千倍，照他所应许你们的话赐福与你们。
13.
NIV] I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
[和合]我心中不存忿怒，惟愿6荆棘蒺藜与我交战，我就勇往直前，把它一同焚烧。
14.
"If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!"
惟愿他们存这样的心敬畏我，常遵守我的一切诫命，使他们和他们的子孙永远得福。
15.
"For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!"
因为他是我们的神。我们是他草场的羊，是他手下的民。惟愿你们今天听他的话。
16.
"My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together."
我心中不存忿怒。惟愿荆棘蒺藜与我交战，我就勇往直前，把他一同焚烧。
17.
However, she could do nothing but pray quietly: " Heaven help us! Don't let people like that come again.
她心里默默地祷告着，惟愿老天保佑，不要再有这样的人跑来践踏她的菜地！
18.
The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of Commons alone.
税租是自愿捐献的赠款，惟有下议院才能接受。