詩篇 138

1 上主，我要全心稱謝您，因您俯聽了我的懇祈。我要在眾神前歌頌您，

I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

2 朝您的聖所伏地致敬；為了您的仁慈至誠，我必要稱謝您的聖名；因為您把您的名號和您的諾言，在萬物與萬民的面前發揚彰顯，

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

3 我幾時呼號您，您就俯允我，並將我靈魂上的力量增多。

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

4 地上萬君聽您口的諭旨；上主，他們都必來讚頌您，

All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Yhwh, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

5 並歌頌上主的作為說：上主的光耀偉大無比！

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of Yhwh: for great is the glory of Yhwh.

6 上主尊高無比，仍垂顧弱小，惟對驕傲的人，卻遠遠旁眺。

Though Yhwh be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

7 我若處於因難中，您必保全我的性命，您用右手救我，伸手拒抗仇人的憤恨。

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

8 上主必替我完成這工程；上主，您的仁慈永遠常存，求您不要放棄您的作品。

Yhwh will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Yhwh, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.