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，

By David. I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

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 bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

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 that I called, you answered me. You encouraged 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 will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

5 並歌頌上主的作為說：上主的光耀偉大無比！

Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, for Yahweh’s glory is great!

6 上主尊高無比，仍垂顧弱小，惟對驕傲的人，卻遠遠旁眺。

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

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 middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will 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。

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.