詩篇 39

1 達味詩歌，交與樂官耶杜通。 我已決定：我要謹遵我的道路，免得我以口舌犯罪，當惡人在我面前時，我以口罩籠住我嘴。

For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

2 我默不作聲，以免口出惡語，但我的痛楚更因此而加劇。

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

3 我的心在腔滾滾沸騰，我愈沉思愈覺得烈火如焚；我的舌頭便不耐煩地說：

My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; [Then] spake I with my tongue:

4 上主，求你明白啟示我：我的終期和壽數究有幾何，好使我知道我是何等脆弱。

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

5 你使我的歲月屈指可數，我的生命在你前算是虛無。世人的生存只是一口呵噓。

Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. (Selah)

6 人生實如泡影，只是白白操勞，他們所有積蓄不知誰來得到。

Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7 我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.

8 救你救我脫離我的種種罪愆，不要使我受愚人的恥笑侮慢。

Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9 我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

10 求你由我身上去這場災患，因你手的打擊，我已消瘦不堪。

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

11 你為了罰罪而把世人懲治，你像蛀蟲將他的珍寶侵蝕；至於人，不過只是一口氣。上主，求你俯聽我的祈禱，求你側耳靜聽我的哀告，莫要作聾不聽我的哭號。因為

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. (Selah)

12 我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 求你轉移你的目光，不要怒視我，使我一去不返之前能得享安樂。

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.