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。

“To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.” I said, I will guard my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, 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 in deep silence, I was quite still, even from [speaking] good; but my pain was greatly excited;

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, in my self-communing there burnt a fire: [then] spoke 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。

Let me know, O Lord, my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I wish to know when I shall cease to be.

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, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. (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。

As nothing but a shadowy image doth man walk about, yea, for vanity only do all make a noise: he heapeth up his gains, 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, what shall I wait for, O Lord? 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。

From all my transgressions deliver thou me: render me not the object of reproach of the worthless.

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 hadst done 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 thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed.

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 corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as [if eaten by] the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. (Selah)

12 我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears; for a stranger am I with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

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。

Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.