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. For Jeduthun. A Melody of David. I said, [to myself, ] I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue, —I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless 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, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been 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：

Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake 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 Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days—what it is, I would know how short-lived 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。

Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, —Surely, a mere breath, are all men, [even] such as stand firm. (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 as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in.

7 我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

Now, therefore, for what have I waited, O My 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, rescue thou me, —The reproach of the base, oh do not make me!

9 我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

I am dumb, I cannot open my mouth, for, thou, hast 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 from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility 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, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. (Selah)

12 我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, —For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, 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。

Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.