詩篇 42

1 科辣黑後裔的訓誨，交與樂官。 天主，我的心靈渴慕你，好像牝鹿渴慕溪水。

TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. As a deer pants for streams of water, So my soul pants toward You, O God.

2 我的心靈渴慕天主，生活的天主：我何時能目睹天主的儀容？

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

3 有人終日向我說：你的天主在那裏？我的眼淚竟變成了我晝夜的飲食。

My tear has been bread day and night to me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”

4 我想起昔日周旋在歡樂的群眾裏，在群眾歡呼讚頌的歌聲裏，他們朝覲天主聖殿時，我的心不免感到憂傷哀悲，

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the shelter, I go softly with them to the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping celebration!

5 我的靈魂，你為何悲傷，為何憂苦？期望天主！因為我還要向祂頌祝，因為祂是我的救援，我的天主。

Why bow yourself, O my soul? Indeed, are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him: The salvation of my countenance—my God!

6 我自約旦地，從赫爾孟山，由小丘陵，一想起你來，我的靈魂即惴惴不寧。

My soul bows itself in me, Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.

7 在你瀑布的巨聲下，深淵與深淵哈唱；你所有的洪濤巨浪，都沖擊在我身上。

Deep is calling to deep At the noise of Your waterspouts, All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.

8 但願上主在白晝頒賜祂的恩愛慈惠，我夜間向賜我生命的天主歌頌讚美！

By day YHWH commands His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

9 我對天主說：我的磐石你為何將我遺忘？為何我應常在仇人的壓迫下徘徊沮喪？

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”

10 我仇敵欺凌我時，我覺得痛入骨髓，他們終日對我說：「你的天主在那裏？」

With a sword in my bones My adversaries have reproached me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”

11 我的靈魂，你為何悲傷，為何憂苦？期望天主！因為我還要向祂頌祝，因為天主是我的救援，是我的天主

Why bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!