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。

For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites. Like the hart which longs for brooks of water, I long for you, 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？

I thirst for God, for my living God. When shall I enter in, 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 tears have been my food by day and by night; for they say to me all the day long, ‘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，

My heart floods with sorrow, as I call to mind: how I used to pass on with the throng, at their head, to the house of God, with glad shouts and giving of thanks, in the throng who kept festival.

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 am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, 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。

I am sunk in my misery; I will therefore call you to mind from the land of Jordan and Hermon, the mountain 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。

Flood is calling to flood at the noise of your cataracts; all your waves and your breakers have 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！

In the day I cry to the Lord to summon his kindness; and the song that I sing in the night is a prayer to the living God.

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 must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?’

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？」

It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy’s taunts, as all the day long they say to me, ‘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 am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.