诗篇 39
1 大卫的诗，交与伶长耶杜顿。 我曾说：我要谨慎我的言行， 免得我舌头犯罪； 恶人在我面前的时候， 我要用嚼环勒住我的口。
Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David. I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.
2 我默然无声，连好话也不出口； 我的愁苦就发动了，
I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
3 我的心在我里面发热。 我默想的时候，火就烧起， 我便用舌头说话。
My heart grew hot within me, and, during my (meditation) a fire would flare up.
4 耶和华啊，求你叫我晓得我身之终！ 我的寿数几何？ 叫我知道我的生命不长！
I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”
5 你使我的年日窄如手掌； 我一生的年数，在你面前如同无有。 各人最稳妥的时候，真是全然虚幻。 (细拉)
Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.
6 世人行动实系幻影。 他们忙乱，真是枉然； 积蓄财宝，不知将来有谁收取。
So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.
7 主啊，如今我等什么呢？ 我的指望在乎你！
And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.
8 求你救我脱离一切的过犯， 不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。
Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as a reproach to the foolish.
9 因我所遭遇的是出于你， 我就默然不语。
I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.
10 求你把你的责罚从我身上免去； 因你手的责打，我便消灭。
Remove your scourges from me.
11 你因人的罪恶惩罚他的时候， 叫他的笑容消灭，如衣被虫所咬。 世人真是虚幻！ (细拉)
I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.
12 耶和华啊，求你听我的祷告， 留心听我的呼求！ 我流泪，求你不要静默无声！ 因为我在你面前是客旅， 是寄居的，像我列祖一般。
O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.
13 求你宽容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量复原。
Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.
