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 Idithun himself, a canticle of David. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood 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 dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from 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 in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

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 is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting 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 thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

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。

Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

7 主啊，如今我等什么呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.

8 求你救我脱离一切的过犯， 不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。

Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

9 因我所遭遇的是出于你， 我就默然不语。

I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

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 thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

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)

Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man 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。

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner 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。

O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.