詩篇 39
1 大衛的詩，交與伶長耶杜頓。 我曾說：我要謹慎我的言行， 免得我舌頭犯罪； 惡人在我面前的時候， 我要用嚼環勒住我的口。
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
2 我默然無聲，連好話也不出口； 我的愁苦就發動了，
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 我的心在我裏面發熱。 我默想的時候，火就燒起， 我便用舌頭說話。
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
4 耶和華啊，求你叫我曉得我身之終！ 我的壽數幾何？ 叫我知道我的生命不長！
Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
5 你使我的年日窄如手掌； 我一生的年數，在你面前如同無有。 各人最穩妥的時候，真是全然虛幻。 (細拉)
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. (Selah)
6 世人行動實係幻影。 他們忙亂，真是枉然； 積蓄財寶，不知將來有誰收取。
Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？ 我的指望在乎你！
And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.
8 求你救我脫離一切的過犯， 不要使我受愚頑人的羞辱。
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done [it].
10 求你把你的責罰從我身上免去； 因你手的責打，我便消滅。
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
11 你因人的罪惡懲罰他的時候， 叫他的笑容消滅，如衣被蟲所咬。 世人真是虛幻！ (細拉)
When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. (Selah)
12 耶和華啊，求你聽我的禱告， 留心聽我的呼求！ 我流淚，求你不要靜默無聲！ 因為我在你面前是客旅， 是寄居的，像我列祖一般。
Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
13 求你寬容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量復原。
Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
