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。

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin ·err (the standard goal)· with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle 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 mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. 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 was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: 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！

“Adonai, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me 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, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” (Selah) ·contemplation with musical interlude·.

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。

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather.

7 主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

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 rebellious breaches of relationships. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did 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 your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your 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 you rebuke and correct man for depravity (moral evil), You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” (Selah) ·contemplation with musical interlude·.

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。

“Sh'ma ·Hear obey· my prayer, Adonai, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

13 求你寬容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量復原。

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”