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。

For the leader; for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I vowed to watch my words, and sin not with my tongue, but to put on my mouth a muzzle, while the wicked were in my presence.

2 我默然無聲，連好話也不出口； 我的愁苦就發動了，

I was silent and dumb, speechless: but my pain was stirred up.

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 grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire was kindled, till at last the words came to 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！

“Teach me, O Lord, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. Let me know how transient 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)

See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: (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。

it is but in mere semblance we walk to and fro, and all our noise is for nothing. We heap up, and know not who will gather.”

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 you.

8 求你救我脫離一切的過犯， 不要使我受愚頑人的羞辱。

From all my transgressions deliver me; make me not the scorn of the fool.

9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。

I am dumb, never opening my mouth, for this is your own doing.

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 stroke from off me: by the might of your hand I am spent.

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 someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they treasures. Everyone is only a breath. (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, O Lord; attend to my cry for help. Hold not your peace at my tears. For I am but a guest of yours, a stranger visiting, like all my ancestors.

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, let me smile again, before I die and am gone.