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 Overseer, to Jeduthun. — A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, 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 kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

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。

Hot [is] my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken 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！

'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],' I 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)

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. (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。

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

7 主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope — it [is] of Thee.

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, A reproach of the fool make me not.

9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou — 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。

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

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)

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. (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 Jehovah, And [to] my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I [am] with Thee, A settler 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 from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!