Psalms 38
1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
達味紀念歌。 上主，求你不要在你的震怒中責罰我，求你不要在你的氣憤中懲戒我。
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
因為你的箭射中了我，你的手重壓了我。
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
因了你的盛怒，我已體無完膚；因了我的罪行，我已粉身碎骨。
4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
因為我的罪過高出我的頭頂，好似重擔把我壓得過分沉重。
5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
我的創痍漬爛流膿，完全由於我的愚矇。
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
我悲傷得身已傴僂，終日行動滿懷憂愁。
7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
因為我的腰肢焦灼難受，我的肉體已無完膚。
8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
我已筋疲力盡，奄奄一息；我已心痛欲絕，嗟嘆不已。
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.
我主，我的呻吟常在你的面前，我的悲歎不向你隱瞞；
10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
我的心顫慄，我的精力衰退，我眼目的光明也已消逝。
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
我遭難時，我的友朋都袖手旁觀，我的親人都站得很遠。
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
追尋我命的人，張設網羅，設法害我的人，散布惡謨，他們行詭計日夜思索。
13 But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
但我好像是一個有耳聽不見的聾子，我又好像是一個有口不能言的啞巴。
14 Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
我竟成了一個沒有聽覺的人，成了一個口中沒有辯詞的人。
15 For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
因為我唯有仰慕你，上主，你必應允我，我主我天主！
16 For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
我原來說過：「不要讓他們洋洋得意，不要讓他們因我的失足而沾沾自喜。」
17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
我生來就易於失足，因此我常心懷痛苦。
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
我的確承認我犯了罪愆，我為了我的過惡而憂慚。
19 But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
無故加害我的人，力強兇暴，無理憎恨我的人，成群結伙；
20 They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
他們都以怨報德而對待我，因我追求正義而惱恨我。
21 Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.
上主，求你不要捨棄我，我主，求你不要遠離我。
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
我的上主，我的救助，求你速來給我護祐。
