Psalms 141

1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.

上主，我呼求您，請求速來救助我；上主，我呼求您，請您聽我的呼號。

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.

願我向您的祈禱，像馨香上升；願我的手高舉，如同晚祭的高騰。

3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.

上主，求您在我的口邊派守衛，求您在我的唇前派警備。

4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.

莫讓我的心傾向邪道，免得我再去犯罪作惡；莫讓我與惡人同作壞事，免得我嚐食他們的美味。

5 The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.

義人責打我，算是我的恩遇，他責斥我，是給我頭的傅油。我的頭也決不會加以抗拒，我仍然為迫害我的人祈求。

6 Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

當他們的首領被拋於巖石時，纔感覺到我的話是如何甘飴。

7 As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol h7585)

他們的骨頭被棄置在陰府門旁，像人耕地掘田，將土塊任意拋放。 (Sheol h7585)

8 For mine eyes are to thee, O Lord God: I have hoped in thee; take not away my life.

上主天主，我的雙目一直仰望你，我信賴你，不要將我的靈魂拋棄。

9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.

求你保護我免陷於他們為我設的網羅，求你使我能夠脫離為非作歹者的圈套。

10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.

願惡人一起墮入自設的網羅，而我卻得以安然無恙地脫逃。