Psalms 39

1 For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

達味詩歌，交與樂官耶杜通。 我已決定：我要謹遵我的道路，免得我以口舌犯罪，當惡人在我面前時，我以口罩籠住我嘴。

2 I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.

我默不作聲，以免口出惡語，但我的痛楚更因此而加劇。

3 My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my (meditation) I spoke with my tongue,

我的心在腔滾滾沸騰，我愈沉思愈覺得烈火如焚；我的舌頭便不耐煩地說：

4 O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

上主，求你明白啟示我：我的終期和壽數究有幾何，好使我知道我是何等脆弱。

5 Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before you: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. (Pause)

你使我的歲月屈指可數，我的生命在你前算是虛無。世人的生存只是一口呵噓。

6 Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

人生實如泡影，只是白白操勞，他們所有積蓄不知誰來得到。

7 And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. (Pause)

我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

救你救我脫離我的種種罪愆，不要使我受愚人的恥笑侮慢。

9 I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.

求你由我身上去這場災患，因你手的打擊，我已消瘦不堪。

11 You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. (Pause)

你為了罰罪而把世人懲治，你像蛀蟲將他的珍寶侵蝕；至於人，不過只是一口氣。上主，求你俯聽我的祈禱，求你側耳靜聽我的哀告，莫要作聾不聽我的哭號。因為

12 O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers [were].

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

求你轉移你的目光，不要怒視我，使我一去不返之前能得享安樂。