Psalms 42

1 To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

科辣黑後裔的訓誨，交與樂官。 天主，我的心靈渴慕你，好像牝鹿渴慕溪水。

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

我的心靈渴慕天主，生活的天主：我何時能目睹天主的儀容？

3 My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

有人終日向我說：你的天主在那裏？我的眼淚竟變成了我晝夜的飲食。

4 These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

我想起昔日周旋在歡樂的群眾裏，在群眾歡呼讚頌的歌聲裏，他們朝覲天主聖殿時，我的心不免感到憂傷哀悲，

5 Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance.

我的靈魂，你為何悲傷，為何憂苦？期望天主！因為我還要向祂頌祝，因為祂是我的救援，我的天主。

6 My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

我自約旦地，從赫爾孟山，由小丘陵，一想起你來，我的靈魂即惴惴不寧。

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

在你瀑布的巨聲下，深淵與深淵哈唱；你所有的洪濤巨浪，都沖擊在我身上。

8 In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.

但願上主在白晝頒賜祂的恩愛慈惠，我夜間向賜我生命的天主歌頌讚美！

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

我對天主說：我的磐石你為何將我遺忘？為何我應常在仇人的壓迫下徘徊沮喪？

10 As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

我仇敵欺凌我時，我覺得痛入骨髓，他們終日對我說：「你的天主在那裏？」

11 Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

我的靈魂，你為何悲傷，為何憂苦？期望天主！因為我還要向祂頌祝，因為天主是我的救援，是我的天主