Psalms 39

1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

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 was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow 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 in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

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 I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

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 thou hast made my days measurable: and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

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 passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

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 hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is with thee.

我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

8 Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

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 I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

求你由我身上去這場災患，因你手的打擊，我已消瘦不堪。

11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

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 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, 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。