Psalms 41

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

達味詩歌，交與樂官。 眷顧貧窮人的人，真是有福，患難時日，他必蒙上主救助。

2 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

上主必保護他，賜他生存，在世上蒙福，決不將他交給他的仇敵而任敵所欲。

3 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

他呻吟床榻，上主給他支援，他患病時，必使他轉危為安。

4 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

我曾哀求你：上主，求你憐憫我」，求你治癒我，因為我得罪了你。

5 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

我的仇敵反而惡言辱罵我說：「他何時死，他的名字幾時泯滅？

6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

前來訪我的人，只以虛言相待，其實是心懷惡意，出去便說出來。

7 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.

恨我的人，個個竊竊私議，咒我遭殃生疾：

8 They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?

願他身患惡疾! 願他一病不起！

9 For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

連我素來信賴的知心友好，吃過我飯的人，也舉腳踢我。

10 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.

上主，求你可憐我，使我病除，為使我能對他們加以復仇。

11 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

我以此作為你真愛我的記號：就是不讓我的敵人向我誇耀；

12 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.

你時常保持我無災無難，使我永遠站在你的面前。

13 Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.

願上主，以色列天主，受讚頌，自永遠直到永遠，阿們，阿們