Psalms 39

1 To the excellent musician Ieduthun. I thought, I will take heede to my wayes, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth brideled, while the wicked is in my sight.

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 dumme and spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

我默不作聲，以免口出惡語，但我的痛楚更因此而加劇。

3 Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

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 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

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 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. (Selah)

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 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who 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 Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.

我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

8 Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto 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 should haue bene dumme, and not haue opened my mouth, because thou didest it.

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine 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 When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. (Selah)

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 Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.

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。