Psalms 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
科辣黑後裔的訓誨歌，交與樂官。 天主，我們親耳聽見過，祖先也給我們述說過：昔日在他們那一時代，你手所行的偉業。
2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
你為栽培他們，手驅散外人，你為發展他們，曾親自磨難異民。
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.
的確，他們佔領了那地，並非靠著自己的刀劍，他們獲得了勝利，並非靠著自己的臂腕；完全是賴著你的右手和你的腕能，並你儀容的光輝，因為你喜愛他們。
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
你是我的天主，我的君王，是你使雅各伯打了勝仗。
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
仰仗著你，我們克勝了我們的對頭，因你的名，我們踐踏了我們的仇讎。
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
因我從未依恃過我的弓箭，拯救我的，也不是我的刀劍，
7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
而是你救我們脫離我們的對頭，是你使痛恨我們的人都蒙羞受辱。
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. (Selah)
我們時時以天主而自豪，永永遠遠歌頌你的名號。
9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
然而現今你拋棄我們，使我們蒙羞受辱，你也不再與我們的軍隊，一同出征為伍；
10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
反而使我們在敵人，前轉身敗走，讓那些恨我們的人，劫奪俘虜。
11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
你使我們有如待宰的羔羊，你使我們漂流而逃亡異邦；
12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
你將你的子民賤價出售，你由售價並未獲財。
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
你使我們遭受鄰邦的侮辱，四周人民對我們諷刺咒詛；
14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
你使我們成了異族的話柄，外邦人都向我們搖頭熱諷。
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
我的恥辱終日擺在我的眼前，羞愧也常籠罩著我的臉面：
16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
因我聽到侮慢與欺凌者的聲音，又面臨仇敵和尋隙報復的人民。
17 All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
我們雖然從未把你忘記，從來沒有違背過你的盟約，但我們身受了這一切災禍。
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
我們的心志從來沒有萎靡退縮，我們的腳步也未偏離你的正道；
19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
但你竟將我們拋棄在野犬的邊界，以死亡的陰影把我們遮蓋。
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
如果我們忘卻了我們天主的聖名，並舉起我們的手朝向外邦的神明：
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
難道天主究查不出這事？因為祂洞悉人心的隱密。
22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
我們卻是為了你，時常受傷受戕，他們竟將我們視作待宰的群羊。
23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
醒來！我主，你為什麼依舊沉睡？起來！你不要永遠把我們拋棄。
24 Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
你為什麼掩起你的慈顏，不顧我們的痛苦和辛酸？
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.
請看，我們的靈魂已俯伏在灰間，我們的身體已緊貼於地面。
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
求你站起來，援助我們，因你的慈愛，拯救我們。
