Psalms 39

1 TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep a curb for my mouth, While the wicked [is] before 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 mute [with] silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

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 [is] hot within me, In my meditating the fire burns, I have spoken with my tongue.

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 “Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, And the measure of my days—what it [is],” I know how frail I [am].

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, You have made my days handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You, Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. (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 Only, each habitually walks in an image, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heaps up and does not know who gathers 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, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope—it [is] of You.

我主，現今我還什麼希望？我的希望寄託在你的身上!

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, Do not make me a reproach of 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 have been mute, I do not open my mouth, Because You have done [it].

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Turn aside Your stroke from off me, From the striving of Your hand I have been consumed.

求你由我身上去這場災患，因你手的打擊，我已消瘦不堪。

11 With reproofs against iniquity, You have corrected man, And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, Only, every man [is] vanity. (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 Hear my prayer, O YHWH, And give ear [to] my cry, Do not be silent to my tear, For I [am] a sojourner with You, A settler like all my fathers.

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am 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。