< Psalms 42 >
1 TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. As a deer pants for streams of water, So my soul pants toward You, O God.
科辣黑後裔的訓誨,交與樂官。 天主,我的心靈渴慕你,好像牝鹿渴慕溪水。
2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
我的心靈渴慕天主,生活的天主:我何時能目睹天主的儀容?
3 My tear has been bread day and night to me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
有人終日向我說:你的天主在那裏?我的眼淚竟變成了我晝夜的飲食。
4 These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the shelter, I go softly with them to the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping celebration!
我想起昔日周旋在歡樂的群眾裏,在群眾歡呼讚頌的歌聲裏,他們朝覲天主聖殿時,我的心不免感到憂傷哀悲,
5 Why bow yourself, O my soul? Indeed, are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him: The salvation of my countenance—my God!
我的靈魂,你為何悲傷,為何憂苦?期望天主!因為我還要向祂頌祝,因為祂是我的救援,我的天主。
6 My soul bows itself in me, Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.
我自約旦地,從赫爾孟山,由小丘陵,一想起你來,我的靈魂即惴惴不寧。
7 Deep is calling to deep At the noise of Your waterspouts, All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
在你瀑布的巨聲下,深淵與深淵哈唱;你所有的洪濤巨浪,都沖擊在我身上。
8 By day YHWH commands His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
但願上主在白晝頒賜祂的恩愛慈惠,我夜間向賜我生命的天主歌頌讚美!
9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”
我對天主說:我的磐石你為何將我遺忘?為何我應常在仇人的壓迫下徘徊沮喪?
10 With a sword in my bones My adversaries have reproached me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
我仇敵欺凌我時,我覺得痛入骨髓,他們終日對我說:「你的天主在那裏?」
11 Why bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
我的靈魂,你為何悲傷,為何憂苦?期望天主!因為我還要向祂頌祝,因為天主是我的救援,是我的天主