Psalms 39

1 For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, 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 dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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 was hot within me; while I was musing the fire kindled: [then] spake I 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 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me 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, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; and mine age is as nothing before thee: surely every man at his best estate is altogether 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 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not 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? my hope is in thee.

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: make me not the reproach of 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 was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow 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 dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely 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 LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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。