Psalms 141

1 Yahweh, I call out to you; [please] help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.

上主，我呼求您，請求速來救助我；上主，我呼求您，請您聽我的呼號。

2 Accept my prayer as though it were incense [being burned as an offering] [SIM] to you. And accept me while I lift up my hands [to pray] to you like you accept sacrifices [that I offer to you each] evening [SIM].

願我向您的祈禱，像馨香上升；願我的手高舉，如同晚祭的高騰。

3 Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard my lips.

上主，求您在我的口邊派守衛，求您在我的唇前派警備。

4 Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong, and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds [DOU]. Do not [even] allow me to share in eating delightful food with them!

莫讓我的心傾向邪道，免得我再去犯罪作惡；莫讓我與惡人同作壞事，免得我嚐食他們的美味。

5 It is all right if righteous people strike/hit me or rebuke me because they are trying to act kindly toward me [to teach me to do what is right], but I do not want wicked [people] to [honor me by] anointing my head with [olive] oil; I am always praying [that you will punish them because of] the wicked deeds [that they do].

義人責打我，算是我的恩遇，他責斥我，是給我頭的傅油。我的頭也決不會加以抗拒，我仍然為迫害我的人祈求。

6 When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs, people will know that what you, Yahweh, said [about them] is true.

當他們的首領被拋於巖石時，纔感覺到我的話是如何甘飴。

7 Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces [SIM], their shattered bones will be scattered [on the ground] near [other] graves. (Sheol h7585)

他們的骨頭被棄置在陰府門旁，像人耕地掘田，將土塊任意拋放。 (Sheol h7585)

8 But Yahweh God, I [continue to] ask you [to help me]. I ask you to protect me; do not allow me to (die/be killed) [now]!

上主天主，我的雙目一直仰望你，我信賴你，不要將我的靈魂拋棄。

9 [It is as though] people have set traps for me; protect me from falling into those traps, [It is as though] they have spread nets to catch me; keep me from being caught in those nets.

求你保護我免陷於他們為我設的網羅，求你使我能夠脫離為非作歹者的圈套。

10 I desire that wicked [people] will fall into the traps they have set [to catch me] while I escape [from them].

願惡人一起墮入自設的網羅，而我卻得以安然無恙地脫逃。