Psalms 38
1 Yahweh, when you are angry [with me], do not rebuke/scold me and punish me!
達味紀念歌。 上主，求你不要在你的震怒中責罰我，求你不要在你的氣憤中懲戒我。
2 [Now it is as though] you have shot your arrows at me and wounded me; you have struck me and knocked me down.
因為你的箭射中了我，你的手重壓了我。
3 Because you have been angry with me, I am suffering great pain. Because of my sin, my whole body is diseased.
因了你的盛怒，我已體無完膚；因了我的罪行，我已粉身碎骨。
4 All my sins are [like a flood] that covers my head; they are like a load that is very heavy, with the result that I cannot carry it.
因為我的罪過高出我的頭頂，好似重擔把我壓得過分沉重。
5 Because I have done foolish things, I have sores that have become worse, and they stink.
我的創痍漬爛流膿，完全由於我的愚矇。
6 [Sometimes] I am bent over, and [sometimes] I lie prostrate; I am sad/cry all day.
我悲傷得身已傴僂，終日行動滿懷憂愁。
7 My body is burning with fever, and I am very ill.
因為我的腰肢焦灼難受，我的肉體已無完膚。
8 I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength. I am very distressed, and I groan with pain.
我已筋疲力盡，奄奄一息；我已心痛欲絕，嗟嘆不已。
9 Yahweh, you know that I desire [to be healed]; you hear me while I am groaning.
我主，我的呻吟常在你的面前，我的悲歎不向你隱瞞；
10 My heat is pounding heavily, and all my strength is gone. I am no longer able to see well.
我的心顫慄，我的精力衰退，我眼目的光明也已消逝。
11 My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores; even my own family stays away from me.
我遭難時，我的友朋都袖手旁觀，我的親人都站得很遠。
12 And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me; those who want to harm me discuss ways to get rid of me; they plot against me all day.
追尋我命的人，張設網羅，設法害我的人，散布惡謨，他們行詭計日夜思索。
13 Now I act like I’m deaf, and do not listen [to what they say]. I act like I cannot talk, so I say nothing [to reply to them].
但我好像是一個有耳聽不見的聾子，我又好像是一個有口不能言的啞巴。
14 I act like a man who does not answer [when people talk to him], because he cannot hear anything.
我竟成了一個沒有聽覺的人，成了一個口中沒有辯詞的人。
15 But Yahweh, I trust in you. My Lord God, you will answer me.
因為我唯有仰慕你，上主，你必應允我，我主我天主！
16 I said to you, “Do not cause [me to die, with the result that] my enemies will rejoice! Do not cause me to stumble, with the result that they will be very happy!”
我原來說過：「不要讓他們洋洋得意，不要讓他們因我的失足而沾沾自喜。」
17 I say that because I am about to fall down, and I constantly have pain.
我生來就易於失足，因此我常心懷痛苦。
18 I confess the wrong things that I have done; I am [very] sorry for the sins that I have committed.
我的確承認我犯了罪愆，我為了我的過惡而憂慚。
19 My enemies are healthy and strong; there are many people who hate me for no reason.
無故加害我的人，力強兇暴，無理憎恨我的人，成群結伙；
20 Those who do evil things to me in return for my doing good things to them oppose me because I try to do what is right.
他們都以怨報德而對待我，因我追求正義而惱恨我。
21 Yahweh, do not abandon me! My God, do not stay far from me!
上主，求你不要捨棄我，我主，求你不要遠離我。
22 Lord, you are the one who saves/rescues me; Quickly [come and] help me!
我的上主，我的救助，求你速來給我護祐。
