Psalms 39

1 For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin 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 mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. 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 meditated, the fire burned. I spoke 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, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. 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, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” (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 walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

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 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in 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. Don’t make me 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 mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

我靜默不言，有口不開，因為這事是由你安排。

10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your 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 you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” (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, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

我在你前只是旅客，如我列祖一樣只是路。

13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist 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。