詩篇 39

1 伶長エドトンにうたはしめたるダビデのうた われ曩にいへり われ舌をもて罪ををかさざらんために我すべての途をつつしみ惡者のわがまへに在るあひだはわが口に衝をかけんと

Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David. I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.

2 われ黙して唖となり善言すらことばにいださず わが憂なほおこれり

I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.

3 わが心わがうちに熱し おもひつづくるほどに火もえぬればわれ舌をもていへらく

My heart grew hot within me, and, during my (meditation) a fire would flare up.

4 ヱホバよ願くはわが終とわが日の數のいくばくなるとを知しめたまへ わが無常をしらしめたまへ

I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”

5 観よなんぢわがすべての日を一掌にすぎさらしめたまふ わがかいのち主前にてはなきにことならず 實にすべての人は皆その盛時だにもむなしからざるはなし (セラ)

Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.

6 人の世にあるは影にことならず その思ひなやむことはむなしからざるなし その積蓄るものはたが手にをさまるをしらず

So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.

7 主よわれ今なにをかまたん わが望はなんぢにあり

And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.

8 ねがはくは我ぞすべて愆より助けいだしたまへ 愚なるものに誹らるることなからしめたまへ

Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as a reproach to the foolish.

9 われは黙して口をひらかず 此はなんぢの成したまふ者なれぱなり

I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.

10 願くはなんぢの責をわれよりはなちたまへ 我なんぢの手にうちこらさるるによりて亡ぶるばかりになりぬ

Remove your scourges from me.

11 なんぢ罪をせめて人をこらし その慕ひよろこぶところのものを蠧のくらふがごとく消うせしめたまふ 實にもろもろの人はむなしからざるなし (セラ)

I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.

12 ああヱホバよねがはくはわが祈をきき わが號呼に耳をかたぶけたまへ わが涙をみて黙したまふなかれ われはなんぢに寄る旅客すべてわが列組のごとく宿れるものなり

O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.

13 我ここを去てうせざる先になんぢ面をそむけてわれを爽快ならしめたまへ

Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.