诗篇 39

1 大卫的诗，交与伶长耶杜顿。 我曾说：我要谨慎我的言行， 免得我舌头犯罪； 恶人在我面前的时候， 我要用嚼环勒住我的口。

[For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.] I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

2 我默然无声，连好话也不出口； 我的愁苦就发动了，

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

3 我的心在我里面发热。 我默想的时候，火就烧起， 我便用舌头说话。

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

4 耶和华啊，求你叫我晓得我身之终！ 我的寿数几何？ 叫我知道我的生命不长！

"LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

5 你使我的年日窄如手掌； 我一生的年数，在你面前如同无有。 各人最稳妥的时候，真是全然虚幻。 (细拉)

Look, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." (Selah)

6 世人行动实系幻影。 他们忙乱，真是枉然； 积蓄财宝，不知将来有谁收取。

"Surely a person goes about like a shadow. Surely he heaps up vain things of wealth, and doesn't know who shall gather them.

7 主啊，如今我等什么呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

And now, LORD, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

8 求你救我脱离一切的过犯， 不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the taunt of fools.

9 因我所遭遇的是出于你， 我就默然不语。

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

10 求你把你的责罚从我身上免去； 因你手的责打，我便消灭。

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

11 你因人的罪恶惩罚他的时候， 叫他的笑容消灭，如衣被虫所咬。 世人真是虚幻！ (细拉)

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." (Selah)

12 耶和华啊，求你听我的祷告， 留心听我的呼求！ 我流泪，求你不要静默无声！ 因为我在你面前是客旅， 是寄居的，像我列祖一般。

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

13 求你宽容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量复原。

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."