詩篇 39

1 大衛的詩，交與伶長耶杜頓。 我曾說：我要謹慎我的言行， 免得我舌頭犯罪； 惡人在我面前的時候， 我要用嚼環勒住我的口。

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.

2 我默然無聲，連好話也不出口； 我的愁苦就發動了，

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

3 我的心在我裏面發熱。 我默想的時候，火就燒起， 我便用舌頭說話。

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

4 耶和華啊，求你叫我曉得我身之終！ 我的壽數幾何？ 叫我知道我的生命不長！

Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.

5 你使我的年日窄如手掌； 我一生的年數，在你面前如同無有。 各人最穩妥的時候，真是全然虛幻。 (細拉)

Behold, thou have made my days as handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. (Selah)

6 世人行動實係幻影。 他們忙亂，真是枉然； 積蓄財寶，不知將來有誰收取。

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

7 主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee.

8 求你救我脫離一切的過犯， 不要使我受愚頑人的羞辱。

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。

I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

10 求你把你的責罰從我身上免去； 因你手的責打，我便消滅。

Remove thy stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

11 你因人的罪惡懲罰他的時候， 叫他的笑容消滅，如衣被蟲所咬。 世人真是虛幻！ (細拉)

When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. (Selah)

12 耶和華啊，求你聽我的禱告， 留心聽我的呼求！ 我流淚，求你不要靜默無聲！ 因為我在你面前是客旅， 是寄居的，像我列祖一般。

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 求你寬容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量復原。

O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.