Psalms 41

1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

達味詩歌，交與樂官。 眷顧貧窮人的人，真是有福，患難時日，他必蒙上主救助。

2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

上主必保護他，賜他生存，在世上蒙福，決不將他交給他的仇敵而任敵所欲。

3 The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

他呻吟床榻，上主給他支援，他患病時，必使他轉危為安。

4 I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

我曾哀求你：上主，求你憐憫我」，求你治癒我，因為我得罪了你。

5 My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

我的仇敵反而惡言辱罵我說：「他何時死，他的名字幾時泯滅？

6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

前來訪我的人，只以虛言相待，其實是心懷惡意，出去便說出來。

7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

恨我的人，個個竊竊私議，咒我遭殃生疾：

8 “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

願他身患惡疾! 願他一病不起！

9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

連我素來信賴的知心友好，吃過我飯的人，也舉腳踢我。

10 But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

上主，求你可憐我，使我病除，為使我能對他們加以復仇。

11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

我以此作為你真愛我的記號：就是不讓我的敵人向我誇耀；

12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

你時常保持我無災無難，使我永遠站在你的面前。

13 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

願上主，以色列天主，受讚頌，自永遠直到永遠，阿們，阿們