Psalms 39

1 For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

1 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。

2 I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

2 我默然無聲，連好話也不出口； 我的愁苦就發動了，

3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

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。

4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

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！

5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

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）

6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

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。

7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

7 主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？ 我的指望在乎你！

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

8 求你救我脫離一切的過犯， 不要使我受愚頑人的羞辱。

9 I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

9 因我所遭遇的是出於你， 我就默然不語。

10 Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

10 求你把你的責罰從我身上免去； 因你手的責打，我便消滅。

11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

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）

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

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。

13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

13 求你寬容我， 使我在去而不返之先可以力量復原。