Psalms

（大衛的詩，交與伶長。）耶和華啊，你已經鑒察我，認識我。

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known {me}.

我坐下，我起來，你都曉得；你從遠處知道我的意念。

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

我行路，我躺臥，你都細察；你也深知我一切所行的。

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted {with} all my ways. {compassest: or, winnowest}

耶和華啊，我舌頭上的話，你沒有一句不知道的。

For {there is} not a word in my tongue, {but}, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

你在我前後環繞我，按手在我身上。

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

這樣的知識奇妙，是我不能測的，至高，是我不能及的。

{Such} knowledge {is} too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot {attain} unto it.

我往哪裡去躲避你的靈？我往哪裡逃、躲避你的面？

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

我若升到天上，你在那裡；我若在陰間下榻，你也在那裡。

If I ascend up into heaven, thou {art} there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou {art there}.

我若展開清晨的翅膀，飛到海極居住，

{If} I take the wings of the morning, {and} dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

就是在那裡，你的手必引導我；你的右手也必扶持我。

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

我若說：黑暗必定遮蔽我，我周圍的亮光必成為黑夜；

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

黑暗也不能遮蔽我，使你不見，黑夜卻如白晝發亮。黑暗和光明，在你看都是一樣。

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light {are} both alike {to thee}. {hideth...: Heb. darkeneth not} {the darkness and...: Heb. as is the darkness, so is the light}

我的肺腑是你所造的；我在母腹中，你已覆庇我。

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

我要稱謝你，因我受造，奇妙可畏；你的作為奇妙，這是我心深知道的。

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully {and} wonderfully made: marvellous {are} thy works; and {that} my soul knoweth right well. {right...: Heb. greatly}

我在暗中受造，在地的深處被聯絡；那時，我的形體並不向你隱藏。

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, {and} curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. {substance: or, strength, or, body}

我未成形的體質，你的眼早已看見了；你所定的日子，我尚未度一日（或譯：我被造的肢體尚未有其一），你都寫在你的冊上了。

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all {my members} were written, {which} in continuance were fashioned, when {as yet there was} none of them. {all...: Heb. all of them} {which...: or, what days they should be fashioned}

神啊，你的意念向我何等寶貴！其數何等眾多！

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

我若數點，比海沙更多；我睡醒的時候，仍和你同在。

{If} I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

神啊，你必要殺戮惡人；所以，你們好流人血的，離開我去罷！

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

因為他們說惡言頂撞你；你的仇敵也妄稱你的名。

For they speak against thee wickedly, {and} thine enemies take {thy name} in vain.

耶和華啊，恨惡你的，我豈不恨惡他們麼？攻擊你的，我豈不憎嫌他們麼？

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

我切切地恨惡他們，以他們為仇敵。

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

神啊，求你鑒察我，知道我的心思，試煉我，知道我的意念，

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

看在我裡面有甚麼惡行沒有，引導我走永生的道路。

And see if {there be any} wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. {wicked...: Heb. way of pain, or, grief}