Psalms

（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。

[To the chief Musician, {even} to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.] 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 is before me. {my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth}

我默然無聲，連好話也不出口；我的愁苦就發動了，

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {even} from good; and my sorrow was stirred. {stirred: Heb. troubled}

我的心在我裡面發熱。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} spake I with my tongue,

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！

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it {is; that} I may know how frail I {am}. {how...: or, what time I have here}

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 hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

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 walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up {riches}, and knoweth not who shall gather them. {a vain...: Heb. an image}

主啊，如今我等甚麼呢？我的指望在乎你！

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope {is} in thee.

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.

因我所遭遇的是出於你，我就默然不語。

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst {it}.

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 thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}

你因人的罪惡懲罰他的時候，叫他的笑容（的笑容：或譯所喜愛的）消滅，如衣被蟲所咬。世人真是虛幻！（細拉）

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}

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 LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

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 hence, and be no more.