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哀陈苦况求主矜怜

38 大卫的纪念诗。

耶和华啊,求你不要在怒中责备我,不要在烈怒中惩罚我!
因为你的箭射入我身,你的手压住我。
因你的恼怒,我的肉无一完全;因我的罪过,我的骨头也不安宁。
我的罪孽高过我的头,如同重担叫我担当不起。
因我的愚昧,我的伤发臭流脓。
我疼痛,大大蜷曲,终日哀痛。
我满腰是火,我的肉无一完全。
我被压伤,身体疲倦;因心里不安,我就唉哼。
主啊,我的心愿都在你面前,我的叹息不向你隐瞒。
10 我心跳动,我力衰微,连我眼中的光也没有了。
11 我的良朋密友因我的灾病都躲在旁边站着,我的亲戚本家也远远地站立。
12 那寻索我命的设下网罗,那想要害我的口出恶言,终日思想诡计。
13 但我如聋子不听,像哑巴不开口。
14 我如不听见的人,口中没有回话。
15 耶和华啊,我仰望你!主我的神啊,你必应允我!
16 我曾说:“恐怕他们向我夸耀,我失脚的时候,他们向我夸大。”
17 我几乎跌倒,我的痛苦常在我面前。
18 我要承认我的罪孽,我要因我的罪忧愁。
19 但我的仇敌又活泼又强壮,无理恨我的增多了。
20 以恶报善的与我作对,因我是追求良善。
21 耶和华啊,求你不要撇弃我!我的神啊,求你不要远离我!
22 拯救我的主啊,求你快快帮助我!

Psalm 38[a]

Prayer of an Afflicted Sinner

A psalm of David. For remembrance.

I

Lord, do not punish me in your anger;
    in your wrath do not chastise me!(A)
Your arrows have sunk deep in me;(B)
    your hand has come down upon me.
There is no wholesomeness in my flesh because of your anger;
    there is no health in my bones because of my sin.(C)
My iniquities overwhelm me,
    a burden too heavy for me.(D)

II

Foul and festering are my sores
    because of my folly.
I am stooped and deeply bowed;(E)
    every day I go about mourning.
My loins burn with fever;
    there is no wholesomeness in my flesh.
I am numb and utterly crushed;
    I wail with anguish of heart.(F)
10 My Lord, my deepest yearning is before you;
    my groaning is not hidden from you.
11 My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me;
    the very light of my eyes has failed.(G)
12 Friends and companions shun my disease;
    my neighbors stand far off.
13 Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
    they seek my misfortune, they speak of ruin;
    they plot treachery every day.

III

14 But I am like the deaf, hearing nothing,
    like the mute, I do not open my mouth,
15 I am even like someone who does not hear,
    who has no answer ready.
16 Lord, it is for you that I wait;
    O Lord, my God, you respond.(H)
17 For I have said that they would gloat over me,
    exult over me if I stumble.

IV

18 I am very near to falling;
    my wounds are with me always.
19 I acknowledge my guilt
    and grieve over my sin.(I)
20 My enemies live and grow strong,
    those who hate me grow numerous fraudulently,
21 Repaying me evil for good,
    accusing me for pursuing good.(J)
22 Do not forsake me, O Lord;
    my God, be not far from me!(K)
23 Come quickly to help me,(L)
    my Lord and my salvation!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 38 In this lament, one of the Penitential Psalms (cf. Ps 6), the psalmist acknowledges the sin that has brought physical and mental sickness and social ostracism. There is no one to turn to for help; only God can undo the past and restore the psalmist.

38 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.