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世事虚幻唯主是望

39 大卫的诗,交于伶长耶杜顿

我曾说:“我要谨慎我的言行,免得我舌头犯罪。恶人在我面前的时候,我要用嚼环勒住我的口。”
我默然无声,连好话也不出口,我的愁苦就发动了。
我的心在我里面发热,我默想的时候,火就烧起,我便用舌头说话。
耶和华啊,求你叫我晓得我身之终,我的寿数几何,叫我知道我的生命不长。
你使我的年日窄如手掌,我一生的年数,在你面前如同无有。各人最稳妥的时候,真是全然虚幻!(细拉)
世人行动实系幻影,他们忙乱真是枉然,积蓄财宝不知将来有谁收取。
主啊,如今我等什么呢?我的指望在乎你。
求你救我脱离一切的过犯,不要使我受愚顽人的羞辱。
因我所遭遇的是出于你,我就默然不语。
10 求你把你的责罚从我身上免去,因你手的责打,我便消灭。
11 你因人的罪恶,惩罚他的时候,叫他的笑容[a]消灭,如衣被虫所咬。世人真是虚幻!(细拉)
12 耶和华啊,求你听我的祷告,留心听我的呼求,我流泪,求你不要静默无声。因为我在你面前是客旅,是寄居的,像我列祖一般。
13 求你宽容我,使我在去而不返之先,可以力量复原。

Footnotes

  1. 诗篇 39:11 “的笑容”或作“所喜爱的”。

David wrote this song for Jeduthun, the leader of the music.

Life is short[a]

39 I said, ‘I will be careful what I do,
    so that I do not sin.
I will also be careful what I say.
When wicked people are listening,
    I will not even open my mouth.’
So I did not speak a word,
    even about good things.
That made me very upset.
It was like a fire inside me!
As I thought more about it,
    I just had to say something!
So I said this:
Lord, tell me about my life.
Tell me how long it will be,
    and when it will finish.
I need to remember that life is only short.
Yes, you have made the days of my life only a few!
    The time that I live seems very short to you.
Human life is only a breath,
    even for those who seem to be strong.
Selah.
As we live, we are just like shadows.
    We work to get things for ourselves.
We may get a lot of money,
    but we do not know who will have it after we die.’

So, my Lord, what help can I hope to get?
    You are the only one that I can really trust!
Save me from all my sins!
    Do not let fools insult me.
I will not say anything more.
I will not open my mouth,
    because it is you who have punished me!
10 Please do not hurt me any more!
You have already punished me enough,
    so that I am almost dead!
11 When people do wrong things,
    you warn them and you punish them.
You destroy their valuable things,
    like a moth eats cloth![b]
Yes, our lives are only a breath!
Selah.
12 Lord, please hear my prayer.
    Listen to me when I call to you for help.
Do not turn away from me when I weep.
I need your help,
    like a foreign person who lives away from his home.
I live on earth as a stranger,
    like all my ancestors did.
13 Stop being angry with me,
    so that I can be happy again before I die.

Footnotes

  1. 39:1 David thinks about death in this psalm. He says that life is short and people soon go from the earth. They are like shadows, or a breath. So David finishes with a prayer: let me live a little longer and be happy.
  2. 39:11 A moth is an insect that may lay its eggs in clothes and spoil the clothes.

Al director musical. Para Jedutún. Salmo de David.

39 Me dije a mí mismo:
«Mientras esté ante gente malvada,
    vigilaré mi conducta,
    me abstendré de pecar con la lengua,
    me pondré una mordaza en la boca».
Así que guardé silencio, me mantuve callado.
    ¡Ni aun lo bueno salía de mi boca!
Pero mi angustia iba en aumento;
    ¡el corazón me ardía en el pecho!
Al meditar en esto, el fuego se inflamó
    y tuve que decir:

«Hazme saber, Señor, el límite de mis días,
    y el tiempo que me queda por vivir;
    hazme saber lo efímero que soy.
Muy breve es la vida que me has dado;
    ante ti, mis años no son nada.
¡Un soplo nada más es el mortal! Selah
    Es un suspiro que se pierde entre las sombras.
Ilusorias son las riquezas que amontona,[a]
    pues no sabe quién se quedará con ellas.

»Y ahora, Señor, ¿qué esperanza me queda?
    ¡Mi esperanza he puesto en ti!
Líbrame de todas mis transgresiones.
    Que los necios no se burlen de mí.

»He guardado silencio; no he abierto la boca,
    pues tú eres quien actúa.
10 Ya no me castigues,
    que los golpes de tu mano me aniquilan.
11 Tú reprendes a los mortales,
    los castigas por su iniquidad;
como polilla, acabas con sus placeres.
    ¡Un soplo nada más es el mortal! Selah

12 »Señor, escucha mi oración,
    atiende mi clamor;
    no cierres tus oídos a mi llanto.
Ante ti soy un extraño,
    un peregrino, como todos mis antepasados.
13 No me mires con enojo, y volveré a alegrarme
    antes que me muera y deje de existir».

Footnotes

  1. 39:6 Ilusorias … que amontona (lectura probable); En vano hace ruido y amontona (TM).

Psalm 39[a]

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

I said, “I will watch my ways(A)
    and keep my tongue from sin;(B)
I will put a muzzle on my mouth(C)
    while in the presence of the wicked.”
So I remained utterly silent,(D)
    not even saying anything good.
But my anguish(E) increased;
    my heart grew hot(F) within me.
While I meditated,(G) the fire(H) burned;
    then I spoke with my tongue:

“Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;(I)
    let me know how fleeting(J) my life is.(K)
You have made my days(L) a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,(M)
    even those who seem secure.[b]

“Surely everyone goes around(N) like a mere phantom;(O)
    in vain they rush about,(P) heaping up wealth(Q)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.(R)

“But now, Lord, what do I look for?
    My hope is in you.(S)
Save me(T) from all my transgressions;(U)
    do not make me the scorn(V) of fools.
I was silent;(W) I would not open my mouth,(X)
    for you are the one who has done this.(Y)
10 Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow(Z) of your hand.(AA)
11 When you rebuke(AB) and discipline(AC) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(AD) their wealth like a moth(AE)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(AF)

12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(AG)
    do not be deaf(AH) to my weeping.(AI)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(AJ)
    a stranger,(AK) as all my ancestors were.(AL)
13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(AM)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:1 In Hebrew texts 39:1-13 is numbered 39:2-14.
  2. Psalm 39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.

39 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.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

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.

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.

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

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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

10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

11 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.

12 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.

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.