诗篇 40
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
赞美上帝之歌
大卫的诗，交给乐长。
40 我曾耐心等候耶和华，
祂倾听了我的呼求。
2 祂把我从绝望的深渊拉出来，
救我脱离泥泞沼泽，
把我安置在磐石上，
使我步履稳健。
3 祂赐给我一首新歌，
一首赞美我们上帝的诗歌。
许多人看见便敬畏、信靠耶和华。
4 信靠耶和华的人有福了！
他们不随从骄傲自大、信靠假神的人。
5 我的上帝耶和华啊，
你行了许多奇事，
为我们定了许多美好的计划，
谁能与你相比！
你奇妙的作为不可胜数。
6 祭物和供品非你所悦，
你开通了我的耳朵，
燔祭和赎罪祭非你所要。
7 于是我说：
“看啊，我来了，
正如经卷上有关我的记载。
8 我的上帝啊，
我乐意遵行你的旨意，
我铭记你的律法。”
9 耶和华啊，你知道我在大会中宣扬你的公义，
没有闭口不言。
10 我述说你的信实和拯救之恩，
没有把你的公义隐而不宣，
没有在大会中避而不谈你的慈爱和真理。
11 耶和华啊，
求你不要收回你的怜悯，
愿你的慈爱和真理时刻守护我！
12 我患难重重，罪恶缠身，
看不到出路。
我的罪过比我的头发还多，
我心惊胆战。
13 耶和华啊，求你拯救我！
耶和华啊，求你快来帮助我！
14 愿谋取我性命的人蒙羞受辱！
愿喜欢我被害的人狼狈逃窜！
15 愿那些哈哈嘲笑我的人羞愧难当！
16 愿所有寻求你的人因你而欢喜快乐！
愿渴望蒙你拯救的人时常说：
“耶和华当受尊崇！”
17 我贫穷困苦，
但主眷顾我。
我的上帝啊，
你是我的帮助、我的拯救，
求你不要迟延！
诗篇 40
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
等候 神的必蒙憐愛(A)篇）
大衛的詩，交給詩班長。
40 我曾切切等候耶和華；
他轉向我，聽了我的呼求。
2 他把我從荒蕪的坑裡，
從泥沼中拉上來；
他使我的腳站在磐石上，
又使我的腳步穩定。
3 他使我口唱新歌，
讚美我們的 神；
許多人看見了，就必懼怕，
並且要倚靠耶和華。
4 那倚靠耶和華，
不轉向高傲和偏向虛謊的人的，
這人是有福的。
5 耶和華我的 神啊！
你所行的奇事，並你向我們所懷的意念很多，
沒有人可以和你相比；
如果我要述說陳明，
也多到不能勝數。
6 祭品和禮物不是你喜悅的。
你開通了我的耳朵；
燔祭和贖罪祭，不是你要求的。
7 那時我說：“看哪！我來了，
經卷上已經記載我的事；
8 我的 神啊！我樂意遵行你的旨意；
你的律法常在我的心裡。”
9 我要在大會中傳揚公義的福音；
我必不禁止我的嘴唇；
耶和華啊！這是你知道的。
10 我沒有把你的公義隱藏在心裡；
我已經述說了你的信實和救恩；
在大會中，我沒有隱瞞你的慈愛和誠實。
11 耶和華啊！求你的憐憫不要向我止息；
願你的慈愛和誠實常常保護我。
12 因有無數的禍患圍繞著我；
我的罪孽追上了我，使我不能看見；
它們比我的頭髮還多，
以致我心驚膽戰。
13 耶和華啊！求你開恩搭救我；
耶和華啊！求你快來幫助我。
14 願那些尋找我，要毀滅我命的，
一同抱愧蒙羞；
願那些喜悅我遭害的，
退後受辱。
15 願那些對我說：“啊哈！啊哈！”的，
都因羞愧而驚惶。
16 願所有尋求你的，
都因你歡喜快樂；
願那些喜愛你救恩的，
常說：“要尊耶和華為大。”
17 至於我，我是困苦貧窮的；
主仍顧念我。
你是我的幫助，我的拯救；
我的 神啊！求你不要耽延。
Psalm 40
The Voice
Psalm 40
For the worship leader. A song of David.
1 I waited a long time for the Eternal;
He finally knelt down to hear me.
He listened to my weak and whispered cry.
2 He reached down and drew me
from the deep, dark hole where I was stranded, mired in the muck and clay.
With a gentle hand, He pulled me out
To set me down safely on a warm rock;
He held me until I was steady enough to continue the journey again.
3 As if that were not enough,
because of Him my mind is clearing up.
Now I have a new song to sing—
a song of praise to the One who saved me.
Because of what He’s done, many people will see
and come to trust in the Eternal.
4 Surely those who trust the Eternal—
who don’t trust in proud, powerful people
Or in people who care little for reality, chasing false gods—
surely they are happy, as I have become.
5 You have done so many wonderful things,
had so many tender thoughts toward us, Eternal my God,
that go on and on, ever increasing.
Who can compare with You?
6 Sacrifices and offerings are not what You want,
but You’ve opened my ears,[a] and now I understand.
Burnt offerings and sin offerings
are not what please You.
7 So I said, “See, I have come to do Your will,
as it is inscribed of me in the scroll.
8 I am pleased to live how You want, my God.
Your law is etched into my heart and my soul.”
9 I have encouraged Your people with the message of righteousness,
in Your great assembly (look and see),
I haven’t kept quiet about these things;
You know this, Eternal One.
10 I have not kept Your righteousness to myself, sealed up in the secret places of my heart;
instead, I boldly tell others how You save and how loyal You are.
I haven’t been shy to talk about Your love, nor have I been afraid to tell Your truth
before the great assembly of Your people.
11 Please, Eternal One, don’t hold back
Your kind ways from me.
I need Your strong love and truth
to stand watch over me and keep me from harm.
12 Right now I can’t see because I am surrounded by troubles;
my sins and shortcomings have caught up to me,
so I am swimming in darkness.
Like the hairs on my head, there are too many to count,
so my heart deserts me.
13 O Eternal One, please rescue me.
O Eternal One, hurry; I need Your help.
14 May those who are trying to destroy me
be humiliated and ashamed instead;
May those who want to ruin my reputation
be cut off and embarrassed.
15 May those who try to catch me off guard,
those who look at me and say, “Aha, we’ve trapped you,”
be caught in their own shame instead.
16 But may all who look for You
discover true joy and happiness in You;
May those who cherish how You save them
always say, “O Eternal One, You are great and are first in our hearts.”
17 Meanwhile, I am empty and need so much,
but I know the Lord is thinking of me.
You are my help; only You can save me, my True God.
Please hurry.
Footnotes
- 40:6 Greek manuscripts read, “but You have prepared a body for me.”
Psalm 40
King James Version
40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
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