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Sirach 51

Latin original · 30 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

← ch. 50

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible, Apocrypha)

51:1

Oratio Jesu filii Sirach. Confitebor tibi, Domine rex, et collaudabo te Deum salvatorem meum.

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, O King, And will praise you, O God my Saviour: I do give thanks to your name:

主啊，我的王，我要稱謝你；我的神，我的救主，我要讚美你；我承認你的名。

51:2

Confitebor nomini tuo, quoniam adjutor et protector factus es mihi,

For you were my protector and helper, And did deliver my body out of destruction, And out of the snare of a slanderous tongue, From lips that forge lies, And was my helper before those who stood by;

因為你作了我的庇護和幫助，救贖我的身體脫離滅亡，脫離那毀謗之舌的網羅、行虛謊之人的嘴脣；在那些旁觀者面前，你也作了我的幫助，救贖了我。

51:3

et liberasti corpus meum a perditione : a laqueo linguæ iniquæ, et a labiis operantium mendacium : et in conspectu astantium factus es mihi adjutor.

And did deliver me, according to the abundance of your mercy, and greatness of your name, From the gnashings of teeth ready to devour, Out of the hand of such as sought my life, Out of the manifold afflictions which I had;

你照著你豐盛的憐憫和你名的尊大，救我脫離那準備吞喫我、咬牙切齒之人的口，脫離尋索我命之人的手，脫離我所遭遇的種種患難；

51:4

Et liberasti me, secundum multitudinem misericordiæ nominis tui, a rugientibus præparatis ad escam :

From the choking of a fire on every side, And out of the midst of fire which I kindled not;

救我脫離四圍火焰的窒悶，脫離那不是我所點燃之火的烈焰之中；

51:5

de manibus quærentium animam meam, et de portis tribulationum quæ circumdederunt me ;

Out of the depth of the belly of the grave, And from an unclean tongue, And from lying words,

救我脫離陰間腹中的深處，脫離污穢的舌頭和虛謊的言語，

51:6

a pressura flammæ quæ circumdedit me, et in medio ignis non sum æstuatus ;

The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near even to death, And my life was near to the grave beneath.

脫離向王所進的不義之舌的毀謗。我的性命幾乎臨近死亡，我的生命也險些下到陰間深處。

51:7

de altitudine ventris inferi, et a lingua coinquinata, et a verbo mendacii, a rege iniquo, et a lingua injusta.

They compassed me on every side, And there was none to help me. I was looking for the succour of men, And it was not.

他們四面圍困我，卻無人幫助；我四下尋找人的援助，卻是徒然。

51:8

Laudabit usque ad mortem anima mea Dominum,

And I remembered your mercy, O Lord, And your working which has been from everlasting, How you deliver those who wait for you, And save them out of the hand of the enemies.

那時我記起你的憐憫，主啊，並你從亙古以來的作為，知道你如何搭救那等候你的人，救他們脫離仇敵的手。

51:9

et vita mea appropinquans erat in inferno deorsum.

And I lifted up my supplication from the earth, And prayed for deliverance from death.

我便從地上高舉我的懇求，為脫離死亡而祈求。