who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

愿他把杖离开我，不使惊惶威吓我。

愿他使他的杖离开我，不使他的威严恐吓我，

愿他使他的杖离开我，不使他的威严恐吓我，

若能拿开祂责打我的刑杖，使我不再受祂的惊吓，

愿他使他的刑杖离开我，愿他可畏的威严不惊吓我，

願他把杖離開我，不使驚惶威嚇我。

願他使他的杖離開我，不使他的威嚴恐嚇我，

願他使他的杖離開我，不使他的威嚴恐嚇我，

若能拿開祂責打我的刑杖，使我不再受祂的驚嚇，

願他使他的刑杖離開我，願他可畏的威嚴不驚嚇我，

願他使他的刑杖離開我，不使我懼怕他的心來使我驚惶；

願其杖離我、其威烈不復怖我、

如主不加譴責、使我驚懼、

若天主不復加譴責於我、不再使我驚懼、

someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.

I wish someone would keep God from punishing me. Then his terror wouldn’t frighten me anymore.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.

The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.

Let him take his rod away from me so his terror will no longer frighten me.

Let Him remove His rod from me, And let not the dread of Him terrify me.

Let Him take His rod away from me, And do not let dread of Him terrify me.

Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:

Let Him take His rod away from me so His terror will no longer frighten me.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?

Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

“ O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.“ As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.“ Then I thought,‘ I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’“ People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.