But I cried to him,“ O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!

我说：“我的神啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年数世世无穷！”

我说：“我的上帝啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年数世世无穷！”

我说：“我的神啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年数世世无穷！”

我说：“我的上帝啊，你世代长存，求你不要叫我中年早逝。

所以我说：“我的神啊！求你不要使我中年去世，你的年数万代无疆。

我说：“我的神哪，不要在我年日的中途就把我带走！你的岁月世世代代长存。

我說：我的神啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年數世世無窮！

我說：「我的上帝啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年數世世無窮！」

我說：「我的神啊，不要使我中年去世。你的年數世世無窮！」

我說：「我的上帝啊，你世代長存，求你不要叫我中年早逝。

所以我說：“我的神啊！求你不要使我中年去世，你的年數萬代無疆。

以致我說：『我的上帝啊，不要使我於中年灰化上升哦！你的年歲代代無窮。』

我說：「我的神哪，不要在我年日的中途就把我帶走！你的歲月世世代代長存。

我曰、我上帝歟、爾年歷萬世、勿使我中年而逝兮、

禱曰、我之上帝、爾壽無疆、余年正壯、毋使予短折兮、

我即云、求我天主、莫使我中年逝世、惟主之年壽、永世無窮、

我躬逢聖怒。中道將衰落。

So I said:“ Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.

So I said,“ My God, don’t let me die in the middle of my life. You will live for all time to come.

“ O my God,” I say,“ take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”

I say,“ My God, do not take me in the middle of my life! Your years continue through all generations.

I say,“ My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, Your years are throughout all generations.

I said,“ O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

I say:“ My God, do not take me in the middle of my life! Your years continue through all generations.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years[ are] throughout all generations.

I say,“ O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

I said,“ My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Leave me alone so I can smile again before I am gone and exist no more.

O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal— surely you do not plan to wipe us out? O Lord, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us, to punish us for our many sins.

But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.

I said,“ In the prime of my life, must I now enter the place of the dead? Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”I said,“ Never again will I see the Lord God while still in the land of the living. Never again will I see my friends or be with those who live in this world.My life has been blown away like a shepherd’s tent in a storm. It has been cut short, as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom. Suddenly, my life was over.I waited patiently all night, but I was torn apart as though by lions. Suddenly, my life was over.Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”But what could I say? For he himself sent this sickness. Now I will walk humbly throughout my years because of this anguish I have felt.Lord, your discipline is good, for it leads to life and health. You restore my health and allow me to live!Yes, this anguish was good for me, for you have rescued me from death and forgiven all my sins.For the dead cannot praise you; they cannot raise their voices in praise. Those who go down to the grave can no longer hope in your faithfulness.Only the living can praise you as I do today. Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next.Think of it— the Lord is ready to heal me! I will sing his praises with instruments every day of my life in the Temple of the Lord.Isaiah had said to Hezekiah’s servants,“ Make an ointment from figs and spread it over the boil, and Hezekiah will recover.”And Hezekiah had asked,“ What sign will prove that I will go to the Temple of the Lord?”

“ I am the Alpha and the Omega— the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God.“ I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come— the Almighty One.”

Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.

But the Lord reigns forever, executing judgment from his throne.

This letter is from John to the seven churches in the province of Asia. Grace and peace to you from the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come; from the sevenfold Spirit before his throne;

“ Look, God is greater than we can understand. His years cannot be counted.