詞:約翰福音 3:16
曲:海牛
Words from John 3:16
Music by Seacow Wheat
神愛世人,
甚至將祂的獨生子賜給他們,
叫一切信祂的,
不致滅亡,反得永生。
For God so loved the world,
That he gave His one and only Son, that whoever
Believes in Him
Shall not perish, but have eternal life.
你會否聽我呼叫應召來隨我去
向你未知處奔往那懼前路變數
傳述送遞我愛心
頌讚宣告我名號
來讓我生命生發你內成熟永固
Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?
你會否聽我呼叫以後忘自捨己
遇上壞心好心也照樣無嫌愛顧
無避畏敵對眼光
煥發馨香消恐慌
來讓我應允禱告藉你成就美意
Will you leave yourself behind
If I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind
And never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer pray’r
In you and you in me?
你會否聽我呼叫救度盲目得光
罪虜喜得你釋放告別牢獄困縛
療復染疫者身心
在暗中擇善而行
認證我居你心你在我其內奧理
Will you let the blinded see
If I but call your name?
Will you set the pris’ners free
And never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean,
And do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean
In you and you in me?
你會否聽我呼叫再莫埋藏掩飾
內裡畏驚怯羞以愛盡除全掃去
憑藉信念去實踐
讓世間美善重現
活似我親手親眼親口臨在這裡
Will you love the ‘you’ you hide
If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound
In you and you in me?
我聽到恩主真切召喚迴盪反響
讓我就此轉身撇下從前隨祢去
求伴我導我一生
步祢足跡展愛心
讓我起居進出進步猶如活見祢
Lord, your summons echoes true
When you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
And never be the same.
In your company I’ll go
Where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow
In you and you in me.
前陣子按普天頌讚的中文譯詞,以粵韻重譜了《千古保障歌》,算是我譜曲以來最有滿足感的一次。在普頌的樂譜裡,《千古保障歌》配上的Tune是William Croft的ST. ANNE;按Hymnary.org,此調最常配用的聖詩除了O God, Our Help in Ages Past之外,還有就是O Where Are Kings and Empires Now,即普天頌讚278首《教會穩定歌》(普頌配以較為冷門的WINCHESTER OLD,卻附註通用調有ST. ANNE及TALLIS’ ORDINAL)。但不論唱什麼樂調,「邦國帝王興亡代謝,回首如今安在」一句譯詞,已成經典。我曾經嘗試按WINCHESTER OLD的調子以粵韻重譯《教會穩定歌》,可惜靈感不足,只能譯成第一節,而且那句經典珠玉在前,似乎再譯也是吃力不討好。然而,重譜《千古保障歌》似乎開了一條新路徑,容讓我在那曲子的基礎上,也重譜《教會穩定歌》,而事也就這樣成了。
詞:Arthur Cleveland Coxe
中譯:劉廷芳(adopted from 普天頌讚277《教會穩定歌》)
曲:海牛
邦國帝王興亡代謝 回首如今安在
惟主教會千年不變 禱聲依舊不衰
O where are kings and empires now
Of old that went and came?
But, Lord, your Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.
從外看她根基穩固 看她壁壘堅深
從內聽她莊嚴訓誨 聽她不絕歌聲
We mark her goodly battlements
And her foundations strong;
We hear within the solemn voice
Of her unending song.
主啊 我信聖潔教會不像世上列邦
教會不怕地震山崩 不怕浪打風狂
For not like kingdoms of the world
Your holy Church, O God,
Though earthquake shocks are threatening her,
And tempests are abroad,
教會如同永恆山嶽 堅定雄立不移
如同廣廈非人所造 如山滿蓋大地
Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.
在主寶架清影中,歡然立定腳跟,
好像盛暑遠行辛苦,來進磐石之蔭,
好似曠野欣逢居處,長途喜見涼亭,
到此得釋肩頭重擔,養力奔赴前程。
Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty Rock
Within a weary land;
A home within the wilderness,
A rest upon the way,
From the burning of the noontide heat,
And the burden of the day.
神聖莊嚴之十架,我常抬頭瞻仰,
雙眼如見寶血傾流,為我捨身之像,
熱淚滿眶,寸心如裂,兩事仔細思量,
思量我身不配受恩,思量主愛非常。
Upon that cross of Jesus
Mine eye at times can see
The very dying form of One,
Who suffered there for me;
And from my smitten heart, with tears,
Two wonders I confess,
The wonders of His glorious love,
And my own worthlessness.
願在寶架清影中,事主,愛人,行道;
我不尋求旭日光華,因有慈光普照:
世界榮華,不足貪圖,得失無關重要,
但將罪惡看為羞恥,寶架看為榮耀。
I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain nor loss,
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory all the cross.