40.The rain has held back for days and days, my God, in my arid heart.
40.在我干枯的心上,好多天沒有受到雨水的滋潤了,我的上帝。
The horizon is fiercely naked---not the thinnest cover of a soft cloud, not the vaguest hint of a distant cool shower.
天邊是可怕的赤裸――沒有一片輕云的遮蓋,沒有一絲遠雨的涼意。
Send thy angry storm, dark with death, if it is thy wish, and with lashes of lightning startle the sky from end to end.
如果你愿意,請降下你的死黑的盛怒的風雨,以閃電震懾諸天罷。
But call back, my lord, call back this pervading silent heat, still and keen and cruel, burning the heart with dire despair.
但是請你召回,我的主,召回這彌漫沉默的炎熱罷,它是沉重尖銳而又殘忍,用可怕的絕望焚灼人心。
Let the cloud of grace bend low from above like the tearful look of the mother on the day of the father's wrath.
讓慈云低垂下降,像在父親發怒的時候,母親的含淚的眼光。