撒母耳記上 3
1 小撒慕爾在厄里面前服事上主；那時，上主的話少有，異象也罕見。
[While he was still a] boy, Samuel was working for Yahweh while Eli supervised him. At that time there were very few messages [that anyone received] from Yahweh, and very few people saw visions [that Yahweh gave them].
2 有一天，厄里睡在自己的房裏，他的眼睛漸漸昏花，已看不清了，
By that time Eli’s eyes were very weak; he was almost blind. [One night] he was sleeping in his room,
3 天主的燈尚熄滅，撒慕爾睡在安放天主約櫃的上主的殿內。
and Samuel was sleeping in the sacred tent, where the chest that contained the Ten Commandments was kept. While the sacred lamp was still burning,
4 那時，上主召叫說：「撒慕爾! 撒慕爾! 」他回答說：「我在這裏! 」
Yahweh called, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “I’m here!”
5 他就跑到厄里前說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里說：「我沒有叫你，回去睡罷! 」他就回去睡了。
Then he [got up and] ran to Eli. He said to him, “I am here, because you called me!” But Eli replied, “No, I did not call you. Go back to your bed.” So Samuel went and lay down again.
6 上主又叫撒慕爾；撒慕爾起來，走到厄里那裏說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里對他說：「我兒，我沒有叫你，回去睡罷! 」
Then Yahweh called again, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up again and went to Eli and said, “I am here, because you called me!” But Eli said, “No, my son, I did not call you. Go back and lie down.”
7 撒慕爾不知道是上主，因為上主的話尚未啟示給他。
At that time Samuel did not yet know [that] Yahweh [could speak to him], because Yahweh had not previously revealed anything to him.
8 上主第三次又叫了撒慕爾；他起來，又走到厄里那裏說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里於是明白，是上主叫了幼童，
[After Samuel lay down again], Yahweh called him a third time. So again Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “I am here, because you called me!” Then Eli realized that it was Yahweh who was calling the boy.
9 便對撒慕爾說：「去睡罷! 假使有人再叫你，你就回答說：請上主發言，你的僕人在此靜聽。」撒慕爾就回去，仍睡在原處。
So he said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again. If someone calls you again, say ‘Speak to me, Yahweh, because I am listening!’” So Samuel went and lay down again.
10 上主走近，像前幾次一樣召叫說：「撒慕爾，撒慕爾! 」撒慕爾便回答說：「請上主發言! 你的僕人在此靜聽。」
Then Yahweh came and stood there and called as he had done the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak to me, because I am listening!”
11 上主遂對撒慕爾說：「看! 我要在以色列行一件事，凡聽見的人，他的兩耳必要嗡嗡作響。
Then Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen carefully. I am about to do something here in Israel that will shock/horrify [IDM] everyone who hears about it.
12 到那一天，我必對厄里從頭到尾實踐我論他的家族所說的一切。
When that happens, I will punish Eli and his family. I will do to them everything that I said that I would do.
13 你傳報給他：我要處罰他的家族直到永遠，因為他原知道他的兩個兒子凌辱了天主，卻未責斥他們。
His sons have shown great disrespect for me by the disgraceful things they have done, and Eli did not restrain them. So I told him that I would punish his family forever.
14 因此，我對厄里的家族起誓：無論犧牲或供物，永不能抹去厄里一家的罪過。
I solemnly promised to Eli’s family, ‘You will never be able to avoid the consequences for your sin, even if you give me sacrifices or offerings.’”
15 撒慕爾睡到早晨起來，開了上主聖殿的門；但害怕告訴厄里他所見的異象。
Samuel lay down again until morning. Then he got up and opened the doors of the Sacred Tent [as usual]. He was afraid to tell Eli about the vision [that Yahweh had given him].
16 厄里卻對撒慕爾說：「撒慕爾，我兒! 」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
But Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son!” Samuel answered, “I am here!”
17 厄里問說：「上主給你說了什麼話，請不要隱瞞我! 你若把上主給你說的話，給我隱瞞了一句，願天主加倍懲罰你。」
Eli asked him, “What was it that Yahweh told you? Do not conceal it! I want God to punish you severely if you do not tell me everything that he said to you.”
18 撒慕爾便把那些話全告訴了他，一句也沒有隱瞞。厄里說：「他是上主，他看著怎麼好，就怎樣行罷! 」
So Samuel told him everything. He did not refuse to tell him anything. Then Eli said, “He is Yahweh. I am willing for him to do what he thinks is best.”
19 撒慕爾漸漸長大；上主與他同在，使他說的一切話，沒有一句落空。
As Samuel grew up, Yahweh helped him, and caused everything to (come true/happen) that Samuel predicted.
20 於是全以色列從丹直到貝爾舍巴，都知道撒慕爾被立為上主的先知。
So all the people of Israel, from the northern end of the country to the southern end, realized that Samuel was truly a prophet of Yahweh.
21 自從上主在史羅對撒慕爾顯現後，繼續在史羅顯現於他。
Yahweh continued to appear to Samuel in Shiloh and give messages to him.
