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。
The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
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，
At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
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 God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,
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. He said, “Here I am.”
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。
He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.” He went and lay down.
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! 」
Yahweh called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”
7 撒慕爾不知道是上主，因為上主的話尚未啟示給他。
Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed 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，
Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
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。
Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
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。」
Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”
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。
Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
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。
In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
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。
For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
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。
Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
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 until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.
16 厄里卻對撒慕爾說：「撒慕爾，我兒! 」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”
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。」
He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke 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! 」
Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
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。
Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
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。
All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be 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 appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.
