歷代志下 6

1 當時撒羅滿說：「上主曾決定：要住在幽暗之中；

Then said Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

2 我卻為你建築了一個居所，作為你永久的住處」。[撒羅滿的訓辭]

But I have built a house to your name, holy to you, and prepared [for you] to dwell in for ever.

3 撒羅滿轉過臉來，祝福了以色列全會眾；以色列全會眾都站著，

And the king turned his face, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood by.

4 撒羅滿說：「上主，以色列的天主，應受讚美! 他親口對我父親達味應許過，也親手完成了說：

And he said, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel: he has even fulfilled with his hands as he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying,

5 自從我領我的百姓出離埃及地的那天起，沒有在以色列各支派中，選擇一城，為建造一座作我名下的殿，也沒有揀選一個人作領袖，管理我的百姓以色列。

From the day when I brought up my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house that my name should be there; neither did I choose a man to be a leader over my people Israel.

6 可是，我選擇了耶路撒冷作為安置我名之處，揀選了達味管理我的百姓以色列。

But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.

7 我父親達味原有意為上主以色列天主的名建造一座殿，

And it came into the heart of David my father, to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

8 但上主卻對我父親達味說：你有意為我的名建造一座殿，你這番心意固然很好，

But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it came into your heart.

9 但不是你要建造這殿，而是你親生的兒子，他要為我的名建造這殿。

Nevertheless you shall not build the house; for your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.

10 現在上主實現了他所說的話，使我來繼承了我父親達味，坐上了以色列的寶座，正如上主所預許的；我也為上主以色列天主的名建造了這座殿，

And the Lord has confirmed this word, which he spoke; and I am raised up in the room of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel as the Lord said, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel:

11 將約櫃安放在裏面；約櫃內有上主與以色列子民所立的約版。」[祈禱詞]

and I have set there the ark in which [is] the covenant of the Lord, which he made with Israel.

12 以後，撒羅滿當著以色列全會眾的面，站在上主的祭壇前，伸開手，─

And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands.

13 因為撒羅滿製造了一座銅台，長五肘，寬五肘，高三肘，安置在庭院中央，他立在上面，當著以色列全會眾的面，屈膝跪拜，舉手向天，─

For Solomon [had] made a brazen scaffold, and set it in the midst of the court of the sanctuary; the length of it [was] five cubits, and the breadth of it five cubits, and the height of it three cubits: and he stood upon it, and fell upon his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread abroad his hands to heaven,

14 說「上主，以色列的天主! 上天下地，沒有一個神可與你相比。你對那些一心在你面前行走的僕人，常是遵守信約，表示慈愛。

and said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven, or on the earth; keeping covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with [their] whole heart.

15 你對你僕人，我父親達味所應許的，你都履行了；你親口應許的，你也親手成就了，正如今天一樣。

Even as you have kept [them] with your servant David my father, as you have spoken to him in words: —you have both spoken with your mouth, and have fulfilled [it] with your hands, as it is this day.

16 上主，以色列的天主! 你曾說：只要你的子孫謹守他們的道路，按照我的法律行走，如你在我面前行走一樣，你決斷不了在我前坐以色列王位的人；現在求你實踐你對你僕人，我父親達味所說的話罷!

and now, Lord God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father the things which you spoke to him, saying, There shall not fail you a man before me sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons will take heed to their way to walk in my law, as you did walk before me.

17 上主，以色列的天主，現在求你使你向你僕人達味所應許過的話，予以實現罷!

And now, Lord God of Israel, let, I pray you, your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.

18 天主實在與人住在地上嗎﹖看，天和天上的天，尚且容不下你，何況我所建造的這座殿宇呢!

For will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and the heaven of heavens will not suffice you, what then is this house which I have built?

19 上主，我的天主，請垂允你僕人的祈禱和懇求! 俯聽你僕人在你面前所發的呼號和祈禱!

Yet you shall have respect to the prayer of your servant, and to my petition, O Lord God, so as to listen to the petition and the prayer which your servant prays before you this day:

20 願你的眼睛晝夜垂視這座殿，看顧你所說，你要安置你名的地方；求你垂聽你僕人向這地方所行的祈禱!

so that your eyes should be open over this house by day and by night, towards this place, whereon you said your name should be called, so as to hear the prayer which your servant prays towards this house.

21 願你垂聽你僕人與你百姓以色列向這地方所發的哀禱，求你從天上，由你的居所，予以垂聽，垂聽和寬恕!

And you shall hear the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, whatever prayers they shall make towards this place: and you shall listen in your dwelling-place out of heaven, yes you shall hear, and be merciful.

22 若有人得罪了自己的鄰人，被迫以咒詞起誓，而來到這殿內，在你祭壇前起誓，

If a man sin against his neighbour, and he bring an oath upon him so as to make him swear, and he come and swear before the altar in this house;

23 求你由天上垂聽受理，為你的僕人伸冤：懲治惡人，照他所行的，報應在他頭上；宣告義人無罪，照他的正義酬報他。

then shall you listen out of heaven, and do, and judge your servants, to recompense the transgressor, and to return his ways upon his head: and to justify the righteous, to recompense him according to his righteousness.

24 如果你的百姓以色列，因為得罪了你，在敵人面前被擊敗；他們如果回心轉意稱頌你的名，在這殿內向你祈禱懇求，

And if your people Israel should be put to the worse before the enemy, if they should sin against you, and [then] turn and confess to your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

25 願你從天上予以垂聽，寬恕你百姓以色列的罪，領他們回到你賜給他們並他們祖先的地方!

then shall you listen out of heaven and shall be merciful to the sins of your people Israel, and you shall restore them to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

26 幾時他們犯罪得罪了你，天空閉塞不雨，你懲罰了他們；他們如果向這地方祈禱，稱頌你的名，遠離罪過，

When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against you, and [when] they shall pray towards this place, and praise your name, and shall turn from their sins, because you shall afflict them;

27 求你從天上垂聽，赦免你僕人及你百姓以色列的罪，指給他們應走的正路，使雨降仔你賜予你百姓作為基業的地上。

then shall you listen from heaven, and you shall be merciful to the sins of your servants, and of your people Israel; for you shall show them the good way in which they shall walk; and you shall send rain upon your land, which you gave to your people for an inheritance.

28 如果此地發生饑饉、瘟疫，五穀枯萎生霉，或遭受蝗蟲或螞蚱，或有敵人犯境圍困門下，或不拘遭受什麼災禍疾病，

If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind an blight; if there should be locust and caterpiller, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress [they may be];

29 你的百姓以色列，個人或團體，如果感覺內疚和痛苦，而向這殿伸出手來祈禱哀求，

Then whatever prayer and whatever supplication shall be made by any man and all your people Israel, if a man should know his own plague and his own sickness, and should spread forth his hands towards this house;

30 願你從天上，你的居所，予以俯聽寬恕，照每人的一切行為，予以賞報，因為你認識每個人的心，─唯有你認識人子的心，

then shall you hear from heaven, out of your prepared dwelling-place, and shall be merciful, and shall recompense to the man according to his ways, as you shall know his heart [to be]; for you alone know the heart of the children of men:

31 使他們在你賜予我們祖先的地上，一生一世敬畏你，在你的道路上行走!

that they may reverence all your ways all the days which they live upon the face of the land, which you gave to our fathers.

32 至於那不屬於你百姓以色列的外方人，為了你的大名，你有力的手及伸開的臂，自遠方來，在這殿內祈禱，

And every stranger who is not himself of your people Israel, and who shall have come from a distant land because of your great name, and your mighty hand, and your high arm; when they shall come and worship towards this place; —

33 願你從天上，你的居所垂聽，按照外方人所請求於你的去行! 這樣，可使地上萬民都認識你的名，敬畏你，如同你的百姓以色列一樣；使他們知道我所建造的這殿，是屬於你名下的。

then shall you listen out of heaven, out of your prepared dwelling-place, and shall do according to all that the stranger shall call upon you for; that all the nations of the earth may know your name, and that they may fear you, as your people Israel [do], and that they may know that your name is called upon this house which I have built.

34 你的人民，如果在你派遣他們走的路上與敵人交戰，而他們向你所揀選的這城，向我為你的名所建造的這殿，祈求你，

And if your people shall go forth to war against their enemies by the way by which you shall send them, and shall pray to you towards this city which you have chosen, and [towards] the house which I have built to your name;

35 願你從天上俯聽他們的祈禱和哀求，維護他們的正義!

then shall you hear out of heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

36 如果他們犯罪得罪了你，─因為沒有不犯罪的人，─你向他們發怒，將他們交於仇敵，讓敵人將他們擄到遠方或近處。

Whereas if they shall sin against you, (for there is no man who will not sin, ) and you shall strike them, and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them away into a land of enemies, to a land far off or near;

37 他們若在被擄往的地方，回心轉意，在充軍之地，懇求你說：我們犯了罪，我們作了惡，做了背理的事；

and [if] they shall repent in their land whither they were carried captive, and shall also turn and make supplication to you in their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have wrought unrighteously;

38 如果他們在被擄充軍之地，全心全意歸向你，向你賜給他們祖先的地方，向你所揀選的這城，向我為你的名所建造的這殿祈禱，

and [if] they shall turn to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of them that carried them captives, whither they carried them captives, and shall pray towards their land which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you did choose, and the house which I built to your name: —

39 願你從天上，你的居所，垂聽他們的祈禱和懇求，維護他們的正義，寬恕得罪你的百姓!

then shall you hear out of heaven, out of your prepared dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplication, and you shall execute justice, and shall be merciful to your people that sin against you.

40 現在，我的天主，願你的眼睛睜著，側耳諦聽在這地方所行的祈禱!

And now, Lord, let, I pray you, your eyes be opened, and your ears be attentive to the petition [made in] this place.

41 現在，上主天主，願你起來，願你與你那大能的約櫃進入你安息之所! 上主天主，願你的司祭身披救援，願你的聖徒在幸福中歡樂!

And now, O Lord God, arise into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation, and your sons rejoice in prosperity.

42 上主天主，求你不要摒棄你的受傅者，記念你賜予你僕人達味的慈愛! 」

O Lord God, turn not away the face of your anointed: remember the mercies of your servant David.