列王紀下 7
1 厄里叟說：「請聽上主的話：上主這樣說：明天這個時候，在撒瑪黎雅城門口，一「色阿」上等麵粉只值一「協刻耳，」兩「色阿」大麥，只值一「協刻耳。」
Elisha said, “Hear the word of Yahweh. This is what Yahweh says: 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'”
2 那個手扶君王的侍衛回答天主的人說：「縱使上主打開天上的閘，也不會有這樣的事! 」先知說：「你必親眼看到，只是吃不上。」
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?” Elisha replied, “See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
3 在城門口有四個癩病人，他們彼此說：「我們為什麼在這裏坐著等死呢﹖
Now there were four men with leprosy right outside the city gate. They said one to another, “Why should we sit here until we die?
4 如果我們決意進城去，城裏也有饑荒，我們必死在那裏；如果留在這裏，我們也是一樣死；不如去投到阿蘭人營中，假如他們讓我們活著，我們就活著；假如他們要殺我們，我們就死罷。」
If we say that we should go into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. But if we still sit here, we will still die. Now then, come, let us go to the army of the Arameans. If they keep us alive, we will live, and if they kill us, we will only die.”
5 他們於是在黃昏時起身，往阿蘭人的營盤那裏去；及至到了阿蘭人的營盤邊時，哦! 那裏一個人也沒有了。
So they rose up at twilight to go into the Aramean camp; when they arrived at the outermost part of the camp, there was no one there.
6 原來上主早已使阿蘭人的營盤中聽到戰車馬隊和大軍的喧囂聲，他們就彼此說：「呀! 以色列王雇用了赫特人王和慕茲黎人王來攻打我們了。」
For the Lord had made the Aramean army hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses—the noise of another large army, and they said to each other, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to come against us.”
7 所以，他們在黃昏時，即起身逃走，丟下了他們的帳幕騾馬，只顧逃命，留下營盤未動。
So the soldiers arose and fled in the twilight; they left their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
8 這些癩病人到了營盤邊，進了一個帳幕，又吃又喝，將那裏的金銀和衣服拿走，去收藏起來；然後又回來，進了另一帳幕，拿走了那裏的東西，去收藏起來。
When the men with leprosy came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried away silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them. They came back and entered into another tent and carried plunder away from there also, and went and hid it.
9 以後，癩病人彼此說：「我們這樣做得不對，今天原是報喜訊的日子，我們竟然不聲不響；如果等到早晨天亮，我們就有罪了。來，現在我們就去向王室報信! 」
Then they said each other, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping quiet about it. If we wait until daybreak, punishment will overtake us. Now then, come, let us go and tell the king's household.”
10 他們於是去向把守城門的人喊叫，給他們報告說：「我們曾到過罷蘭人的營盤，那裏一個人也沒有，也沒有人聲，只有栓著的馬，栓著的驢；帳幕一點未動。」
So they went and called the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, saying, “We went to the camp of the Arameans, but there was no one there, not the sound of anyone, but there were the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
11 把守城門的人就高聲喊叫，向王室傳報消息。
Then the gatekeepers shouted out the news, and then it was told inside the king's household.
12 君王夜間起來，對自己的臣僕說：「現在讓我給你們解釋，阿蘭人對我們所做得事：他們知道我們鬧饑荒，所以離開營盤，埋伏在田間，心想：以色列人必由城裏出來，那時，我們可將他們活活捉住，然後開進城去。」
Then the king arose at night and said to his servants, “I will tell you now what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry, so they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the fields. They are saying, 'When they come out of the city, we will take them alive, and get into the city.'”
13 有個臣僕回答說：「請叫人從這裏所剩下的馬中，牽出五匹來，無論怎樣，同別的一樣要死，倒不如派人去看看。
One of the king's servants answered and said, “I beg you, let some men take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. They are like all the rest of the population of Israel who are left—most are now dead; let us send them and see.”
14 他們於是推出兩輛戰車，五匹馬，君王就派他們去追趕阿蘭軍隊說：「你們去看看! 」
So they took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the army of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”
15 那些人追蹤阿蘭人，直到約旦河，見路上滿是阿蘭人在倉卒逃走中，丟下的衣服和裝備；使者們便回來報告了君王。
They went after them to the Jordan, and all the road was full of clothes and equipment that the Arameans had cast away in their hurry. So the messengers returned and told the king.
16 人民便出來搶掠了阿蘭人的營盤。於是一「色阿」上等麵粉，只值一「協刻耳，」兩「色阿」大麥，只值一「協刻耳，」正應驗了上主所說的話。
The people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, just as the word of Yahweh had said.
17 君王派定那手扶自己的侍衛，把守城門；但人民在城門口把他踏死了，應驗了天主的人，在君王下來見他時，所說的話。
The king had ordered the captain on whose hand he had leaned to be in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him down in the gateway. He died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king had come down to him.
18 原來，天主的人對君王說過：「明天這個時候，在撒瑪黎雅城門口一『色阿』上等麵粉，只值一『協刻耳。』兩『色阿』大麥，只值一『協刻耳。』」
So it happened as the man of God had said to the king, saying, “About this time in the gate of Samaria, two measures of barley will be available for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel.”
19 那侍衛曾回答天主的人說：「縱然上主打開天上的閘，也不會有這樣的事! 」先知回答說：「你必親眼看到，只是吃不上。」
That captain had answered the man of God and said, “See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?” Elisha had said, “See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
20 這事果然發生在他身上了：人民在城門口把他踏死了。
That is what exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
