申命記 29
1 這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3 那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
The great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
Yet the LORD has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
5 我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old on you, and your shoe is not waxen old on your foot.
6 當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:
8 佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11 你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water:
12 都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立附有詛咒的誓約，
That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:
13 好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
That he may establish you to day for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15 而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16 你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
(For you know how we have dwelled in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
17 你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them: )
18 惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
19 以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20 上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
And the LORD shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22 未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it;
23 見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24 各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
25 人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:
27 上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29 隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
