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 Yahweh commanded Moses to solemnise with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, —besides the covenant, which he solemnised 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 unto all Israel and said unto them, —Ye yourselves, saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto 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 provings which thine own eyes saw, —those great signs and wonders:
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 hath Yahweh not given onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see or ears to hear, —until 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；
I led you, therefore forty years in the desert, —your mantles fell not with age, from off you, even thy sandal, fell not with age from off thy 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。
Bread, ye did not eat, and wine and strong drink, ye did not drink, —that ye might know that, I, Yahweh, was 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 ye entered into this place, then came forth Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan to meet us in 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 unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites, —and unto 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。
Ye must, therefore, keep the words of this covenant, and do them, —that ye may prosper in all that ye 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，
Ye are stationed, to-day, all of you, before Yahweh your God, —your heads your tribes, and your elders and your officers, every man 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 thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, —from him that heweth thy wood unto him that draweth thy 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 thou mayest pass through into the covenant of Yahweh thy God and into his oath, —which Yahweh thy God is solemnising with thee, to-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 confirm thee to-day as his own people, while, he, becometh thine own God, as he spake unto thee, —and as he sware unto thy fathers, unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob.
14 我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
And not with you alone, am I solemnising 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 who is here with us, standing to-day before Yahweh our God, —and with him who is not here with us to-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, ye, know, how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, —and how we passed through the midst of the nations which ye did pass through;
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 ye saw their disgusting images, and their manufactured gods, —the wood and the stone, the silver and the gold that are with 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 be among you—a man or a woman or a family or a tribe, whose heart is turning to-day, from Yahweh our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations, —lest there be among you a root fruitful of poison 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 so it come to pass while he is hearing the words of this oath, that he will bless himself in his heart—saying, Prosperity, shall I have, although in the stubbornness of my heart, I go on, —so that the drunkenness addeth to the 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。
Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, but, then, will the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy smoke against that man, and all the oath that is written in this scroll, shall settle down upon him, —and Yahweh wipe out his name from under the heavens;
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 Yahweh single him out for calamity, out of all the tribes of Israel, —according to all the oaths of the covenant that is written in this scroll 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 coming after—your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come in from a far-off land, will say—when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses thereof wherewith Yahweh hath made it sick:
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，
brimstone and salt burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown neither shall it shoot forth neither shall there come up thereon any herbage, —like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow 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﹖」
yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of 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 will men say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh the God of their fathers, —which he solemnised 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；
and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, —gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share:
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。
therefore did the anger of Yahweh kindle upon that land, —to bring in upon it all the curse that is written in this scroll;
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 therefore hath Yahweh rooted them out, from off their own soil, in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, —and cast them into another land as at 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 unto Yahweh our God] and, the things that are revealed, belong to us and to our children unto times age-abiding, that we may do all the words of this law.
