申命記 32
1 蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!
2 願我的教訓如雨下降，我的言語似露滴落，像降在綠茵上的細雨，像落在青草上的甘霖!
My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
3 因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
For the name of Jehovah will I proclaim: Ascribe greatness unto our God!
4 他是磐石，他的作為完美無比；他的行徑公平正直，他是忠實無妄的天主，公義而又正直。
[He is] the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.
5 那不堪稱為子女的，自趨墮落，背叛了他，實在是個邪惡敗壞的世代!
They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: — A crooked and perverted generation!
6 愚昧無知的人民，你們就這樣報答上主嗎﹖他不是生育你，創造你，使你生存的大父嗎﹖
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?
7 你回想往古的時日，思念歷代的歲月；問你的父親，問你的長輩，他必給你講述；
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
8 當至高者為民族分配產業時，分佈人的子孫時，按照天使的數目，為萬民劃定了疆界；
When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
9 但雅各伯是上主所保留的一分，以色列成為他特有的產業。
For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
10 上主在曠野之地，在野獸咆哮的原野，發見了他，遂將他抱起，加以撫育，加以保護，有如自己的眼珠。
He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.
11 老鷹怎樣守候自己的窩巢，飛翔在幼雛之上，上主也怎樣伸展雙翅，把他背在自己的翼上。
As the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,
12 上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange god [was] with him.
13 上主使他馳騁於高原之上，以田間的出產養育他，使他享受巖穴間的蜜，堅石中的油，
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;
14 牛酪和羊乳，肥美的羔羊和公羊，巴商的公牛與山羊，以及上等的麥麵；並以葡萄美酒作你的飲品。
Cream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.
15 雅各伯吃肥了，耶叔戎吃胖了，會踢人了。──的確，你胖了，肥了，飽滿了。──他遂拋棄了造他的天主，輕視了救他的磐石。
Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked — Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; — He gave up God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 他們以邪神的敬禮激起他的妒火，以可憎惡的事物，惹他動怒；
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
17 他們所祭祀的是邪神，而非真神，是向來所不認識的神，是近來新興，你們的祖先所不敬畏的神。
They sacrificed unto demons who are not God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
18 你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten God who brought thee forth.
19 上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
20 說我要掩面不顧他們，要看他們的結局如何；這實在是敗壞的一代，毫無信實的子女。
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 他們以虛妄之神，激起我的怒火，以虛無之物，惹我動怒；我也要以那不成子民的人激起他們的妒火，以愚昧的民族惹他們發怒。
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 我要將災禍不斷加在他們身上，向他們射盡我的箭矢。
I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
24 他們必因饑餓而衰弱，必為熱症、毒疫所消滅；我還使尖牙的野獸和土中爬行的毒蟲傷害他們。
They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
25 外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror — Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26 我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27 但我怕仇人自誇，怕敵人誤會說：「是我的手得勝了，而不是上主行了這一切。」
If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
28 他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
29 如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
30 「若不是他們的磐石出賣了他們，上主放棄了他們一人怎能追擊一千，兩人怎能打跑一萬﹖」
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
31 連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
32 誠然，他們的葡萄秧，出自索多瑪的葡萄園，來在哈摩辣的田園；他們的葡萄是毒葡萄，粒粒葡萄皆酸苦。
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
33 他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
34 這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
35 等到他們失足之時，我必復仇報復；他們滅亡的日子確已臨近，給他們預定的命運就要來到。
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 因為上主要衛護自己的人民，憐恤自己的僕人。當他看見他們的能力已逝，奴隸與自由人已到絕境，
For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left.
37 必問說：「他們的神祇在那裏，他們投靠的磐石究在何處﹖
And he shall say, Where are their gods, Their rock in whom they trusted,
38 一向吃他們祭牲脂肪的，喝他們奠祭酒漿的，都在那裏﹖讓他們起來援助你們罷! 讓他們做你們的保障罷!
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, [And] drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.
39 現在你們應認清，只有我是「那一位，」除我以外沒有別神；我使人死，也使人活；我擊傷人，也加以治療；誰也不能由我手中救出。
See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,
40 我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!
41 我一磨亮我的刀劍，我一掌握裁判權，必向我的敵人雪恨，對恨我的人報復。
If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
42 我要使我的箭矢醉飲鮮血，使我的刀劍吞食血肉：陣亡和俘虜的鮮血，仇敵將領的頭顱。」
Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; [I will make them drunk] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.
43 萬國，你們應向他的百姓祝賀! 因為上主必為自己的僕人報血仇，向仇敵報復，聖潔自己的土地和百姓。
Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people.
44 梅瑟和農的兒子若蘇厄前來，將這篇詩歌的話朗誦給百姓聽。
And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
And when Moses had ended speaking all these words to all Israel,
46 就對他們說：「你們應把我今日警告你們的一切話記在心內，好吩咐你們的子孫，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.
47 因為這為你們不是空洞的話，而是關係你們的生命；由於遵守這話，你們纔能在過約但河後所要佔領的地上，長久居留。」
For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.
48 上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
49 你到摩阿布去，上這座阿巴陵山，即面對耶里哥的乃波山上去，觀看我要給以色列子民作產業的客納罕地。
Go up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession,
50 你要死在你所上的山上，歸到你本族那裏，像你哥哥亞郎死在曷爾山，歸到他本族那裏一樣。
and die on the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;
51 因為你們在親曠野，卡德士的默黎巴水邊，在以色列子民中對我失信，沒有在他們中尊我為聖；
because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52 為此，我賜給以色列子民的地方，你只可由對面眺望，卻不能進去。」
For thou shalt see the land before [thee]; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
