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, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings 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!
Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
3 因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to 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。
The Rock! — perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are] just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright [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!
It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!
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﹖
To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father — thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish 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 days of old — Understand the years of many generations — Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to 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；
In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam — He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons 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 [is] the line 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 findeth him in a land — a desert, And in a void — a howling wilderness, He turneth him round — He causeth him to understand — He keepeth 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 an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings — taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; —
12 上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god 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 maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a 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。
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine!
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。
And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat — thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth 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 make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
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 sacrifice to demons — no god! Gods they have not known — New ones — from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!
18 你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.
19 上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
And Jehovah seeth and despiseth — For the provocation of His sons and 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 saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [are] they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.
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 made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.
For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol — the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of 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 gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon 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。
Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.
25 外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers — fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.
26 我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
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 not — the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know — Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.
28 他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.
29 如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
If they were wise — They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to 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 doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not — that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut 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 not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] 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 of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall — They have bitter clusters;
33 他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
34 這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed 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。
Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time — doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
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 doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth — the going away of power, And none is restrained and 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 hath said, Where [are] their gods — The rock in which 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!
Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place!
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 ye, now, that I — I [am] He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,
40 我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live — to the age!
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 the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me — I repay!
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。」
I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen 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。
Sing ye nations — [with] his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land — 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 cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;
45 梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto 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。
and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe 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] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'
48 上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-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 unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons 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 in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath died in the mount Hor, and is gathered unto his people:
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 in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin — because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons 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。」
but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.'
