以西結書 33
1 上主的話傳給我說：「
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 人子，你應告訴你民族的子女，向他們說：當我使刀劍臨於一地，那地的百姓就應從自己的人中選出一人，立他作為他們的警衛，
“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and you shall say to them: Concerning the land, when I will have led the sword over it: if the people of the land take a man, one of their least, and appoint him over themselves as a watchman,
3 他一見刀劍臨近那地，就吹號筒，警告人民；
and if he sees the sword approaching over the land, and he sounds the trumpet, and he announces to the people,
4 人民聽見號筒的聲音，若不加戒備；刀劍來了，將他除掉，他的血債應歸他自己承當，
then, having heard the sound of the trumpet, whoever he is, if he also does not take care of himself, and the sword arrives and takes him: his blood will be upon his own head.
5 因為他聽見號聲，而不加戒備，他的血債應由他自己承當，那發警告的必安全無恙。
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and he did not take care of himself, so his blood will be upon him. But if he guards himself, he will save his own life.
6 警衛若見刀劍來臨，卻不吹號筒，人民因此沒有受到警告；刀劍來了，即便除掉他們中一人，這人雖因自己的罪惡被除掉，但我也要由警衛手中追討他的血債。
And if the watchman sees the sword approaching, and he does not sound the trumpet, and so the people do not guard themselves, and the sword arrives and takes some of their lives, certainly these have been taken due to their own iniquity. But I will attribute their blood to the hand of the watchman.
7 人子，我也這樣立你作以色列家族的警衛；你聽了我口中的話，應代我警告他們。
And as for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore, having heard the word from my mouth, you shall announce it to them from me.
8 為此，當我告訴惡人：『惡人，你必喪亡! 』你若不講話，也不警告惡人離開邪道，那惡人雖因自己的罪惡而喪亡，但我要由你手中追討他的血債。
When I say to the impious, ‘O impious man, you will die a death,’ if you have not spoken so that the impious man will keep himself from his way, then that impious man will die in his iniquity. But I will attribute his blood to your hand.
9 你若警告惡人叫他離開邪道，但他不肯歸正，離開邪道，他必因自己的罪惡而喪亡，你卻救了自己。」「
But if you have announced to the impious man, so that he may be converted from his ways, and he has not converted from his way, then he will die in his iniquity. Yet you will have freed your own soul.
10 人子，你應告訴以色列家族：你們曾這樣說：『我的過犯和罪惡重壓著我們，我們必因此消滅，我們還怎能生存﹖』
You, therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: You have spoken in this way, saying: ‘Our iniquities and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them. So then, how would we be able to live?’
11 你要告訴他們：我指著我的生命起誓──吾主上主的斷語──我決不喜歡惡人喪亡，但卻喜歡惡人歸正，離開邪道，好能生存。以色列家族啊! 歸正罷! 歸正罷! 離開你們的邪道罷! 何必要死去呢﹖
Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not desire the death of the impious, but that the impious should convert from his way and live. Be converted, be converted from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?
12 人子，你要告訴你民族的子女：義人的正義在他犯罪之日不能救他；惡人的罪過在惡人悔改之日，也不會使它喪亡在他罪過中；義人在他犯罪之日，不能因著他的正義而生存。
And as for you then, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The justice of the just man will not deliver him, on whatever day he will have sinned. And the impiety of the impious man will not harm him, on whatever day he will have been converted from his impiety. And the just man will not be able to live by his justice, on whatever day he will have sinned.
13 幾時我向義人說：他必生存；但他卻依仗自己的正義行惡，他所有的正義必不再被記念，他必因他所犯的罪惡而喪亡。
Even now, if I say to the just man that he shall certainly live, and so, with confidence in his justice, he commits iniquity, all his justices will be delivered into oblivion, and by his iniquity, which he has done, by this he shall die.
14 幾時我向惡人說：你必喪亡；但他由罪惡中悔改，且遵行法律和正義，
And if I say to the impious man, ‘You shall certainly die,’ and yet he repents from his sin, and he does judgment and justice,
15 清償抵押，歸還劫物，遵行生命的誡命，再不作惡，他必生存，不致死亡。
and if that impious man returns the collateral, and repays what he has taken by force, and if he walks in the commandments of life, and does not do anything unjust, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.
16 他所犯的一切罪過，不再被提起，因他遵行法律和正義，必定生存。
None of his sins, which he has committed, will be imputed to him. He has done judgment and justice, so he shall certainly live.
17 如果你民族的子女還說：『吾主的作法不公平。』其實是他們的作法不公平。
And the sons of your people have said, ‘The way of the Lord is not a fair balance,’ even while their own way is unjust.
18 幾時義人離棄正義而去行惡，他必因此而喪亡；
For when the just man will have withdrawn from his justice, and committed iniquities, he shall die by these.
19 幾時惡人離棄罪惡，而遵行法律和正義，他必因此而生存。
And when the impious man will have withdrawn from his impiety, and have done judgment and justice, he shall live by these.
20 你們怎麼還說：『吾主的作法不公平﹖』以色列家族，我必照你們每人的行為審判你們。」
And yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ But I shall judge each one of you according to his own ways, O house of Israel.”
21 我們充軍後十一年十月五日，有一個從耶路撒冷逃到我這裏的人說：『京城陷落了。』
And it happened that, in the twelfth year of our transmigration, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, one who had fled from Jerusalem arrived saying, “The city has been laid waste.”
22 在逃難者來的前一晚上，上主的手臨於我，開了我的口；及至他早晨來到我這裏以前，我的口已開了，我不再作啞吧。
But the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the one who had fled arrived. And he opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning. And since my mouth had been opened, I was no longer silent.
23 上主的話傳給我說：「
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
24 人子，在以色列地區住在那些廢墟裏的人仍說道：亞巴郎只一個人就佔據了此地，我們人數眾多，此地應歸我們佔有。
“Son of man, as for those who live in these ruinous ways on the soil of Israel, when speaking, they say: ‘Abraham was one man, and he possessed the land as an inheritance. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’
25 為此你應告訴他們：吾主上主這樣說：你們吃了帶血的祭物，舉目仰望了你們的偶像，且殺人流血，而你們還要佔據此地﹖
Therefore, you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You who eat even the blood, and who lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and who shed blood: will you possess the land as an inheritance?
26 你們仍仗著刀劍，行醜惡之事，每人玷污近人的妻子，而你們還要佔據此地﹖
You stood by your swords, you committed abominations, and each one has defiled his neighbor’s wife. And will you possess the land as an inheritance?
27 你應告訴他們：吾主上主這樣說：我指著我的生命起誓：那在廢墟中的，必喪身刀下；在原野的，我要把他們交給野獸吞噬；在堡壘和山洞中的，必死於瘟疫。
You shall say these things to them: So says the Lord God: As I live, those who live in ruinous ways will fall by the sword. And whoever is in the field will be delivered over to wild beasts to be devoured. But those who are in fortresses and in caves will die of the pestilence.
28 我要使此地變為沙漠和荒野，使她再不能誇耀自己的勢力；我要使以色列的山變為荒丘，再無人經過。
And I will make the land into a wilderness and a desert. And its arrogant strength will fail. And the mountains of Israel will be desolate; for there will be no one who crosses through them.
29 為了他們所行的醜惡，我使此地變為沙漠和荒野時，他們必承認我是上主。
And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have made their land desolate and deserted, because of all their abominations, which they have worked.
30 人子，你民族的子女在牆下及他們的門口，彼此談論你說：來，我們去聽聽由上主那裏傳出了什麼話﹖
And as for you, O son of man: the sons of your people speak about you beside the walls and in the doorways of houses. And they speak to one another, each man to his neighbor, saying: ‘Come, and let us hear what may be the word going forth from the Lord.’
31 他們便成群結隊地來到你這裏，像我的百姓般坐在你面前，聽你的話，但不去實行；他們口頭上說的是甜言蜜語，但他們的心卻在追求不義的利益。
And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.
32 你對他們好像唱情歌的人，歌喉悅耳，彈奏美妙；他們喜歡聽你說的話，卻不去實行。
And you are to them like a verse set to music, which is sung with a sweet and pleasing voice. And they hear your words, but they do not do them.
33 當這事來時──看，已來了! ──他們必承認在他們中有位先知。」
And when what has been predicted occurs, for behold it is approaching, then they shall know that a prophet was among them.”
