士師記 10
1 阿彼默肋客之後，有依撒加爾人多多的孫子，普阿的兒子托拉起來整救以色列。他住在厄弗辣因山地的沙米爾，
After Abimelech, a leader rose up in Israel, Tola, the son of Puah, the paternal uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who lived in Shamir on mount Ephraim.
2 做以色列民長有二十三年之久，死後葬在紗米爾。雅依爾民長
And he judged Israel for twenty-three years, and he died and was buried at Shamir.
3 在他以後，有基肋阿得人雅依爾興起，作以色列民長二十二年之久。
After him succeeded Jair, a Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two years,
4 他有三十個兒子，騎著三十四驢駒；他們有三十座城，這些城稱作哈沃特雅依爾，直到今日，都在基肋阿得地。
having thirty sons sitting upon thirty young donkeys, and who were leaders of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havvoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, even to the present day, in the land of Gilead.
5 雅依爾死後埋葬在卡孟。以民犯罪受罰
And Jair died, and he was buried in the place which is called Kamon.
6 那時以色列子民又行了上主視為惡的事，事奉巴耳和阿市托勒特眾神，以及阿蘭的神，漆冬的神，摩阿布的神，阿孟子民的神，培肋舍特人的神；他們背棄上主，不事奉他。
But the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, joining new sins to old, and they served idols, the Baals and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria and Sidon, and of Moab and the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines. And they abandoned the Lord, and they did not worship him.
7 上主向以色列發怒，把他們交在培肋舍特人和阿孟子民手中。
And the Lord, becoming angry against them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and the sons of Ammon.
8 從那一年起，他們迫害壓制以色列子民，即所有住在約但河對岸，在阿摩黎人境內基肋阿得地方的以色列子民，一連十八年。
And they were afflicted and vehemently oppressed for eighteen years, all who were living beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead,
9 阿孟子民也過約但河來攻擊猷大、本雅明和厄弗辣因家族；因此以色列人很是困苦。
to such a great extent that the sons of Ammon, crossing over the Jordan, laid waste to Judah and Benjamin and Ephraim. And Israel was exceedingly afflicted.
10 以色列子民遂向上主呼籲說：「我們得罪了你，因為我們背棄了我們的天主，事奉了巴耳諸神! 」
And crying out to the Lord, they said: “We have sinned against you. For we have forsaken the Lord our God, and we have served the Baals.”
11 上主對以色列子民說：「當埃及人、阿摩黎人、阿孟子民、培肋舍特人、
And the Lord said to them: “Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorites, and the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines,
12 漆冬人、阿瑪肋人、米德楊人難為你們的時後，你們向我哀號，我豈沒有從他們手中拯救了你們﹖
and also the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Canaan, oppress you, and so you cried out to me, and I rescued you from their hand?
13 但是你們背棄了我，事奉了別的神，因此我不再拯救你們，
And yet you have forsaken me, and you have worshipped foreign gods. For this reason, I will not continue to free you any more.
14 去呼籲你們所選擇的神罷! 讓他們在你們遭難時來拯救你們! 」
Go, and call upon the gods whom you have chosen. Let them free you in the time of anguish.”
15 以色列子民對上主說：「我們犯了罪，你任意對待我們，只求你今日援救我們! 」
And the sons of Israel said to the Lord: “We have sinned. You may repay us in whatever way pleases you. Yet free us now.”
16 以色列子民遂從他們中間除去外邦的神，而事奉上主；上主再不能容忍以色列受苦。
And saying these things, they cast out all the idols of the foreign gods from their regions, and they served the Lord God. And he was touched by their miseries.
17 那時阿孟子民集合在基肋阿得紮營，以色列子民也集合在米茲帕安營。
And then the sons of Ammon, shouting out together, pitched their tents in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together against them, and they made camp at Mizpah.
18 基肋阿得人民的首領彼此說：「誰開始攻打阿孟子民，誰就作全基肋阿得居民的首領。」
And the leaders of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever among us will be the first to begin to contend against the sons of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Gilead.”
