士師記 2
1 主的神諭 上主的使者從基耳加耳上到波津說：「我使你們由埃及上來，領你們進入了我向你們祖先所誓許的地方；我曾說過：我永不廢棄我與你們所立的盟約，
The angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim, and said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and have brought you to the land I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you.
2 你們也不可與這地方的居民結約，且要拆毀他們的祭壇。但你們沒有聽從我的聲音；你們這是作的什麼事﹖
You must make no covenant with those who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice. What is this that you have done?
3 為此我現在說：我必不把他們從你們面前趕走，他們為你們將是陷阱，他們的神要成為你們的羅網。」
So now I say, 'I will not drive the Canaanites out before you, but they will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will become a trap for you.'”
4 當上主的使者對全以色列子民說這話時，百姓便放聲大哭，
When the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people shouted and wept.
5 因此給那地方起名叫波津。他們在那裏給上主奉獻了祭獻。民長時代的史論
They called that place Bokim. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 若蘇厄遣散了百姓，以色列子民就各到自己應得的產業去，為佔領那地方。
Now when Joshua had sent the people on their way, the people of Israel each went to the place assigned, to take ownership of their land.
7 當若蘇厄在世時，和他去世後，那些見過上主為以色列所行的大事的長老們還在的時日，百姓都事奉上主。
The people served Yahweh during the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, those who had seen all of Yahweh's great deeds he had done for Israel.
8 上主的僕人，農的兒子若蘇厄一百一十歲時去了世。
Joshua son of Nun the servant of Yahweh, died at the age of 110 years old.
9 人們把他埋在他地業的境內，即在厄弗辣因山地，加阿士山北面的提默納赫勒斯。
They buried him within the border of the land he was assigned in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 當那一代人都歸於他們的祖先以後，在他們之後，興起了另一代，他們不認識上主，也不知道上主為以色列所行的事蹟。
All that generation was also gathered to their fathers. Another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or what he had done for Israel.
11 以色列子民行了上主視為惡的事，事奉了巴耳諸神。
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and they served the Baals.
12 他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，即領他們出離埃及地的天主，而隨從了別的神，叩拜他們四周各民族的神，因此觸怒了上主。
They broke away from Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, the very gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them. They provoked Yahweh to anger because
13 他們背離了上主，而事奉巴耳和阿市托勒特。
they broke away from Yahweh and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14 於是上主對以色列大發忿怒，把他們交在強盜手中，叫強盜搶掠他們；將他們賣給育四周的敵人，使他們不能抵抗他們的敵人；
The anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he gave them to the raiders who stole their possessions from them. He sold them as slaves who were held by the strength of their enemies around them, so they could no longer defend themselves against their enemies.
15 他們無論去那裏，上主的手總是加害他們，猶如上主所說的，猶如上主向他們所起的誓，使他們受極大的痛苦。
Wherever Israel went out to fight, Yahweh's hand was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them and they were in terrible distress.
16 上主雖興起民長，拯救他們脫離強盜的手；
Then Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who were stealing their possessions.
17 但他們仍不肯聽從他們的民長，反而與外邦的神行淫，頂禮叩拜，迅速地離開了他們祖先所走的服從上主命令的路，沒有照樣行事。
Yet they would not listen to their judges. They were unfaithful to Yahweh and gave themselves like prostitutes to other gods and worshiped them. They soon turned aside from the way their fathers had lived—those who had obeyed the commandments of Yahweh—but they themselves did not do so.
18 當上主給他們興起民長時，上主與民長同在，在民長一生的歲月中，救他們脫離仇敵的手，因為上主聽見了他們受壓迫欺凌發出的歎息，而憐憫了他們；
When Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh helped the judges and rescued them from the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. Yahweh had pity on them as they groaned because of those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
19 可是民長一去世，他們又轉而行惡，行為比他們的祖先更壞，去追隨外神，事奉叩拜他們，總不放棄他們祖先的惡行和頑抗的行為。
But when the judge died, they would turn away and do things that were even more corrupt than their fathers had done. They would go after other gods to serve them and worship them. They refused to give up any of their evil practices or their stubborn ways.
20 因此上主對以色列大發忿怒說：「因為這百姓違犯了我與他們祖先締結的盟約，沒有聽從我的音；
The anger of Yahweh burned against Israel; he said, “Because this nation has broken the terms of my covenant that I had set in place for their fathers—because they have not listened to my voice—
21 為此，若蘇厄死後所剩下的民族，我也不再由他們面前，驅逐任何一個，
I will not, from now on, drive out from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
22 為試驗以色列是否謹守遵行上主的道路，有如他們的祖先所遵行的一樣。」
I will do this so that I may test Israel, whether or not they will keep the way of Yahweh and walk in it, as their fathers kept it.”
23 因此，上主保留了那些民族，沒有迅速驅逐他們，也沒有把他們交在以色人手中。
That is why Yahweh left those nations and did not drive them out quickly and give them into the hand of Joshua.
