历代志上 17
1 大卫住在自己宫中，对先知拿单说：“看哪，我住在香柏木的宫中，耶和华的约柜反在幔子里。”
After David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
2 拿单对大卫说：“你可以照你的心意而行，因为 神与你同在。”
And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
3 当夜， 神的话临到拿单，说：
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4 “你去告诉我仆人大卫，说耶和华如此说：‘你不可建造殿宇给我居住。
“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.
5 自从我领以色列人出埃及，直到今日，我未曾住过殿宇，乃从这会幕到那会幕，从这帐幕到那帐幕。
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.
6 凡我同以色列人所走的地方，我何曾向以色列的一个士师，就是我吩咐牧养我民的说：你为何不给我建造香柏木的殿宇呢？’
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
7 现在你要告诉我仆人大卫，说万军之耶和华如此说：‘我从羊圈中将你召来，叫你不再跟从羊群，立你作我民以色列的君。
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
8 你无论往哪里去，我常与你同在，剪除你的一切仇敌；我必使你得大名，好像世上大大有名的人一样。
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
9 我必为我民以色列选定一个地方，栽培他们，使他们住自己的地方，不再迁移；凶恶之子也不像从前扰害他们，
And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
10 并不像我命士师治理我民以色列的时候一样。我必治服你的一切仇敌，并且我—耶和华应许你，必为你建立家室。
and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you.
11 你寿数满足归你列祖的时候，我必使你的后裔接续你的位，我也必坚定他的国。
And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
12 他必为我建造殿宇；我必坚定他的国位直到永远。
He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.
13 我要作他的父，他要作我的子；并不使我的慈爱离开他，像离开在你以前的扫罗一样。
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.
14 我却要将他永远坚立在我家里和我国里；他的国位也必坚定，直到永远。’”
But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.”
15 拿单就按这一切话，照这默示告诉大卫。
So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire vision.
16 于是大卫王进去，坐在耶和华面前，说：“耶和华 神啊，我是谁，我的家算什么，你竟使我到这地步呢？
Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
17 神啊，这在你眼中还看为小，又应许你仆人的家至于久远。耶和华 神啊，你看顾我好像看顾高贵的人。
And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.
18 你加于仆人的尊荣，我还有何言可说呢？因为你知道你的仆人。
What more can David say to You for so honoring Your servant? For You know Your servant,
19 耶和华啊，你行了这大事，并且显明出来，是因你仆人的缘故，也是照你的心意。
O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness.
20 耶和华啊，照我们耳中听见，没有可比你的，除你以外再无 神。
O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
21 世上有何民能比你的民以色列呢？你 神从埃及救赎他们作自己的子民，又在你赎出来的民面前行大而可畏的事，驱逐列邦人，显出你的大名。
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
22 你使以色列人作你的子民，直到永远；你—耶和华也作他们的 神。
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
23 耶和华啊，你所应许仆人和仆人家的话，求你坚定，直到永远，照你所说的而行。
And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised,
24 愿你的名永远坚立，被尊为大，说：‘万军之耶和华是以色列的 神，是治理以色列的 神。’这样，你仆人大卫的家必在你面前坚立。
so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.
25 我的 神啊，因你启示仆人说，我必为你建立家室，所以仆人大胆在你面前祈祷。
For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.
26 耶和华啊，惟有你是 神，你也应许将这福气赐给仆人。
And now, O LORD, You are God! And You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
27 现在你喜悦赐福与仆人的家，可以永存在你面前。耶和华啊，你已经赐福，还要赐福到永远。”
So now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O LORD, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.”
