士师记 2
1 耶和华的使者从吉甲上到波金，对以色列人说：“我使你们从埃及上来，领你们到我向你们列祖起誓应许之地。我又说：‘我永不废弃与你们所立的约。
And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you; and as for you,
2 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话！为何这样行呢？’
ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not hearkened unto my voice. Why have ye done this?
3 因此我又说：‘我必不将他们从你们面前赶出；他们必作你们肋下的荆棘。他们的神必作你们的网罗。’”
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [scourges] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
4 耶和华的使者向以色列众人说这话的时候，百姓就放声而哭；
And it came to pass, when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5 于是给那地方起名叫波金。众人在那里向耶和华献祭。
And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to Jehovah.
6 从前约书亚打发以色列百姓去的时候，他们各归自己的地业，占据地土。
And Joshua dismissed the people, and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 约书亚在世和约书亚死后，那些见耶和华为以色列人所行大事的长老还在的时候，百姓都事奉耶和华。
And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel.
8 耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚，正一百一十岁就死了。
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten years old.
9 以色列人将他葬在他地业的境内，就是在以法莲山地的亭拿·希烈，在迦实山的北边。
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.
10 那世代的人也都归了自己的列祖。后来有别的世代兴起，不知道耶和华，也不知道耶和华为以色列人所行的事。
And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 以色列人行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，去事奉诸巴力，
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.
12 离弃了领他们出埃及地的耶和华—他们列祖的 神，去叩拜别神，就是四围列国的神，惹耶和华发怒；
And they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger.
13 并离弃耶和华，去事奉巴力和亚斯她录。
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14 耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作，就把他们交在抢夺他们的人手中，又将他们付与四围仇敌的手中，甚至他们在仇敌面前再不能站立得住。
And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about; and they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15 他们无论往何处去，耶和华都以灾祸攻击他们，正如耶和华所说的话，又如耶和华向他们所起的誓；他们便极其困苦。
Whithersoever they went out the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had said, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them; and they were greatly distressed.
16 耶和华兴起士师，士师就拯救他们脱离抢夺他们人的手。
And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17 他们却不听从士师，竟随从叩拜别神，行了邪淫，速速地偏离他们列祖所行的道，不如他们列祖顺从耶和华的命令。
But they did not even hearken to their judges, for they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them; they turned quickly out of the way that their fathers had walked in, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; they did not so.
18 耶和华为他们兴起士师，就与那士师同在。士师在世的一切日子，耶和华拯救他们脱离仇敌的手。他们因受欺压扰害，就哀声叹气，所以耶和华后悔了。
And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented Jehovah because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them.
19 及至士师死后，他们就转去行恶，比他们列祖更甚，去事奉叩拜别神，总不断绝顽梗的恶行。
And it came to pass when the judge died, that they turned back and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them: they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20 于是耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作。他说：“因这民违背我吩咐他们列祖所守的约，不听从我的话，
And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this nation hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and hath not hearkened unto my voice,
21 所以约书亚死的时候所剩下的各族，我必不再从他们面前赶出，
I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
22 为要借此试验以色列人，看他们肯照他们列祖谨守遵行我的道不肯。”
that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
23 这样耶和华留下各族，不将他们速速赶出，也没有交付约书亚的手。
Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
