Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
2 My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
願我的教訓如雨下降，我的言語似露滴落，像降在綠茵上的細雨，像落在青草上的甘霖!
3 For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
4 The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
他是磐石，他的作為完美無比；他的行徑公平正直，他是忠實無妄的天主，公義而又正直。
5 They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
那不堪稱為子女的，自趨墮落，背叛了他，實在是個邪惡敗壞的世代!
6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Is not he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
愚昧無知的人民，你們就這樣報答上主嗎﹖他不是生育你，創造你，使你生存的大父嗎﹖
7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
你回想往古的時日，思念歷代的歲月；問你的父親，問你的長輩，他必給你講述；
8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
當至高者為民族分配產業時，分佈人的子孫時，按照天使的數目，為萬民劃定了疆界；
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
但雅各伯是上主所保留的一分，以色列成為他特有的產業。
10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
上主在曠野之地，在野獸咆哮的原野，發見了他，遂將他抱起，加以撫育，加以保護，有如自己的眼珠。
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
老鷹怎樣守候自己的窩巢，飛翔在幼雛之上，上主也怎樣伸展雙翅，把他背在自己的翼上。
12 The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
上主使他馳騁於高原之上，以田間的出產養育他，使他享受巖穴間的蜜，堅石中的油，
14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
牛酪和羊乳，肥美的羔羊和公羊，巴商的公牛與山羊，以及上等的麥麵；並以葡萄美酒作你的飲品。
15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
雅各伯吃肥了，耶叔戎吃胖了，會踢人了。──的確，你胖了，肥了，飽滿了。──他遂拋棄了造他的天主，輕視了救他的磐石。
16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
他們以邪神的敬禮激起他的妒火，以可憎惡的事物，惹他動怒；
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they did not know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers did not dread.
他們所祭祀的是邪神，而非真神，是向來所不認識的神，是近來新興，你們的祖先所不敬畏的神。
18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
19 The LORD saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
20 He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
說我要掩面不顧他們，要看他們的結局如何；這實在是敗壞的一代，毫無信實的子女。
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
他們以虛妄之神，激起我的怒火，以虛無之物，惹我動怒；我也要以那不成子民的人激起他們的妒火，以愚昧的民族惹他們發怒。
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol (Sheol h7585), devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
我的怒火一燃起，必燒到陰府的深底，吞滅大地及其出產，焚毀山岳的基礎。 (Sheol h7585)
23 “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
我要將災禍不斷加在他們身上，向他們射盡我的箭矢。
24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
他們必因饑餓而衰弱，必為熱症、毒疫所消滅；我還使尖牙的野獸和土中爬行的毒蟲傷害他們。
25 Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
26 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted; the LORD has not done all this.’”
但我怕仇人自誇，怕敵人誤會說：「是我的手得勝了，而不是上主行了這一切。」
28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
「若不是他們的磐石出賣了他們，上主放棄了他們一人怎能追擊一千，兩人怎能打跑一萬﹖」
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
誠然，他們的葡萄秧，出自索多瑪的葡萄園，來在哈摩辣的田園；他們的葡萄是毒葡萄，粒粒葡萄皆酸苦。
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
34 “Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
等到他們失足之時，我必復仇報復；他們滅亡的日子確已臨近，給他們預定的命運就要來到。
36 For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
因為上主要衛護自己的人民，憐恤自己的僕人。當他看見他們的能力已逝，奴隸與自由人已到絕境，
37 He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
必問說：「他們的神祇在那裏，他們投靠的磐石究在何處﹖
38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
一向吃他們祭牲脂肪的，喝他們奠祭酒漿的，都在那裏﹖讓他們起來援助你們罷! 讓他們做你們的保障罷!
39 “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
現在你們應認清，只有我是「那一位，」除我以外沒有別神；我使人死，也使人活；我擊傷人，也加以治療；誰也不能由我手中救出。
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
41 if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
我一磨亮我的刀劍，我一掌握裁判權，必向我的敵人雪恨，對恨我的人報復。
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
我要使我的箭矢醉飲鮮血，使我的刀劍吞食血肉：陣亡和俘虜的鮮血，仇敵將領的頭顱。」
43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
萬國，你們應向他的百姓祝賀! 因為上主必為自己的僕人報血仇，向仇敵報復，聖潔自己的土地和百姓。
44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
梅瑟和農的兒子若蘇厄前來，將這篇詩歌的話朗誦給百姓聽。
45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
46 He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
就對他們說：「你們應把我今日警告你們的一切話記在心內，好吩咐你們的子孫，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
因為這為你們不是空洞的話，而是關係你們的生命；由於遵守這話，你們纔能在過約但河後所要佔領的地上，長久居留。」
48 The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
49 “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
你到摩阿布去，上這座阿巴陵山，即面對耶里哥的乃波山上去，觀看我要給以色列子民作產業的客納罕地。
50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
你要死在你所上的山上，歸到你本族那裏，像你哥哥亞郎死在曷爾山，歸到他本族那裏一樣。
51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
因為你們在親曠野，卡德士的默黎巴水邊，在以色列子民中對我失信，沒有在他們中尊我為聖；
52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
為此，我賜給以色列子民的地方，你只可由對面眺望，卻不能進去。」
