1 Samuel 2
1 At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.
亞納祈禱說：「我從心裏喜樂於上主，我的頭因上主而高仰；我可開口嘲笑我的敵人，因為我喜樂於你的救助。
2 There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
沒有聖者，相似上主；除了你以外，沒有另一位；沒有磐石，相似我們的天主。
3 Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
你們別再三說誑言，別口出豪語；上主是全知的天主，人的行為由他衡量。
4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
壯士的弓已被折斷，衰弱者反而力量倍增。
5 The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
曾享飽飫的，今傭工求食；曾受饑餓的，今無須勞役；不妊的今生了七子，多產者反而生育停頓。
上主使人死，也使人活；使人降入陰府，也將人由陰府提出； (Sheol h7585)
7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
上主使人窮，也使人富；貶抑人，也舉揚人；
8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
上主由塵埃中提拔卑賤者，從糞土中高舉貧窮者，使他與王侯同席，承受光榮座位；大地的支柱原屬上主，支柱上奠定了世界。
9 He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
他保護虔誠者的腳步，使惡人在黑暗中滅亡，因為人決不能憑己力獲勝，
10 Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
那與上主敵對的必被粉碎。至高者在天主鳴雷，上主要裁判地極，賜予自己的君王能力，高舉受傅者的冠冕。」
11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
以後厄耳卡納回了辣瑪本家。幼童卻留在厄里大司祭前，奉事上主。
12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
厄里的兩個兒子原是無惡不做的人，不懷念上主，
13 or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
也不關心司祭對人民的義務；若有人來殺牲獻祭，到煮祭肉時，司祭的僮僕便來，手持三齒叉，
14 and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.
插入鼎裏，鍋裏，甑裏或鑊裏，凡叉上來的，司祭就拿去自用；他們常這樣對待所有到史羅來的以色列人。
15 Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
甚或在焚化油脂以前，司祭的僮僕來對獻祭的人說：「把肉給司祭去烤罷! 他不向你要熟肉，他要生肉。」
16 And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
如果人答應說：「先得將油脂焚化，然後你可隨意拿去。」他必答說：「不，應立刻給我；不然，我就來搶。」
17 Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.
這兩個少年人在上主前犯的罪極重，因為輕視了獻於上主的祭品。
18 Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
撒慕爾幼童穿著細麻的「厄弗得，」在上主面前供職。
19 Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
他的母親每年給他做一件小外氅，當她同丈夫上來獻年祭時，就給他帶來。
20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
厄里祝福厄耳卡納和他的妻子說：「願上主由這婦人再賞你一個兒子，代替獻給上主的這一個! 」然後他們就回了本鄉。
21 So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
上主看顧了亞納她懷孕生了三男二女。撒慕爾幼童在上主前漸漸長大。
22 Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
厄里已經很老。他聽說他的兩個兒子對眾以色列人所做的一切，和他們與社會幕門旁服役的婦女同睡的事，
23 “Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.
就對他們說：「你們為什麼作出像我由眾百姓那裏聽來的這些壞事﹖
24 No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
我兒，不要這樣! 我所聽見的風聲實在不好，你們竟使百姓遠離了上主!
25 If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
若得罪人，尚有天主審斷；人若得罪上主，有誰為他求情呢﹖」但是他們仍不聽父親的話，因為上主有意使他們喪亡。
26 And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
撒慕爾幼童漸漸長大，為上主和人所喜愛。
27 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
有一位天主的人來到厄里面前對他說：「上主這樣：當你祖先的家人還在埃及法郎家中當奴隸時，我不是再三顯現給他們嗎﹖
28 And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.
我不是從以色列眾支派中，特選了他們作我的司祭，上我的祭壇焚香獻祭，穿「厄弗得」到我面前來，並將以色列子民的火祭祭品全賜給了你的父家嗎﹖
29 Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
那麼，你為什麼還要嫉視我所規定的犧牲和素祭呢﹖竟重視你的兒子在我以上，用我的人民以色列所獻的最好的一份，養肥了他們﹖
30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
因此，請聽上主以色列天主的斷語：我曾許下，你的家和你的父家要在我面前永遠往來，但是現在，──上主的斷語──決不能如此! 只有那光榮我的，我纔光榮他；那輕視我的，必受輕視。
31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
時日快到了，那時我要砍下你的臂膊和你父家的臂膊，使你家裏再沒有權威的長者。
32 You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.
以後，你要嫉視我賜與以色列人的一切幸福，可是在你家裏永不會再有權威的長者；
33 And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
我也不願將你的人由我的祭壇上盡行消滅，致使你的眼目昏花，心神憂傷；但你家中大多數的人要死在人家的刀下。
34 And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
你的兩個兒子曷弗尼和丕乃哈斯所要遭遇的，為你就是個先兆：他們兩人要在同一天死掉。
35 Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.
我要為我興起一位忠信的司祭，他要照我的心意行事，我要給他建立一個堅固的家庭，他一生要在我的受傅者前往來。
36 And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
那時，凡你家中所存留的人，必要叩拜他，為得到一點錢或一片餅說：求你容我參與任何一種司祭職務，使我可以糊口。」
