Deuteronomy 28
1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
你若實在聽從上主你的天主的話，謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的這一切誡命，上主你的天主必使你遠超過地上所有的民族。
2 And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
如果你聽從上主你的天主的話，下面這些祝福必臨於你，來到你身上。
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
你在城內必蒙受祝福，在鄉下也必蒙受祝福。
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牲畜所出的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要蒙受祝福。
5 Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要蒙受祝福。
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
你進來，蒙受祝福；你出去，也蒙受祝福。
7 The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
起來攻擊你的仇敵，上主必使他們在你面前崩潰；他們由一路來攻擊你，卻分七路由你面前逃去。
8 The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
上主決定對你的倉廩和在你著手進行的事上祝福你。
9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
只要你謹守上主你的天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，上主必要照他誓許於你的，立你為他自己的聖民；
10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
普世萬民一見你屬於上主的名下，必都怕你。
11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
在上主你的天主向你祖先起誓要賜給你的土地上，上主必使你滿享幸福：兒女眾多，牲畜繁殖，地產豐富。
12 The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
上主必為你大開天上的寶庫，給你的田地降下時雨，祝福你手所做的一切；你要借給許多民族，而你卻無須向人借貸。
13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
上主必立你為首，而不做尾巴，你常是高高在上，而總不屈居在下，只要你聽從我今天吩咐你的上主你天主的誡命，並謹守遵行，
14 Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
不左右偏離我今天吩咐你們的一切話，去跟隨事奉其他的神。
15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
但是，如果你不聽從上主你天主的話，不謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的上主的一切誡命和法令，下面這些咒罵必要臨於你，來到你身上。
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
你在城內必遭受咒罵，在鄉下也必遭受咒罵。
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要遭受咒罵。
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要遭受咒罵。
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
你進來，必遭受咒罵；
20 The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
你出去也必遭受咒罵。上主在你著手進行的一切事上，必使你遭受災難、困擾和恐嚇，直到你完全毀滅，迅速滅亡，因為你作惡，離棄了我。
21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
上主必使你瘟疫纏身，直到將你由你要去佔領的地上完全消滅。
22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
上主必用癆病、熱病、瘧疾、炎熱、乾旱、熱風和霉爛打擊你；這些災殃必追擊你，直到你滅亡。
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
你頭上的天將變為銅，你下面的地將變為鐵。
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
上主必使雨變成灰沙降在你的田地裏，由天上降在你身上，直到你完全毀滅。
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
上主必使你在仇敵面前崩潰；你由一路出擊他們，卻分七路由他們前逃去；你要成為普世萬國驚駭的對象。
26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
你的屍首必成為天空飛鳥，和地上走獸的食物；無人來將牠們嚇走。
27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
上主必用埃及的膿瘡、痔漏、癬疥紅疹打擊你，使你無法醫治。
28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
上主必用癲狂、眼瞎和心亂打擊你；
29 and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
在正午時，你要摸索有如在黑暗中摸索的瞎子；你的所作所為決不會順利；你必日日受人壓迫剝削，而無人援助。
30 You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
你與一女子訂婚，別人卻來與她同寢；你建築一座房屋，卻不得住在裏面；你栽植葡萄園，卻得不到享用。
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
你的牛在你眼前被殺，你卻不能吃牠的肉；你的驢由你眼前被人搶去，再不歸還給你；你的羊群被交給你的敵人，卻無人來援助你。
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
你的兒女被交給外方民族，你只有雙眼張望，日日為他們焦慮，但你卻無能為力。
33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
你田地的出產和你勞力之所得，卻為你不認識的一個民族吃盡；你只有時時被人壓迫蹂躪；
34 You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
你必要因你親眼所見的事而變為瘋狂。
35 The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
上主必用惡瘡打擊你的膝和腿，由腫至頂，使你無法醫治。
36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
上主你將你和你所立的統治你的君王，送到你和你祖先不認識的一個民族那裏去，在那裏你要事奉別的神，即木石所製的神。
37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
在上主要送你去的各民族中，你必成為驚駭、嘲笑和諷刺的對象。
38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
你在田間撒的種子雖然很多，但收穫的卻很少，因為蝗蟲要來吃盡。
39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
你雖然栽種修剪葡萄園，卻沒有酒喝，沒有收成，因為都要為蟲子吃盡。
40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
你雖然在全境栽有橄欖樹，卻沒有油抹身，因為橄欖要遂結遂落。
41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
你雖然生子養女，但他們卻不屬於你，因為他們要被擄去。
42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
害蟲要吃盡你所有的樹木和土地的出產。
43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
住在你中間的外方人不斷發達興旺，遠在你以上，你反而日趨卑下。
44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
他要借給你，你卻不能借給他；他要為首，你卻要做尾巴。
45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
這一切咒罵必臨於你，追擊你，來到你身上，直到你全被消滅，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話，沒有遵守他吩咐你的誡命和法令。
46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
這些咒罵對你和你的子孫，永遠是一個徽號和徵兆。
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
因為在財物富裕時，你沒有誠心悅意地去事奉上主你的天主，
48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
你必在飢渴，赤身露體，一無所有中，服侍上主派來攻擊你的仇敵；他必將鐵軛放在你的頸上，直到將你消滅。
49 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
上主必由遠方，由地極引來一個民族，像鷹一樣撲擊你；這民族的語言，你不明瞭；
50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
這民族又鐵面無情，不敬老，不恤幼；
51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
他必吞食你家畜的幼雛，和田地的產物，直到你被消滅；必不給你留下什麼穀、米、酒、油、牛犢或羔羊，直到將你完全毀滅。
52 They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
他必將你圍困在所有的城鎮內，直到你全國內所依恃的高大堅固的城牆都被攻陷；當你被圍困在上主你天主賜給你的全境各城鎮內時，
53 Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
在你被仇敵圍困的窮困中，你要吃你自身所生，即上主你天主賜給你子女的肉。
54 The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的男人，這時對自己的兄弟、懷中的妻子、尚存的子女，也必冷眼相看，
55 refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
不願將他所吃的子女的肉，分給他們任何人，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮受圍困陷於絕境時，已一無所剩。
56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的女人，先前嬌嫩溫柔得連腳都不踏在地上，這時對自己懷中的丈夫、自己的子女、也要冷眼相看，
57 the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
暗中將她兩腿間脫出的胞衣，和她所生的子女吃掉，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮中受圍困，陷於窮困時，已一無所有。
58 If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
如果你不謹守遵行這書上所記的法律的一切條文，敬畏這光榮可畏的名號：上主你的天主，
59 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
上主必使你和你的後裔遭受更奇特的災害，大而且久的災害，毒而且頑的疾病；
60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
必使你所怕的各種埃及病災發生在你身上，纏繞著你。
61 The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
此外，在在這法律書上所沒有記載的一切疾病和災害，上主也要引來降在你身上，直到將你完全消滅。
62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
你們以前雖然多如天上的繁星，你們所留下的，卻寥寥無幾，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話。
63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
有如上主先前怎樣喜歡你們獲得幸福，使你們人數眾多，將來也要怎樣喜歡你們衰落，使你們滅亡，使你們由你要去佔領的地上盡被剷除。
64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
上主要將你分散在大地兩極間所有人民中，你要在那裏事奉你和你祖先所不認識的外神，即木石之神；
65 Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
而且在這些民族中，你總得不到安寧，也找不到一塊歇腳的地方；上主在那裏必使你心情煩亂，眼目憔悴，精神頹喪。
66 So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
你未來的生活必提心吊膽，日夜驚惶；生命毫無保障。
67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
因你心情恐慌，因你眼見的景象，早晨你要說：「巴不得現在是晚上! 」到了晚上你又要說：「巴不得現在是早晨! 」
68 The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
上主要用船將你送回埃及，走我曾告訴你，你不會再見的那條路；在那裏你們雖自願將自己賣給你的仇敵為奴為婢，卻無人肯買。
