Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
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 name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright 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 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of 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 how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not 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 long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform 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 the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
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 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted 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 a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded 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 stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
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, and no foreign god was 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 heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
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 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the 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— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned 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 provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him 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 to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
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 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the 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 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and 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 will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
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 provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
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 has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
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 disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against 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 will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither 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 take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and 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 would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
27 if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did 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 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
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 man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given 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 like our Rock, even our enemies concede.
連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; 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 venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
35 Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
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 vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
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 offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
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 am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from 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 surely as I live forever,
我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
41 when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and 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, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
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, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and 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 Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
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 When Moses had 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, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow 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 they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
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 On that same day the LORD said to Moses,
上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own 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 And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron 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 For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
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 Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
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。」
