2 Kings 2
1 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
上主要用旋風接厄里亞升天的時候，厄里亞和厄里叟正離開基耳加耳；
2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.
厄里亞對厄里叟說：「請你劉在這裏，因為上主派我到貝特耳去。」厄里叟卻回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」於是二人到貝特耳。
3 And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.
在貝特耳的先知弟子們出來見厄里叟說：「上主今天要接你的師傅離開你，你知道嗎﹖」他回答說：「是，我知道，你們不要作聲。」
4 Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho.
厄里亞對厄里叟說：「厄里叟，請你留在這裏，因為上主派我到耶里哥去。」他回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」於是二人往耶里哥去了。
5 And at Jericho the sons of the prophets came up to Elisha and said to him, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said in answer, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.
在耶里哥的先知弟子們前來，對厄里叟說: 「上主今天要接你的師傅離開你，你知道嗎﹖」他回答說：「是的，我知道，你們不要作聲。」
6 Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on together.
厄里亞又對厄里叟說：「請你留在這裏，因為上主派我到約但河去。」厄里叟回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」二人於是繼續前行。
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went out and took their places facing them a long way off, while the two of them were by the edge of Jordan.
先知弟子中有五十個人同去，遠遠站在他們對面，他們二人立在約旦河邊，
8 Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.
厄里亞將自己的外衣捲起，擊打河水，即左右分開，他們二人從乾地上走了過去。
9 And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.
過去以後，厄里亞對厄里叟說：「在我被接去離開你以前，我應該為你作什麼，你儘管求罷! 」厄里叟答說：「求你把你的精神給我兩分。」
10 And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.
厄里亞說：「你求了一件難事；不過當我被接去離開你的時候，你若能看見我，你就可以得到；否則，你就不能得到。」
11 And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.
他們正邊走邊談的時候，忽然有一輛火馬拉的火車出現，把他們二人分開；厄里亞便乘著旋風升天去了。
12 And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.
厄里叟一見，就呼喊說：「我父，我父! 以色列的戰車，以色列的駿馬! 」隨後就再看不見他了；厄里叟遂抓住自己的衣服，撕成兩半，
13 Then he took up Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and went back till he came to the edge of Jordan.
然後拾起厄里亞身上掉下來的外衣，回去站在約旦河邊，
14 And he took Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and giving the water a blow with it, said, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? and at his blow the waters were parted this way and that; and Elisha went over.
拿著從厄里亞身上掉下來的外衣擊打河水說：「上主，厄里亞的天主在那裏﹖」他一擊打河水，河水就左右分開，厄里叟走了過去。
15 And when the sons of the prophets who were facing him at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha. And they came out to him, and went down on the earth before him.
耶里哥的先知弟子們從對面看見了他，就說：「厄里亞的精神已降在厄里叟的身上了。」他們便前來迎接，俯伏在地，叩拜他，
16 And they said, Your servants have with us here fifty strong men; be pleased to let them go in search of Elijah; for it may be that the spirit of the Lord has taken him up and put him down on some mountain or in some valley. But he said, Do not send them.
對他說：「你僕人中有五十個強壯的人，請讓他們去尋找你的師傅，或者上主的神將他提去，丟在一座山上，或一個山谷裏。」他回答說：「不必派他們去。」
17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.
但是他們逼得他不好意思，他這纔說：「你們派人去罷! 」他們於是派了五十個人去，尋找了三天，始終沒有找到，
18 And they came back to him, while he was still at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?
便回來見厄里叟，那時厄里叟還在耶里哥。厄里叟對他們說：「我不是對你們早說了，你們不必去嗎﹖」
19 Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.
城中的人對厄里叟說：「請看，本城的地勢很好，師傅也看見了，只是水不好，以致土產不熟即落。」
20 So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.
厄里叟說：「給我拿一隻新碗來，裏面放上些鹽。」他們就給他拿了來；
21 Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.
他遂出去到水泉旁，將鹽倒在水裏說：「上主這樣說：我已治好了這水，從此再也不會引起死亡和不熟早落的病。」
22 And the water was made sweet again to this day, as Elisha said.
果然，照厄里叟所說的，那水直到今日常是好水。
23 Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!
厄里叟從那裏上貝特耳去，當他沿路上去的時候，從城中出來一些小孩，譏笑他說：「光頭，上來! 光頭，上來! 」
24 And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.
厄里叟回過頭去看他們，因上主的名詛咒了他們；立即有兩隻狗熊從林中出來，咬死了其中四十二個孩子。
25 From there he went to Mount Carmel, and came back from there to Samaria.
厄里叟從那裏去了加爾默耳山，然後又從那裏回了撒瑪黎雅。
