1 Samuel 20
1 Then David fled from Naioth, which is in Ramah, and he went and said before Jonathan: “What have I done? What is my iniquity, or what is my sin, against your father, so that he would seek my life?”
達味由辣瑪納逃走，去見約納堂說：「我作了什麼，有什麼過錯，哪裏得了你父親，他竟要害我的性命﹖」
2 And he said to him: “May this not be! You shall not die. For my father will not do anything, great or small, without first revealing it to me. Therefore, has my father concealed this word solely from me? By no means shall this be!”
約納堂回答他說：「決沒有這回事，你決死不了。看，我父親無論作什麼大事小事，沒有不告訴我的；為什麼我父親偏要對我隱瞞這事呢﹖決不會的! 」
3 And he swore again to David. And David said: “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your sight, and so he will say, ‘Let Jonathan not know this, lest he be saddened.’ So truly, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, there is only one step (if I may say it) separating me from death.”
達味卻對他說：「你父親明知我在你眼裏得寵，所以他想：不要要約納堂知道這事，免得他悲傷。總之，我指著永生的上主敢在你面前發誓：我與死之間只差一步! 」
4 And Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul will tell me, I will do for you.”
約納堂對達味說：「你願意我為你作什麼﹖」
5 Then David said to Jonathan: “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I am accustomed to sit in a seat beside the king to eat. Therefore, permit me that I may be hidden in the field, until the evening of the third day.
達味回答約納堂說：「看，明天是月朔，我原該和君王同席吃飯，但你讓我走，藏在田野間，直到第三丌晚上。
6 If your father, looking around, will seek me, you shall respond to him: ‘David asked me if he may hurry to Bethlehem, his own city. For there are solemn sacrifices in that place for all of his tribe together.’
如果你父親發覺我不在，你應說：達味懇求我，讓他逃回白冷本城，因為在那裏全族舉行年祭。
7 If he will say, ‘It is well,’ then your servant will have peace. But if he will be angry, know that his malice has reached its height.
他若說：好! 你的僕人就平安無事；他若勃然大怒，你就該知道：他已決意行惡。
8 Therefore, show mercy to your servant. For you have brought me, your servant, into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is any iniquity in me, you may kill me, and you shall not lead me in to your father.”
望你仁慈對待你僕人! 因你使你因上主的名與你訂了盟約；假若我有罪惡，你可殺我，為何偏要將我交給你父親呢﹖」
9 And Jonathan said: “May this be far from you. For certainly, if I ever realized that any wickedness was determined by my father against you, I would not be able to do anything other than report it to you.”
約納堂答說：「千萬別這樣想! 如果我確實知道，我父親決意要加害你，豈有不告訴你的嗎﹖」
10 And David responded to Jonathan, “Who will repeat it to me, if your father may perhaps answer you harshly about me?”
達味就問約納堂說：「若你父親嚴厲答覆你，誰來通知我﹖」
11 And Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” And when they both had gone out into the field,
約納堂對達味說：「來，我們往田間去」。二人就往田間去了。
12 Jonathan said before David: “O Lord, God of Israel, if I will discover a decision by my father, tomorrow, or the day after, and if there will be anything good concerning David, and yet I do not immediately send to you and make it known to you,
約納堂對達味說：「上主，以色列的天主作證：明天或天這時候，我探得了我父親的意思，對達味有或否，我必派人來告訴你。
13 may the Lord do these things to Jonathan, and may he add these other things. But if my father will have persevered in malice against you, I will reveal it to your ear, and I will send you away, so that you may go in peace, and so that the Lord may be with you, just as he was with my father.
倘若我父親願意加害你，我若不通知你，不放你走，使你平安離去，願上主這樣這樣加倍罰我約納堂! 願上主與你同在，有如曾與我父親同在一樣!
14 And if I live, you shall show the mercy of the Lord to me. Yet truly, if I die,
若我那時尚在人世，願你對我表示上主的仁慈；設若我死了，
15 you shall not take away your mercy from my house, even forever, when the Lord will have rooted out the enemies of David, each and every one of them, from the earth. May he take Jonathan from his house, and may the Lord require it from the hands of the enemies of David.”
願你不要由我家永遠撤消你的仁慈! 連當上主由地面上一一剷除達味的敵人時；
16 Therefore, Jonathan formed a covenant with the house of David. And the Lord required it from the hands of the enemies of David.
若約納堂的名字被達味家族消滅了，願上主藉達味的仇人的手追究此案! 」
17 And Jonathan continued to swear to David, because he loved him. For he loved him like his own soul.
約納堂由於愛達味，再向他起了誓，因為他愛達味如愛自己的性命。
18 And Jonathan said to him: “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be sought.
約納堂又對他說：「明日是月朔，因為占座位空著，人必注意你不在，
19 For your seat will be empty until the day after tomorrow. Therefore, you shall descend quickly, and you shall go to the place where you are to be hidden, on a day when it is lawful to work, and you shall remain beside the stone that is called Ezel.
到第三天，人必更注意你不在；那麼，你要到你曾出事那日藏身的地方去，坐在那石堆旁邊。
20 And I will shoot three arrows near it, and I will cast them as if I were practicing for myself toward a mark.
到第三天，我要向石堆射箭，仿佛射靶。
21 Also, I will send a boy, saying to him, ‘Go and bring the arrows to me.’
看，我必打發一童僕去找箭，假如我我對童說：看，箭在你後面，拾回來吧! 你就可以出來，我指著永生的上主起誓：你必平安無事。
22 If I will say to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are before you, take them up,’ you shall approach before me, because there is peace for you, and there is nothing evil, as the Lord lives. But if I will have spoken to the boy in this way, ‘Behold, the arrows are away from you,’ then you shall go away in peace, for the Lord has released you.
倘若我對童僕自己說：看，箭在你前面。你就走吧! 因為上主打發你走。
23 Now about the word that you and I have spoken, may the Lord be between you and me, even forever.”
至於我和你現今所說的這話，有上主在我和你中間，永遠作證」。
24 Therefore, David was hidden in the field. And the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.
於是達味就去藏在田野間；到了月朔，君王入席吃飯。
25 And when the king had sat down on his chair, (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat beside Saul, and David’s place appeared empty.
君王照例靠著牆坐在自己的位上，約納堂坐在他對面，阿貝乃爾坐在撒烏耳旁邊，達味的地方空著。
26 And Saul did not say anything on that day. For he was thinking that perhaps something happened to him, so that he was not clean, or not purified.
撒烏耳那天沒有說什麼，因為他想事情出於偶然，或許他染了不潔，還沒有自潔。
27 And when the second day after the new moon had begun to dawn, David’s place again appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not arrived to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?”
日，即初二日，達味的座位仍空著，撒烏耳就對兒子約納堂說：「為什麼葉瑟的兒子昨日沒有來赴宴，今日又沒有來﹖」
28 And Jonathan responded to Saul, “He petitioned me earnestly that he might go to Bethlehem,
約納堂答覆撒烏耳說：「達味懇求我許他往白冷去。
29 and he said: ‘Permit me. For there is a solemn sacrifice in the city. One of my brothers has summoned me. Now therefore, if I have found favor in your eyes, I will go quickly, and I will see my brothers.’ For this reason, he has not come to the table of the king.”
他說：求你讓我去，因為在城裏我們要舉行族祭，我的兄弟定要我去；所以，假若我在你眼中獲寵，求你讓我去，容我得見我的兄弟；為此，他沒有來赴君王的筳席」。
30 Then Saul, becoming angry against Jonathan, said to him: “You son of a woman wantonly seizing a man! Could I be ignorant that you love the son of Jesse, to your own shame, and to the shame of your disgraceful mother?
撒烏耳對約納堂勃然大怒，對他說：「娼婦的兒子! 豈能我不知道你同葉瑟的兒子一夥，甚至羞辱你自己，又我羞辱你母親的私處嗎﹖
31 For all the days that the son of Jesse moves upon earth, neither you, nor your kingdom, will be secure. And so, send and bring him to me, here and now. For he is a son of death.”
你要知道，葉瑟的兒子活在世上一天，你連你的王位都不得穩當! 如今你差人去，把他給我抓來，因為他是該死的人」。
32 Then Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said: “Why should he die? What has he done?”
約納堂回答他父親撒烏耳說：「為什麼他該死﹖他作了什麼事﹖」
33 And Saul picked up a lance, so that he might strike him. And Jonathan understood that it had been decided by his father that David be put to death.
撒烏耳就舉起槍來要刺死他，約納堂便明白他父親已決意要殺達味。
34 Therefore, Jonathan rose up from the table in a rage of anger. And he did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was saddened over David, because his father had confounded him.
約納堂就起來，氣憤憤地離開了筳席；初二那天，也沒有吃飯，因為他為達味擔憂，又因為他父親辱罵了自己。
35 And when the morning had begun to dawn, Jonathan went into the field according to the agreement with David, and a young boy was with him.
次日清晨，約納堂按照他與達味的約會，往田間去了；有個童僕跟隨著他。
36 And he said to his boy, “Go, and bring to me the arrows that I shoot.” And when the boy had run, he shot another arrow away from the boy.
他對那童僕說：「跑去，找所放的箭! 」童僕往前跑時，他又向前放了一箭。
37 And so, the boy went to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot. And Jonathan cried out, from behind the back of boy, and said: “Behold, the arrow is there, farther away from you.”
當僮僕來到約納堂所射到的地方，約納堂就在僮後面喊說：「箭不是在你前面嗎﹖」
38 And Jonathan cried out again, from behind the back of the boy, saying, “Go quickly! Do not stand still!” Then Jonathan’s boy collected the arrows, and he brought them to his lord.
約納堂又在僮僕後面喊說：「趕快跑去，不要站住! 」約納堂的僮僕就拾了箭，給主人拿來。
39 And he did not understand at all what was happening. For only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
那僮僕卻不知道是意思，只有約納堂和達味知道。
40 Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy, and he said to him, “Go, and carry them into the city.”
然後約納堂把自己的武器交給他的僕僮，向他說：「帶回城去吧! 」
41 And when the boy had gone away, David rose up from his place, which turned toward the south, and falling prone on the ground, he reverenced three times. And kissing one another, they wept together, but David more so.
僮僕走後，達味就為不堆旁起來，俯伏在地，拜了三拜；以後他們彼此相吻，二人相抱對泣，達味哭得更甚。
42 Then Jonathan said to David: “Go in peace. And let us both keep all that we have ever sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘May the Lord be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, even forever.’” And David rose up and went away. But Jonathan entered into the city.
最後，約納堂對達味說：「你平安去吧! 照我們兩人以上主的名所起的誓：願上主永遠在我和你之間，在我的後代與你的後代之間! 」 達味就動身走了，約納堂也回到城裏﹖
