Numbers 24
1 And when Balaam had seen that it was pleasing to the Lord that he should bless Israel, he by no means went out as he had gone before, to seek divination. But directing his face opposite the desert,
巴郎見祝福以色列，為上主所喜悅，就不再像前幾次一樣先去探求預示，只轉面向曠野。
2 and lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel dwelling in tents by their tribes. And with the Spirit of God rushing into him,
巴郎一舉目，看見了按支派紮營的以色列人；那時天主的神降在他身上，
3 taking up his parable, he said: “Balaam, the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,
他遂吟詩說：「貝敖爾的兒子巴郎的神諭，明眼男子的神諭，
4 the hearer of the sermon of God, he who has gazed upon a vision of the Almighty, he who falls down and so his eyes are opened, has declared:
那聽到天主木話，得見全能者的神視，在沉睡中開了神眼的神視：
5 ‘How beautiful are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your tents, O Israel!
雅各伯，你的帳幕，何其壯觀! 以色列，你的居住，何其美好!
6 They are like forested valleys, like gardens irrigated next to rivers, like tabernacles which the Lord has fixed, like cedars close to waters.
如擴展的棕林，似河畔的花園，像牆上上主栽種的沉香，似臨水的香柏。
7 Water shall flow from his jar, and his offspring shall be amid many waters, because Agag, his king, shall be taken, and his kingdom shall be removed.
英雄由他的 後裔而出，他將治理許多民族；他的君王超越阿加格，他的王國必受舉揚。
8 Away from Egypt, God has led him, whose strength is like the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.
領他出埃及的天主，為他有如野牛的角。他要吞滅那敵對他的人民，粉碎他們的骨骸，折斷他們的箭矢。
9 Lying down, he has slept like a lion, and like a lioness, whom no one would dare to awaken. He who blesses you, shall himself also be blessed. He who curses you, shall be considered cursed.”
他蹲伏臥下有如雄獅，又似母獅；誰敢令他起立﹖祝福你的，必受祝福；咒罵你的，必受咒罵」。
10 And Balak, being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: “I called you to curse my enemies, and, to the contrary, you have blessed them three times.
巴拉克對巴郎大發憤怒，拍手向他說：「我請你來是為咒罵我的仇敵；看，你反而祝福他們，且已三次。
11 Return to your place. I had decided, indeed, to honor you greatly, but the Lord has deprived you of the designated honor.”
現在你快回你故鄉去! 我原想豐富地酬謝你，但是，上主奪去了你的酬報」。
12 Balaam responded to Balak: “Did I not say to your messengers, whom you sent to me:
巴郎回答巴拉克說：「我不是已對你遺來的使者聲明過：
13 Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.
既使巴拉克給我滿屋金銀，我也不能違犯上主的命令，任意去行善或作惡，而只能說上主所吩咐的嗎﹖
14 Yet truly, as I continue on to my own people, I will give you counsel as to what this people shall do to your people in the end times.”
現在我就要回到我民族那裏去；來，讓我告訴你這民族日後對你的民族所要做事」。
15 Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: “Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,
於是他吟詩 u金敖爾的兒子巴郎的神諭，明眼男子的神諭，
16 the hearer of the sermon of God, he who knows the doctrine of the Most High, and who sees the visions of the Almighty, who, falling down, has his eyes opened, has declared:
那聽到天主的話，深知至高者的思慮，得見全能者的神視，在沉睡中開了神眼的神諭：
17 I shall see him, but not presently. I shall gaze upon him, but not soon. A star shall rise out of Jacob, and a rod shall spring up from Israel. And he shall strike down the commanders of Moab, and he shall devastate all the sons of Seth.
我看見衪，卻不是在現在；卻不是在近處：由雅各伯將出現一顆星，由以色列將興起一權杖，擊碎摩阿布木頍角，粉碎特一切子民的腦蓋。
18 And he shall possess Idumea; the inheritance of Seir shall fall to their enemies. Yet truly, Israel shall act with strength.
厄東將成為他的屬地，色依爾將成為他的轄境；以色列必行使威權。
19 From Jacob will be he who shall be ruler. And he shall perish the remnants of the city.”
由雅各伯將山生一位統治仇敵者，衪要除滅依爾的遺民」。
20 And when he saw Amalek, taking up his parable, he said: “Amalek, first among the Gentiles, whose very end shall be perdition.”
以後他望見阿肋瑪克，遂吟詩說：「阿肋瑪克原是眾民之首，但他的結局是永遠的滅亡」。
21 Likewise, he saw the Kainites, and taking up his parable, he said: “Robust, indeed, is your habitation. But though you will set your nest in a rock,
後又望見刻尼人，遂吟詩說：「你的居住固然鞏固，你的巢穴縱然建在磐石間；
22 and you will be elect among the stock of Kain, how long will you be able to remain? For Assur shall take you captive.”
但刻尼人仍要被毀滅，到何時亞述才將你擄去﹖」
23 And taking up his parable once more he said: “Alas! Who will be able to survive, when God will do these things?
他又吟詩說：「嗚呼! 若天主履行此事，誰還能生存!
24 They shall arrive in Greek warships from Italy. They shall overcome the Assyrians, and they shall devastate the Hebrews, and yet, at the very end, even they themselves shall perish.”
從基廷有船來，征服亞述，征服厄貝爾；他們也要永遠滅亡」。
25 And Balaam rose up, and he returned to his place. Likewise, Balak went back, along the way by which he had arrived.
然後巴郎起身回了本鄉；巴拉克也回去了。
