Numbers 23
1 And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
巴蘭對巴勒說：「你在這裏給我築七座壇，為我預備七隻公牛，七隻公羊。」
2 And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.
巴勒照巴蘭的話行了。巴勒和巴蘭在每座壇上獻一隻公牛，一隻公羊。
3 And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.
巴蘭對巴勒說：「你站在你的燔祭旁邊，我且往前去，或者耶和華來迎見我。他指示我甚麼，我必告訴你。」於是巴蘭上一淨光的高處。
4 And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.
上帝迎見巴蘭；巴蘭說：「我預備了七座壇，在每座壇上獻了一隻公牛，一隻公羊。」
5 And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
耶和華將話傳給巴蘭，又說：「你回到巴勒那裏，要如此如此說。」
6 Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
他就回到巴勒那裏，見他同摩押的使臣都站在燔祭旁邊。
7 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
巴蘭便題起詩歌說： 巴勒引我出亞蘭， 摩押王引我出東山，說： 來啊，為我咒詛雅各； 來啊，怒罵以色列。
8 How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
上帝沒有咒詛的，我焉能咒詛？ 耶和華沒有怒罵的，我焉能怒罵？
9 I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
我從高峰看他，從小山望他； 這是獨居的民，不列在萬民中。
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.
誰能數點雅各的塵土？ 誰能計算以色列的四分之一？ 我願如義人之死而死； 我願如義人之終而終。
11 And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
巴勒對巴蘭說：「你向我做的是甚麼事呢？我領你來咒詛我的仇敵，不料，你竟為他們祝福。」
12 He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
他回答說：「耶和華傳給我的話，我能不謹慎傳說嗎？」
13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.
巴勒說：「求你同我往別處去，在那裏可以看見他們；你不能全看見，只能看見他們邊界上的人。在那裏要為我咒詛他們。」
14 And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,
於是領巴蘭到了瑣腓田，上了毗斯迦山頂，築了七座壇；每座壇上獻一隻公牛，一隻公羊。
15 He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.
巴蘭對巴勒說：「你站在這燔祭旁邊，等我往那邊去迎見耶和華。」
16 And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.
耶和華臨到巴蘭那裏，將話傳給他；又說：「你回到巴勒那裏，要如此如此說。」
17 Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?
他就回到巴勒那裏，見他站在燔祭旁邊；摩押的使臣也和他在一處。巴勒問他說：「耶和華說了甚麼話呢？」
18 But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
巴蘭就題詩歌說： 巴勒，你起來聽； 西撥的兒子，你聽我言。
19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?
上帝非人，必不致說謊， 也非人子，必不致後悔。 他說話豈不照着行呢？ 他發言豈不要成就呢？
20 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
我奉命祝福； 上帝也曾賜福，此事我不能翻轉。
21 There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.
他未見雅各中有罪孽， 也未見以色列中有奸惡。 耶和華－他的上帝和他同在； 有歡呼王的聲音在他們中間。
22 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
上帝領他們出埃及； 他們似乎有野牛之力。
23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.
斷沒有法術可以害雅各， 也沒有占卜可以害以色列。 現在必有人論及雅各，就是論及以色列說： 上帝為他行了何等的大事！
24 Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
這民起來，彷彿母獅， 挺身，好像公獅， 未曾吃野食， 未曾喝被傷者之血，決不躺臥。
25 And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.
巴勒對巴蘭說：「你一點不要咒詛他們，也不要為他們祝福。」
26 And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?
巴蘭回答巴勒說：「我豈不是告訴你說『凡耶和華所說的，我必須遵行』嗎？」
27 And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.
巴勒對巴蘭說：「來吧，我領你往別處去，或者上帝喜歡你在那裏為我咒詛他們。」
28 And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
巴勒就領巴蘭到那下望曠野的毗珥山頂上。
29 Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
巴蘭對巴勒說：「你在這裏為我築七座壇，又在這裏為我預備七隻公牛，七隻公羊。」
30 Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.
巴勒就照巴蘭的話行，在每座壇上獻一隻公牛，一隻公羊。
