Judges 2
1 And an Angel of the Lord came vp from Gilgal to Bochim, and sayd, I made you to go vp out of Egypt, and haue brought you vnto the land which I had sworne vnto your fathers, and sayd, I wil neuer breake my couenant with you.
主的神諭 上主的使者從基耳加耳上到波津說：「我使你們由埃及上來，領你們進入了我向你們祖先所誓許的地方；我曾說過：我永不廢棄我與你們所立的盟約，
2 Ye also shall make no couenant with the inhabitants of this land, but shall breake downe their altars: but ye haue not obeyed my voyce. Why haue ye done this?
你們也不可與這地方的居民結約，且要拆毀他們的祭壇。但你們沒有聽從我的聲音；你們這是作的什麼事﹖
3 Wherefore, I sayd also, I wil not cast them out before you, but they shalbe as thornes vnto your sides, and their gods shalbe your destruction.
為此我現在說：我必不把他們從你們面前趕走，他們為你們將是陷阱，他們的神要成為你們的羅網。」
4 And when the Angel of the Lord spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel, the people lift vp their voyce, and wept.
當上主的使者對全以色列子民說這話時，百姓便放聲大哭，
5 Therefore they called the name of that place, Bochim, and offered sacrifices there vnto the Lord.
因此給那地方起名叫波津。他們在那裏給上主奉獻了祭獻。民長時代的史論
6 Now when Ioshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went euery man into his inheritance, to possesse the land.
若蘇厄遣散了百姓，以色列子民就各到自己應得的產業去，為佔領那地方。
7 And the people had serued the Lord al the dayes of Ioshua, and all the dayes of the Elders that outliued Ioshua, which had seene all the great works of the Lord that he did for Israel.
當若蘇厄在世時，和他去世後，那些見過上主為以色列所行的大事的長老們還在的時日，百姓都事奉上主。
8 But Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the Lord dyed, when he was an hundreth and ten yeeres olde:
上主的僕人，農的兒子若蘇厄一百一十歲時去了世。
9 And they buryed him in the coastes of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash.
人們把他埋在他地業的境內，即在厄弗辣因山地，加阿士山北面的提默納赫勒斯。
10 And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.
當那一代人都歸於他們的祖先以後，在他們之後，興起了另一代，他們不認識上主，也不知道上主為以色列所行的事蹟。
11 Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim,
以色列子民行了上主視為惡的事，事奉了巴耳諸神。
12 And forsooke ye Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and followed other gods, euen the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed vnto them, and prouoked the Lord to anger.
他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，即領他們出離埃及地的天主，而隨從了別的神，叩拜他們四周各民族的神，因此觸怒了上主。
13 So they forsooke the Lord, and serued Baal, and Ashtaroth.
他們背離了上主，而事奉巴耳和阿市托勒特。
14 And the wrath of the Lord was hote against Israel, and he deliuered them into the hands of spoylers, that spoyled them, and he sold them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them, so that they could no longer stande before their enemies.
於是上主對以色列大發忿怒，把他們交在強盜手中，叫強盜搶掠他們；將他們賣給育四周的敵人，使他們不能抵抗他們的敵人；
15 Whithersoeuer they went out, the hand of the Lord was sore against them, as ye Lord had sayd, and as the Lord had sworne vnto them: so he punished them sore.
他們無論去那裏，上主的手總是加害他們，猶如上主所說的，猶如上主向他們所起的誓，使他們受極大的痛苦。
16 Notwithstanding, the Lord raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours.
上主雖興起民長，拯救他們脫離強盜的手；
17 But yet they would not obey their Iudges: for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned quickly out of the way, wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandements of the Lord: they did not so.
但他們仍不肯聽從他們的民長，反而與外邦的神行淫，頂禮叩拜，迅速地離開了他們祖先所走的服從上主命令的路，沒有照樣行事。
18 And when the Lord had raysed them vp Iudges, the Lord was with the Iudge, and deliuered them out of the hande of their enemies all the dayes of the Iudge (for the Lord had compassion on their gronings, because of them that oppressed them and tormented them)
當上主給他們興起民長時，上主與民長同在，在民長一生的歲月中，救他們脫離仇敵的手，因為上主聽見了他們受壓迫欺凌發出的歎息，而憐憫了他們；
19 Yet when the Iudge was dead, they returned, and did worse then their fathers, in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them: they ceased not from their owne inuentions, nor from their rebellious way.
可是民長一去世，他們又轉而行惡，行為比他們的祖先更壞，去追隨外神，事奉叩拜他們，總不放棄他們祖先的惡行和頑抗的行為。
20 Wherfore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sayd, Because this people hath transgressed my couenant, which I commaded their fathers, and hath not obeyed my voyce,
因此上主對以色列大發忿怒說：「因為這百姓違犯了我與他們祖先締結的盟約，沒有聽從我的音；
21 Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the nations, which Ioshua left when he dyed,
為此，若蘇厄死後所剩下的民族，我也不再由他們面前，驅逐任何一個，
22 That through them I may proue Israel, whether they wil keepe the way of the Lord, to walke therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.
為試驗以色列是否謹守遵行上主的道路，有如他們的祖先所遵行的一樣。」
23 So the Lord left those nations, and droue them not out immediatly, neither deliuered them into the hand of Ioshua.
因此，上主保留了那些民族，沒有迅速驅逐他們，也沒有把他們交在以色人手中。
