Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders;
那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
4 but the LORD hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them.
你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
9 Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.
所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
10 Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
11 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
12 that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God — and into His oath — which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day;
都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立附有詛咒的誓約，
13 that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day —
而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
16 for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;
你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
17 and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them —
你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying: 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart — that the watered be swept away with the dry';
以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
20 the LORD will not be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven;
上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
21 and the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick;
未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;
見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
24 even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?'
各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
25 then men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them;
而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
27 therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
28 and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'. —
上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
