Judges 2
1 And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said: '...I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said: I will never break My covenant 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 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice; what is this ye have done?
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 also said: I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be unto you as snares, and their gods shall be a trap unto you.'
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 it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, 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 And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there unto 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 Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess 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 served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD, that He had wrought 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 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
上主的僕人，農的兒子若蘇厄一百一十歲時去了世。
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of 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 also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, that knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which He had wrought 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 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim.
以色列子民行了上主視為惡的事，事奉了巴耳諸神。
12 And they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and worshipped them; and they provoked the LORD.
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 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
他們背離了上主，而事奉巴耳和阿市托勒特。
14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and He gave them over into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand 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 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn unto them; and they were sore distressed.
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 And the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
上主雖興起民長，拯救他們脫離強盜的手；
17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges, for they went astray after other gods, and worshipped them; they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments 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 raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented the LORD because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed 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 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to worship them; they left nothing undone of their practices, nor of their stubborn 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 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and He said: 'Because this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto My voice;
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 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
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 by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep 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, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered He them into the hand of Joshua.
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。
