1 Samuel 17
1 And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which [is] to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;
培肋舍特人調集了軍隊，準備作戰，集合在猶大，在索苛與阿則卡之間的厄斐斯達明紮了營。
2 and Saul and the men of Israel have been gathered, and encamp by the Valley of Elah, and set in array [for] battle to meet the Philistines.
撒烏耳和以色列人齊集起來，在厄拉谷紮了營，擺陣準備迎擊培肋舍特人。
3 And the Philistines are standing on the mountain on this [side], and Israel is standing on the mountain on that [side], and the valley [is] between them.
培肋舍特人站在這邊一座山上，以色列人站在那邊一座山上，中間隔著山谷。
4 And a man goes out, the champion from the camps of the Philistines, his name [is] Goliath, from Gath; his height [is] six cubits and a span [[or four cubits and a span]],
從培肋舍特人陣地中走出一個挑戰的人，名叫哥肋雅，是加特人，身高六肘又一柞，
5 and a helmet of bronze [is] on his head, and he is clothed [with] a scaled coat of mail, and the weight of the coat of mail [is] five thousand shekels of bronze,
頭帶銅盔，身穿鎧衣，鎧衣的重銅重五千「協刻爾」，
6 and a frontlet of bronze [is] on his feet, and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders,
腿裹銅葉，肩插銅槍。
7 and the wood of his spear [is] like a weavers’ beam, and the flame of his spear [is] six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him.
矛桿像織布機的大軸，矛頭重六百「協刻爾」；有個持盾的人給他開道。
8 And he stands and calls to the ranks of Israel, and says to them, “Why do you come out to set in array for battle? [Am] I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me;
他站在以色列人的陣地前，喊說：「你們為什麼出來擺陣作戰﹖我不是培肋舍特人嗎﹖你們不是撒烏耳的奴才嗎﹖你們挑選一人，下來同我對敵!
9 if he is able to fight with me, and has struck me, then we have been for servants to you; and if I prevail against him, and have struck him, then you have been for servants to us, and have served us.”
假使他能同我決鬥，殺了我，我們就作你們的奴隸；但是，如果我得勝，殺了他，你們就應服事我們，作我們的奴隸」。
10 And the Philistine says, “I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give a man to me and we fight together!”
那培肋舍特人還說：「今天我向以色列罵陣，你們給我個人來，讓我們彼此決鬥」。
11 And Saul hears—and all Israel—these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.
撒烏耳和全以色列聽見那培肋舍特說的這些話，都非常驚慌害怕。
12 And David [is] son of this Ephraimite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he has eight sons, and the man has become aged among men in the days of Saul;
達味是猶大白冷的一個厄弗辣大人的兒子，那人名叫葉瑟，他有八個兒子。此人在撒烏耳時，已經老了。
13 and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle [are] Eliab the firstborn, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
葉瑟的三個大兒已跟撒烏耳出征作戰；從軍的三個兒子：長子叫厄里雅布，次子名叫阿彼納達布，三子名叫沙瑪。
14 And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul,
達味最小，三個年長的已跟撒烏耳出征。
15 and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
達味有時服侍撒烏耳，有時離開，回白冷放父親的羊。
16 And the Philistine draws near, morning and evening, and stations himself [for] forty days.
那培肋舍特人早晨晚上常出來挑戰，一連四十天之久。
17 And Jesse says to his son David, “Now take an ephah of this roasted [grain] and these ten loaves for your brothers, and run to the camp to your brothers;
葉瑟對他的兒子達味說：「你給你哥哥們帶去這一「厄法」炒麥和十個餅，快往營裏給你哥哥們送去。
18 and take these ten cuttings of the cheese to the head of the one thousand, and inspect your brothers for welfare, and receive their pledge.”
將這十塊奶餅送給千夫長．然後看望你的哥哥們是否平安，並把他們的薪俸帶回來。
19 And Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [are] in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
他們與撒烏耳和全以色列人都在厄拉谷，同培肋舍特人作戰」。
20 And David rises early in the morning, and leaves the flock to a keeper, and lifts up, and goes, as Jesse commanded him, and he comes to the path, and to the force which is going out to the rank, and they have shouted for battle;
達味清早起來，把羊群托給一個看羊的人，就照他父親葉瑟吩咐的起身去了。他來到營中時，軍隊正出來擺陣，喊著衝鋒的口號。
21 and Israel and the Philistines set in array rank to meet rank.
以色列人和培肋舍特人列陣相對。
22 And David lets down the goods from off him on the hand of a keeper of the goods, and runs into the rank, and comes and asks of his brothers of [their] welfare.
達味把自己的行囊交給一個看守輜重兵的1 內，跑入陣內，向他的哥哥們問安。
23 And he is speaking with them, and behold, a man, the champion, is coming up, his name [is] Goliath the Philistine, from Gath, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and he speaks according to those words, and David hears;
當他和他們談話時，名叫哥肋雅的挑戰者，──加特的培肋舍特人──從培肋舍特人的陣裏上來，說了以所述的話，達味聽見了。
24 and all the men of Israel, when they see the man, flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.
所有的以色列人一看見那人，都非常害怕，便由他面前逃避了。
25 And the men of Israel say, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? For he is coming up to reproach Israel, and it has been—the man who strikes him, the king enriches him with great riches, and he gives his daughter to him, and makes his father’s house free in Israel.”
那時有個以色列人宣佈說：「你們看見了上來的這人嗎﹖這人上來是辱罵以色列。若有人把他殺死，君王要賜給他許多財富，將自己是女兒嫁給他為妻，並使他的父家在以色列內豁免繳稅」。
26 And David speaks to the men who are standing by him, saying, “What is done to the man who strikes this Philistine, and has turned aside reproach from Israel? For who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine that he has reproached the ranks of the living God?”
達味問站在他旁邊的人說：「殺死這培肋舍特人，給以色列雪恥的人得什麼賞﹖這未受割損培肋舍特人是誰﹖他竟敢辱罵永生天主的軍旅! 」
27 And the people speak to him according to this word, saying, “Thus it is done to the man who strikes him.”
人就把上邊那些話告訴他說：「殺死這人的，要得這樣這樣的報酬」。
28 And Eliab, his eldest brother, hears when he speaks to the men, and the anger of Eliab burns against David, and he says, “Why [is] this—[that] you have come down? And to whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known your pride, and the evil of your heart—for you have come down to see the battle.”
他的大哥厄里雅布一聽見達味對那些人所說的話，便對達味大發憤怒說：「你為什麼下來﹖你在曠野中放的那幾隻羊，託給了誰﹖我知道你驕傲，心中不懷好意；你下來只是要看作戰」。
29 And David says, “What have I done now? Is it not a word?”
達味回答說：「我究竟作的什麼不對﹖連句話也不能說嗎﹖」
30 And he turns around from him to another, and says according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word.
達味就離開那裏，到了另一處，又問了同樣的事，人回答的話也和先前一樣。
31 And the words which David has spoken are heard, and they declare [them] before Saul, and he receives him;
有人聽見了達味說的話，就去報告給撒烏耳；撒烏耳就命他前來。
32 and David says to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fall because of him, your servant goes, and has fought with this Philistine.”
達味對撒烏耳說：「請我主不必為那人而沮喪，你僕人要去同這培肋舍特人決鬥」。
33 And Saul says to David, “You are not able to go to this Philistine, to fight with him, for you [are] a youth, and he [has been] a man of war from his youth.”
撒烏耳對達味說：「你不能去對抗這培肋舍特人，同他決鬥，因為你還年輕，而他自幼便是習於戰鬥的人」。
34 And David says to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd among the sheep for his father, and the lion has come—and the bear—and has taken away a sheep out of the drove,
達味回答撒烏耳說：「你的僕人是為他父親牧羊的人，幾時有獅子或狗熊闖來，由羊群中奪去一隻羊，
35 and I have gone out after him, and struck him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth, and he rises against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and struck him, and put him to death.
我就追上去，打死牠，從牠口中救出那隻來；假使獅子起來撲我，我就抓住牠的鬚，將牠打死。
36 Your servant has struck both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine has been as one of them, for he has reproached the ranks of the living God.”
你的你的僕人連獅子帶狗熊都打死了，這未受割損的培肋舍特人也不過像其中的一個，因為他竟敢辱罵永生天主的軍旅」。
37 And David says, “YHWH, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He delivers me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul says to David, “Go, and YHWH is with you.”
達味又接著說：「由獅子和狗熊中拯救我的上主，也必從這培肋舍特人手中拯救我」。撒烏耳對達味說：「去吧! 望上主與你同在! 」
38 And Saul clothes David with his long robe, and has put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothes him with a coat of mail.
撒烏耳給達味穿上自己的武裝，給他頭上帶上銅盔，身上穿上鎧甲，
39 And David girded his sword above his long robe, and begins to go, for he has not tried [it]; and David says to Saul, “I am not able to go with these, for I had not tried”; and David turns them aside from off him.
又在鎧甲上偑上自己的刀。達味試走了兩步，因他沒有穿慣，遂對撒烏耳說：「穿戴這些東西，不能行動，因為先前總沒有穿過」。所以他又將盔甲從身上脫下。
40 And he takes his staff in his hand, and chooses five smooth stones for himself from the brook, and puts them in the shepherds’ vessel that he has, even in the leather pouch, and his sling [is] in his hand, and he draws near to the Philistine.
達味手裏拿著自己的棍子，在河裏揀了五塊很光滑的石頭，放在牧童隨身所帶的袋子內，即裝石囊內，手內拿著投石器，向那培肋舍特人走去。
41 And the Philistine goes on, going and drawing near to David, and the man carrying the buckler [is] before him,
那培肋舍特人也大搖大擺走近了達味，給他持盾的走在他開路。
42 and the Philistine looks attentively, and sees David, and despises him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.
那培肋舍特人瞪眼一看，見了達味，遂看不起他，因達味還很年輕，面色紅潤，眉清目秀。
43 And the Philistine says to David, “Am I a dog that you are coming to me with sticks?” And the Philistine reviles David by his gods,
那培肋舍特人對達味說：「莫非我是隻狗，你竟拿棍子來對付我﹖」達味回答說：「你比一隻狗還不如! 」那培肋舍特人就指著自己的神詛咒達味，
44 and the Philistine says to David, “Come to me, and I give your flesh to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.”
且對達味說：「你到我這裏來，我要把你的肉，給空中的飛鳥和田野的走獸吃」。
45 And David says to the Philistine, “You are coming to me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming to you in the Name of YHWH of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which you have reproached!
達味回答那培肋舍特說：「你仗著刀槍箭戟來對付我，但我是仗著你所淩辱的萬軍的上主，以色列的天主的聖名來對付你。
46 This day YHWH shuts you up into my hand—and I have struck you, and turned aside your head from off you, and given the carcass of the camp of the Philistines this day to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth knows that God is for Israel!
今天上主定把你交在我手中，我必打死你割下你的頭來；今天我要把你的屍體和培肋舍特軍人的屍體，給空中的飛鳥和田野的走獸吃：這樣：全地都要知道在以色列有天主。
47 And all this assembly knows that YHWH does not save by sword and by spear, for the battle [is] YHWH’s, and He has given you into our hand.”
在埸的眾人也要知道，上主不賴刀槍賜人勝利，戰爭勝負只屬於上主，衪已把你們交我們手中了」。
48 And it has come to pass, that the Philistine has risen, and goes, and draws near to meet David, and David hurries and runs to the rank to meet the Philistine,
正當那培肋舍特人起身，大搖大擺向達味走來時，達味趕快由陣中跑出來，迎那培肋舍特人；
49 and David puts forth his hand into the vessel, and takes a stone from there, and slings, and strikes the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sinks into his forehead, and he falls on his face to the earth.
同時伸手，由囊中取出一塊石頭，套在投石器上打過去，正打在那培肋舍特人的額上，石頭穿入額內，那人就跌倒在地上。
50 And David is stronger than the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and strikes the Philistine, and puts him to death, and there is no sword in the hand of David,
如此，達味用投石器和石頭，得勝了那培肋舍特人，打中了他，將他殺死，雖然手無寸鐵。
51 and David runs and stands over the Philistine, and takes his sword, and draws it out of its sheath, and puts him to death, and cuts off his head with it; and the Philistines see that their hero [is] dead, and flee.
達味遂跑過去，站在培肋舍特人身上，拿起他的刀，從鞘內拔出，殺了他，砍下他的頭。所有培肋舍特人看見他們的英雄死了，就囡散奔逃。
52 And the men of Israel rise—also Judah—and shout, and pursue the Philistines until you enter the valley, and to the gates of Ekron, and the wounded of the Philistines fall in the way of Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron,
以色列人和猶大人就起來吶喊，追擊培肋舍特人直到加特關，直到厄刻龍城門。沿沙阿辣因的路上，直到加特和厄刻龍，遍地是培肋舍特人的屍首。
53 and the sons of Israel return from burning after the Philistines, and spoil their camps.
以色列人追殺培肋舍特人回來，又搶劫了他們的幕。
54 And David takes the head of the Philistine, and brings it to Jerusalem, and he has put his weapons in his own tent.
以後，達味取了那培肋舍特人的頭，送到耶路撒冷；至於那人的武器，卻放在會幕內。
55 And when Saul sees David going out to meet the Philistine, he has said to Abner, head of the host, “Whose son [is] this—the youth, Abner?” And Abner says, “Your soul lives, O king, I have not known.”
當撒烏耳看見達味去和那培肋舍特人迎戰時，就問統帥阿貝乃爾說：「阿貝乃爾，這少年人是誰的兒子﹖」阿貝乃爾回答說：「大王萬歲，我不知道」。
56 And the king says, “Ask whose son this [is]—the young man.”
君王說：「你查一下，這少年人是誰的兒子﹖」
57 And when David turns back from striking the Philistine, then Abner takes him and brings him in before Saul, and the head of the Philistine [is] in his hand;
達味殺死那培肋舍特人回來時，阿貝乃爾帶他去見撒烏耳，他手中還拿著那培肋舍特人的頭。
58 and Saul says to him, “Whose son [are] you, O youth?” And David says, “Son of your servant Jesse, the Beth-Lehemite.”
撒烏耳問他說：「少年人你是誰的兒子﹖」達味答說：「我是你僕白冷人葉瑟的兒子」。
