< 1 Samuel 3 >

1 And the youth Samuel is serving YHWH before Eli, and the word of YHWH has been precious in those days—there is no vision breaking forth.
小撒慕爾在厄里面前服事上主;那時,上主的話少有,異象也罕見。
2 And it comes to pass, at that time, that Eli is lying down in his place, and his eyes have begun [to be] faded—he is not able to see.
有一天,厄里睡在自己的房裏,他的眼睛漸漸昏花,已看不清了,
3 And the lamp of God is not yet extinguished, and Samuel is lying down in the temple of YHWH, where the Ark of God [is],
天主的燈尚熄滅,撒慕爾睡在安放天主約櫃的上主的殿內。
4 and YHWH calls to Samuel, and he says, “Here I [am].”
那時,上主召叫說:「撒慕爾! 撒慕爾! 」他回答說:「我在這裏! 」
5 And he runs to Eli and says, “Here I [am], for you have called for me”; and he says, “I did not call; turn back, lie down”; and he goes and lies down.
他就跑到厄里前說道:「你叫了我,我在這裏。」厄里說:「我沒有叫你,回去睡罷! 」他就回去睡了。
6 And YHWH adds to call Samuel again, and Samuel rises and goes to Eli, and says, “Here I [am], for you have called for me”; and he says, “I have not called, my son, turn back, lie down.”
上主又叫撒慕爾;撒慕爾起來,走到厄里那裏說道:「你叫了我,我在這裏。」厄里對他說:「我兒,我沒有叫你,回去睡罷! 」
7 And Samuel has not yet known YHWH, and the word of YHWH is not yet revealed to him.
撒慕爾不知道是上主,因為上主的話尚未啟示給他。
8 And YHWH adds to call Samuel the third time, and he rises and goes to Eli, and says, “Here I [am], for you have called for me”; and Eli understands that YHWH is calling to the youth.
上主第三次又叫了撒慕爾;他起來,又走到厄里那裏說道:「你叫了我,我在這裏。」厄里於是明白,是上主叫了幼童,
9 And Eli says to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and it has been, if He calls to you, that you have said, Speak, YHWH, for Your servant is hearing”; and Samuel goes and lies down in his place.
便對撒慕爾說:「去睡罷! 假使有人再叫你,你就回答說:請上主發言,你的僕人在此靜聽。」撒慕爾就回去,仍睡在原處。
10 And YHWH comes, and stations Himself, and calls as time by time, “Samuel, Samuel”; and Samuel says, “Speak, for Your servant is hearing.”
上主走近,像前幾次一樣召叫說:「撒慕爾,撒慕爾! 」撒慕爾便回答說:「請上主發言! 你的僕人在此靜聽。」
11 And YHWH says to Samuel, “Behold, I am doing a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of everyone hearing it tingle.
上主遂對撒慕爾說:「看! 我要在以色列行一件事,凡聽見的人,他的兩耳必要嗡嗡作響。
12 In that day I establish to Eli all that I have spoken to his house, beginning and completing;
到那一天,我必對厄里從頭到尾實踐我論他的家族所說的一切。
13 and I have declared to him that I am judging his house for all time, for the iniquity which he has known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he has not restrained them,
你傳報給他:我要處罰他的家族直到永遠,因為他原知道他的兩個兒子凌辱了天主,卻未責斥他們。
14 and therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli: the iniquity of the house of Eli is not atoned for, by sacrifice, and by offering—for all time.”
因此,我對厄里的家族起誓:無論犧牲或供物,永不能抹去厄里一家的罪過。
15 And Samuel lies until the morning, and opens the doors of the house of YHWH, and Samuel is afraid of declaring the vision to Eli.
撒慕爾睡到早晨起來,開了上主聖殿的門;但害怕告訴厄里他所見的異象。
16 And Eli calls Samuel and says, “Samuel, my son”; and he says, “Here I [am].”
厄里卻對撒慕爾說:「撒慕爾,我兒! 」他回答說:「我在這裏。」
17 And he says, “What [is] the word which He has spoken to you? Please do not hide it from me; so God does to you, and so does He add, if you hide from me a word of all the words that He has spoken to you.”
厄里問說:「上主給你說了什麼話,請不要隱瞞我! 你若把上主給你說的話,給我隱瞞了一句,願天主加倍懲罰你。」
18 And Samuel declares to him the whole of the words, and has not hid from him; and he says, “It [is] YHWH; that which is good in His eyes He does.”
撒慕爾便把那些話全告訴了他,一句也沒有隱瞞。厄里說:「他是上主,他看著怎麼好,就怎樣行罷! 」
19 And Samuel grows up, and YHWH has been with him, and has not let any of his words fall to the earth;
撒慕爾漸漸長大;上主與他同在,使他說的一切話,沒有一句落空。
20 and all Israel knows, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, that Samuel is established for a prophet to YHWH.
於是全以色列從丹直到貝爾舍巴,都知道撒慕爾被立為上主的先知。
21 And YHWH adds to appear in Shiloh, for YHWH has been revealed to Samuel, in Shiloh, by the word of YHWH.
自從上主在史羅對撒慕爾顯現後,繼續在史羅顯現於他。

< 1 Samuel 3 >