2 Samuel 12
1 And YHWH sends Nathan to David, and he comes to him, and says to him: “Two men have been in one city, one rich and one poor.
耶和华差遣拿单去见大卫。拿单到了大卫那里，对他说：“在一座城里有两个人：一个是富户，一个是穷人。
2 The rich has very many flocks and herds,
富户有许多牛群羊群；
3 but the poor one has nothing, except one little ewe-lamb which he has bought and keeps alive. And it grows up together with him and with his sons. It eats of his morsel, and it drinks from his cup, and it lies in his bosom, and it is as a daughter to him.
穷人除了所买来养活的一只小母羊羔之外，别无所有。羊羔在他家里和他儿女一同长大，吃他所吃的，喝他所喝的，睡在他怀中，在他看来如同女儿一样。
4 And a traveler comes to the rich man, and he spares to take from his own flock, and from his own herd, to prepare for the traveling [man] who has come to him; and he takes the ewe-lamb of the poor man and prepares it for the man who has come to him.”
有一客人来到这富户家里；富户舍不得从自己的牛群羊群中取一只预备给客人吃，却取了那穷人的羊羔，预备给客人吃。”
5 And the anger of David burns against the man exceedingly, and he says to Nathan, “YHWH lives, surely the man who is doing this [is] a son of death,
大卫就甚恼怒那人，对拿单说：“我指着永生的耶和华起誓，行这事的人该死！
6 and [for] the ewe-lamb he repays fourfold, because that he has done this thing, and because that he had no pity.”
他必偿还羊羔四倍；因为他行这事，没有怜恤的心。”
7 And Nathan says to David, “You [are] the man! Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I anointed you for king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
拿单对大卫说：“你就是那人！耶和华—以色列的 神如此说：‘我膏你作以色列的王，救你脱离扫罗的手。
8 and I give to you the house of your lord, and the wives of your lord, into your bosom, and I give the house of Israel and Judah to you; and if [that is] too little, then I add such and such [things] to you.
我将你主人的家业赐给你，将你主人的妻交在你怀里，又将以色列和犹大家赐给你；你若还以为不足，我早就加倍地赐给你。
9 Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
你为什么藐视耶和华的命令，行他眼中看为恶的事呢？你借亚扪人的刀杀害赫人乌利亚，又娶了他的妻为妻。
10 And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house for all time, because you have despised Me, and take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be for a wife for yourself;
你既藐视我，娶了赫人乌利亚的妻为妻，所以刀剑必永不离开你的家。’
11 thus said YHWH: Behold, I am raising up calamity against you, out of your [own] house, and have taken your wives before your eyes, and given [them] to your neighbor, and he has lain with your wives before the eyes of this sun;
耶和华如此说：‘我必从你家中兴起祸患攻击你；我必在你眼前把你的妃嫔赐给别人，他在日光之下就与她们同寝。
12 for you have done [it] in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.”
你在暗中行这事，我却要在以色列众人面前，日光之下，报应你。’”
13 And David says to Nathan, “I have sinned against YHWH.” And Nathan says to David, “Also—YHWH has caused your sin to pass away; you do not die;
大卫对拿单说：“我得罪耶和华了！”拿单说：“耶和华已经除掉你的罪，你必不至于死。
14 only, because you have caused the enemies of YHWH to greatly despise by this thing, also—the son who is born to you surely dies.”
只是你行这事，叫耶和华的仇敌大得亵渎的机会，故此，你所得的孩子必定要死。”
15 And Nathan goes to his house, and YHWH strikes the boy, whom the wife of Uriah has borne to David, and it is incurable;
拿单就回家去了。 耶和华击打乌利亚妻给大卫所生的孩子，使他得重病。
16 and David seeks God for the youth, and David keeps a fast, and has gone in and lodged, and lain on the earth.
所以大卫为这孩子恳求 神，而且禁食，进入内室，终夜躺在地上。
17 And [the] elderly of his house rise against him, to raise him up from the earth, and he has not been willing, nor has he eaten bread with them;
他家中的老臣来到他旁边，要把他从地上扶起来，他却不肯起来，也不同他们吃饭。
18 and it comes to pass on the seventh day, that the boy dies, and the servants of David fear to declare to him that the boy is dead, for they said, “Behold, in the boy being alive we spoke to him, and he did not listen to our voice; and how do we say to him, The boy is dead? Then he has done evil.”
到第七日，孩子死了。大卫的臣仆不敢告诉他孩子死了，因他们说：“孩子还活着的时候，我们劝他，他尚且不肯听我们的话，若告诉他孩子死了，岂不更加忧伤吗？”
19 And David sees that his servants are whispering, and David understands that the boy is dead, and David says to his servants, “Is the boy dead?” And they say, “Dead.”
大卫见臣仆彼此低声说话，就知道孩子死了，问臣仆说：“孩子死了吗？”他们说：“死了。”
20 And David rises from the earth, and bathes and anoints [himself], and changes his raiment, and comes into the house of YHWH, and bows himself, and comes to his house, and asks and they place bread for him, and he eats.
大卫就从地上起来，沐浴，抹膏，换了衣裳，进耶和华的殿敬拜；然后回宫，吩咐人摆饭，他便吃了。
21 And his servants say to him, “What [is] this thing you have done? Because of the living boy you have fasted and you weep, and when the boy is dead you have risen and eat bread.”
臣仆问他说：“你所行的是什么意思？孩子活着的时候，你禁食哭泣；孩子死了，你倒起来吃饭。”
22 And he says, “While the boy is alive I have fasted and I weep, for I said, Who knows [if] YHWH pities me and the boy has lived?
大卫说：“孩子还活着，我禁食哭泣；因为我想，或者耶和华怜恤我，使孩子不死也未可知。
23 And now, he has died, why [is] this—I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, and he does not return to me.”
孩子死了，我何必禁食，我岂能使他返回呢？我必往他那里去，他却不能回我这里来。”
24 And David comforts his wife Bathsheba, and goes in to her, and lies with her, and she bears a son, and he calls his name Solomon; and YHWH has loved him,
大卫安慰他的妻拔示巴，与她同寝，她就生了儿子，给他起名叫所罗门。耶和华也喜爱他，
25 and sends by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and calls his name Jedidiah, because of YHWH.
就借先知拿单赐他一个名字，叫耶底底亚，因为耶和华爱他。
26 And Joab fights against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and captures the royal city,
约押攻取亚扪人的京城拉巴。
27 and Joab sends messengers to David and says, “I have fought against Rabbah—I have also captured the city of waters;
约押打发使者去见大卫，说：“我攻打拉巴，取其水城。
28 and now, gather the rest of the people, and encamp against the city, and capture it, lest I capture the city, and my name has been called on it.”
现在你要聚集其余的军兵来，安营围攻这城，恐怕我取了这城，人就以我的名叫这城。”
29 And David gathers all the people, and goes to Rabbah, and fights against it, and captures it;
于是大卫聚集众军，往拉巴去攻城，就取了这城，
30 and he takes the crown of their king from off his head, and its weight [is] a talent of gold, and precious stones, and it is on the head of David; and he has brought out the spoil of the city—very much;
夺了亚扪人之王所戴的金冠冕，其上的金子重一他连得，又嵌着宝石。人将这冠冕戴在大卫头上。大卫从城里夺了许多财物，
31 and he has brought out the people who [are] in it, and sets [them] to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes of iron, and has caused them to pass over into the brick-kiln; and so he does to all the cities of the sons of Ammon; and David turns back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.
将城里的人拉出来，放在锯下，或铁耙下，或铁斧下，或叫他经过砖窑；大卫待亚扪各城的居民都是如此。其后，大卫和众军都回耶路撒冷去了。
