2 Samuel 19
1 And it is declared to Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom”;
有人報告約阿布說：「看，君王在痛哭哀悼阿貝沙隆。」
2 and the salvation on that day becomes mourning to all the people, for the people have heard on that day, saying, “The king has been grieved for his son.”
那天的勝利為全軍竟變成了悲哀，因為他們那天聽說君王為自己的兒子悲傷。
3 And the people steals away, on that day, to go into the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;
因此，那天軍人暗暗地進了城，好像由戰埸上受辱回來的軍隊。
4 and the king has covered his face, indeed, the king cries [with] a loud voice, “My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”
此時君王正在掩面大聲哀哭說：「我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒阿貝沙隆! 我兒! 」
5 And Joab comes into the house to the king and says, “Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants, those delivering your life today, and the life of your sons, and of your daughters, and the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,
約阿布進去對君王說：「你今天大傷你僕人們的臉面，他們救了你的性命，你兒女的性命，你妻妾的性命；
6 to love your enemies, and to hate those loving you, for today you have declared that you have no princes and servants, for today I have known that if Absalom [were] alive, and all of us dead today, that then it were right in your eyes.
然而恨你的，你反而愛他；愛你的，你反恨他。今天你已明確表示：王侯和臣民為你不算什麼。也明明看出：阿貝沙隆今天若能活著，我們我們都死了，你才安心呢!
7 And now, rise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants, for I have sworn by YHWH, that [if] you are not going out—there does not lodge a man with you tonight; and this [is] worse for you than all the evil that has come on you from your youth until now.”
現今你快起來，出去，說幾句使你僕人們安心的話吧! 我指著上主起誓，如果你不出去，今夜再沒有一個人同你一起了。這禍患於你要超過你從小到大所遭遇的一切禍患」。
8 And the king rises, and sits in the gate, and they have declared to all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate”; and all the people come in before the king, and Israel has fled, each to his tents.
君王就起來，坐在大門口。遂有人向軍民傳報說：「君王已坐在門口! 」軍人都聚齊，來到君王前。以色列各自逃回自己的營幕。
9 And it comes to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, indeed, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land because of Absalom,
那時，以色列各支派的民眾紛紛議論說：「君王從仇人手中拯救了我們，現在，他竟為阿貝沙隆離開了本國。
10 and Absalom whom we anointed over us [is] dead in battle, and now, why are you silent—to bring back the king?”
我們給阿貝沙隆曾傅過油為管理我們，他已經戰死。現今你們等什麼，遇不把君王接回來﹖」
11 And King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to [the] elderly of Judah, saying, Why are you last to bring back the king to his house, since the word of all Israel has come to the king, to his house;
全以色列這提議傳到君王那裏。達味遂派人對司祭匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾說：「你們應向猶大長老說：為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王回宮呢﹖
12 you [are] my brothers, you [are] my bone and my flesh, and why are you last to bring back the king?
你們是我的兄弟，我的骨肉，為什麼你們等到最後才去迎接君王呢﹖
13 And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? Thus God does to me, and thus He adds, if you are not head of the host before me instead of Joab [for] all the days.”
你們要向阿瑪撒說：你不是我的骨肉嗎﹖若我不叫你一生代替約阿布作元帥，願天主這樣罰我，且更加倍地罰我! 」
14 And he inclines the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send to the king, “Return, you and all your servants.”
那時，全猶大人都同心合意，一致派使者到君王說：「請你和你的臣僕回來吧!
15 And the king turns back, and comes to the Jordan, and Judah has come to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan,
君王動身回來了，到了約旦河。這時迎接君王的猶大人來到了基耳加耳，協助君王渡約旦河。
16 and Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite, who [is] from Bahurim, hurries, and comes down with the men of Judah, to meet King David,
那時，巴胡陵的本雅明人革辣的兒子史米，也趕快來同那些猶大人歡迎達味君王。
17 and one thousand men [are] with him from Benjamin, and Ziba servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they have gone prosperously over the Jordan before the king.
同他來的，還有一千本雅明人。撒烏耳的家僕，漆巴和他十五個兒子同二十個僕人，也來到約旦河歡迎君王﹖
18 And the ferry-boat has passed over to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which [is] good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera has fallen before the king in his passing over into the Jordan,
他們都到渡口那邊，協助君王的家族過河。聽君王的調動；君王快要過約旦河時，革辣的兒子史米就俯伏在君王前，
19 and he says to the king, “Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me; neither remember that which your servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem—for the king to set [it] to his heart;
向他說：「我主；，請不要歸罪於我，求你不要懷念大王出離耶路撒冷時，你僕人所犯的罪；願大王不要把這事放在心上!
20 for your servant has known that I have sinned; and behold, I have come today, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.”
因為你的僕人自知犯了罪。看，如今我是若瑟全家族中，首先來歡迎我主大王的」。
21 And Abishai son of Zeruiah answers and says, “Is Shimei not put to death for this—because he reviled the anointed of YHWH?”
責雅的兒子阿瑟立即發言說：「史米辱罵了上主的受傅者，難道為了他這番話就不該死嗎﹖」
22 And David says, “And what do I [have to do] with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that today you are for an adversary to me? Is any man put to death in Israel today? For have I not known that today I [am] king over Israel?”
達味卻答說：「責魯雅的兒子們，我與你們有什麼關係﹖竟使你們今天與我作對! 今天還可以將一個以色列人處死嗎﹖難道不知道，我今天又作了以色列的君王﹖」
23 And the king says to Shimei, “You do not die”; and the king swears to him.
然後君王向史米說：「伓不會死! 」君王遂向起了誓。
24 And Mephibosheth son of Saul has come down to meet the king—and he did not prepare his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, indeed, he did not wash his garments, even from the day of the going away of the king, until the day that he came in peace—
撒烏耳的孫子默黎巴耳也下來歡迎君王；他自從君王出走的那日起，直到平安回來的這一天，沒有洗腳，沒有修鬚，也沒有人換洗自己的衣服。
25 and it comes to pass, when he has come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king says to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”
他由耶路撒冷來君王時，君王問他說：「默黎巴耳! 你為什麼不同我一起出走呢﹖」
26 And he says, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said, I saddle the donkey for myself, and ride on it, and go with the king, for your servant [is] lame;
他答說：「我主大王! 我的僕人哄騙了我，你僕人曾向他說：給我備一匹驢，我好騎著跟王一齊走，因為你僕腳跛。
27 and he utters slander against your servant to my lord the king, and my lord the king [is] as a messenger of God; and do that which is good in your eyes,
他又在我主大王前誹謗了你的僕人；但我主大王像天主的天使，你看怎樣好，就怎樣作吧!
28 for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you set your servant among those eating at your table, and what right do I have anymore—even to cry anymore to the king?”
因為我父全家對於我主大王，都是該死的人，你反而使你的僕人與你同桌共，食我那裏還有名分來向大王訴苦﹖」
29 And the king says to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba—share the field.”
君王對他說：「你何必再說﹖我已決定，你該與巴平分產業」。
30 And Mephibosheth says to the king, “Indeed, let him take the whole, after that my lord the king has come in peace to his house.”
默黎巴耳回答君王說：「我主大王既然平安回朝，讓他全佔有吧! 」
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite has gone down from Rogelim, and passes over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan;
基肋阿得人巴爾齊從洛格林下來，陪伴君王過了約旦河，在約旦河岸與他辭別。
32 and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he has sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] a very great man;
巴爾齊來年紀很老，已八十歲。君王住在瑪哈納殷時，他供給了君王的吃用，他原很富有。
33 and the king says to Barzillai, “Pass over with me, and I have sustained you in Jerusalem with me.”
君王向巴爾齊來說：「你同我一起去吧! 我願在耶路撒冷供養你的老年」。
34 And Barzillai says to the king, “How many [are] the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem?
巴爾齊來回答君王說：「既使我同大王上耶路撒冷去，我還能活幾年﹖
35 I [am] a son of eighty years today; do I know between good and evil? Does your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Do I listen anymore to the voice of male and female singers? And why is your servant for a burden to my lord the king anymore?
我現年已八十，還能分辨美醜麼﹖你的僕人還能嚐出吃喝的味道來麼﹖還能細聽伶女和歌女的樂聲麼﹖你的為什麼還要拖累我主大王﹖
36 As a little thing, your servant passes over the Jordan with the king, and why does the king repay me this repayment?
你的僕人陪著大王過約旦河，只是一點小意思，為什麼大王要給我一個這樣的報答﹖
37 Please let your servant turn back again, and I die in my own city, near the burying-place of my father and of my mother—and behold, your servant Chimham, let him pass over with my lord the king, and do to him that which [is] good in your eyes.”
請讓你的僕人回去，叫我死在靠近我父母墳墓的故鄉! 看，你的僕人基默罕在這裏，他可跟我主大王同去，你看著怎樣好，就怎樣對待他吧! 」
38 And the king says, “Chimham goes over with me, and I do to him that which [is] good in your eyes, indeed, all that you fix on me I do to you.”
達味答說：「那麼，讓默基罕跟我去好了，你看著怎樣好，我就怎樣待他；凡你向我所所要求的，我必為你做到」。
39 And all the people pass over the Jordan, and the king has passed over, and the king gives a kiss to Barzillai, and blesses him, and he turns back to his place.
眾人都過了約旦河，君王也過去了；然後與巴爾齊來親吻，祝福道別。巴爾齊來遂回了本鄉。
40 And the king passes over to Gilgal, and Chimham has passed over with him, and all the people of Judah, and they bring over the king, and also the half of the people of Israel.
君王繼續向基耳加耳前行，基默罕跟他同來。猶大全民眾和一半以色列人陪著君王前行。
41 And behold, all the men of Israel are coming to the king, and they say to the king, “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you—and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?”
眾以色列人來到君王前，向君王說：「為什麼我們的兄弟猶大人將君王劫了去，領君王和君王的眷屬過了約旦河。所有屬達味的人不都是他的百姓嗎﹖」
42 And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, “Because the king [is] near to us, and why [is] this [that] you are displeased about this matter? Have we eaten of the king’s [substance] at all? Has he lifted up a gift to us?”
猶大人回答以色列人說：「因為君王是我們的親族，你們為什麼因此憤怒﹖我們豈是吃過君王的飯，或是領過他的俸祿﹖」
43 And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, “We have ten parts in the king, and also more than you in David; and why have you lightly esteemed us, that our word has not been first to bring back our king?” And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.
以色列人回答猶大人說：「我們對君王有十倍權利，那麼，我們對達味的名分也多過你們，你們為什麼輕視我們﹖不是我們首先提議，要迎回我們的君王嗎﹖」然後猶大的答覆比以色列人所說的話，更為激烈。
