Deuteronomy 28
1 “And it has been, if you listen diligently to the voice of your God YHWH, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding you today, that your God YHWH has made you highest above all the nations of the earth,
你若實在聽從上主你的天主的話，謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的這一切誡命，上主你的天主必使你遠超過地上所有的民族。
2 and all these blessings have come on you and overtaken you, because you listen to the voice of your God YHWH:
如果你聽從上主你的天主的話，下面這些祝福必臨於你，來到你身上。
3 Blessed [are] you in the city, and blessed [are] you in the field.
你在城內必蒙受祝福，在鄉下也必蒙受祝福。
4 Blessed [is] the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牲畜所出的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要蒙受祝福。
5 Blessed [is] your basket and your kneading-trough.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要蒙受祝福。
6 Blessed [are] you in your coming in, and blessed [are] you in your going out.
你進來，蒙受祝福；你出去，也蒙受祝福。
7 YHWH makes your enemies, who are rising up against you, to be struck before your face; in one way they come out to you, and in seven ways they flee before you.
起來攻擊你的仇敵，上主必使他們在你面前崩潰；他們由一路來攻擊你，卻分七路由你面前逃去。
8 YHWH commands the blessing with you in your storehouses, and in every putting forth of your hand, and has blessed you in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you.
上主決定對你的倉廩和在你著手進行的事上祝福你。
9 YHWH establishes you to Himself for a holy people, as He has sworn to you, when you keep the commands of your God YHWH and have walked in His ways;
只要你謹守上主你的天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，上主必要照他誓許於你的，立你為他自己的聖民；
10 and all the peoples of the land have seen that the Name of YHWH is called by you, and they have been afraid of you.
普世萬民一見你屬於上主的名下，必都怕你。
11 And YHWH has made you abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, on the ground which YHWH has sworn to your fathers to give to you.
在上主你的天主向你祖先起誓要賜給你的土地上，上主必使你滿享幸福：兒女眾多，牲畜繁殖，地產豐富。
12 YHWH opens his good treasure to you—the heavens—to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand, and you have lent to many nations, and you do not borrow.
上主必為你大開天上的寶庫，給你的田地降下時雨，祝福你手所做的一切；你要借給許多民族，而你卻無須向人借貸。
13 And YHWH has set you for head and not for tail; and you have been only above, and are not beneath, for you listen to the commands of your God YHWH, which I am commanding you today, to keep and to do,
上主必立你為首，而不做尾巴，你常是高高在上，而總不屈居在下，只要你聽從我今天吩咐你的上主你天主的誡命，並謹守遵行，
14 and you do not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you today [to] the right or left, to go after other gods, to serve them.
不左右偏離我今天吩咐你們的一切話，去跟隨事奉其他的神。
15 And it has been, if you do not listen to the voice of your God YHWH, to observe to do all His commands and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these revilings have come on you and overtaken you:
但是，如果你不聽從上主你天主的話，不謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的上主的一切誡命和法令，下面這些咒罵必要臨於你，來到你身上。
16 Cursed [are] you in the city, and cursed [are] you in the field.
你在城內必遭受咒罵，在鄉下也必遭受咒罵。
17 Cursed [is] your basket and your kneading-trough.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要遭受咒罵。
18 Cursed [is] the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要遭受咒罵。
19 Cursed [are] you in your coming in, and cursed [are] you in your going out.
你進來，必遭受咒罵；
20 YHWH sends the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke on you, in every putting forth of your hand which you do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings [by] which you have forsaken Me.
你出去也必遭受咒罵。上主在你著手進行的一切事上，必使你遭受災難、困擾和恐嚇，直到你完全毀滅，迅速滅亡，因為你作惡，離棄了我。
21 YHWH causes the pestilence to cleave to you until He consumes you from off the ground to where you are going in to possess it.
上主必使你瘟疫纏身，直到將你由你要去佔領的地上完全消滅。
22 YHWH strikes you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued you until you perish
上主必用癆病、熱病、瘧疾、炎熱、乾旱、熱風和霉爛打擊你；這些災殃必追擊你，直到你滅亡。
23 And your heavens which [are] over your head have been bronze, and the earth which [is] under you iron;
你頭上的天將變為銅，你下面的地將變為鐵。
24 YHWH gives dust and ashes [for] the rain of your land; it comes down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed.
上主必使雨變成灰沙降在你的田地裏，由天上降在你身上，直到你完全毀滅。
25 YHWH makes you struck before your enemies; in one way you go out to them, and in seven ways you flee before them, and you have been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
上主必使你在仇敵面前崩潰；你由一路出擊他們，卻分七路由他們前逃去；你要成為普世萬國驚駭的對象。
26 and your carcass has been for food for every bird of the heavens and for the beast of the earth, and there is none causing [them] to tremble.
你的屍首必成為天空飛鳥，和地上走獸的食物；無人來將牠們嚇走。
27 YHWH strikes you with the ulcer of Egypt, and with lumps, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which you are not able to be healed.
上主必用埃及的膿瘡、痔漏、癬疥紅疹打擊你，使你無法醫治。
28 YHWH strikes you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
上主必用癲狂、眼瞎和心亂打擊你；
29 and you have been groping at noon, as the blind gropes in darkness; and you do not cause your ways to prosper; and you have been only oppressed and plundered [for] all the days, and there is no savior.
在正午時，你要摸索有如在黑暗中摸索的瞎子；你的所作所為決不會順利；你必日日受人壓迫剝削，而無人援助。
30 You betroth a woman, and another man lies with her; you build a house, and do not dwell in it; you plant a vineyard, and do not make it common;
你與一女子訂婚，別人卻來與她同寢；你建築一座房屋，卻不得住在裏面；你栽植葡萄園，卻得不到享用。
31 your ox [is] slaughtered before your eyes, and you do not eat of it; your donkey [is] violently taken away from before you, and it is not given back to you; your sheep [are] given to your enemies, and there is no savior for you.
你的牛在你眼前被殺，你卻不能吃牠的肉；你的驢由你眼前被人搶去，再不歸還給你；你的羊群被交給你的敵人，卻無人來援助你。
32 Your sons and your daughters [are] given to another people, and your eyes are looking and consumed for them all the day, but your hand is not to God!
你的兒女被交給外方民族，你只有雙眼張望，日日為他們焦慮，但你卻無能為力。
33 A people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your ground and all your labor; and you have been only oppressed and bruised [for] all the days;
你田地的出產和你勞力之所得，卻為你不認識的一個民族吃盡；你只有時時被人壓迫蹂躪；
34 and you have been mad because of the sight of your eyes which you see.
你必要因你親眼所見的事而變為瘋狂。
35 YHWH strikes you with a severe ulcer on the knees and on the legs (of which you are not able to be healed), from the sole of your foot even to your crown.
上主必用惡瘡打擊你的膝和腿，由腫至頂，使你無法醫治。
36 YHWH causes you and your king whom you raise up over you to go to a nation which you have not known, you and your fathers, and you have served other gods there—wood and stone;
上主你將你和你所立的統治你的君王，送到你和你祖先不認識的一個民族那裏去，在那裏你要事奉別的神，即木石所製的神。
37 and you have been for an astonishment, for an allegory, and for a byword among all the peoples to where YHWH leads you.
在上主要送你去的各民族中，你必成為驚駭、嘲笑和諷刺的對象。
38 You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;
你在田間撒的種子雖然很多，但收穫的卻很少，因為蝗蟲要來吃盡。
39 you plant vineyards and have labored, but you do not drink wine, nor gather [grapes], for the worm consumes it;
你雖然栽種修剪葡萄園，卻沒有酒喝，沒有收成，因為都要為蟲子吃盡。
40 olives are yours in all your border, but you do not pour out oil, for your olive falls off.
你雖然在全境栽有橄欖樹，卻沒有油抹身，因為橄欖要遂結遂落。
41 You beget sons and daughters, but they are not with you, for they go into captivity;
你雖然生子養女，但他們卻不屬於你，因為他們要被擄去。
42 the locust possesses all your trees and the fruit of your ground;
害蟲要吃盡你所有的樹木和土地的出產。
43 the sojourner who [is] in your midst goes up very high above you, and you go down very low;
住在你中間的外方人不斷發達興旺，遠在你以上，你反而日趨卑下。
44 he lends [to] you, and you do not lend [to] him; he is for head and you are for tail.
他要借給你，你卻不能借給他；他要為首，你卻要做尾巴。
45 And all these curses have come on you, and pursued you, and overtaken you, until you are destroyed, because you have not listened to the voice of your God YHWH, to keep His commands and His statutes which he has commanded you;
這一切咒罵必臨於你，追擊你，來到你身上，直到你全被消滅，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話，沒有遵守他吩咐你的誡命和法令。
46 and they have been on you for a sign and for a wonder, also on your seed—for all time.
這些咒罵對你和你的子孫，永遠是一個徽號和徵兆。
47 Because that you have not served your God YHWH with joy and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things—
因為在財物富裕時，你沒有誠心悅意地去事奉上主你的天主，
48 you have served your enemies, whom YHWH sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and He has put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
你必在飢渴，赤身露體，一無所有中，服侍上主派來攻擊你的仇敵；他必將鐵軛放在你的頸上，直到將你消滅。
49 YHWH lifts up a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth—it flies as the eagle—a nation whose tongue you have not heard,
上主必由遠方，由地極引來一個民族，像鷹一樣撲擊你；這民族的語言，你不明瞭；
50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not accept the face of the aged and does not favor the young;
這民族又鐵面無情，不敬老，不恤幼；
51 and it has eaten the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; which does not leave to you grain, new wine, and oil, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock, until it has destroyed you.
他必吞食你家畜的幼雛，和田地的產物，直到你被消滅；必不給你留下什麼穀、米、酒、油、牛犢或羔羊，直到將你完全毀滅。
52 And it has laid siege to you in all your gates until your walls come down—the high and the fortified ones in which you are trusting, in all your land; indeed, it has laid siege to you in all your gates, in all your land which your God YHWH has given to you.
他必將你圍困在所有的城鎮內，直到你全國內所依恃的高大堅固的城牆都被攻陷；當你被圍困在上主你天主賜給你的全境各城鎮內時，
53 And you have eaten the fruit of your body, [the] flesh of your sons and your daughters (whom your God YHWH has given to you), in the siege and in the constriction with which your enemies constrict you.
在你被仇敵圍困的窮困中，你要吃你自身所生，即上主你天主賜給你子女的肉。
54 The man who is tender in you, and who [is] very delicate—his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaves,
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的男人，這時對自己的兄弟、懷中的妻子、尚存的子女，也必冷眼相看，
55 against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eats, because he has nothing left for himself in the siege and in the constriction with which your enemy constricts you in all your gates.
不願將他所吃的子女的肉，分給他們任何人，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮受圍困陷於絕境時，已一無所剩。
56 The tender woman in you, and the delicate, who has not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的女人，先前嬌嫩溫柔得連腳都不踏在地上，這時對自己懷中的丈夫、自己的子女、也要冷眼相看，
57 and against her seed which comes out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she bears, for she eats them in secret, in the lacking of everything, in the siege and in the constriction with which your enemy constricts you within your gates.
暗中將她兩腿間脫出的胞衣，和她所生的子女吃掉，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮中受圍困，陷於窮困時，已一無所有。
58 If you do not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this scroll, to fear this honored and fearful Name—your God YHWH—
如果你不謹守遵行這書上所記的法律的一切條文，敬畏這光榮可畏的名號：上主你的天主，
59 then YHWH has made your strokes extraordinary, and the strokes [against] your seed [are] great strokes that are persisting and severe sicknesses that are persisting.
上主必使你和你的後裔遭受更奇特的災害，大而且久的災害，毒而且頑的疾病；
60 And He has brought back all the diseases of Egypt on you, from the presence of which you have been afraid, and they have cleaved to you.
必使你所怕的各種埃及病災發生在你身上，纏繞著你。
61 Also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the scroll of this law—YHWH causes them to go up on you until you are destroyed,
此外，在在這法律書上所沒有記載的一切疾病和災害，上主也要引來降在你身上，直到將你完全消滅。
62 and you have been left with few men, whereas that you would have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, for you have not listened to the voice of your God YHWH.
你們以前雖然多如天上的繁星，你們所留下的，卻寥寥無幾，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話。
63 And it has been, as YHWH has rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so YHWH rejoices over you to destroy you and to lay you waste; and you have been pulled away from off the ground to where you are going in to possess it;
有如上主先前怎樣喜歡你們獲得幸福，使你們人數眾多，將來也要怎樣喜歡你們衰落，使你們滅亡，使你們由你要去佔領的地上盡被剷除。
64 and YHWH has scattered you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; and you have served other gods there which you have not known, you and your fathers—wood and stone.
上主要將你分散在大地兩極間所有人民中，你要在那裏事奉你和你祖先所不認識的外神，即木石之神；
65 And you do not rest among those nations, indeed, there is no resting place for the sole of your foot, and YHWH has given to you a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul there;
而且在這些民族中，你總得不到安寧，也找不到一塊歇腳的地方；上主在那裏必使你心情煩亂，眼目憔悴，精神頹喪。
66 and your life has been hanging in suspense before you, and you have been afraid by night and by day, and you do not have assurance in your life;
你未來的生活必提心吊膽，日夜驚惶；生命毫無保障。
67 in the morning you say, O that it were evening! And in the evening you say, O that it were morning! (From the fear of your heart, with which you are afraid, and from the sight of your eyes which you see.)
因你心情恐慌，因你眼見的景象，早晨你要說：「巴不得現在是晚上! 」到了晚上你又要說：「巴不得現在是早晨! 」
68 And YHWH has brought you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You do not add to see it anymore; and you have sold yourselves to your enemies there, for menservants and for maidservants, and there is no buyer.”
上主要用船將你送回埃及，走我曾告訴你，你不會再見的那條路；在那裏你們雖自願將自己賣給你的仇敵為奴為婢，卻無人肯買。
