Ezra 9
1 And at the completion of these things, the heads have drawn near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,
這些事完畢後，眾首領來到我面前說：「以色列民眾、司祭和肋未人可的事上，並沒有離開當地的人民：客納罕人、希威人、培黎齊人、耶步斯人、阿孟人、摩阿布人、埃及人和阿摩黎人，
2 for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.”
因為他們為自己和自己是兒子，娶了他們的女子，以致聖潔的曲裔，與當地的人民合；尤其首長和官，是這罪孽的魁首」。
3 And at my hearing this word, I have torn my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,
我一聽這話，便撕裂了我的衣服和外氅，拔我的頭髮和鬍鬚，絕望地坐下。
4 and to me are gathered everyone trembling at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of the expulsion, and I am sitting astonished until the present of the evening.
當時凡對以色列天主的誡命起敬起畏的人，為了充軍歸的罪孽，都聚集在我周圍，我絕望地坐著，直到晚祭。
5 And at the present of the evening I have risen from my affliction, and at my tearing my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands to my God YHWH,
到了獻晚祭時，我悲憤人起來，仍穿著撕碎的衣服和外氅，雙膝跪下，伸手向上主我的天主說：
6 and say, “O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face to You, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt has become great to the heavens.
「我的天主，我實覺慚愧! 我的天主! 我不敢向你仰面，因為我們的邪惡，積累得高過了我們的頭頂，我們的罪孽上達於天。
7 From the days of our fathers we [are] in great guilt to this day, and in our iniquities we have been given—we, our kings, our priests—into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as [at] this day.
自從我們的祖先時代，直到今日，我們犯了重大的罪孽；為了我們的罪惡，我們連我們的君王司祭，都被交在異地的君王手中，喪身刀下，被俘擄，遭劫，丟臉受辱，就像今日一樣。
8 And now, as a small moment grace has been from our God YHWH, to leave an escape for us, and to give to us a nail in His holy place, by our God’s enlightening our eyes, and by giving us a little quickening in our servitude;
但是現在，轉瞬之間，上主我們的天主，對我們施了仁慈，留給了我們一些殘存的人，又在聖地給了我們居所；並且我們的天主，還使我們的眼目明亮，在我們為奴隸期中，使我們尚有少許生氣。
9 for we [are] servants, and in our servitude our God has not forsaken us, and stretches out to us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its ruins to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
我們原是奴隸，但我們在為奴隸期中，我們的天主沒有離棄我們，反而使我們在波斯王，獲得了寵遇，使我們有了生氣，得以重建天主的殿宇，修廢壚，我們在猶大和耶路撒冷，得了保障。
10 And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? For we have forsaken Your commands,
現今，我們的天主! 在這些事後，我們還有什麼可說的呢﹖只能說我們又遺棄了你的誡命，
11 that You have commanded by the hands of Your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going to possess it, [is] a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it—from mouth to mouth—by their uncleanness;
因你曾藉你的僕人眾先知，吩咐說：『你們要去佔領的地方，因各地異民的卑污行為，成了不潔之地；他們的醜行和罪孽，充滿了那地方的各個角落，
12 and now, your daughters you do not give to their sons, and their daughters you do not take to your sons, and you do not seek their peace, and their good—for all time, so that you are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons for all time.
所以你們絕不可將你們的女兒嫁給他們的兒子；也不給你們的兒子，他們的女兒為妻，也永不可他們共謀平安和福利：這樣你們才會強盛，才能吃那地方的出產，將這地留給你們的子孫，作為永遠基業」。
13 And after all that has come on us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for You, O our God, have kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and have given to us an escape like this),
為了我們的許多罪行和重大的罪孽，這一切降到了我們身上之後，──我們的天主! 其實你估了我們的罪惡，還給我們留下了這些亡命的人，──
14 do we turn back to break Your commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? Are You not angry against us—even to consumption—until there is no remnant and escaped part?
我們還敢破壞你的誡命，而同這些不潔的民族聯婚嗎﹖難道還要你向我們發怒，一直將我們完全消滅，不一個遺民或亡命的人嗎﹖
15 O YHWH, God of Israel, You [are] righteous, for we have been left an escape, as [it is] this day; behold, we [are] before You in our guilt, for there is none to stand before You concerning this.”
上主，以色列的天主! 因你仁慈，才剩下了我們這些亡的人，像今天一樣；看，我們在你面前都帶有罪孽，因此，沒有一個能在你面前站得住。
