Genesis 49
1 And Jacob calls to his sons and says, “Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which happens with you in the latter end of the days.
雅各叫了他的儿子们来，说：“你们都来聚集，我好把你们日后必遇的事告诉你们。
2 Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And listen to your father Israel.
雅各的儿子们，你们要聚集而听， 要听你们父亲以色列的话。
3 Reuben! You [are] my firstborn, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;
吕便哪，你是我的长子， 是我力量强壮的时候生的， 本当大有尊荣，权力超众。
4 Unstable as water, you are not abundant; For you have gone up your father’s bed; Then you have defiled [it]: He went up my couch!
但你放纵情欲，滚沸如水， 必不得居首位； 因为你上了你父亲的床， 污秽了我的榻。
5 Simeon and Levi [are] brothers! Instruments of violence—their espousals!
西缅和利未是弟兄； 他们的刀剑是残忍的器具。
6 Into their secret, do not come, O my soul! Do not be united to their assembly, O my glory; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.
我的灵啊，不要与他们同谋； 我的心哪，不要与他们联络； 因为他们趁怒杀害人命， 任意砍断牛腿大筋。
7 Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel.
他们的怒气暴烈可咒； 他们的忿恨残忍可诅。 我要使他们分居在雅各家里， 散住在以色列地中。
8 Judah! Your brothers praise you! Your hand [is] on the neck of your enemies, Sons of your father bow themselves to you.
犹大啊，你弟兄们必赞美你； 你手必掐住仇敌的颈项； 你父亲的儿子们必向你下拜。
9 A lion’s whelp [is] Judah, For prey, my son, you have gone up; He has bent, he has crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causes him to arise?
犹大是个小狮子； 我儿啊，你抓了食便上去。 你屈下身去，卧如公狮， 蹲如母狮，谁敢惹你？
10 The scepter does not turn aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Until his Seed comes; And His [is] the obedience of peoples.
圭必不离犹大， 杖必不离他两脚之间， 直等细罗来到， 万民都必归顺。
11 Binding to the vine his donkey, And to the choice vine the colt of his donkey, He has washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering;
犹大把小驴拴在葡萄树上， 把驴驹拴在美好的葡萄树上。 他在葡萄酒中洗了衣服， 在葡萄汁中洗了袍褂。
12 Red [are] eyes with wine, And white [are] teeth with milk!
他的眼睛必因酒红润； 他的牙齿必因奶白亮。
13 Zebulun dwells at a haven of the seas, And he [is] for a haven of ships; And his side [is] to Sidon.
西布伦必住在海口， 必成为停船的海口； 他的境界必延到西顿。
14 Issachar [is] a strong donkey, Crouching between the two folds;
以萨迦是个强壮的驴， 卧在羊圈之中。
15 And he sees rest, that [it is] good, And the land, that [it is] pleasant, And he inclines his shoulder to bear, And is a servant for tribute.
他以安静为佳，以肥地为美， 便低肩背重，成为服苦的仆人。
16 Dan judges his people, As one of the tribes of Israel;
但必判断他的民， 作以色列支派之一。
17 Dan is a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, Which is biting the horse’s heels, And its rider falls backward.
但必作道上的蛇，路中的虺， 咬伤马蹄，使骑马的坠落于后。
18 For Your salvation I have waited, YHWH!
耶和华啊，我向来等候你的救恩。
19 Gad! A troop assaults him, But he assaults last.
迦得必被敌军追逼， 他却要追逼他们的脚跟。
20 Out of Asher his bread [is] fat; And he gives delicacies of a king.
亚设之地必出肥美的粮食， 且出君王的美味。
21 Naphtali [is] a doe sent away, Who is giving beautiful young ones.
拿弗他利是被释放的母鹿； 他出嘉美的言语。
22 Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
约瑟是多结果子的树枝， 是泉旁多结果的枝子； 他的枝条探出墙外。
23 And embitter him indeed, they have striven, Indeed, archers hate him;
弓箭手将他苦害， 向他射箭，逼迫他。
24 And his bow abides in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, From where is a shepherd, a son of Israel.
但他的弓仍旧坚硬； 他的手健壮敏捷。 这是因以色列的牧者，以色列的磐石— 就是雅各的大能者。
25 By the God of your father who helps you, And the Mighty One who blesses you, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb—
你父亲的 神必帮助你； 那全能者必将天上所有的福， 地里所藏的福，以及生产乳养的福，都赐给你。
26 Your father’s blessings have been mighty Above the blessings of my progenitors, To the limit of the perpetual heights They are for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of the one Separate [from] his brothers.
你父亲所祝的福 胜过我祖先所祝的福， 如永世的山岭，至极的边界； 这些福必降在约瑟的头上， 临到那与弟兄迥别之人的顶上。
27 Benjamin! A wolf tears; In the morning he eats prey, And at evening he apportions spoil.”
便雅悯是个撕掠的狼， 早晨要吃他所抓的， 晚上要分他所夺的。”
28 All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] that which their father has spoken to them, and he blesses them; each according to his blessing he has blessed them.
这一切是以色列的十二支派；这也是他们的父亲对他们所说的话，为他们所祝的福，都是按着各人的福分为他们祝福。
29 And he commands them and says to them, “I am being gathered to my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite;
他又嘱咐他们说：“我将要归到我列祖那里，你们要将我葬在赫人以弗 田间的洞里，与我祖我父在一处，
30 in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;
就是在迦南地幔利前、麦比拉田间的洞；那洞和田是亚伯拉罕向赫人以弗 买来为业，作坟地的。
31 (there they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah);
他们在那里葬了亚伯拉罕和他妻子撒拉，又在那里葬了以撒和他的妻子利百加；我也在那里葬了利亚。
32 the purchase of the field and of the cave which [is] in it, [is] from sons of Heth.”
那块田和田间的洞原是向赫人买的。”
33 And Jacob finishes commanding his sons, and gathers up his feet to the bed, and expires, and is gathered to his people.
雅各嘱咐众子已毕，就把脚收在床上，气绝而死，归他列祖那里去了。
