< Judges 4 >
1 And the sons of Israel add to do evil in the eyes of YHWH when Ehud is dead,
以笏死後,以色列人又行耶和華眼中看為惡的事,
2 and YHWH sells them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who has reigned in Hazor, and Sisera [is] the head of his host, and he is dwelling in Harosheth of the nations;
耶和華就把他們付與在夏瑣作王的迦南王耶賓手中;他的將軍是西西拉,住在外邦人的夏羅設。
3 and the sons of Israel cry to YHWH, for he has nine hundred chariots of iron, and he has oppressed the sons of Israel mightily [for] twenty years.
耶賓王有鐵車九百輛。他大大欺壓以色列人二十年,以色列人就呼求耶和華。
4 And Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, wife of Lapidoth, she is judging Israel at that time,
有一位女先知名叫底波拉,是拉比多的妻,當時作以色列的士師。
5 and she is dwelling under the palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Beth-El, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel go up to her for judgment.
她住在以法蓮山地拉瑪和伯特利中間,在底波拉的棕樹下。以色列人都上她那裏去聽判斷。
6 And she sends and calls for Barak son of Abinoam, out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and says to him, “Has YHWH, God of Israel, not commanded? Go, and you have drawn toward Mount Tabor, and have taken with you ten thousand men, out of the sons of Naphtali, and out of the sons of Zebulun,
她打發人從拿弗他利的基低斯將亞比挪菴的兒子巴拉召了來,對他說:「耶和華-以色列的上帝吩咐你說:『你率領一萬拿弗他利和西布倫人上他泊山去。
7 and I have drawn to you, to the Brook of Kishon, Sisera, head of the host of Jabin, and his chariot, and his multitude, and have given him into your hand.”
我必使耶賓的將軍西西拉率領他的車輛和全軍往基順河,到你那裏去;我必將他交在你手中。』」
8 And Barak says to her, “If you go with me, then I have gone; and if you do not go with me, I do not go”;
巴拉說:「你若同我去,我就去;你若不同我去,我就不去。」
9 and she says, “I certainly go with you; only, surely your glory is not on the way which you are going, for YHWH sells Sisera into the hand of a woman”; and Deborah rises and goes with Barak to Kedesh.
底波拉說:「我必與你同去,只是你在所行的路上得不着榮耀,因為耶和華要將西西拉交在一個婦人手裏。」於是底波拉起來,與巴拉一同往基低斯去了。
10 And Barak calls Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he goes up—ten thousand men [are] at his feet—and Deborah goes up with him.
巴拉就招聚西布倫人和拿弗他利人到基低斯,跟他上去的有一萬人。底波拉也同他上去。
11 And Heber the Kenite has been separated from the Kenite, from the sons of Hobab father-in-law of Moses, and he stretches out his tent to the oak in Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.
摩西岳父 何巴的後裔,基尼人希百曾離開基尼族,到靠近基低斯、撒拿音的橡樹旁支搭帳棚。
12 And they declare to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam has gone up to Mount Tabor,
有人告訴西西拉說:「亞比挪菴的兒子巴拉已經上他泊山了。」
13 and Sisera calls all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who [are] with him, from Harosheth of the nations, to the Brook of Kishon.
西西拉就聚集所有的鐵車九百輛和跟隨他的全軍,從外邦人的夏羅設出來,到了基順河。
14 And Deborah says to Barak, “Rise, for this [is] the day in which YHWH has given Sisera into your hand; has YHWH not gone out before you?” And Barak goes down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
底波拉對巴拉說:「你起來,今日就是耶和華將西西拉交在你手的日子。耶和華豈不在你前頭行嗎?」於是巴拉下了他泊山,跟隨他有一萬人。
15 And YHWH destroys Sisera, and all the chariots, and all the camp, by the mouth of the sword, before Barak, and Sisera comes down from off the chariot, and flees on his feet.
耶和華使西西拉和他一切車輛全軍潰亂,在巴拉面前被刀殺敗;西西拉下車步行逃跑。
16 And Barak has pursued after the chariots and after the camp, to Harosheth of the nations, and all the camp of Sisera falls by the mouth of the sword—there has not been left even one.
巴拉追趕車輛、軍隊,直到外邦人的夏羅設。西西拉的全軍都倒在刀下,沒有留下一人。
17 And Sisera has fled on his feet to the tent of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite, for [there is] peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite;
只有西西拉步行逃跑,到了基尼人希百之妻雅億的帳棚,因為夏瑣王耶賓與基尼人希百家和好。
18 and Jael goes out to meet Sisera and says to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me, do not fear”; and he turns aside to her, into the tent, and she covers him with a mantle.
雅億出來迎接西西拉,對他說:「請我主進來,不要懼怕」;西西拉就進了她的帳棚。雅億用被將他遮蓋。
19 And he says to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty”; and she opens the bottle of milk, and gives him to drink, and covers him.
西西拉對雅億說:「我渴了,求你給我一點水喝。」雅億就打開皮袋,給他奶子喝,仍舊把他遮蓋。
20 And he says to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and it has been, if any comes in, and has asked you and said, Is there a man here? That you have said, There is not.”
西西拉又對雅億說:「請你站在帳棚門口,若有人來問你說:『有人在這裏沒有?』你就說:『沒有。』」
21 And Jael wife of Heber takes the pin of the tent, and takes the hammer in her hand, and goes to him gently, and strikes the pin into his temples, and it fastens in the earth—and he has been fast asleep, and is weary—and he dies.
西西拉疲乏沉睡。希百的妻雅億取了帳棚的橛子,手裏拿着錘子,輕悄悄地到他旁邊,將橛子從他鬢邊釘進去,釘入地裏。西西拉就死了。
22 And behold, Barak is pursuing Sisera, and Jael comes out to meet him, and says to him, “Come, and I show you the man whom you are seeking”; and he comes to her, and behold, Sisera is fallen—dead, and the pin [is] in his temples.
巴拉追趕西西拉的時候,雅億出來迎接他說:「來吧,我將你所尋找的人給你看。」他就進入帳棚,看見西西拉已經死了,倒在地上,橛子還在他鬢中。
23 And God humbles Jabin king of Canaan before the sons of Israel on that day,
這樣,上帝使迦南王耶賓被以色列人制伏了。
24 and the hand of the sons of Israel goes, going on and becoming hard on Jabin king of Canaan, until they have cut off Jabin king of Canaan.
從此以色列人的手越發有力,勝了迦南王耶賓,直到將他滅絕了。