Judges 7
1 And Jerubba‘al (he [is] Gideon) rises early, and all the people who [are] with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian has been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.
耶魯巴耳即基德紅和所有跟隨他的民眾一早起身，在哈洛得泉安營；米德楊的營幕就在他們北面，在摩勒山腳的平原裏。
2 And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people who [are] with you [are] too many for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me;
上主對基德紅說：「跟隨你的民眾太多，我不能把米德楊交在他們手中，免得以色列對我自誇說：是自己的能力救了自己。
3 and now, please call in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever [is] afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from Mount Gilead”; and there return twenty-two thousand of the people, and ten thousand have been left.
現在你要向民眾宣告說：凡害怕恐懼的可以回去，急速離開這裏。」於是民眾中有二萬二千回去，只剩下一萬人。
4 And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people [are] yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I refine him for you there; and it has been, he of whom I say to you, This goes with you—he goes with you; and any of whom I say to you, This does not go with you—he does not go.”
上主又對基德紅說：「民眾還是太多；領他們下到水邊去，我要在那裏為你檢驗他們。凡我告訴你說：這人可同你去，他就與你同去；凡我告訴你說：這人不可同你去，他就不可去。」
5 And he brings the people down to the water, and YHWH says to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue as the dog laps—you set him apart; also everyone who bows on his knees to drink.”
他就引民眾下到水邊；上主向基德紅說：「凡用舌頭舔水像狗舔水似的，將他們安置在一處；同樣，凡屈膝跪下飲水的，將他們安置在一處。」
6 And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water.
用手捧到嘴邊舔水的共有三百人；其餘民眾都是屈膝跪下喝水。
7 And YHWH says to Gideon, “I save you by the three hundred men who are lapping, and have given Midian into your hand, and all the people go, each to his place.”
上主對基德紅說：「我要用這三百舔水的人拯救你們，把米德楊交於你手中。讓其餘的民眾各回本地去。」
8 And the people take the provision in their hand, and their horns, and he has sent every man of Israel away, each to his tents; and he has kept hold on the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian has been by him at the lower part of the valley.
基德紅便留下民眾的罐子和號角，打發眾以色列人各回自己的帳幕，只留下三百人。米德楊的營幕就在他們下面的平原裏。基德紅巧取米德楊營
9 And it comes to pass, on that night, that YHWH says to him, “Rise, go down into the camp, for I have given it into your hand;
當夜上主對他說：「起來，下去攻營! 我已將敵營交在你的手中了。
10 and if you are afraid to go down—go down, you and your young man Phurah, to the camp,
如果你一人害怕下去，可帶你的隨從普辣一起下到營幕，
11 and you have heard what they speak, and afterward your hands are strengthened, and you have gone down against the camp.” And he goes down, he and his young man Phurah, to the extremity of the fifties who [are] in the camp;
聽他們說什麼；以後你的手就會堅強，敢下去攻營了。」於是他和他的隨從普辣便下去，來到營中駐軍的前哨。
12 and Midian, and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which [is] on the seashore for multitude.
那時米德楊、阿瑪肋克和東方的子民都散佈在平原裏，多如蝗蟲；他們的駱駝不可勝數，多如海邊的沙粒。
13 And Gideon comes in, and behold, a man is recounting a dream to his companion, and says, “Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it comes to the tent, and strikes it, and it falls, and turns it upwards, and the tent has fallen.”
基德紅來到時，正有一個人給他的同伴講夢說：「我作了一個夢：有一個大麥麵餅滾入米德楊營內，直滾向帳幕，將帳幕撞倒：翻轉朝上。」
14 And his companion answers and says, “This is nothing except the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”
他的同伴回答說：「這不是別的，這是以色列人約阿士的兒子基德紅的刀劍；天主已把米德楊及其全營交於他手中。」
15 And it comes to pass, when Gideon hears the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he bows himself, and turns back to the camp of Israel, and says, “Rise, for YHWH has given the camp of Midian into your hand.”
基德紅一聽見這夢的敘述和解釋，就朝拜天主；然後回到以色列營中說：「起來! 因為上主已將米德楊的營幕交在你們手中了。」
16 And he divides the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and puts horns into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
他於是把三百人分作三隊，把號角和空罐子交在每人手中，把火把放在罐子裏；
17 And he says to them, “Look at me, and thus do; and behold, I am coming into the extremity of the camp—and it has been—as I do so you do;
然後吩咐他們說：「你們看我怎樣行，你們便怎樣行；一到營幕邊上，我怎樣作，你們也要怎樣作。
18 and I have blown with a horn—I and all who [are] with me, and you have blown with horns, even you, around all the camp, and have said, For YHWH and for Gideon!”
當我與跟隨我的人吹號角時，你們也應該在營幕四周吹號角，並且喊叫；為上主，為基德紅! 」
19 And Gideon comes—and the hundred men who [are] with him—into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (they had just posted watchmen), and they blow with horns—also dashing in pieces the pitchers which [are] in their hand;
在三更之初，當哨兵換防的時候，基德紅領著他那一百人來到營幕邊上，吹起號角來，打破手中的罐子。
20 and the three detachments blow with horns, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the horns to blow, and they cry, “The sword of YHWH and of Gideon!”
同時三隊一齊吹號角，打破罐子，左手拿著火把，右手拿著號角吹，並喊叫說：「刀劍為上主，為基德紅! 」
21 And they each stand in his place, around the camp, and all the camp runs, and they shout, and flee;
眾人都在營幕四周，各站在自己的地方。那時敵營驚醒，亂喊亂竄。
22 and the three hundred blow the horns, and YHWH sets the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp flees to Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, to the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath.
當那三百人吹號角的時候，上主使敵營互相撕殺。以後朝著責勒達逃往貝特史大，直到面對塔巴特的阿貝耳默曷拉。米德楊慘敗
23 And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.
那時以色列人從納斐塔里、阿協爾和默納協全地集合，追趕米德楊。
24 And Gideon has sent messengers into all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian, and capture the waters from them as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan”; and every man of Ephraim is called, and they capture the waters as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan,
基德紅又打發使者到全厄弗辣因山地說：「請下來攻打米德楊人，在他們前佔據約但河的渡口，直到貝特巴辣。」全厄弗辣因人就集合，佔據了約但河的渡口，一直到貝特巴辣。
25 and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they have slain Zeeb at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue into Midian; and they have brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
他們捉住了米德楊的兩個領袖，即敖勒布和則厄布，在敖勒布石上把敖勒布殺死，在則厄布醡酒池裏把則厄布殺死；以後繼續追趕米德楊人，並把敖勒布和則厄布的頭送到約但對岸基德紅跟前。
