1 Samuel 3
1 The child Samuel served Yahweh under Eli. Yahweh's word was rare in those days; there was no frequent prophetic vision.
小撒慕爾在厄里面前服事上主；那時，上主的話少有，異象也罕見。
2 At that time, when Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see well, was lying down in his own bed.
有一天，厄里睡在自己的房裏，他的眼睛漸漸昏花，已看不清了，
3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down to sleep in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was.
天主的燈尚熄滅，撒慕爾睡在安放天主約櫃的上主的殿內。
4 Yahweh called to Samuel, who said, “Here I am.”
那時，上主召叫說：「撒慕爾! 撒慕爾! 」他回答說：「我在這裏! 」
5 Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Eli said, “I did not call you; lie down again.” So Samuel went and lay down.
他就跑到厄里前說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里說：「我沒有叫你，回去睡罷! 」他就回去睡了。
6 Yahweh called again, “Samuel.” Again Samuel rose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son; lie down again.”
上主又叫撒慕爾；撒慕爾起來，走到厄里那裏說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里對他說：「我兒，我沒有叫你，回去睡罷! 」
7 Now Samuel did not yet have any experience of Yahweh, nor had any message from Yahweh ever been revealed to him.
撒慕爾不知道是上主，因為上主的話尚未啟示給他。
8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. Again Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli realized that Yahweh had called the boy.
上主第三次又叫了撒慕爾；他起來，又走到厄里那裏說道：「你叫了我，我在這裏。」厄里於是明白，是上主叫了幼童，
9 Then Eli said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again; if he calls you again, you must say, 'Speak, Yahweh, for your servant is listening.'” So Samuel went and lay down in his own place once more.
便對撒慕爾說：「去睡罷! 假使有人再叫你，你就回答說：請上主發言，你的僕人在此靜聽。」撒慕爾就回去，仍睡在原處。
10 Yahweh came and stood; he called as at the other times, “Samuel, Samuel.” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
上主走近，像前幾次一樣召叫說：「撒慕爾，撒慕爾! 」撒慕爾便回答說：「請上主發言! 你的僕人在此靜聽。」
11 Yahweh said to Samuel, “See, I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
上主遂對撒慕爾說：「看! 我要在以色列行一件事，凡聽見的人，他的兩耳必要嗡嗡作響。
12 On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have said about his house, from beginning to end.
到那一天，我必對厄里從頭到尾實踐我論他的家族所說的一切。
13 I have told him that I am about to judge his house once for all for the sin that he knew about, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not stop them.
你傳報給他：我要處罰他的家族直到永遠，因為他原知道他的兩個兒子凌辱了天主，卻未責斥他們。
14 Because of this I have sworn to the house of Eli that the sins of his house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.”
因此，我對厄里的家族起誓：無論犧牲或供物，永不能抹去厄里一家的罪過。
15 Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.
撒慕爾睡到早晨起來，開了上主聖殿的門；但害怕告訴厄里他所見的異象。
16 Then Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” Samuel said, “Here I am.”
厄里卻對撒慕爾說：「撒慕爾，我兒! 」他回答說：「我在這裏。」
17 He said, “What was the word he spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. May God do so to you, and even more, if you hide anything from me of all the words that he spoke to you.”
厄里問說：「上主給你說了什麼話，請不要隱瞞我! 你若把上主給你說的話，給我隱瞞了一句，願天主加倍懲罰你。」
18 Samuel told him everything; he hid nothing from him. Eli said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
撒慕爾便把那些話全告訴了他，一句也沒有隱瞞。厄里說：「他是上主，他看著怎麼好，就怎樣行罷! 」
19 Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him, and he let none of his prophetic words fall to the ground.
撒慕爾漸漸長大；上主與他同在，使他說的一切話，沒有一句落空。
20 All Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was appointed to be a prophet of Yahweh.
於是全以色列從丹直到貝爾舍巴，都知道撒慕爾被立為上主的先知。
21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for he revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by his word.
自從上主在史羅對撒慕爾顯現後，繼續在史羅顯現於他。
