2 Kings 4
1 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets came crying to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
有一個先知弟子的妻子，前來哀求厄里叟說：「你的僕人，我的丈夫死了，你知道你的僕人是一個敬畏上主的人；現在債主前來，要帶走我的兩個孩子，作他的奴隸。」
2 So Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
厄里叟對她說：「我能為你做什麼﹖你告訴我：你家裏還有什麼﹖」她答說：「你的婢女家裏除一瓶油外，什麼也沒有。」
3 Then Elisha said, “Go out to borrow jars from your neighbors, empty jars. Borrow as many as possible.
厄里叟說：「你去，到外面向你所有的鄰居借些空器皿，不要少借；
4 Then you must go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all those jars; set aside the jars that are full.”
然後回家，關上門，你和你的兒子在家裏，將油倒在所有的那些器皿內，把裝滿了的，放在一邊。」
5 So she left Elisha and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her, and she filled them with oil.
她於是辭別厄里叟，回去照辦。她和她的兒子關上門，兒子給她遞器皿，她只顧倒油，
6 When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another jar.” But he said to her, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
器皿都裝滿了，她對兒子說：「再遞給我器皿! 」兒子答說：「沒有了。」同時油也止住了。
7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil; pay your debt, and live with your sons on the rest.”
婦人就去告訴天主的人。厄里叟對她說：「你去把油賣了，還了你的債；剩下的，你和你的兒子可用來過活。」
8 One day Elisha walked to Shunem where an important woman lived; she urged him to eat food with her. So as often as Elisha passed by, he would stop there to eat.
有一天，厄里叟路過叔能，那裏有一個富貴的婦人，曾挽留他吃飯；因此，厄里叟每次路過那裏，總到她家裡吃飯。
9 The woman said to her husband, “See, now I realize that this is a holy man of God who is always passing by.
婦人對丈夫說：「現在我看出：這個時常路過我們這裏的天主的人，是位聖者。
10 Let us make a little room on the roof for Elisha, and let us put in it a bed, a table, a seat, and a lamp. Then when he comes to us, he will stay there.”
我們可以在房頂上，給他蓋一間小房，裏面放一張床，一張桌子，一把椅子和一盞燈；這樣，他幾時來到我們這裏，可在那裏休息。」
11 So when the day came again that Elisha stopped there, he stayed in the room and rested there.
一天，厄里叟又到了那裏，就進入那間小房休息。
12 Elisha said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
厄里叟吩咐自己的僕人革哈齊說：「你叫這位叔能婦人來。」僕人叫了婦人來，婦人站在先知面前，
13 Elisha said to him, “Say to her, 'You have gone to all this trouble to care for us. What can be done for you? Can we speak for you to the king or to the army commander?'” She answered, “I live among my own people.”
厄里叟吩咐僕人說：「現在你對她說：看，你照顧我們既然這樣周到，我們可為你作什麼呢﹖要不要我們在君王或軍長前為你說句話﹖」那婦人答說：「我住在我本國人民中很平安。」
14 So Elisha said, “What can we do for her, then?” Gehazi answered, “Indeed, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
厄里叟就問革哈齊：「我們究竟能為她作什麼﹖」革哈齊說：「可憐她沒有兒子，丈夫又老了。」
15 So Elisha answered, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
厄里叟說：「快再叫她來! 」僕人又將婦人叫來，這次她卻站在門口，
16 Elisha said, “At this time of year, in one year's time, you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master and man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
厄里叟對她說：「明年這時，你必懷抱著一個兒子。」婦人答說：「我主，天主的人哪! 不會! 你別哄騙你的婢女! 」
17 But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time in the following year, as Elisha had said to her.
這婦人果然懷了孕；過了一年，在厄里叟對她所說的時候，生了一個兒子。
18 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father, who was with harvesters.
孩子漸漸長大，一天，他出去到收割的人那裏找他父親，
19 He said to his father, “My head, my head.” His father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
孩子忽然對他父親喊說：「我的頭! 我的頭啊!」他父親吩咐僕人說：「把孩子送到他母親那裏去! 」
20 When the servant had picked him up and brought the boy to his mother, the child sat on her knees until noon and then died.
僕人將他抱起，送給他母親，孩子坐在母親膝上，到了中午，就死了。
21 So the woman got up and laid the boy on the bed of the man of God, shut the door, and went out.
他母親遂上了樓，將孩子放在天主的人的床上，關上門，出來，
22 She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys so that I may hurry to the man of God and then come back.”
叫自己的丈夫來說：「請你給我派一個僕人，牽一匹驢來，我要快去見見天主的人，就回來。」
23 Her husband said, “Why do you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon nor a Sabbath.” She replied, “It will be all right.”
她丈夫說：「為什麼今天要去見他，既不是朔日，又不是安息日﹖」婦人答說：「你放心好了! 」
24 Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, “Drive on quickly; do not slow down for me unless I say so.”
於是，她把驢備好，對僕人說：「你快趕著走，我若不吩咐，在路上不要停下來。」
25 So she went and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So when the man of God saw her in the distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, here comes the Shunammite woman.
婦人於是來到加爾默耳山見天主的人。天主的人自遠處看見她，就對自己的僕人革哈齊說：「看，那是叔能婦人!
26 Please run to meet her and say to her, 'Is everything alright with you and with your husband and child?'” She answered, “It is alright.”
現在你跑去迎接她，向她問安說：你好嗎﹖你的丈夫好嗎﹖你的孩子好嗎﹖」她回答說：好。」
27 When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset, and Yahweh has hidden the problem from me, and has told me nothing.”
婦人上到山上，來到天主的人跟前，就抱住他的腳；革哈齊前來想推開她，可是天主的人說：「由她罷! 因為她心中很痛苦；上主隱瞞了我，什麼也沒有告訴我。」
28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my master? Did I not say, 'Do not deceive me'?”
那婦人說：「我何嘗向我主求過一個兒子﹖我豈不是說過：你不要哄騙我嗎﹖」
29 Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Dress for travel and take my staff in your hand. Go to her home. If you meet any man, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Lay my staff on the child's face.”
厄里叟對革哈齊說：「你束上腰，手裏拿著我的棍杖前去；不論遇見誰，不要向他請安；不論誰向你請安，你也不要回答。你去把我的棍杖放在孩子的臉上。」
30 But the mother of the child said, “As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha arose and followed her.
孩子的母親說：「我指著永生的上主及你的性命起誓：你不去，我決不離開。」厄里叟就起身跟她去了。
31 Gehazi hurried on ahead of them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the child did not speak or hear. So then Gehazi returned to meet Elisha and told him saying, “The child has not awakened.”
革哈齊在他們以前去了。將棍杖放在孩子的臉上，但是沒有聲音，沒有反應；他便回來見厄里叟，告訴他說：「孩子沒有醒來。」
32 When Elisha arrived at the house, the child was dead and was still on the bed.
厄里叟一來到她家，看見孩子死了，躺在自己的床上，
33 So Elisha went in and shut the door on the child and himself and prayed to Yahweh.
就進去，關上門，房內只有他和孩子；先知哀求了上主，
34 He went up and lay on the child; he put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself out on the boy, and the boy's body grew warm.
然後上床，伏在孩子身上，自己的口對住孩子的口，自己的眼對住孩子的眼，自己的手按住孩子的手，屈身伏在孩子身上，孩子的肉身便漸漸溫暖了。
35 Then Elisha got up and walked around the room and again went up and stretched himself out on the boy. The child sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes!
然後他下來，在屋內來回走了一趟；又上去，屈身伏在孩子身上，對著孩子呵了七口氣，孩子就睜開了眼睛。
36 So Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite!” So he called her, and when she came into the room, Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
厄里叟叫革哈齊來，對他說：「你叫叔能婦人來。」他便去叫那婦人，婦人就來了。厄里叟說：「抱起你的孩子來! 」
37 Then she lay facedown on the ground at his feet and bowed to the ground, and then picked up her son and went out.
婦人一進來，就俯伏在他腳前，叩首至地；然後起來，抱起自己的孩子出去了。
38 Then Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, “Put the large pot on the fire and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”
厄里叟又來到基貝加耳，那地方正遭受肌荒；眾先知的弟子坐在他面前，他吩咐自己的僕人說：「你在火上放一個火鍋，給眾先知的弟子煮些菜湯。」
39 One of them went out into a field to gather vegetables. He found a wild vine and gathered enough wild gourds to fill the fold of his robe. They cut them up and put them into the stew, but did not know what kind they were.
有一個弟子出去到田間採菜，看見一棵葡萄樹，從上面採了一滿兜野果子回來，切碎放在菜鍋裏，並不知道是什麼東西。
40 So they poured out the stew for the men to eat. Later, as they were eating, they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” So they could not eat it anymore.
以後，他們把菜湯倒出來給眾人吃。眾人一嘗菜湯，都喊叫說：「天主的人，鍋裏有致死的毒物啊! 」眾人都不能吃。
41 But Elisha said, “Bring some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people, so that they may eat.” Then there was no longer anything hurtful in the pot.
那時厄里叟說：「拿點麵來! 」他把麵撒在鍋裏說：「倒出來給眾人吃罷! 」鍋裏就再沒有什麼毒了。
42 A man came from Baal Shalishah to the man of God and brought twenty loaves of barley bread in his sack from the new harvest, and fresh ears of grain. He said, “Give this to the people so they can eat.”
有一個人從巴耳沙里來，在自己的行囊裏，給天主的人帶來了初熟大麥作的二十個餅和一些新麥穗。厄里叟說：「分給眾人吃罷! 」
43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But Elisha said, “Give this to the people, so they can eat, because Yahweh says, 'They will eat and will have some left.'”
僕人說：「我怎能將這一點東西擺在一百人面前呢﹖」厄里叟說：「你儘管分給中人吃，因此上主這樣說：眾人吃了，還有剩餘。」
44 So his servant set it before them; they ate, and left some remaining, just as the word of Yahweh promised.
於是僕人將食物擺在眾人面前，他們都吃了，並且還有剩餘，全應驗了上主的話。
