2 Samuel 12
1 Then Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said, “There were once two men in a city. One man was rich and the other poor.
於是上主打發納堂先知去見達味；他一來到他跟前，就對他說：「在一座城裡有兩個人，一富一貧；
2 The rich man had huge numbers of flocks and herds,
富的有很多牛羊；
3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and fed and raised. It grew up together with him and with his children. The lamb even ate with him and drank from his own cup, and it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
貧的，除一隻小母羊外，什麼也沒有。這隻小母羊是他買來餵養的，在他和他兒女身邊長大，吃他自己的食物，喝他自己杯中的飲料，睡在他的懷裡，帶他如同自己的女兒一樣。
4 One day a visitor came to the rich man, but the rich man was unwilling to take an animal from his own flocks and herds to provide food for him. Instead he took the poor man's ewe lamb and cooked it for his visitor.”
有一個客人，來到富人那裡，他捨不得拿自己的牛羊，款待那來到他這裡的旅客，卻取了那貧窮人的母羊，來款待那到他這裡來的人。」
5 David was hot with anger against the rich man, and he raged to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to be put to death.
達味對這人大發憤怒，向納堂說：「上主永在! 做這事的人該死!
6 He must pay back the lamb four times over because he did such a thing, and because he had no pity on the poor man.”
並且，因為他這樣行事，捨不得自己的牛羊，他應七倍償還」。
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you out of the hand of Saul.
約納堂對達味說：「這人就是你! 以色列的天主上主這樣說：是我給你傅油，立你作以色列的君王，是我由撒烏耳手中將你救出，
8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. But if that had been too little, I would have given you many other things in addition.
是我將你主人的家室賜給你；我把你主人的妻妾放在你懷裏，把以色列和猶大的家族也賜給了你；若還以為太少，我願再給你這樣那樣的恩惠。
9 So why have you despised the commands of Yahweh, so as to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your own wife. You killed him with the sword of the army of Ammon.
你為什麼輕視上主，作出衪眼中視為邪惡的事，借刀殺了赫特人烏黎雅，為佔取他的妻子，據為己有﹖你借阿孟子民的刀殺了烏黎雅。
10 So now the sword will never leave your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your wife.'
從此刀劍永不離開你家! 因為你輕視了我，佔取了赫特的妻子，據為己有。
11 Yahweh says, 'Look, I will raise up disaster against you out of your own house. Before your own eyes, I will take your wives and give them to your neighbor, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.
上主這樣說：看，我要由自己的家裏激起災禍反對你，我要當你的眼前拿你的妻妾給與你的近人，他要在光天化日之下與你的妻妾同寢。
12 For you committed your sin secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, in the sunlight.'”
你暗中行的事，我卻要叫這事在眾以色列前和太陽下進行」。
13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan replied to David, “Yahweh also has passed over your sin. You will not be killed.
達味對約納堂說：「我得罪了上主! 」約納堂對達味說：「上主已赦免了你的罪惡，你不致於死；
14 However, because by this act you have despised Yahweh, the child who is born to you will surely die.”
但是你在這事上蔑視了上主，給你生的那個孩子，必要死去」。
15 Then Nathan left and went home. Yahweh attacked the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he was very sick.
以後，約納堂就回家去了。上主打擊了烏黎雅給達味所生的孩子，使他患病甚重。
16 David then implored God for the boy. David fasted and went inside and lay all night on the floor.
達味就為孩子懇求天主，並且禁食，進入房內，穿著苦衣躺在地上過夜。
17 The elders of his house arose and stood beside him, to raise him up from the floor, but he would not get up, and he would not eat with them.
皇室的長老到他前，要將他從地上扶起來，他卻不願意，也不與他們一起吃飯。
18 It came about on the seventh day that the child died. David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was still alive we spoke to him, and he did not listen to our voice. What might he do to himself if we tell him that the boy is dead?!”
到了第七天，孩子竟然死了。達味的臣僕怕告訴他孩子死了，因為他們說：「孩子活著的時候，我們勸他，他還不聽我們的話；我們若告訴他孩子死了，豈不是更使他痛苦﹖」
19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead. He said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They answered, “He is dead.”
達味見自己的臣僕低聲耳語，就曉得孩子死了，便問臣僕說：「孩子死了嗎﹖」他們答說：「死了! 」
20 Then David arose from the floor and washed himself, anointed himself, and changed his clothes. He went to the tabernacle of Yahweh and worshiped there, and then he came back to his own palace. When he asked for it, they set food before him, and he ate.
達味就由地上起來，沐浴、抹油、更衣，進了上主的庭院朝拜了；然後回到家裏，叫人給他擺上飯來，他就吃了。
21 Then his servants said to him, “Why have you done this? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you got up and ate.”
他的臣僕對他說：「你這是作的什麼事。孩子著，你為他禁食哀哭；孩子死了你反而起來吃飯」。
22 David answered, “While the child was still alive I fasted and wept. I said, 'Who knows whether or not Yahweh will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
他答說：「孩子活著，我禁食悲哭，因為我想：也許上主會可憐我，使孩子生存，有誰知道﹖
23 But now he is dead, so why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
如今，他死了，我為什麼還要禁食﹖難道我能叫他回來﹖是我要到他那裏去，他不會回到我這裏來了! 」
24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and slept with her. Later she gave birth to a son, and the child was named Solomon. Yahweh loved him
事後，達味安慰了妻子巴特舍巴，再走近她，與她同寢；她又生了一個兒子，給他起名叫撒羅滿；上主也喜愛他，
25 and he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah, because Yahweh loved him.
派了先知約納堂去，代替上主給他起了個別號，叫耶狄狄雅。
26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and he captured the royal city.
那時，約阿布正攻打阿孟子民的辣巴，佔據了水城。
27 So Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city's water supply.
約阿布就派使者到達味那裏說：「攻打辣巴，已佔了水城；
28 Now therefore gather the rest of the army together and camp against the city and take it, because if I take the city, it will be named after me.”
如今你快調集其餘的軍隊來圍攻，佔領這座城市，免得我攻下了，人拿我的名字作城名」。
29 So David gathered all the army together and went to Rabbah; he fought against the city and captured it.
達味遂召集了所有的軍隊，開到辣巴，攻取了那城。
30 David took the crown from their king's head—it weighed a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it. The crown was placed on David's own head. Then he brought out the plunder of the city in large quantities.
達味從米耳公神的頭上，取下了那重一「塔冷通」的金冠來，上面嵌有一塊寶石，達味將這寶石戴在自己頭上，並由城中運走了大批勝利品。
31 He brought out the people who were in the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes; he also made them work at brick kilns. David required all the cities of the people of Ammon to do this labor. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
至於城內的居民，根將他們帶走，叫他們拉鋸、操斧、劈石、做磚；達味對待阿孟子民所有的城市都是如此。然後率領自己的軍隊回了耶路撒冷。
