Deuteronomy 28
1 If you listen carefully to the voice of Yahweh your God so as to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you above all the other nations of the earth.
你若實在聽從上主你的天主的話，謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的這一切誡命，上主你的天主必使你遠超過地上所有的民族。
2 All these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
如果你聽從上主你的天主的話，下面這些祝福必臨於你，來到你身上。
3 Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the field.
你在城內必蒙受祝福，在鄉下也必蒙受祝福。
4 Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牲畜所出的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要蒙受祝福。
5 Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要蒙受祝福。
6 Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.
你進來，蒙受祝福；你出去，也蒙受祝福。
7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you; they will come out against you one way but will flee before you seven ways.
起來攻擊你的仇敵，上主必使他們在你面前崩潰；他們由一路來攻擊你，卻分七路由你面前逃去。
8 Yahweh will command the blessing to come on you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to; he will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
上主決定對你的倉廩和在你著手進行的事上祝福你。
9 Yahweh will establish you as a people that is set apart for himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
只要你謹守上主你的天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，上主必要照他誓許於你的，立你為他自己的聖民；
10 All the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
普世萬民一見你屬於上主的名下，必都怕你。
11 Yahweh will make you very prosperous in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, in the fruit of your ground, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
在上主你的天主向你祖先起誓要賜給你的土地上，上主必使你滿享幸福：兒女眾多，牲畜繁殖，地產豐富。
12 Yahweh will open to you his storehouse of the heavens to give the rain for your land at the right time, and to bless all the work of your hand; you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
上主必為你大開天上的寶庫，給你的田地降下時雨，祝福你手所做的一切；你要借給許多民族，而你卻無須向人借貸。
13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; you will be only above, and you will never be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today, so as to observe and to do them,
上主必立你為首，而不做尾巴，你常是高高在上，而總不屈居在下，只要你聽從我今天吩咐你的上主你天主的誡命，並謹守遵行，
14 and if you do not turn away from any of the words that I am commanding you today, to the right hand or to the left, so as to go after other gods to serve them.
不左右偏離我今天吩咐你們的一切話，去跟隨事奉其他的神。
15 But if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
但是，如果你不聽從上主你天主的話，不謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的上主的一切誡命和法令，下面這些咒罵必要臨於你，來到你身上。
16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.
你在城內必遭受咒罵，在鄉下也必遭受咒罵。
17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要遭受咒罵。
18 Cursed will be the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
你身所生的，田地所產的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要遭受咒罵。
19 Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.
你進來，必遭受咒罵；
20 Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of your wicked actions by which you will have forsaken me.
你出去也必遭受咒罵。上主在你著手進行的一切事上，必使你遭受災難、困擾和恐嚇，直到你完全毀滅，迅速滅亡，因為你作惡，離棄了我。
21 Yahweh will make the plague cling to you until he destroys you from off the land that you are going in to possess.
上主必使你瘟疫纏身，直到將你由你要去佔領的地上完全消滅。
22 Yahweh will attack you with infectious diseases, with fever, with inflammation, and with drought and blistering heat, and with scorching winds and mildew. These will pursue you until you perish.
上主必用癆病、熱病、瘧疾、炎熱、乾旱、熱風和霉爛打擊你；這些災殃必追擊你，直到你滅亡。
23 Your skies that are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
你頭上的天將變為銅，你下面的地將變為鐵。
24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land into powder and dust; from the heavens will it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
上主必使雨變成灰沙降在你的田地裏，由天上降在你身上，直到你完全毀滅。
25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck down before your enemies; you will go out one way against them but will flee before them seven ways. You will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.
上主必使你在仇敵面前崩潰；你由一路出擊他們，卻分七路由他們前逃去；你要成為普世萬國驚駭的對象。
26 Your dead body will be food to all the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to frighten them away.
你的屍首必成為天空飛鳥，和地上走獸的食物；無人來將牠們嚇走。
27 Yahweh will attack you with the boils of Egypt and with ulcers, scurvy, and itch, from which you cannot be healed.
上主必用埃及的膿瘡、痔漏、癬疥紅疹打擊你，使你無法醫治。
28 Yahweh will attack you with madness, with blindness, and with mental confusion.
上主必用癲狂、眼瞎和心亂打擊你；
29 You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; you will be always oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
在正午時，你要摸索有如在黑暗中摸索的瞎子；你的所作所為決不會順利；你必日日受人壓迫剝削，而無人援助。
30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
你與一女子訂婚，別人卻來與她同寢；你建築一座房屋，卻不得住在裏面；你栽植葡萄園，卻得不到享用。
31 Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.
你的牛在你眼前被殺，你卻不能吃牠的肉；你的驢由你眼前被人搶去，再不歸還給你；你的羊群被交給你的敵人，卻無人來援助你。
32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to other peoples; your eyes will look for them the entire day, but will fail with longing for them. There will be no strength in your hand.
你的兒女被交給外方民族，你只有雙眼張望，日日為他們焦慮，但你卻無能為力。
33 The harvest of your land and of all your labors—a nation that you do not know will eat it up; you will always be oppressed and crushed,
你田地的出產和你勞力之所得，卻為你不認識的一個民族吃盡；你只有時時被人壓迫蹂躪；
34 so that you will become insane by what you have to see happen.
你必要因你親眼所見的事而變為瘋狂。
35 Yahweh will attack you in the knees and legs with severe boils from which you cannot be cured, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
上主必用惡瘡打擊你的膝和腿，由腫至頂，使你無法醫治。
36 Yahweh will take you and the king whom you will place over yourself to a nation that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; there you will worship other gods of wood and stone.
上主你將你和你所立的統治你的君王，送到你和你祖先不認識的一個民族那裏去，在那裏你要事奉別的神，即木石所製的神。
37 You will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
在上主要送你去的各民族中，你必成為驚駭、嘲笑和諷刺的對象。
38 You will take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.
你在田間撒的種子雖然很多，但收穫的卻很少，因為蝗蟲要來吃盡。
39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will neither drink any of the wine, nor even gather in the grapes, for worms will eat them.
你雖然栽種修剪葡萄園，卻沒有酒喝，沒有收成，因為都要為蟲子吃盡。
40 You will have olive trees within all your territory, but you will not rub any of the oil on yourself, for your olive trees will drop their fruit.
你雖然在全境栽有橄欖樹，卻沒有油抹身，因為橄欖要遂結遂落。
41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, for they will go into captivity.
你雖然生子養女，但他們卻不屬於你，因為他們要被擄去。
42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground—the locusts will take them over.
害蟲要吃盡你所有的樹木和土地的出產。
43 The foreigner who is among you will rise up above you higher and higher; you yourself will come down lower and lower.
住在你中間的外方人不斷發達興旺，遠在你以上，你反而日趨卑下。
44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head, and you will be the tail.
他要借給你，你卻不能借給他；他要為首，你卻要做尾巴。
45 All these curses will come on you and will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed. This will happen because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, so as to keep his commandments and his regulations that he commanded you.
這一切咒罵必臨於你，追擊你，來到你身上，直到你全被消滅，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話，沒有遵守他吩咐你的誡命和法令。
46 These curses will be on you as signs and wonders, and on your descendants forever.
這些咒罵對你和你的子孫，永遠是一個徽號和徵兆。
47 Because you did not worship Yahweh your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart when you were in prosperity,
因為在財物富裕時，你沒有誠心悅意地去事奉上主你的天主，
48 therefore will you serve the enemies that Yahweh will send against you; you will serve them in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in poverty. He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.
你必在飢渴，赤身露體，一無所有中，服侍上主派來攻擊你的仇敵；他必將鐵軛放在你的頸上，直到將你消滅。
49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle flies to its victim, a nation whose language you do not understand;
上主必由遠方，由地極引來一個民族，像鷹一樣撲擊你；這民族的語言，你不明瞭；
50 a nation with a fierce face that does not respect the aged and does not show favor to the young.
這民族又鐵面無情，不敬老，不恤幼；
51 They will eat the young of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, no young of your cattle or of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
他必吞食你家畜的幼雛，和田地的產物，直到你被消滅；必不給你留下什麼穀、米、酒、油、牛犢或羔羊，直到將你完全毀滅。
52 They will besiege you in all your city gates, until your high and fortified walls come down everywhere in your land, walls in which you had trusted. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout all the land that Yahweh your God had given you.
他必將你圍困在所有的城鎮內，直到你全國內所依恃的高大堅固的城牆都被攻陷；當你被圍困在上主你天主賜給你的全境各城鎮內時，
53 You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will put upon you.
在你被仇敵圍困的窮困中，你要吃你自身所生，即上主你天主賜給你子女的肉。
54 The man who is tender and very delicate among you—he will be envious of his brother and his own dear wife, and of whatever children he has left.
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的男人，這時對自己的兄弟、懷中的妻子、尚存的子女，也必冷眼相看，
55 So he will not give to any of them the flesh of his own children that he is going to eat, because he will have nothing left for himself in the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within all your city gates.
不願將他所吃的子女的肉，分給他們任何人，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮受圍困陷於絕境時，已一無所剩。
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to put the bottom of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness—she will be envious of her own dear husband, of her son, and of her daughter,
你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的女人，先前嬌嫩溫柔得連腳都不踏在地上，這時對自己懷中的丈夫、自己的子女、也要冷眼相看，
57 and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within your city gates.
暗中將她兩腿間脫出的胞衣，和她所生的子女吃掉，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮中受圍困，陷於窮困時，已一無所有。
58 If you do not keep all the words of this law that are written in this book, so as to honor this glorious and fearful name, Yahweh your God,
如果你不謹守遵行這書上所記的法律的一切條文，敬畏這光榮可畏的名號：上主你的天主，
59 then Yahweh will make your plagues terrible, and those of your descendants; they will be great plagues, of long duration, and severe diseases, of long duration.
上主必使你和你的後裔遭受更奇特的災害，大而且久的災害，毒而且頑的疾病；
60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt that you were afraid of; they will cling to you.
必使你所怕的各種埃及病災發生在你身上，纏繞著你。
61 Also every sickness and plague that is not written in the book of this law, those also Yahweh will bring on you until you are destroyed.
此外，在在這法律書上所沒有記載的一切疾病和災害，上主也要引來降在你身上，直到將你完全消滅。
62 You will be left few in number, although you were like the stars of the heavens in number, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
你們以前雖然多如天上的繁星，你們所留下的，卻寥寥無幾，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話。
63 As Yahweh once rejoiced over you in doing you good, and in multiplying you, so he will rejoice over you in making you perish and in destroying you. You will be plucked off the land that you are going into to possess.
有如上主先前怎樣喜歡你們獲得幸福，使你們人數眾多，將來也要怎樣喜歡你們衰落，使你們滅亡，使你們由你要去佔領的地上盡被剷除。
64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; there you will worship other gods that you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors, gods of wood and stone.
上主要將你分散在大地兩極間所有人民中，你要在那裏事奉你和你祖先所不認識的外神，即木石之神；
65 Among these nations will you find no ease, and there will be no rest for the bottoms of your feet; instead, Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a soul that mourns.
而且在這些民族中，你總得不到安寧，也找不到一塊歇腳的地方；上主在那裏必使你心情煩亂，眼目憔悴，精神頹喪。
66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will fear every night and day and will have no certainty at all in your life.
你未來的生活必提心吊膽，日夜驚惶；生命毫無保障。
67 In the morning you will say, 'I wish it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'I wish it were morning!' because of the fear in your hearts and the things your eyes will have to see.
因你心情恐慌，因你眼見的景象，早晨你要說：「巴不得現在是晚上! 」到了晚上你又要說：「巴不得現在是早晨! 」
68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again by ships, by the route about which I had said to you, 'You will not see Egypt again.' There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will purchase you.”
上主要用船將你送回埃及，走我曾告訴你，你不會再見的那條路；在那裏你們雖自願將自己賣給你的仇敵為奴為婢，卻無人肯買。
