Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, you heavens, and let me speak. Let the earth listen to the words of my mouth.
蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
2 Let my teaching drop down like the rain, let my speech distill like the dew, like the gentle rain on the tender grass, and like the showers on the plants.
願我的教訓如雨下降，我的言語似露滴落，像降在綠茵上的細雨，像落在青草上的甘霖!
3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh, and ascribe greatness to our God.
因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
4 The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his paths are just. He is the faithful God, without iniquity. He is just and upright.
他是磐石，他的作為完美無比；他的行徑公平正直，他是忠實無妄的天主，公義而又正直。
5 They have acted corruptly against him. They are not his children. It is their disgrace. They are a perverted and crooked generation.
那不堪稱為子女的，自趨墮落，背叛了他，實在是個邪惡敗壞的世代!
6 Do you reward Yahweh in this way, you foolish and senseless people? Is he not your father, the one who has created you? He made you and established you.
愚昧無知的人民，你們就這樣報答上主嗎﹖他不是生育你，創造你，使你生存的大父嗎﹖
7 Call to mind the days of ancient times, think about the years of many ages past. Ask your father and he will show you, your elders and they will tell you.
你回想往古的時日，思念歷代的歲月；問你的父親，問你的長輩，他必給你講述；
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— when he divided all of mankind, and he set the boundaries of the peoples, as he also fixed the number of their gods.
當至高者為民族分配產業時，分佈人的子孫時，按照天使的數目，為萬民劃定了疆界；
9 For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is his apportioned inheritance.
但雅各伯是上主所保留的一分，以色列成為他特有的產業。
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the barren and howling wilderness; he shielded him and cared for him, he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
上主在曠野之地，在野獸咆哮的原野，發見了他，遂將他抱起，加以撫育，加以保護，有如自己的眼珠。
11 As an eagle that guards her nest and flutters over her young, Yahweh spread out his wings and took them, and carried them on his pinions.
老鷹怎樣守候自己的窩巢，飛翔在幼雛之上，上主也怎樣伸展雙翅，把他背在自己的翼上。
12 Yahweh alone led him; no foreign god was with him.
上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
13 He made him ride on high places of the land, and he fed him the fruits of the field; he nourished him with honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty crag.
上主使他馳騁於高原之上，以田間的出產養育他，使他享受巖穴間的蜜，堅石中的油，
14 He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes.
牛酪和羊乳，肥美的羔羊和公羊，巴商的公牛與山羊，以及上等的麥麵；並以葡萄美酒作你的飲品。
15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— he abandoned the God who made him, and he rejected the Rock of his salvation.
雅各伯吃肥了，耶叔戎吃胖了，會踢人了。──的確，你胖了，肥了，飽滿了。──他遂拋棄了造他的天主，輕視了救他的磐石。
16 They made Yahweh jealous by their strange gods; with their abominations they angered him.
他們以邪神的敬禮激起他的妒火，以可憎惡的事物，惹他動怒；
17 They sacrificed to demons, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.
他們所祭祀的是邪神，而非真神，是向來所不認識的神，是近來新興，你們的祖先所不敬畏的神。
18 You have deserted the Rock, who became your father, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
19 Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, because his sons and his daughters provoked him so.
上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
說我要掩面不顧他們，要看他們的結局如何；這實在是敗壞的一代，毫無信實的子女。
21 They have made me jealous by what is not god and angered me by their worthless things. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; by a foolish nation I will make them angry.
他們以虛妄之神，激起我的怒火，以虛無之物，惹我動怒；我也要以那不成子民的人激起他們的妒火，以愚昧的民族惹他們發怒。
22 For a fire is kindled by my anger and is burning to the lowest Sheol; it is devouring the earth and its harvest; it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
我的怒火一燃起，必燒到陰府的深底，吞滅大地及其出產，焚毀山岳的基礎。 (Sheol h7585)
23 I will heap disasters on them; I will shoot all my arrows at them;
我要將災禍不斷加在他們身上，向他們射盡我的箭矢。
24 They will be wasted by hunger and devoured by burning heat and bitter destruction; I will send on them the teeth of wild animals, with the poison of things that crawl in the dust.
他們必因饑餓而衰弱，必為熱症、毒疫所消滅；我還使尖牙的野獸和土中爬行的毒蟲傷害他們。
25 Outside the sword will bereave, and in the bedrooms terror will do so. It will destroy both young man and virgin, the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs.
外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
26 I said that I would scatter them far away, that I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind.
我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, and that their enemies would judge mistakenly, and that they would say, 'Our hand is exalted,' I would have done all this.
但我怕仇人自誇，怕敵人誤會說：「是我的手得勝了，而不是上主行了這一切。」
28 For Israel is a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding in them.
他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their coming fate!
如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had given them up?
「若不是他們的磐石出賣了他們，上主放棄了他們一人怎能追擊一千，兩人怎能打跑一萬﹖」
31 For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock, just as even our enemies admit.
連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
32 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.
誠然，他們的葡萄秧，出自索多瑪的葡萄園，來在哈摩辣的田園；他們的葡萄是毒葡萄，粒粒葡萄皆酸苦。
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.
他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
34 Is not this plan secretly kept by me, sealed up among my treasures?
這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
35 Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense, at the time when their foot slips; for the day of disaster for them is near, and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen.”
等到他們失足之時，我必復仇報復；他們滅亡的日子確已臨近，給他們預定的命運就要來到。
36 For Yahweh will give justice to his people, and he will pity his servants. He will see that their power is gone, and no one remains, either slaves or free people.
因為上主要衛護自己的人民，憐恤自己的僕人。當他看見他們的能力已逝，奴隸與自由人已到絕境，
37 Then he will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in whom they took refuge?—
必問說：「他們的神祇在那裏，他們投靠的磐石究在何處﹖
38 The gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection.
一向吃他們祭牲脂肪的，喝他們奠祭酒漿的，都在那裏﹖讓他們起來援助你們罷! 讓他們做你們的保障罷!
39 See now that I, even I, am God, and that there is no god besides me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, and there is no one who can save you from my might.
現在你們應認清，只有我是「那一位，」除我以外沒有別神；我使人死，也使人活；我擊傷人，也加以治療；誰也不能由我手中救出。
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, 'As I live forever, I will act.
我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
41 When I sharpen my glittering sword, and when my hand begins to bring justice, I will render vengeance on my enemies, and I will pay back those who hate me.
我一磨亮我的刀劍，我一掌握裁判權，必向我的敵人雪恨，對恨我的人報復。
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh with the blood of the killed and the captives, and from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.'”
我要使我的箭矢醉飲鮮血，使我的刀劍吞食血肉：陣亡和俘虜的鮮血，仇敵將領的頭顱。」
43 Rejoice, you nations, with God's people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will render vengeance on his enemies, and he will make atonement for his land, for his people.
萬國，你們應向他的百姓祝賀! 因為上主必為自己的僕人報血仇，向仇敵報復，聖潔自己的土地和百姓。
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Joshua son of Nun.
梅瑟和農的兒子若蘇厄前來，將這篇詩歌的話朗誦給百姓聽。
45 Then Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
46 He said to them, “Fix your mind on all the words that I have witnessed to you today, so that you may command your children to keep them, all the words of this law.
就對他們說：「你們應把我今日警告你們的一切話記在心內，好吩咐你們的子孫，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
47 For this is no trivial matter for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you will prolong your days in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
因為這為你們不是空洞的話，而是關係你們的生命；由於遵守這話，你們纔能在過約但河後所要佔領的地上，長久居留。」
48 Yahweh spoke to Moses on that same day and said,
上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
49 “Go up into this range of the mountains of Abarim, up Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho. You will look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel as their possession.
你到摩阿布去，上這座阿巴陵山，即面對耶里哥的乃波山上去，觀看我要給以色列子民作產業的客納罕地。
50 You will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, as Aaron your fellow Israelite died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
你要死在你所上的山上，歸到你本族那裏，像你哥哥亞郎死在曷爾山，歸到他本族那裏一樣。
51 This will happen because you were unfaithful to me among the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not treat me with honor and respect among the people of Israel.
因為你們在親曠野，卡德士的默黎巴水邊，在以色列子民中對我失信，沒有在他們中尊我為聖；
52 For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”
為此，我賜給以色列子民的地方，你只可由對面眺望，卻不能進去。」
