Judges 7
1 Then Jerubbaal (who [is] Gideon) and all the people that [were] with him, rose early, and encamped beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
耶魯巴耳即基德紅和所有跟隨他的民眾一早起身，在哈洛得泉安營；米德楊的營幕就在他們北面，在摩勒山腳的平原裏。
2 And the LORD said to Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand hath saved me.
上主對基德紅說：「跟隨你的民眾太多，我不能把米德楊交在他們手中，免得以色列對我自誇說：是自己的能力救了自己。
3 Now therefore, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
現在你要向民眾宣告說：凡害怕恐懼的可以回去，急速離開這裏。」於是民眾中有二萬二千回去，只剩下一萬人。
4 And the LORD said to Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for thee there; and it shall be, [that] of whom I say to thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say to thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
上主又對基德紅說：「民眾還是太多；領他們下到水邊去，我要在那裏為你檢驗他們。凡我告訴你說：這人可同你去，他就與你同去；凡我告訴你說：這人不可同你去，他就不可去。」
5 So he brought down the people to the water: and the LORD said to Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
他就引民眾下到水邊；上主向基德紅說：「凡用舌頭舔水像狗舔水似的，將他們安置在一處；同樣，凡屈膝跪下飲水的，將他們安置在一處。」
6 And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
用手捧到嘴邊舔水的共有三百人；其餘民眾都是屈膝跪下喝水。
7 And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand: and let all the [other] people go every man to his place.
上主對基德紅說：「我要用這三百舔水的人拯救你們，把米德楊交於你手中。讓其餘的民眾各回本地去。」
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Israel every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. And the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
基德紅便留下民眾的罐子和號角，打發眾以色列人各回自己的帳幕，只留下三百人。米德楊的營幕就在他們下面的平原裏。基德紅巧取米德楊營
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the host; for I have delivered it into thy hand.
當夜上主對他說：「起來，下去攻營! 我已將敵營交在你的手中了。
10 But if thou fearest to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
如果你一人害怕下去，可帶你的隨從普辣一起下到營幕，
11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down to the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant to the outside of the armed men that [were] in the host.
聽他們說什麼；以後你的手就會堅強，敢下去攻營了。」於是他和他的隨從普辣便下去，來到營中駐軍的前哨。
12 And the Midianites, and the Amalekites, and all the children of the east, lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
那時米德楊、阿瑪肋克和東方的子民都散佈在平原裏，多如蝗蟲；他們的駱駝不可勝數，多如海邊的沙粒。
13 And when Gideon had come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream to his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and lo, a cake of barley-bread rolled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the tent lay along.
基德紅來到時，正有一個人給他的同伴講夢說：「我作了一個夢：有一個大麥麵餅滾入米德楊營內，直滾向帳幕，將帳幕撞倒：翻轉朝上。」
14 And his fellow answered, and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
他的同伴回答說：「這不是別的，這是以色列人約阿士的兒子基德紅的刀劍；天主已把米德楊及其全營交於他手中。」
15 And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped, and returned to the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
基德紅一聽見這夢的敘述和解釋，就朝拜天主；然後回到以色列營中說：「起來! 因為上主已將米德楊的營幕交在你們手中了。」
16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
他於是把三百人分作三隊，把號角和空罐子交在每人手中，把火把放在罐子裏；
17 And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that] as I do, so shall ye do.
然後吩咐他們說：「你們看我怎樣行，你們便怎樣行；一到營幕邊上，我怎樣作，你們也要怎樣作。
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.
當我與跟隨我的人吹號角時，你們也應該在營幕四周吹號角，並且喊叫；為上主，為基德紅! 」
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that [were] in their hands.
在三更之初，當哨兵換防的時候，基德紅領著他那一百人來到營幕邊上，吹起號角來，打破手中的罐子。
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [with]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
同時三隊一齊吹號角，打破罐子，左手拿著火把，右手拿著號角吹，並喊叫說：「刀劍為上主，為基德紅! 」
21 And they stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
眾人都在營幕四周，各站在自己的地方。那時敵營驚醒，亂喊亂竄。
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zereroth, [and] to the border of Abel-meholah, to Tabbath.
當那三百人吹號角的時候，上主使敵營互相撕殺。以後朝著責勒達逃往貝特史大，直到面對塔巴特的阿貝耳默曷拉。米德楊慘敗
23 And the men of Israel assembled out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.
那時以色列人從納斐塔里、阿協爾和默納協全地集合，追趕米德楊。
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim assembled, and took the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan.
基德紅又打發使者到全厄弗辣因山地說：「請下來攻打米德楊人，在他們前佔據約但河的渡口，直到貝特巴辣。」全厄弗辣因人就集合，佔據了約但河的渡口，一直到貝特巴辣。
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the wine-press of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.
他們捉住了米德楊的兩個領袖，即敖勒布和則厄布，在敖勒布石上把敖勒布殺死，在則厄布醡酒池裏把則厄布殺死；以後繼續追趕米德楊人，並把敖勒布和則厄布的頭送到約但對岸基德紅跟前。
