1 Chronicles 17
1 And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house, that David saith unto Nathan the prophet, 'Lo, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah [is] under curtains;'
大卫住在自己宫中，对先知拿单说：“看哪，我住在香柏木的宫中，耶和华的约柜反在幔子里。”
2 and Nathan saith unto David, 'All that [is] in thy heart do, for God [is] with thee.'
拿单对大卫说：“你可以照你的心意而行，因为 神与你同在。”
3 And it cometh to pass on that night that a word of God is unto Nathan, saying,
当夜， 神的话临到拿单，说：
4 'Go, and thou hast said unto David My servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou dost not build for Me the house to dwell in:
“你去告诉我仆人大卫，说耶和华如此说：‘你不可建造殿宇给我居住。
5 for I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel till this day, and I am from tent unto tent: and from the tabernacle,
自从我领以色列人出埃及，直到今日，我未曾住过殿宇，乃从这会幕到那会幕，从这帐幕到那帐幕。
6 whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel, a word spake I, with one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars?
凡我同以色列人所走的地方，我何曾向以色列的一个士师，就是我吩咐牧养我民的说：你为何不给我建造香柏木的殿宇呢？’
7 'And now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the habitation, from after the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel,
现在你要告诉我仆人大卫，说万军之耶和华如此说：‘我从羊圈中将你召来，叫你不再跟从羊群，立你作我民以色列的君。
8 and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a name like the name of the great ones who [are] in the earth.
你无论往哪里去，我常与你同在，剪除你的一切仇敌；我必使你得大名，好像世上大大有名的人一样。
9 'And I have prepared a place for My people Israel, and planted it, and it hath dwelt in its place, and is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first,
我必为我民以色列选定一个地方，栽培他们，使他们住自己的地方，不再迁移；凶恶之子也不像从前扰害他们，
10 yea, even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel. 'And I have humbled all thine enemies, and I declare to thee that a house doth Jehovah build for thee,
并不像我命士师治理我民以色列的时候一样。我必治服你的一切仇敌，并且我—耶和华应许你，必为你建立家室。
11 and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom,
你寿数满足归你列祖的时候，我必使你的后裔接续你的位，我也必坚定他的国。
12 he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age;
他必为我建造殿宇；我必坚定他的国位直到永远。
13 I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son, and My kindness I turn not aside from him as I turned it aside from him who was before thee,
我要作他的父，他要作我的子；并不使我的慈爱离开他，像离开在你以前的扫罗一样。
14 and I have established him in My house, and in My kingdom unto the age, and his throne is established unto the age.'
我却要将他永远坚立在我家里和我国里；他的国位也必坚定，直到永远。’”
15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.
拿单就按这一切话，照这默示告诉大卫。
16 And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, 'Who [am] I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?
于是大卫王进去，坐在耶和华面前，说：“耶和华 神啊，我是谁，我的家算什么，你竟使我到这地步呢？
17 And this is small in Thine eyes, O God, and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off, and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high, O Jehovah God!
神啊，这在你眼中还看为小，又应许你仆人的家至于久远。耶和华 神啊，你看顾我好像看顾高贵的人。
18 'What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known.
你加于仆人的尊荣，我还有何言可说呢？因为你知道你的仆人。
19 O Jehovah, for Thy servant's sake, and according to Thine own heart Thou hast done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
耶和华啊，你行了这大事，并且显明出来，是因你仆人的缘故，也是照你的心意。
20 O Jehovah, there is none like Thee, and there is no god save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
耶和华啊，照我们耳中听见，没有可比你的，除你以外再无 神。
21 'And who [is] as Thy people Israel, one nation in the earth whom God hath gone to ransom to Him for a people, to make for Thee a name great and fearful, to cast out from the presence of Thy people whom Thou hast ransomed out of Egypt — nations?
世上有何民能比你的民以色列呢？你 神从埃及救赎他们作自己的子民，又在你赎出来的民面前行大而可畏的事，驱逐列邦人，显出你的大名。
22 Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.
你使以色列人作你的子民，直到永远；你—耶和华也作他们的 神。
23 'And now, O Jehovah, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, let be stedfast unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;
耶和华啊，你所应许仆人和仆人家的话，求你坚定，直到永远，照你所说的而行。
24 and let it be stedfast, and Thy name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, is God to Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee;
愿你的名永远坚立，被尊为大，说：‘万军之耶和华是以色列的 神，是治理以色列的 神。’这样，你仆人大卫的家必在你面前坚立。
25 for Thou, O my God, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant — to build to him a house, therefore hath Thy servant found to pray before Thee.
我的 神啊，因你启示仆人说，我必为你建立家室，所以仆人大胆在你面前祈祷。
26 'And now, Jehovah, Thou [art] God Himself, and Thou speakest concerning Thy servant this goodness;
耶和华啊，惟有你是 神，你也应许将这福气赐给仆人。
27 and now, Thou hast been pleased to bless the house of Thy servant, to be to the age before Thee; for Thou, O Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is blessed to the age.'
现在你喜悦赐福与仆人的家，可以永存在你面前。耶和华啊，你已经赐福，还要赐福到永远。”
