Joshua 23

1 And it cometh to pass, many days after that Jehovah hath given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua is old, entering into days,

以後上主使以色列同四周敵人平安無事，這樣過弓很長的時間，若蘇厄已年老，上了年紀，

2 and Joshua calleth for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and saith unto them, 'I have become old; I have entered into days;

便將全以色列人，他們的長老、首領、判官和官長召來，對他們說：「我已年老，上了年紀

3 and ye — ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all these nations because of you, for Jehovah your God [is] He who is fighting for you;

你們都親眼見了上主你們的天主，為了你們對有的民族所做的一切；因為是上你們的天主在替你們作戰。

4 see, I have caused to fall to you these nations who are left for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan, (and all the nations which I cut off), and the great sea, the going in of the sun.

你們看，我己用抽籤方式，將由約旦河起，直到日落之處的大海之間，所消滅和所剩下的各民族的土地，按照你們各支派，都分了你們作產業。

5 'As to Jehovah your God, He doth thrust them from your presence, and hath dispossessed them from before you, and ye have possessed their land, as Jehovah your God hath spoken to you,

上主你們的天主入將他們由你們面前趕走，使他們離開你們，叫你們承受他們的土地，一如上主你們的天主向你們所應許的。

6 and ye have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,

因此，你們要更忠實謹守奉行梅瑟法律書上所記載的一切，不可偏左偏右，

7 so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and of the name of their gods ye do not make mention, nor do ye swear, nor do ye serve them, nor do ye bow yourselves to them;

不可與你們中間的異族往來，不可提起你們的神名，不可指著他們起誓，不可事奉那些神袛，也不可在你們面前跪拜。

8 but to Jehovah your God ye do cleave, as ye have done till this day.

反之，你們應依照你們直到到今天所行的，依附上主你們的天主，

9 And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day;

因為是上主從你們中間趕走了那些強大的異族，直到今天，沒有人能抵抗你們，

10 one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God [is] He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;

你們一人能趕走千人，是因為上主你們的天主，照衪所應許的，親自為你們作戰。

11 and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

你們要盡心盡力，愛慕上主你們的天主。

12 'But — if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,

如果你們背棄上主，依戀你們中間所剩餘的異族，同他們結婚，互相往來，

13 know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

你們就當知道，上主你們的天主必不從你們面前，趕走這個異族，你們必將成為你們的羅網和陷阱，打你們腰的鞭子，扎你們眼的芒刺，直到從上主你們的天主所賜給你們的這福地上，全被消滅。

14 'And lo, I am going, to-day, in the way of all the earth, and ye have known — with all your heart, and with all your soul — that there hath not fallen one thing of all the good things which Jehovah your God hath spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there hath not failed of it one thing.

看我今天就要走世人必走的路，你們要一心一意地承認，上主你們的天主應許所賜給你們的話，沒有一句落空。

15 'And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;

上主你們的天主對你們所應許的一切幸福，怎樣實行在你們身上，直到將你們從上主你們天主所賜與你們的這土地上消滅。

16 in your transgressing the covenant of Jehovah your God which He commanded you, and ye have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then hath the anger of Jehovah burned against you, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which He hath given to you.'

如果你們違犯上主你們的天主與你們訂立的盟約，去事奉敬其他的神，上主必向你們大發忿怒，使你們迅速從你們的福地上消滅。