申命記 28
1 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。
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 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。
All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
3 你在城內必蒙受祝福，在鄉下也必蒙受祝福。
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
4 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。
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
5 你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要蒙受祝福。
Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
6 你進來，蒙受祝福；你出去，也蒙受祝福。
You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
7 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。
The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
8 上主決定對你的倉廩和在你著手進行的事上祝福你。
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
9 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；
The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
10 普世萬民一見你屬於上主的名下，必都怕你。
All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the LORD’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
11 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。
The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12 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。
The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
13 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，
The LORD will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
14 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。
and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 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。
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
16 你在城內必遭受咒罵，在鄉下也必遭受咒罵。
You will be cursed in the city, and you will be cursed in the field.
17 你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要遭受咒罵。
Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 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。
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
19 你進來，必遭受咒罵；
You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
20 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。
The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
21 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。
The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.
22 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。
The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
23 你頭上的天將變為銅，你下面的地將變為鐵。
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
24 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。
The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
25 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。
The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth amongst all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 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。
Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 上主必用埃及的膿瘡、痔漏、癬疥紅疹打擊你，使你無法醫治。
The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumours, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
28 上主必用癲狂、眼瞎和心亂打擊你；
The LORD will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
29 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。
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
30 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。
You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
31 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。
Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
32 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。
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
33 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；
A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
34 你必要因你親眼所見的事而變為瘋狂。
so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
35 上主必用惡瘡打擊你的膝和腿，由腫至頂，使你無法醫治。
The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 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。
The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
37 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。
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
38 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。
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
39 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。
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
40 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。
You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41 你雖然生子養女，但他們卻不屬於你，因為他們要被擄去。
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42 害蟲要吃盡你所有的樹木和土地的出產。
Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43 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。
The foreigner who is amongst you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
44 他要借給你，你卻不能借給他；他要為首，你卻要做尾巴。
He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 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。
All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
46 這些咒罵對你和你的子孫，永遠是一個徽號和徵兆。
They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
47 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，
Because you didn’t serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
48 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。
therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 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；
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,
50 這民族又鐵面無情，不敬老，不恤幼；
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favour to the young.
51 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。
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 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，
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.
53 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。
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
54 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，
The man who is tender amongst you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil towards his brother, towards the wife whom he loves, and towards the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
55 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。
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56 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，
The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil towards the husband that she loves, towards her son, towards her daughter,
57 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。
towards her young one who comes out from between her feet, and towards her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58 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，
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD your God,
59 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；
then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
60 必使你所怕的各種埃及病災發生在你身上，纏繞著你。
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
61 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。
Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
62 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。
You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.
63 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。
It will happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
64 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；
The LORD will scatter you amongst all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
65 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。
Amongst these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
66 你未來的生活必提心吊膽，日夜驚惶；生命毫無保障。
Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
67 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! 」
In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
68 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。
The LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
