士师记 2
1 耶和华的使者从吉甲上到波金，对 以色列人说：“我使你们从埃及上来，领你们到我向你们列祖起誓应许之地。我又说：‘我永不废弃与你们所立的约。
The LORD’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
2 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话！为何这样行呢？’
You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
3 因此我又说：‘我必不将他们从你们面前赶出；他们必作你们肋下的荆棘。他们的神必作你们的网罗。’”
Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
4 耶和华的使者向以色列众人说这话的时候，百姓就放声而哭；
When the LORD’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5 于是给那地方起名叫波金。众人在那里向耶和华献祭。
They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the LORD.
6 从前约书亚打发以色列百姓去的时候，他们各归自己的地业，占据地土。
Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 约书亚在世和约书亚死后，那些见耶和华为以色列人所行大事的长老还在的时候，百姓都事奉耶和华。
The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD that he had worked for Israel.
8 耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚，正一百一十岁就死了。
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
9 以色列人将他葬在他地业的境内，就是在以法莲山地的亭拿·希烈，在迦实山的北边。
They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
10 那世代的人也都归了自己的列祖。后来有别的世代兴起，不知道耶和华，也不知道耶和华为以色列人所行的事。
After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the LORD, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
11 以色列人行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，去事奉诸巴力，
The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals.
12 离弃了领他们出埃及地的耶和华—他们列祖的 神，去叩拜别神，就是四围列国的神，惹耶和华发怒；
They abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
13 并离弃耶和华，去事奉巴力和亚斯她录。
They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14 耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作，就把他们交在抢夺他们的人手中，又将他们付与四围仇敌的手中，甚至他们在仇敌面前再不能站立得住。
The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
15 他们无论往何处去，耶和华都以灾祸攻击他们，正如耶和华所说的话，又如耶和华向他们所起的誓；他们便极其困苦。
Wherever they went out, the LORD’s hand was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
16 耶和华兴起士师，士师就拯救他们脱离抢夺他们人的手。
The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
17 他们却不听从士师，竟随从叩拜别神，行了邪淫，速速地偏离他们列祖所行的道，不如他们列祖顺从耶和华的命令。
Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
18 耶和华为他们兴起士师，就与那士师同在。士师在世的一切日子，耶和华拯救他们脱离仇敌的手。他们因受欺压扰害，就哀声叹气，所以耶和华后悔了。
When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
19 及至士师死后，他们就转去行恶，比他们列祖更甚，去事奉叩拜别神，总不断绝顽梗的恶行。
But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.
20 于是耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作。他说：“因这民违背我吩咐他们列祖所守的约，不听从我的话，
The LORD’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
21 所以约书亚死的时候所剩下的各族，我必不再从他们面前赶出，
I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
22 为要借此试验以色列人，看他们肯照他们列祖谨守遵行我的道不肯。”
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the LORD’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
23 这样耶和华留下各族，不将他们速速赶出，也没有交付约书亚的手。
So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
