士師記 5
1 那時，底波拉和亞比挪菴的兒子巴拉作歌，說：
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
2 因為以色列中有軍長率領， 百姓也甘心犧牲自己， 你們應當頌讚耶和華！
“When the leaders take the lead in Israel, when the people gladly volunteer for war— we praise Yahweh!
3 君王啊，要聽！ 王子啊，要側耳而聽！ 我要向耶和華歌唱； 我要歌頌耶和華－以色列的上帝。
Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you leaders! I, I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praises to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
4 耶和華啊，你從西珥出來， 由以東地行走。 那時地震天漏， 雲也落雨。
Yahweh, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from Edom, the earth shook, and the skies also trembled; also the clouds poured down water.
5 山見耶和華的面就震動， 西奈山見耶和華－以色列上帝的面也是如此。
The mountains quaked before the face of Yahweh; even Mount Sinai quaked before the face of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
6 在亞拿之子珊迦的時候， 又在雅億的日子， 大道無人行走， 都是繞道而行。
In the days of Shamgar (son of Anath), in the days of Jael, the main roads were abandoned, and those who walked only used the winding paths.
7 以色列中的官長停職， 直到我底波拉興起， 等我興起作以色列的母。
There were few rural people in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose—arose as a mother in Israel!
8 以色列人選擇新神， 爭戰的事就臨到城門。 那時，以色列四萬人中 豈能見盾牌槍矛呢？
When they chose new gods, there was fighting at the city gates and yet there were no shields or spears seen among forty thousand in Israel.
9 我心傾向以色列的首領， 他們在民中甘心犧牲自己。 你們應當頌讚耶和華！
My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, along with the people who gladly volunteered— we bless Yahweh for them!
10 騎白驢的、坐繡花毯子的、行路的， 你們都當傳揚！
Think about this—you who ride on white donkeys sitting on rugs for saddles, and you who walk along the road.
11 在遠離弓箭響聲打水之處， 人必述說耶和華公義的作為， 就是他治理以色列公義的作為。 那時耶和華的民下到城門。
Hear the voices of those who sing at the watering places. There they tell again of Yahweh's righteous deeds, and the righteous actions of his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the city gates.
12 底波拉啊，興起！興起！ 你當興起，興起，唱歌。 亞比挪菴的兒子巴拉啊，你當奮興， 擄掠你的敵人。
Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Get up, Barak, and capture your prisoners, you son of Abinoam.
13 那時有餘剩的貴冑和百姓一同下來； 耶和華降臨，為我攻擊勇士。
Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of Yahweh came down to me with the warriors.
14 有根本在亞瑪力人的地， 從以法蓮下來的； 便雅憫在民中跟隨你。 有掌權的從瑪吉下來； 有持杖檢點民數的從西布倫下來；
They came from Ephraim, whose root is in Amalek; the people of Benjamin followed you. From Machir commanders came down, and from Zebulun those who carry an officer's staff.
15 以薩迦的首領與底波拉同來； 以薩迦怎樣，巴拉也怎樣。 眾人都跟隨巴拉衝下平原； 在呂便的溪水旁有心中定大志的。
My princes in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar was with Barak rushing after him into the valley under his command. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
16 你為何坐在羊圈內 聽群中吹笛的聲音呢？ 在呂便的溪水旁有心中設大謀的。
Why did you sit between the fireplaces, listening to the shepherds playing their pipes for their flocks? As for the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 基列人安居在約旦河外。 但人為何等在船上？ 亞設人在海口靜坐， 在港口安居。
Gilead stayed on the other side of the Jordan; and Dan, why did he wander about on ships? Asher remained on the coast and lived close to his harbors.
18 西布倫人是拚命敢死的； 拿弗他利人在田野的高處也是如此。
Zebulun was a tribe who would risk their lives to the point of death, and Naphtali, also, on the field of battle.
19 君王都來爭戰。 那時迦南諸王在米吉多水旁的他納爭戰， 卻未得擄掠銀錢。
The kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. But they took away no silver as plunder.
20 星宿從天上爭戰， 從其軌道攻擊西西拉。
From heaven the stars fought, from their paths across the heavens they fought against Sisera.
21 基順古河把敵人沖沒； 我的靈啊，應當努力前行。
The Kishon River swept them away, that old river, the Kishon River. March on my soul, be strong!
22 那時壯馬馳驅， 踢跳，奔騰。
Then came the sound of horses' hooves— galloping, the galloping of his mighty ones.
23 耶和華的使者說： 應當咒詛米羅斯， 大大咒詛其中的居民； 因為他們不來幫助耶和華， 不來幫助耶和華攻擊勇士。
'Curse Meroz!' says the angel of Yahweh. 'Surely curse its inhabitants!— because they did not come to help Yahweh— to help Yahweh in the battle against the mighty warriors.'
24 願基尼人希百的妻雅億比眾婦人多得福氣， 比住帳棚的婦人更蒙福祉。
Jael is blessed more than all other women, Jael (the wife of Heber the Kenite), she is more blessed than all the women who live in tents.
25 西西拉求水， 雅億給他奶子， 用寶貴的盤子給他奶油。
The man asked for water, and she gave him milk; she brought him butter in a dish fit for princes.
26 雅億左手拿着帳棚的橛子， 右手拿着匠人的錘子， 擊打西西拉， 打傷他的頭， 把他的鬢角打破穿通。
She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; with the hammer she struck Sisera, she crushed his head. She smashed his skull into pieces when she pierced him through the side of his head.
27 西西拉在她腳前曲身仆倒， 在她腳前曲身倒臥； 在那裏曲身，就在那裏死亡。
He collapsed between her feet, he fell and he lay there. Between her feet he fell limp. The place he collapsed is where he was violently killed.
28 西西拉的母親從窗戶裏往外觀看， 從窗櫺中呼叫說： 他的戰車為何耽延不來呢？ 他的車輪為何行得慢呢？
Out of a window she looked— the mother of Sisera looked through the lattice and she called out in sadness, 'Why has it taken his chariot so long to come? Why have the hoofbeats of the horses that pull his chariots been delayed?'
29 聰明的宮女安慰她， 她也自言自語地說：
Her wisest princesses replied, and she gave herself the same answer:
30 他們莫非得財而分？ 每人得了一兩個女子？ 西西拉得了彩衣為擄物， 得繡花的彩衣為掠物。 這彩衣兩面繡花， 乃是披在被擄之人頸項上的。
'Have they not found and divided up the plunder? —A womb, two wombs for every man; the plunder of dyed fabric for Sisera, the plunder of dyed fabric embroidered, two pieces of dyed fabric embroidered for the necks of those who plunder?'
31 耶和華啊， 願你的仇敵都這樣滅亡！ 願愛你的人如日頭出現，光輝烈烈！ 這樣，國中太平四十年。
So may all your enemies perish, Yahweh! But your friends be like the sun when it rises in its might.” Then the land had peace for forty years.
