申命記 32
1 蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
2 願我的教訓如雨下降，我的言語似露滴落，像降在綠茵上的細雨，像落在青草上的甘霖!
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
3 因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign you greatness to our God.
4 他是磐石，他的作為完美無比；他的行徑公平正直，他是忠實無妄的天主，公義而又正直。
[As for God], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgement: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.
5 那不堪稱為子女的，自趨墮落，背叛了他，實在是個邪惡敗壞的世代!
They have sinned, not [pleasing] him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.
6 愚昧無知的人民，你們就這樣報答上主嗎﹖他不是生育你，創造你，使你生存的大父嗎﹖
Do you thus recompense the Lord? [is the] people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?
7 你回想往古的時日，思念歷代的歲月；問你的父親，問你的長輩，他必給你講述；
Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your elders, and they shall tell you.
8 當至高者為民族分配產業時，分佈人的子孫時，按照天使的數目，為萬民劃定了疆界；
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
9 但雅各伯是上主所保留的一分，以色列成為他特有的產業。
And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.
10 上主在曠野之地，在野獸咆哮的原野，發見了他，遂將他抱起，加以撫育，加以保護，有如自己的眼珠。
He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.
11 老鷹怎樣守候自己的窩巢，飛翔在幼雛之上，上主也怎樣伸展雙翅，把他背在自己的翼上。
As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
12 上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.
13 上主使他馳騁於高原之上，以田間的出產養育他，使他享受巖穴間的蜜，堅石中的油，
He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.
14 牛酪和羊乳，肥美的羔羊和公羊，巴商的公牛與山羊，以及上等的麥麵；並以葡萄美酒作你的飲品。
Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.
15 雅各伯吃肥了，耶叔戎吃胖了，會踢人了。──的確，你胖了，肥了，飽滿了。──他遂拋棄了造他的天主，輕視了救他的磐石。
So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.
16 他們以邪神的敬禮激起他的妒火，以可憎惡的事物，惹他動怒；
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.
17 他們所祭祀的是邪神，而非真神，是向來所不認識的神，是近來新興，你們的祖先所不敬畏的神。
They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.
18 你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
You have forsaken God that begot you, and forgotten God who feeds you.
19 上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
20 說我要掩面不顧他們，要看他們的結局如何；這實在是敗壞的一代，毫無信實的子女。
and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.
21 他們以虛妄之神，激起我的怒火，以虛無之物，惹我動怒；我也要以那不成子民的人激起他們的妒火，以愚昧的民族惹他們發怒。
They have provoked me to jealousy with [that which is] not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 我要將災禍不斷加在他們身上，向他們射盡我的箭矢。
I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.
24 他們必因饑餓而衰弱，必為熱症、毒疫所消滅；我還使尖牙的野獸和土中爬行的毒蟲傷害他們。
[They shall be] consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of [serpents] creeping on the ground.
25 外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror [shall issue] out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.
26 我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from amongst men.
27 但我怕仇人自誇，怕敵人誤會說：「是我的手得勝了，而不是上主行了這一切。」
Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.
28 他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.
29 如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
30 「若不是他們的磐石出賣了他們，上主放棄了他們一人怎能追擊一千，兩人怎能打跑一萬﹖」
How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?
31 連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies [are] void of understanding.
32 誠然，他們的葡萄秧，出自索多瑪的葡萄園，來在哈摩辣的田園；他們的葡萄是毒葡萄，粒粒葡萄皆酸苦。
For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape [is] a grape of gall, their cluster [is] one of bitterness.
33 他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
Their wine [is] the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
34 這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed amongst my treasures?
35 等到他們失足之時，我必復仇報復；他們滅亡的日子確已臨近，給他們預定的命運就要來到。
In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgements at hand are close upon you.
36 因為上主要衛護自己的人民，憐恤自己的僕人。當他看見他們的能力已逝，奴隸與自由人已到絕境，
For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
37 必問說：「他們的神祇在那裏，他們投靠的磐石究在何處﹖
and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?
38 一向吃他們祭牲脂肪的，喝他們奠祭酒漿的，都在那裏﹖讓他們起來援助你們罷! 讓他們做你們的保障罷!
the fat of whose sacrifices you ate, and you drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.
39 現在你們應認清，只有我是「那一位，」除我以外沒有別神；我使人死，也使人活；我擊傷人，也加以治療；誰也不能由我手中救出。
Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.
40 我向天舉手宣誓：我生活至於永遠!
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever.
41 我一磨亮我的刀劍，我一掌握裁判權，必向我的敵人雪恨，對恨我的人報復。
For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgement; and I will render judgement to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.
42 我要使我的箭矢醉飲鮮血，使我的刀劍吞食血肉：陣亡和俘虜的鮮血，仇敵將領的頭顱。」
I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, [it shall glut itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.
43 萬國，你們應向他的百姓祝賀! 因為上主必為自己的僕人報血仇，向仇敵報復，聖潔自己的土地和百姓。
Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.
44 梅瑟和農的兒子若蘇厄前來，將這篇詩歌的話朗誦給百姓聽。
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the [son] of Naue.
45 梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.
46 就對他們說：「你們應把我今日警告你們的一切話記在心內，好吩咐你們的子孫，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.
47 因為這為你們不是空洞的話，而是關係你們的生命；由於遵守這話，你們纔能在過約但河後所要佔領的地上，長久居留。」
For this [is] no vain word to you; for it [is] your life, and because of this word you shall live long upon the land, into which you go over Jordan to inherit it.
48 上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
And the Lord spoke to Moses in this day, saying,
49 你到摩阿布去，上這座阿巴陵山，即面對耶里哥的乃波山上去，觀看我要給以色列子民作產業的客納罕地。
Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
50 你要死在你所上的山上，歸到你本族那裏，像你哥哥亞郎死在曷爾山，歸到他本族那裏一樣。
and die in the mount whither you go up, and be added to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Or, and was added to his people.
51 因為你們在親曠野，卡德士的默黎巴水邊，在以色列子民中對我失信，沒有在他們中尊我為聖；
Because you disobeyed my word amongst the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because you sanctified me not amongst the sons of Israel.
52 為此，我賜給以色列子民的地方，你只可由對面眺望，卻不能進去。」
You shall see the land before [you], but you shall not enter into it.
