申命记 9
1 “以色列啊，你当听！你今日要过约旦河，进去赶出比你强大的国民，得着广大坚固、高得顶天的城邑。
Listen, people of Israel! Shortly you're going to cross the Jordan to enter and take over the country from nations that are larger and stronger than you, that have large towns with walls that reach up into the sky.
2 那民是亚衲族的人，又大又高，是你所知道的；也曾听见有人指着他们说：‘谁能在亚衲族人面前站立得住呢？’
The people are strong and tall; they are the descendants of the Anakim. You all know about them and you have heard the saying, “Who could ever defeat the sons of Anak?”
3 你今日当知道，耶和华—你的 神在你前面过去，如同烈火，要灭绝他们，将他们制伏在你面前。这样，你就要照耶和华所说的赶出他们，使他们速速灭亡。
But you should realize that today the Lord your God is going across ahead of you. He is like a consuming fire; he will destroy them and defeat them ahead of you. You will drive them out and quickly wipe them out, just as the Lord promised you.
4 “耶和华—你的 神将这些国民从你面前撵出以后，你心里不可说：‘耶和华将我领进来得这地是因我的义。’其实，耶和华将他们从你面前赶出去是因他们的恶。
When the Lord your God has driven them out ahead of you, don't think to yourselves, “It's because I'm such a good person that the Lord has brought me here to take over this land.” No, the Lord is driving out these nations ahead of you because of they're so wicked.
5 你进去得他们的地，并不是因你的义，也不是因你心里正直，乃是因这些国民的恶，耶和华—你的 神将他们从你面前赶出去，又因耶和华要坚定他向你列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓所应许的话。
It's not because you're so good or moral that you are going to take over their land. No, it's because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations ahead of you, to keep the promise he made to your fathers—m to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 “你当知道，耶和华—你 神将这美地赐你为业，并不是因你的义；你本是硬着颈项的百姓。
You'd better believe that it's not because you're such good people that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to own, because you are stubborn, hard-hearted people.
7 你当记念不忘，你在旷野怎样惹耶和华—你 神发怒。自从你出了埃及地的那日，直到你们来到这地方，你们时常悖逆耶和华。
Remember how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert! Don't ever forget it! From the time you left the land of Egypt until you arrived here, you've been constantly rebelling against the Lord.
8 你们在何烈山又惹耶和华发怒；他恼怒你们，要灭绝你们。
At Horeb you provoked the Lord, making him so angry he was about to destroy you.
9 我上了山，要领受两块石版，就是耶和华与你们立约的版。那时我在山上住了四十昼夜，没有吃饭，也没有喝水。
This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.
10 耶和华把那两块石版交给我，是 神用指头写的。版上所写的是照耶和华在大会的日子、在山上、从火中对你们所说的一切话。
The Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he'd written with his finger everything he'd told you when he spoke from the fire on the mountain when we were all assembled there.
11 过了四十昼夜，耶和华把那两块石版，就是约版，交给我。
After forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the agreement.
12 对我说：‘你起来，赶快下去！因为你从埃及领出来的百姓已经败坏了自己；他们快快地偏离了我所吩咐的道，为自己铸成了偶像。’
The Lord told me, “Hurry! Go down immediately, because your people that you led out of Egypt, are committing a terrible sin. They have disobeyed what I told them so quickly! They have made themselves an idol using molten metal.”
13 “耶和华又对我说：‘我看这百姓是硬着颈项的百姓。
The Lord also told me, “I have been watching these people, and they really are a stubborn and hard-hearted.
14 你且由着我，我要灭绝他们，将他们的名从天下涂抹，使你的后裔比他们成为更大更强的国。’
Leave me, so that I can destroy them and wipe out their name completely. Then I will turn you into a nation even more powerful and more important than them.”
15 于是我转身下山，山被火烧着，两块约版在我两手之中。
I went back down the mountain while it was still on fire, carrying the two tablets of the agreement.
16 我一看见你们得罪了耶和华—你们的 神，铸成了牛犊，快快地偏离了耶和华所吩咐你们的道，
Then I saw how much you had sinned against the Lord your God by making for yourselves a molten calf. You had disobeyed what the Lord had told you so quickly.
17 我就把那两块版从我手中扔下去，在你们眼前摔碎了。
I threw the two tablets down, smashing them to pieces as you watched.
18 因你们所犯的一切罪，行了耶和华眼中看为恶的事，惹他发怒，我就像从前俯伏在耶和华面前四十昼夜，没有吃饭，也没有喝水。
Then I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, just as I had before. I didn't eat or drink anything because of all the sins you had committed by doing what was evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.
19 我因耶和华向你们大发烈怒，要灭绝你们，就甚害怕；但那次耶和华又应允了我。
I was terrified at how angry and furious the Lord was with you. He was ready to destroy you. But once again the Lord listened to me.
20 耶和华也向亚伦甚是发怒，要灭绝他；那时我又为亚伦祈祷。
The Lord was so angry with Aaron he was ready to destroy him, but right then I prayed for Aaron too.
21 我把那叫你们犯罪所铸的牛犊用火焚烧，又捣碎磨得很细，以致细如灰尘，我就把这灰尘撒在从山上流下来的溪水中。
I took that abominable thing, the calf you'd made, and burned it. Then I crushed it up and ground it into dust, and I threw it into the stream that descended from the mountain.
22 “你们在他备拉、玛撒、基博罗·哈他瓦又惹耶和华发怒。
But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
23 耶和华打发你们离开加低斯·巴尼亚，说：‘你们上去得我所赐给你们的地。’那时你们违背了耶和华—你们 神的命令，不信服他，不听从他的话。
When the Lord had you leave Kadesh-barnea, he told you, “Go and take over the country that I've given you.” But you defied the command of the Lord your God. You didn't believe him and you didn't obey him.
24 自从我认识你们以来，你们常常悖逆耶和华。
You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day I first knew you.
25 “我因耶和华说要灭绝你们，就在耶和华面前照旧俯伏四十昼夜。
So I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.
26 我祈祷耶和华说：‘主耶和华啊，求你不要灭绝你的百姓。他们是你的产业，是你用大力救赎的，用大能从埃及领出来的。
I prayed to the Lord, saying, “Please Lord, God, don't destroy your people that belong to you, the ones whom you rescued by your great ability and led out of Egypt by your power.
27 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各，不要想念这百姓的顽梗、邪恶、罪过，
Please remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please disregard the stubbornness of this people and their wicked sin.
28 免得你领我们出来的那地之人说，耶和华因为不能将这百姓领进他所应许之地，又因恨他们，所以领他们出去，要在旷野杀他们。
If you don't, those people back in Egypt will say, ‘The Lord brought them out to kill them in the desert because he couldn't take them to the land he'd promised them, and because he hated them.’
29 其实他们是你的百姓，你的产业，是你用大能和伸出来的膀臂领出来的。’”
But they are your people, Lord! They belong to you! You led them out of Egypt by your amazing power and might!”
