路得记 1
1 当士师秉政的时候，国中遭遇饥荒。在犹大的伯利恒，有一个人带着妻子和两个儿子往摩押地去寄居。
There was a famine during the time when the judges ruled Israel, so a man left Bethlehem in Judah and went to live in exile in the country of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.
2 这人名叫以利米勒，他的妻名叫拿俄米；他两个儿子，一个名叫玛伦，一个名叫基连，都是犹大伯利恒的以法他人。他们到了摩押地，就住在那里。
His name was Elimelech, and his wife's name Naomi. His sons were called Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went to the country of Moab and lived there.
3 后来拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了，剩下妇人和她两个儿子。
However, Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 这两个儿子娶了摩押女子为妻，一个名叫俄珥巴，一个名叫路得，在那里住了约有十年。
The sons married Moabite women. One was called Orpah, the other was called Ruth. After about ten years,
5 玛伦和基连二人也死了，剩下拿俄米，没有丈夫，也没有儿子。
both Mahlon and Chilion died. Naomi was left alone, without her two sons or her husband.
6 她就与两个儿妇起身，要从摩押地归回；因为她在摩押地听见耶和华眷顾自己的百姓，赐粮食与他们。
So she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the country of Moab and return home because she had heard that the Lord had blessed his people there with food.
7 于是她和两个儿妇起行离开所住的地方，要回犹大地去。
She left the place where she had been living and with her two daughters-in-law set out on the road back to the land of Judah.
8 拿俄米对两个儿妇说：“你们各人回娘家去吧。愿耶和华恩待你们，像你们恩待已死的人与我一样！
However, as they left, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Each of you, go back to your mother's homes, and may the Lord be as kind to you as you have been to me, and to those who have died.
9 愿耶和华使你们各在新夫家中得平安！”于是拿俄米与她们亲嘴。她们就放声而哭，
May the Lord give you a good home with another husband.” She kissed them, and they all started to cry loudly.
10 说：“不然，我们必与你一同回你本国去。”
“No! We want to go back with you to your people,” they replied.
11 拿俄米说：“我女儿们哪，回去吧！为何要跟我去呢？我还能生子作你们的丈夫吗？
“Why do you want to go back with me?” Naomi asked. “I'm not able to have any more sons for you to marry.
12 我女儿们哪，回去吧！我年纪老迈，不能再有丈夫；即或说，我还有指望，今夜有丈夫可以生子，
Go back home, my daughters, because I'm too old to marry again. Even if I were to sleep with a new husband tonight and had sons,
13 你们岂能等着他们长大呢？你们岂能等着他们不嫁别人呢？我女儿们哪，不要这样。我为你们的缘故甚是愁苦，因为耶和华伸手攻击我。”
would you wait for them to grow up? Would you decide you weren't going to marry anyone else? No. The whole situation is more bitter for me than it is for you, for the Lord has turned against me!”
14 两个儿妇又放声而哭，俄珥巴与婆婆亲嘴而别，只是路得舍不得拿俄米。
They started crying loudly again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth held on tightly to Naomi.
15 拿俄米说：“看哪，你嫂子已经回她本国和她所拜的神那里去了，你也跟着你嫂子回去吧！”
“Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back home with her,” said Naomi.
16 路得说：“不要催我回去不跟随你。你往哪里去，我也往那里去；你在哪里住宿，我也在那里住宿；你的国就是我的国，你的 神就是我的 神。
But Ruth replied, “Please don't keep on telling me to leave you and go back. Where you go, I will go. Where you live, I will live. Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God.
17 你在哪里死，我也在那里死，也葬在那里。除非死能使你我相离！不然，愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。”
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me harshly if I let anything but death separate us!”
18 拿俄米见路得定意要跟随自己去，就不再劝她了。
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped telling Ruth to go home.
19 于是二人同行，来到伯利恒。她们到了伯利恒，合城的人就都惊讶。妇女们说：“这是拿俄米吗？”
So the two of them walked on until they reached Bethlehem. When they arrived there, the whole town got excited. “Is this Naomi?” the women asked.
20 拿俄米对她们说：“不要叫我拿俄米，要叫我玛拉，因为全能者使我受了大苦。
She said to them, “Don't call me Naomi! Call me Mara, for the Almighty has treated me very bitterly.
21 我满满地出去，耶和华使我空空地回来。耶和华降祸与我；全能者使我受苦。既是这样，你们为何还叫我拿俄米呢？”
I left here full, but the Lord has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the Lord has condemned me, when the Almighty has brought disaster on me?”
22 拿俄米和她儿妇摩押女子路得，从摩押地回来到伯利恒，正是动手割大麦的时候。
This is the way that Naomi returned from Moab with Ruth, the Moabite, her daughter-in-law. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
