Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.
這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;
梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
3 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:
那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
5 For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.
我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.
當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
7 When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:
你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.
佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.
所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,
今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:
你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:
都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立附有詛咒的誓約，
13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
14 And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;
我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:
而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;
你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them: )
你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:
以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.
上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
21 He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.
上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;
未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:
而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:
上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.
上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.
隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
