Deuteronomy 30

1 One day after you experience all this, the blessings and curses I've told you about, you'll think about them, living in all the different nations where the Lord your God has exiled you.

「我所陳明在你面前的這一切咒詛都臨到你身上；你在耶和華－你上帝追趕你到的萬國中必心裏追念祝福的話；

2 When that happens, and when you and your children come back to the Lord your God, and when you do what he says with all your mind and all your being in accordance with everything I'm telling you today, then the Lord your God will be merciful to you.

你和你的子孫若盡心盡性歸向耶和華－你的上帝，照着我今日一切所吩咐的聽從他的話；

3 He will bring you back home, gathering you from all the nations where he scattered you.

那時，耶和華－你的上帝必憐恤你，救回你這被擄的子民；耶和華－你的上帝要回轉過來，從分散你到的萬民中將你招聚回來。

4 Even if you were exiled to the ends of the earth, will gather you from there and bring you back.

你被趕散的人，就是在天涯的，耶和華－你的上帝也必從那裏將你招聚回來。

5 The Lord your God will bring you home to the country that belonged to your forefathers and you will own it again. He will make you successful, and you will have even more descendants than your forefathers.

耶和華－你的上帝必領你進入你列祖所得的地，使你可以得着；又必善待你，使你的人數比你列祖眾多。

6 The Lord your God will make you and your descendants his again, and you will love him with all your mind and with all your being, so that you'll live.

耶和華－你上帝必將你心裏和你後裔心裏的污穢除掉，好叫你盡心盡性愛耶和華－你的上帝，使你可以存活。

7 Then the Lord your God will place all these curses upon your enemies instead, on those who hate and persecute you.

耶和華－你的上帝必將這一切咒詛加在你仇敵和恨惡你、逼迫你的人身上。

8 You will once again do what the Lord tells you and follow all his commandments that I'm giving you today.

你必歸回，聽從耶和華的話，遵行他的一切誡命，就是我今日所吩咐你的。

9 The Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do, you will have children, your livestock will be productive, and you will have good harvests. The Lord will once again be happy to do you good, as he did to your forefathers,

你若聽從耶和華－你上帝的話，謹守這律法書上所寫的誡命律例，又盡心盡性歸向耶和華－你的上帝，他必使你手裏所辦的一切事，並你身所生的，牲畜所下的，地土所產的，都綽綽有餘；因為耶和華必再喜悅你，降福與你，像從前喜悅你列祖一樣。

10 if you obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and regulations written in this book of the Law, and if you come back to him with all your mind and with all your being.

11 The instruction I'm giving you today isn't too difficult for you to follow. It's not as if it's so far from you that it's impossible to achieve.

「我今日所吩咐你的誡命不是你難行的，也不是離你遠的；

12 It's not in heaven so you have to ask, “Who is going to go up to heaven get it for us and let us know what it says so we can obey it?”

不是在天上，使你說：『誰替我們上天取下來，使我們聽見可以遵行呢？』

13 It's not across the ocean not beyond the sea so you have to ask, “Who is going to cross the ocean to get it for us and let us know what it says so we can obey it?”

也不是在海外，使你說：『誰替我們過海取了來，使我們聽見可以遵行呢？』

14 No—you have this instruction is right there with you. It's in your mouth and in your mind so you can obey it.

這話卻離你甚近，就在你口中，在你心裏，使你可以遵行。

15 Listen! Today I've placed a choice before you: life and what's good, or death and what's evil.

「看哪，我今日將生與福，死與禍，陳明在你面前。

16 I'm telling you today to love the Lord your God, to follow his ways, and to keep his commandments, rules, and regulations, so you can live and grow in number, and so the Lord your God may bless you in the country that you are entering and will own.

吩咐你愛耶和華－你的上帝，遵行他的道，謹守他的誡命、律例、典章，使你可以存活，人數增多，耶和華－你上帝就必在你所要進去得為業的地上賜福與你。

17 If you disregard this and you refuse to listen, if you're lured into bowing down to other gods and worshiping them,

倘若你心裏偏離，不肯聽從，卻被勾引去敬拜事奉別神，

18 then I warn you right now that you will definitely die. You won't live long in the country that you're going to own after you cross the Jordan.

我今日明明告訴你們，你們必要滅亡；在你過約旦河、進去得為業的地上，你的日子必不長久。

19 I call on heaven and earth to be my witnesses against you today that I have placed before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life, so you and your descendants will live,

我今日呼天喚地向你作見證；我將生死禍福陳明在你面前，所以你要揀選生命，使你和你的後裔都得存活；

20 so you will love the Lord your God, obey him, and hold onto him. For he is your life, and he will give you long lives in the country that the Lord promised to give your forefathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

且愛耶和華－你的上帝，聽從他的話，專靠他；因為他是你的生命，你的日子長久也在乎他。這樣，你就可以在耶和華向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許所賜的地上居住。」