< Obadiah 1 >

1 Visioun of Abdias. The Lord God seith these thingis to Edom. We herden an heryng of the Lord, and he sente a messanger to hethene men. Rise ye, and togidere rise we ayens hym in to batel.
亞北底亞神視]吾主上主關於厄東這樣說:我從上主聽到了一個消息,有一位傳令員已被派往萬民那裏說:「起來! 我們起來向她進攻! 」
2 Lo! Y yaf thee litil in hethene men, thou art ful myche `worthi to be dispisid.
看,我必使你在萬民中成為弱小的,極受人輕視。
3 The pride of thin herte enhaunside thee, dwellynge in crasyngis of stoonys, areisynge thi seete. Whiche seist in thin herte, Who schal drawe me doun in to erthe?
你心中的驕傲欺騙了你:你住在磐石裂縫中,安居高處,心中說:「誰能我跌在地上﹖」
4 Thouy thou schalt be reisid as an egle, and thouy thou schalt putte thi nest among sterris, fro thennus Y schal drawe thee doun, seith the Lord.
既使你高棲如鷹,既便你將巢穴安置星辰上,我也要從那裏把你推下──上主的斷語──
5 If niyt theuys hadden entrid to thee, if outlawis bi niyt, hou schuldist thou haue be stille? whether thei schulden not haue stole thingis ynow to hem? If gadereris of grapis hadden entrid to thee, whether thei schulden haue left nameli clustris to thee?
如果盜賊,或夜間的強盜來到你那裏,他們豈不要偷個夠嗎﹖如果收葡萄的來到你那裏,豈不只給氮留下些殘粒嗎﹖你將來也是如此荒涼!
6 Hou souyten thei Esau, serchiden the hid thingis of him?
厄撒烏怎樣被人搜過了,她的寶藏怎樣被人探索了!
7 Til to the termes thei senten out thee; and alle men of thi couenaunt of pees scorneden thee, men of thi pees wexiden stronge ayens thee; thei that schulen ete with thee, schulen put aspies, ether tresouns, vndur thee; ther is no prudence in hym.
與你聯盟的人,愚弄了你,將你驅至邊境;與你友好的人,克服了你;與你共食人,給你暗設了陷阱,而你竟一點也沒有理會。
8 Whether not in that dai, seith the Lord, Y schal lese the wise men of Idumee, and prudence of the mount of Esau?
在那一天──上主的斷語──我豈能不撲滅厄東的智者,掃除厄撒烏山上的明哲﹖
9 And thi stronge men schulen drede of myddai, that a man of the hil of Esau perische.
特曼,你的勇士必驚惶失措,至使厄撒烏山上的人盡遭滅亡。你既然好殺,
10 For sleyng and for wickidnesse ayens thi brother Jacob, confusioun schal hile thee, and thou schalt perische with outen ende.
傷害了你的兄弟雅各伯,你必蒙受羞辱,永遭滅亡:
11 In the dai whanne thou stodist ayens hym, whanne aliens token the oost of hym, and straungeris entriden the yatis of hym, and senten lot on Jerusalem, thou were also as oon of hem.
因為當外邦人擄掠他財寶的那一天,蠻族來到了他的城門下,對耶路撒冷拈鬮時,你也置身其間,好像他們中的一個。
12 And thou schalt not dispise in the dai of thi brother, in the dai of his pilgrimage, and thou schalt not be glad on the sones of Juda, in the dai of perdicioun of hem; and thou schalt not magnefie thi mouth in the dai of angwisch,
你兄弟遭難的日子,你不應旁觀;猶大子民滅亡的那天,你也不應引以為樂;在患難的日子上,你也不應大言不慚。
13 nether schalt entre in to the yate of my puple, in the dai of fallyng of hem; and thou schalt not dispise in the yuels of hym, in the dai of his distriyng; and thou schalt not be sent out ayens his oost, in the day of his distriyng;
在我的的百姓遭的時日,你不應闖進他們的門;在他遭難的時日,你更不應伸手劫掠他的財物。
14 nether thou schalt stonde in the goynges out, that thou sle hem that fledden; and thou schalt not close togidere the residues, ether left men, of hym, in the day of tribulacioun,
你不應站在交叉路口,截殺他的難民;在患難之日,你不應交出他的劫後餘生。
15 for the dai of the Lord is niy on alle `hethene men. As thou hast doon, it schal be doon to thee; he schal conuerte thi yeldyng in to thin heed.
因為上主的日子已臨近萬民,人必按你所作的,照樣對待你;你的行為必歸於你的頭上。
16 For as ye drunken on myn hooli hil, alle hethene men schulen drynke bisili, and thei schulen drynke, and schulen soupe vp; and thei schulen be as if thei ben not.
正如你們曾在我的聖山上痛飲過,萬民也要不斷痛飲:他們要痛飲,要飲醉,而終歸消滅。
17 And saluacioun schal be in the hil of Sion, and it schal be hooli; and the hous of Jacob schal welde hem whiche weldiden hem.
在熙雍山上必有救援,熙雍將是神聖的;並且雅各伯家要侵佔那侵佔過他們的人。
18 And the hous of Jacob schal be fier, and the hous of Joseph schal be flawme, and the hous of Esau schal be stobil; and `thei schulen be kyndlid in hem, and thei schulen deuoure hem; and relifs schulen not be of the hous of Esau, for the Lord spak.
雅各伯家將成為火,若瑟家將成為火焰,厄撒烏家卻要成為草楷;雅各伯家和若瑟家要焚燒吞滅他們;厄撒烏家必沒有一個餘生,因為上主說了。
19 And these that ben at the south, schulen enherite the hil of Esau; and thei that ben in the lowe feeldis, schulen enherite Filistiym; and thei schulen welde the cuntrei of Effraym, and cuntrei of Samarie; and Beniamyn schal welde Galaad.
他們要佔領南方,厄撒烏的山頂與培肋舍特的平原,要佔領厄弗辣因地和撒馬黎雅地以及阿孟子民的基肋阿得。
20 And ouerpassyng of this oost of sones of Israel schal welde alle places of Cananeis, til to Sarepta; and the transmygracioun of Jerusalem, that is in Bosphoro, schal welde citees of the south.
這支充軍在外的叵子民的軍旅,要佔領客納罕人的土地,直到匝爾法特;流亡在色法辣特的耶路撒冷人,要佔領南方的城邑。
21 And sauyours schulen stie in to the hil of Sion, for to deme the hil of Esau, and a rewme schal be to the Lord.
那時,獲救者必上熙雍山,統治厄撒烏王;王權必歸於上主。

< Obadiah 1 >