Deuteronomy 28

1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

1 “你们若全心顺服你们的上帝耶和华，谨遵祂今天借我吩咐你们的一切诫命，祂必使你们超越天下万国。

2 And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

2 你们若听从你们的上帝耶和华的话，以下这些福气必临到你们，追随你们。

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

3 “无论你们在城里还是乡间，都必蒙福。

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

4 “你们必子孙昌盛，五谷丰登，牛羊成群。

5 Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

5 “你们的篮子和揉面盆都必蒙福。

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

6 “你们出入都必蒙福。

7 The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

7 “耶和华必使来犯之敌败在你们面前、溃不成军、四散逃命。

8 The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

8 “耶和华必使你们凡事蒙福、五谷满仓。你们的上帝耶和华必在祂赐给你们的土地上赐福你们。

9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

9 “你们若遵守你们上帝耶和华的诫命，遵行祂的旨意，祂必按自己的誓言立你们作祂圣洁的子民。

10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

10 天下万民将看出你们是耶和华名下的子民，并惧怕你们。

11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

11 “在耶和华向你们祖先起誓要赐给你们的土地上，祂必使你们子孙昌盛、牛羊成群、五谷丰登。

12 The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

12 耶和华要为你们打开天上的宝库，使你们风调雨顺、凡事蒙福。你们必借贷给多国，却无需向别国借贷。

13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.

13–14 你们若听从你们的上帝耶和华借我今天吩咐你们的诫命，谨慎遵行，毫不偏离，也不随从、供奉其他神明，祂必使你们做首不做尾，居上不居下。

14 Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.

15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

15 “你们若不听从你们的上帝耶和华，不谨遵祂今天借我吩咐你们的一切诫命和律例，祂必使以下的咒诅临到你们，追随你们。

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

16 “无论你们在城里还是乡间，都必受咒诅。

17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

17 “你们的篮子和揉面盆都必受咒诅。

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

18 “妇女所生的，土地所产的，牛羊所生的都必受咒诅。

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

19 “你们出入都必受咒诅。

20 The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

20 “因为你们作恶、背弃耶和华，祂要使你们凡事受咒诅、混乱不堪、饱受责罚，直到你们被毁灭，迅速灭亡。

21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

21 “耶和华要使瘟疫紧紧跟随你们，直到你们在将要占领的土地上被灭绝。

22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

22 “耶和华要使你们遭受痨病、热症、炎症、炙热、刀剑、干旱和霉烂之灾。这些要危害你们，直到你们灭亡。

23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

23 “耶和华要使你们头顶的天如铜，脚下的地如铁。

24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

24 “耶和华要使雨水变为尘土，降在你们身上，直到你们灭亡。

25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

25 “耶和华要使你们被敌人击败、溃不成军、四散逃命，下场令天下万国惊惧。

26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

26 你们的尸体要成为飞禽走兽的食物，必无人赶走它们。

27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

27 “耶和华要使你们患埃及的脓疮、肿瘤和癣疥，无药可治。

28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

28 “耶和华要使你们发疯、瞎眼、心智错乱。

29 and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

29 “你们必在大白天摸索，就像盲人在黑暗中摸索一样，你们的道路必不得亨通，你们要终日受人欺压抢掠，无人搭救。

30 You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

30 “你们聘了妻子，别人必占有她们；你们盖了房屋，必不能住在里面；你们栽种葡萄园，必吃不到园中的出产。

31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

31 “你们必看着自己的牛被宰杀却吃不到肉，自己的驴被抢走后一去不还，自己的羊被敌人掳走却无人搭救，

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

32 自己的儿女被外族人掳走，你们终日望眼欲穿，却无能为力。

33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

33 “与你们素不相识的民族必吃光你们土地的出产和劳碌所得，你们必常受欺压，

34 You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

34 以致眼前的一切令你们发疯。

35 The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

35 “耶和华要使你们从头到脚长满毒疮，无药可治。

36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

36 “耶和华要带你们和你们立的王，到一个你们和你们祖先都不知道的国家，你们要在那里供奉木石神像。

37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

37 “在耶和华驱逐你们去的列国，你们的下场令人惊骇，被人嘲笑和讥讽。

38 You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

38 “你们种的多，却收的少，因为庄稼必被蝗虫吃掉。

39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

39 “你们栽种、修剪葡萄园，却吃不到葡萄，也喝不到葡萄酒，因为葡萄必被虫子吃掉。

40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

40 “你们境内长满橄榄树，却没有橄榄油抹身，因为橄榄必未熟先落。

41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

41 “你们生儿育女，却留不住一个，因为他们必被掳走。

42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

42 “蝗虫要吃光你们的树木和地上的出产。

43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

43 “你们中间的外族人要日益兴旺，你们却要日渐衰微。

44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

44 “他们要借贷给你们，你们却不能借贷给他们。他们要做首，你们要做尾。

45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

45 “因为你们不听从你们上帝耶和华的话，不遵守祂吩咐你们的诫命和律例，这些咒诅都必临到你们、追赶你们，直到毁灭你们。

46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.

46 这些咒诅要永远作为你们和你们子孙的神迹奇事。

47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

47 因为你们在富足时不心甘情愿地事奉你们的上帝耶和华，

48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

48 所以你们必饥饿干渴、赤身裸体、一无所有地侍奉耶和华派来攻击你们的敌人。祂要把铁轭加在你们的颈上，直到消灭你们。

49 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

49 “耶和华要使一国从遥远的地极兴起，他们要如鹰飞来袭击你们。你们不懂他们的语言。

50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

50 他们面目狰狞，不尊重年老的，也不怜悯年少的。

51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

51 他们要吃光你们的牛羊、五谷、新酒和油，直到消灭你们。

52 They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

52 在你们的上帝耶和华所赐给你们的整片土地上，他们要把你们围困在各个城邑中，直到你们所依赖的高大坚固的城墙都倒塌。

53 Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

53 “当你们被敌人围困、陷入绝境时，你们必吃自己的亲生骨肉，就是你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们的儿女。

54 The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

54–55 你们被敌人围困在各城中，陷入绝境时，连你们中间最温柔体贴的男人也要独自吞吃子女的肉，不肯分给自己的兄弟、爱妻和剩下的儿女，因为他别无所有。

55 refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

56–57 你们被敌人困在各城中，陷入绝境时，连你们中间最温柔、娇嫩得连脚也不肯踏在地上的妇女，都要偷偷吃掉自己生的婴儿和胎胞，不肯分给所爱的丈夫和子女。

57 the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

58 If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

58 “如果你们不谨遵这书上所写的一切律法，不敬畏你们的上帝耶和华那荣耀、可畏的名，

59 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

59 祂必使你们及子孙遭遇严重而长久的灾难和疾病，

60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.

60 使你们所惧怕的埃及人的一切疾病都降在你们身上，缠住你们，

61 The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

61 还使各种未记在这律法书上的疾病和灾难降在你们身上，直到消灭你们。

62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

62 因为你们不听从你们的上帝耶和华的话，即使你们的人数多如天上的星，也将所剩无几。

63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

63 正如耶和华喜欢赐福你们，使你们人丁兴旺，祂也同样会不惜消灭你们，使你们在将要占领的土地上被铲除。

64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

64 “耶和华要把你们分散到天下万邦，你们要在那里供奉祖祖辈辈素不认识的木石神像。

65 Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

65 你们在万邦中将不得安宁，没有落脚之地，耶和华必使你们胆战心惊、目光呆滞、精神颓废。

66 So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

66 你们必惴惴不安，昼夜恐惧，生死难料。

67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

67 你们必看见可怕之事，以致心中充满恐惧，早上盼望天黑，晚上盼望天亮。

68 The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

68 耶和华必沿着我曾说你们再不会走的路线，用船把你们送回埃及。你们将在那里卖身做敌人的仆婢，却无人买。”