Deuteronomy 32

1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

1 諸天哪，側耳，我要說話； 願地也聽我口中的言語。

2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

2 我的教訓要淋漓如雨； 我的言語要滴落如露， 如細雨降在嫩草上， 如甘霖降在菜蔬中。

3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

3 我要宣告耶和華的名； 你們要將大德歸與我們的上帝。

4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

4 他是磐石，他的作為完全； 他所行的無不公平， 是誠實無偽的上帝， 又公義，又正直。

5 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

5 這乖僻彎曲的世代向他行事邪僻； 有這弊病就不是他的兒女。

6 Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

6 愚昧無知的民哪，你們這樣報答耶和華嗎？ 他豈不是你的父、將你買來的嗎？ 他是製造你、建立你的。

7 Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

7 你當追想上古之日， 思念歷代之年； 問你的父親，他必指示你； 問你的長者，他必告訴你。

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

8 至高者將地業賜給列邦，將世人分開， 就照以色列人的數目立定萬民的疆界。

9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

9 耶和華的分本是他的百姓； 他的產業本是雅各。

10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

10 耶和華遇見他在曠野－ 荒涼野獸吼叫之地， 就環繞他，看顧他， 保護他，如同保護眼中的瞳人。

11 As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

11 又如鷹攪動巢窩， 在雛鷹以上兩翅搧展， 接取雛鷹，背在兩翼之上。

12 The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

12 這樣，耶和華獨自引導他， 並無外邦神與他同在。

13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

13 耶和華使他乘駕地的高處， 得吃田間的土產； 又使他從磐石中咂蜜， 從堅石中吸油；

14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

14 也吃牛的奶油， 羊的奶，羊羔的脂油， 巴珊所出的公綿羊和山羊， 與上好的麥子， 也喝葡萄汁釀的酒。

15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

15 但耶書崙漸漸肥胖，粗壯， 光潤，踢跳，奔跑， 便離棄造他的上帝， 輕看救他的磐石；

16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

16 敬拜別神，觸動上帝的憤恨， 行可憎惡的事，惹了他的怒氣。

17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

17 所祭祀的鬼魔並非真神， 乃是素不認識的神， 是近來新興的， 是你列祖所不畏懼的。

18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

18 你輕忽生你的磐石， 忘記產你的上帝。

19 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

19 耶和華看見他的兒女惹動他， 就厭惡他們，說：

20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

20 我要向他們掩面， 看他們的結局如何。 他們本是極乖僻的族類， 心中無誠實的兒女。

21 They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

21 他們以那「不算為神」的觸動我的憤恨， 以虛無的神惹了我的怒氣。 我也要以那「不成子民」的觸動他們的憤恨， 以愚昧的國民惹了他們的怒氣。

22 For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

22 因為在我怒中有火燒起， 直燒到極深的陰間， 把地和地的出產盡都焚燒， 山的根基也燒着了。

23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

23 我要將禍患堆在他們身上， 把我的箭向他們射盡。

24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

24 他們必因飢餓消瘦， 被炎熱苦毒吞滅。 我要打發野獸用牙齒咬他們， 並土中腹行的，用毒氣害他們。

25 Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

25 外頭有刀劍，內室有驚恐， 使人喪亡，使少男、童女、 吃奶的、白髮的，盡都滅絕。

26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

26 我說，我必將他們分散遠方， 使他們的名號從人間除滅。

27 if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

27 惟恐仇敵惹動我， 只怕敵人錯看，說：是我們手的能力， 並非耶和華所行的。

28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

28 因為以色列民毫無計謀， 心中沒有聰明。

29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

29 惟願他們有智慧， 能明白這事，肯思念他們的結局。

30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

30 若不是他們的磐石賣了他們， 若不是耶和華交出他們， 一人焉能追趕他們千人？ 二人焉能使萬人逃跑呢？

31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

31 據我們的仇敵自己斷定， 他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。

32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

32 他們的葡萄樹是所多瑪的葡萄樹， 蛾摩拉田園所生的； 他們的葡萄是毒葡萄， 全掛都是苦的。

33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

33 他們的酒是大蛇的毒氣， 是虺蛇殘害的惡毒。

34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

34 這不都是積蓄在我這裏， 封鎖在我府庫中嗎？

35 Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

35 他們失腳的時候，伸冤報應在我； 因他們遭災的日子近了； 那要臨在他們身上的必速速來到。

36 For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

36 耶和華見他百姓毫無能力， 無論困住的、自由的都沒有剩下， 就必為他們伸冤， 為他的僕人後悔。

37 He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

37 他必說：他們的神， 他們所投靠的磐石，

38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

38 就是向來吃他們祭牲的脂油， 喝他們奠祭之酒的，在哪裏呢？ 他可以興起幫助你們， 護衛你們。

39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

39 你們如今要知道： 我，惟有我是上帝； 在我以外並無別神。 我使人死，我使人活； 我損傷，我也醫治， 並無人能從我手中救出來。

40 For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

40 我向天舉手說： 我憑我的永生起誓：

41 when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

41 我若磨我閃亮的刀， 手掌審判之權， 就必報復我的敵人， 報應恨我的人。

42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

42 我要使我的箭飲血飲醉， 就是被殺被擄之人的血。 我的刀要吃肉， 乃是仇敵中首領之頭的肉。

43 Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

43 你們外邦人當與主的百姓一同歡呼； 因他要伸他僕人流血的冤， 報應他的敵人， 潔淨他的地，救贖他的百姓。

44 Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

44 摩西和嫩的兒子約書亞去將這歌的一切話說給百姓聽。

45 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

45 摩西向以色列眾人說完了這一切的話，

46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

46 又說：「我今日所警教你們的，你們都要放在心上；要吩咐你們的子孫謹守遵行這律法上的話。

47 For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

47 因為這不是虛空、與你們無關的事，乃是你們的生命；在你們過約旦河要得為業的地上必因這事日子得以長久。」

48 On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

48 當日，耶和華吩咐摩西說：

49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

49 「你上這亞巴琳山中的尼波山去，在摩押地與耶利哥相對，觀看我所要賜給以色列人為業的迦南地。

50 And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

50 你必死在你所登的山上，歸你列祖 去，像你哥哥亞倫死在何珥山上，歸他的列祖一樣。

51 For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

51 因為你們在尋的曠野，加低斯的米利巴水，在以色列人中沒有尊我為聖，得罪了我。

52 Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”

52 我所賜給以色列人的地，你可以遠遠地觀看，卻不得進去。」