Deuteronomy 8

1 You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

1 “你们要谨遵我今日吩咐你们的一切诫命，以便能够存活，人丁兴旺，进入并得到耶和华起誓要赐给你们祖先的土地。

2 Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

2 要记住这四十年来，你们的上帝耶和华怎样在旷野一路引领你们，祂磨炼你们、考验你们，好知道你们的心意如何、肯不肯遵守祂的诫命。

3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

3 祂让你们忍饥挨饿，然后赐给你们祖祖辈辈从未见过的吗哪吃，为了使你们明白人活着不是单靠食物，而是靠耶和华口中的每一句话。

4 Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

4 这四十年来，你们的衣服没有穿破，双脚也没有走肿。

5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

5 你们心里要明白，你们的上帝耶和华管教你们，如同父亲管教儿子。

6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

6 “所以，你们要遵守你们的上帝耶和华的诫命，行祂的道，敬畏祂，

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

7 因为祂要带你们到一个佳美之地。那里的谷中和山间流淌着条条溪流、股股清泉；

8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

8 那里盛产大麦、小麦、葡萄、无花果、石榴、橄榄油和蜂蜜；

9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

9 那里食物充足，一无所缺；那里矿产资源丰富，石头就是铁，山中可以采铜。

10 When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

10 你们吃饱喝足后，要赞美你们的上帝耶和华，因为祂赐给你们那佳美之地。

11 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

11 “你们要谨慎，免得忘记你们的上帝耶和华，不遵守我今天吩咐你们的诫命、典章和律例。

12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

12 否则，当你们丰衣足食、居室华美、

13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

13 牛羊成群、金银财物增多的时候，

14 then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

14 切勿心骄气傲，忘记你们的上帝耶和华。祂把你们从受奴役之地埃及救出来，

15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

15 带领你们走过干旱、可怕、毒蛇和蝎子出没的大旷野。祂使坚硬的磐石流出水来给你们喝，

16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

16 在旷野中把你们祖先从未见过的吗哪赐给你们吃，为要磨炼你们、考验你们，使你们最终得到益处。

17 You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

17 你们切勿以为是凭自己的双手和能力致富的。

18 But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

18 要记住，是你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们致富的能力，为要坚立祂给你们祖先的誓约，正如今日的情形。

19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

19 “我今天警告你们，如果你们忘记你们的上帝耶和华，去追随、供奉、祭拜其他神明，你们必灭亡。

20 Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

20 如果你们不听从你们的上帝耶和华，你们必灭亡，正如祂使列国在你们面前灭亡一样。