Deuteronomy 9

1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

1 “以色列人啊，你们要听！今天你们要过约旦河，去赶出那些比你们强大的民族。他们住在城墙高耸入云的大城里，

2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

2 是长得高大威猛的亚衲人。你们了解他们，也听人说过，‘谁能抵挡亚衲人呢？’

3 But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.

3 但今天你们要知道，你们的上帝耶和华要走在你们前面，像烈火一样吞噬他们。祂要制服他们，使你们迅速赶走他们，毁灭他们，正如祂对你们的应许。

4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

4 “你们的上帝耶和华从你们面前赶走他们以后，你们心里不要以为耶和华带领你们占领那片土地是因为你们公义，其实是因为那里的民族邪恶，耶和华才将他们从你们面前赶走。

5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

5 你们能占领他们的土地并非因为你们公义、行为正直。你们的上帝耶和华从你们面前赶走那些民族，是因为他们邪恶，也是为了实现祂给你们祖先亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的誓言。

6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

6 你们要知道，耶和华赐给你们那佳美之地不是因为你们公义。其实你们是顽固不化的人。

7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

7 “要牢记你们在旷野怎样触怒你们的上帝耶和华。从你们离开埃及那天来到这里，你们屡屡背叛耶和华。

8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

8 在何烈山，你们触怒了耶和华，以致祂要毁灭你们。

9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

9 那时，我上山去接受耶和华与你们立约的石版，在山上待了四十昼夜，没吃也没喝。

10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

10 耶和华把两块立约的石版交给我，上面刻着那天你们聚会时祂在山上的火焰中对你们说的话，是祂用手指刻上去的。

11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

11 四十昼夜后，耶和华把那两块刻着约的石版交给我，

12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

12 对我说，‘快下山吧，因为你从埃及领出来的百姓已经败坏了。他们这么快就偏离了我吩咐他们走的道，为自己铸造了神像。’

13 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

13 “耶和华又对我说，‘我已看出，这是顽固不化的百姓。

14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

14 不要拦我，我要毁灭他们，从世上抹去他们的名字。我要使你成为一个比他们更强大的民族。’

15 So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

15 我双手拿着那两块约版，转身从烈火熊熊的山上下来，

16 And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

16 看见你们为自己铸造了牛犊像，得罪了你们的上帝耶和华，这么快就偏离了耶和华吩咐你们走的道，

17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

17 就当着你们的面摔碎了那两块石版。

18 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

18 “我又俯伏在耶和华面前，四十昼夜不吃不喝，因为你们犯了大罪，做耶和华憎恶的事，惹祂发怒。

19 For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

19 耶和华向你们发烈怒，要毁灭你们，我非常惧怕。但耶和华再次垂听了我的祈求。

20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

20 耶和华对亚伦非常愤怒，以致要杀掉他，于是我也为他祈求。

21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

21 我焚烧了你们铸造的罪恶之物牛犊像，把它打碎、磨成粉末，撒在从山上流下来的溪水中。

22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

22 “你们在他备拉、玛撒和基博罗·哈他瓦三番四次地触怒耶和华。

23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

23 你们的上帝耶和华吩咐你们离开加低斯·巴尼亚，去占领祂赐给你们的土地，你们却违背祂的命令，不信靠祂，也不听从祂。

24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

24 自从我认识你们以来，你们就不断地背叛耶和华。

25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

25 “因为耶和华说要毁灭你们，我就俯伏在耶和华面前四十昼夜，

26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

26 向祂祈求说，‘主耶和华啊，求你不要毁灭你的子民！他们是你的产业，是你用大能的手从埃及救赎并带出来的。

27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

27 求你看在你仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的份上，不要计较这个民族的顽固、邪恶和罪过，

28 Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

28 免得你带领我们离开之地的人说，你不能把他们领到你应许给他们的地方，你憎恶他们，所以把他们带到旷野杀了。

29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

29 他们毕竟是你的子民，你的产业，是你伸出大能的臂膀从埃及带出来的。’