Joshua 23

1 A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,

1 此后很长时间，耶和华使以色列人四境太平，没有战事。约书亚年事已高，

2 he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

2 他召来全体以色列人，包括长老、族长、审判官和官长，对他们说：“我已经老了，

3 “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.

3 你们都亲眼看见你们的上帝耶和华怎样为了你们而对付列邦，亲自为你们争战。

4 See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.

4 从约旦河到西边地中海的这片土地，无论是已征服的还是没有征服的，我已经用抽签的方式分给你们各支派作产业。

5 The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

5 你们的上帝耶和华必把列邦从你们面前驱离赶走，让你们占据他们的土地，正如你们的上帝耶和华的应许。

6 Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

6 所以，你们要刚强，谨遵摩西律法书上所记载的一切，不可有半点偏离。

7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.

7 不可与你们中间剩下的异族混杂，不可提他们的神明或凭它们起誓，不可供奉和祭拜他们的神明。

8 Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

8 你们要一如既往地倚靠你们的上帝耶和华，

9 The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

9 因为祂为你们赶走了强大的外族人，至今无人敌得过你们。

10 One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

10 你们一个人能打败他们一千人，因为你们的上帝耶和华照着祂的应许为你们争战。

11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

11 所以你们要特别谨慎，爱你们的上帝耶和华。

12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

12 如果你们悖逆，跟你们当中剩下的异族人联合，通婚往来，

13 know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

13 毫无疑问，你们的上帝耶和华必不再为你们赶走他们。相反，他们还要成为设在你们当中的圈套和陷阱，你们的肉中刺、眼中钉，直到你们在你们的上帝耶和华所赐给你们的这块美好的土地上灭亡。

14 Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

14 “我快要走完人世的路程了。你们深知你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们的一切美好应许没有一句落空，都已经应验了。

15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

15 正如你们的上帝耶和华已成就祂应许给你们的一切福气，祂也会照样降各样灾祸给你们，直到把你们从祂所赐的这美好土地上毁灭。

16 If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

16 你们如果违背你们的上帝耶和华吩咐你们遵守的约，去供奉、祭拜其他神明，祂必向你们发怒，使你们在祂所赐的这美好土地上迅速灭亡。”