¹大卫有意为耶和华建殿（撒下7:1-17）

¹And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house, that David saith unto Nathan the prophet, `Lo, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah [is] under curtains;`

²拿单对大卫说：“你可以照你的心意去作，因为　神与你同在。”

²and Nathan saith unto David, `All that [is] in thy heart do, for God [is] with thee.`

³当夜，　神的话临到拿单，说：

³And it cometh to pass on that night that a word of God is unto Nathan, saying,

⁴“你去对我的仆人大卫说：‘耶和华这样说：你不可建殿给我居住。

⁴`Go, and thou hast said unto David My servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou dost not build for Me the house to dwell in:

⁵因为自从我领以色列人上来那天起，直到今日，我都未曾住过殿宇，只是从这帐幕到那帐幕，从这帐棚到那帐棚。

⁵for I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel till this day, and I am from tent unto tent: and from the tabernacle,

⁶我和以色列众人，无论走到什么地方，从没有向以色列的一个士师，就是我所吩咐牧养我的子民的，说：你们为什么不给我建造香柏木的殿宇呢？’

⁶whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel, a word spake I, with one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars?

⁷现在你要对我的仆人大卫说：‘万军之耶和华这样说：我把你从羊圈中选召出来，使你不再跟随羊群，使你作领袖管治我的子民以色列。

⁷`And now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the habitation, from after the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel,

⁸无论你到哪里去，我总与你同在；在你面前消灭你所有的仇敌；我必使你获得名声，好像世上伟人的名声一样。

⁸and I am with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and I cut off all thine enemies from thy presence, and have made for thee a name like the name of the great ones who [are] in the earth.

⁹我要为我的子民以色列人选定一个地方，栽培他们，使他们住在自己的地方，不再受搅扰，也不再像从前被恶徒苦害他们，

⁹`And I have prepared a place for My people Israel, and planted it, and it hath dwelt in its place, and is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness add not to wear it out as at first,

¹⁰好像我吩咐士师统治我的子民以色列人的日子一样。我必制伏你所有的仇敌，并且我告诉你，耶和华必为你建立家室。

¹⁰yea, even from the days that I appointed judges over My people Israel. `And I have humbled all thine enemies, and I declare to thee that a house doth Jehovah build for thee,

¹¹你的寿数满足，归你列祖那里的时候，我必兴起你的后裔接替你，他是你的众子中的一位；我必坚立他的国。

¹¹and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom,

¹²他要为我建造殿宇，我必坚立他的王位，直到永远。

¹²he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age;

¹³我要作他的父亲，他要作我的儿子；我的慈爱必不离开他，像离开在你以前的那位一样；

¹³I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son, and My kindness I turn not aside from him as I turned it aside from him who was before thee,

¹⁴我却要把他坚立在我的家里和我的国里，直到永远；他的王位必永远坚立。’”

¹⁴and I have established him in My house, and in My kingdom unto the age, and his throne is established unto the age.`

¹⁵拿单就按着这一切话和他所见的一切，告诉了大卫。

¹⁵According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.

¹⁶大卫的祷告与称颂（撒下7:18-29）于是大卫王进去，坐在耶和华面前，说：“耶和华　神啊，我是什么人？我的家算什么，你竟带领我到这个地步？

¹⁶And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who [am] I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?

¹⁷　神啊，这在你眼中看为小事，你对你仆人的家的未来发出应许！耶和华　神啊，你看我好像一个高贵的人。

¹⁷And this is small in Thine eyes, O God, and Thou speakest concerning the house of thy servant afar off, and hast seen me as a type of the man who is on high, O Jehovah God!

¹⁸你把荣耀加在你仆人身上，我还有什么话可以对你说呢？你认识你的仆人。

¹⁸`What doth David add more unto Thee for the honour of Thy servant; and Thou Thy servant hast known.

¹⁹耶和华啊，为了你仆人的缘故，也是按着你的心意，你行了这一切大事，为要使人知道这一切大事。

¹⁹O Jehovah, for Thy servant`s sake, and according to Thine own heart Thou hast done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

²⁰耶和华啊，照着我们耳中所听见的，没有谁能与你相比；除你以外，再没有别的神。

²⁰O Jehovah, there is none like Thee, and there is no god save Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

²¹世上有哪一个国能比得上你的子民以色列呢？　神亲自把他们救赎出来，作自己的子民，又在你从埃及所救赎出来的子民面前驱逐列国，以大而可畏的事建立自己的名。

²¹`And who [is] as Thy people Israel, one nation in the earth whom God hath gone to ransom to Him for a people, to make for Thee a name great and fearful, to cast out from the presence of Thy people whom Thou hast ransomed out of Egypt — nations?

²²你使你的子民以色列永远作你的子民；耶和华啊，你也作了他们的　神。

²²Yea, Thou dost appoint Thy people Israel to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, O Jehovah, hast been to them for God.

²³耶和华啊，现在求你永远坚立你应许你仆人和他的家的话，照着你所说的实行吧。

²³`And now, O Jehovah, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, let be stedfast unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;

²⁴愿你的名永远坚立、尊大，以致人人都说：‘万军之耶和华以色列的　神，实在是以色列人的　神。’这样，你仆人大卫的家就在你面前得到坚立了。

²⁴and let it be stedfast, and Thy name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, is God to Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee;

²⁵我的　神啊，因为你启示了你的仆人，要你的仆人为你建造殿宇，所以你仆人才敢在你面前这样祷告。

²⁵for Thou, O my God, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant — to build to him a house, therefore hath Thy servant found to pray before Thee.

²⁶耶和华啊，唯有你是　神，你曾应许把这福气赐给你的仆人；

²⁶`And now, Jehovah, Thou [art] God Himself, and Thou speakest concerning Thy servant this goodness;

²⁷现在请你赐福你仆人的家，使它在你面前永远存留。耶和华啊，因为你已经赐福了你仆人的家，它必永远蒙福。”

²⁷and now, Thou hast been pleased to bless the house of Thy servant, to be to the age before Thee; for Thou, O Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is blessed to the age.`