¹哈拿之歌

¹And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

²没有人像耶和华那么圣洁，因为除你以外没有别的神，也没有磐石像我们的　神。

²There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

³你们不要多说骄傲的话，也不要口出狂妄之言，因为耶和华是全知的　神，人的一切行为他都鉴察。

³Ye multiply not — ye speak haughtily — The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

⁴勇士的弓都被折断，跌倒的人却以力量束腰。

⁴Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁵饱足的，要劳碌觅食，饥饿的，不再饥饿；不能生育的，生了七个儿女，有过许多儿女的，反倒衰微。

⁵The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

⁶耶和华使人死，也使人活；使人下阴间，也使人从阴间上来。

⁶Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

⁷耶和华使人贫穷，也使人富足；使人降卑，也使人升高。

⁷Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

⁸他从灰尘中抬举贫寒的人，从粪堆中提拔穷乏的人，使他们与显贵同坐，承受尊贵的座位。大地的柱子属于耶和华，他把全地安放在柱子上面。

⁸He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

⁹耶和华必保护虔诚人的脚步，却使恶人在黑暗中灭亡，因为人得胜不是靠着力量。

⁹The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁰至高者在天上打雷，耶和华必打碎与他作对的人。耶和华要审判地的四极，却要赐力量给他所立的王，高举他膏立之人的角。”

¹⁰Jehovah — broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.`

¹¹后来，以利加拿回拉玛自己的家去。那孩子却留在以利祭司面前事奉耶和华。

¹¹And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, [in] the presence of Eli the priest;

¹²以利儿子的罪行以利的两个儿子是无赖，不尊重耶和华，

¹²and the sons of Eli [are] sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

¹³也不理会当时祭司待人民的规矩。有人献祭，在煮肉的时候，祭司的仆人就来，手里拿着三齿的叉，

¹³And the custom of the priests with the people [is]: any man sacrificing a sacrifice — then hath the servant of the priest come in when the flesh is boiling, and the hook of three teeth in his hand,

¹⁴把叉子插入煎盘里，或鼎里，或釜里，或锅里，叉子插上来的，祭司都拿去。所有到示罗来的以色列人，祭司都是这样待他们。

¹⁴and hath struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the hook bringeth up doth the priest take for himself; thus they do to all Israel who are coming in, there, in Shiloh.

¹⁵还有，在焚烧脂油以前，祭司的仆人就来，对献祭的人说：“把祭肉交给祭司烧烤吧，因为他不会向你要煮过的肉，单要生的。”

¹⁵Also before they make perfume with the fat — then hath the priest`s servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, `Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;`

¹⁶如果那人对仆人说：“必须先把脂油焚烧了，然后你才可以随意去拿。”他就说：“不可以，你现在就要给我，否则我就抢去。”

¹⁶and the man saith unto him, `Let them surely make a perfume (as to-day) with the fat, then take to thee as thy soul desireth;` and he hath said to him, `Surely now thou dost give; and if not — I have taken by strength.`

¹⁷这样，那两个青年人在耶和华面前所犯的罪很大，因为他们藐视献给耶和华的祭物。

¹⁷And the sin of the young men is very great [in] the presence of Jehovah, for the men have despised the offering of Jehovah.

¹⁸撒母耳在示罗事奉那时，撒母耳还是个孩童，束着细麻布的以弗得，在耶和华面前事奉。

¹⁸And Samuel is ministering [in] the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt [with] an ephod of linen;

¹⁹撒母耳的母亲每年为他做一件小外袍，她和丈夫一同上来献年祭的时候，就带来给他。

¹⁹and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.

²⁰以利给以利加拿和他的妻子祝福，说：“愿耶和华从这妇人身上还给你后裔，代替你献给耶和华的孩子。”他们就回自己的地方去了。

²⁰And Eli blessed Elkanah, and his wife, and said, `Jehovah doth appoint for thee seed of this woman, for the petition which she asked for Jehovah;` and they have gone to their place.

²¹耶和华眷顾哈拿，她再怀孕，先后生了三个儿子和两个女儿。那孩子撒母耳在耶和华面前，渐渐长大。

²¹When Jehovah hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah.

²²以利教训儿子以利已经老了，听见自己的儿子对待以色列人的一切事，又听见他们与在会幕门口侍应的妇女同寝。

²²And Eli [is] very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling [at] the opening of the tent of meeting,

²³以利就对他们说：“你们为什么作这些事？我亲自从众民那里听见了你们的恶行。

²³and he saith to them, `Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people — these!

²⁴我儿啊，不要这样，因为我听见的消息很不好，你们使耶和华的子民违背律法。

²⁴Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. —

²⁵如果有人得罪人，有官长（“官长”原文作“　神”）惩罚他；如果有人得罪耶和华，有谁为他求情呢？”他们却不听父亲的话，因为耶和华有意要杀他们。

²⁵If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?` and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

²⁶那孩子撒母耳的身量，耶和华和众人对他的喜爱，都不断增长。

²⁶And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and [is] good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

²⁷预言以利家遭祸有一位神人来见以利，对他说：“耶和华这样说：‘你父家在埃及法老家为奴的时候，我不是向他们显现吗？

²⁷And there cometh a man of God unto Eli, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Was I really revealed unto the house of thy father in their being in Egypt, before Pharaoh`s house,

²⁸我不是从以色列众支派中，选出他们作我的祭司，上我的坛烧香，在我面前穿以弗得吗？我不是把以色列人所献的火祭，都赐给了你的父家吗？

²⁸even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

²⁹你们为什么还以妒羡的眼光，轻视我所吩咐要献上的祭牲和礼物呢？你为什么尊重你的儿子过于尊重我，用我子民以色列所献一切最好的礼物自肥呢？’

²⁹Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded [in] My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

³⁰因此，耶和华以色列的　神说：‘我曾说：你的家和你的父家，必永远行在我面前。’现在耶和华却说：‘我决不容你们这样行了，因为尊重我的，我必尊重他；藐视我的，必受到轻视。

³⁰`Therefore — the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel — I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now — the affirmation of Jehovah — Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

³¹日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父亲的膀臂，使你家中再没有有权势的长者。

³¹`Lo, days [are] coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;

³²我赐给以色列人的一切福分，你必像一个对头，以嫉妒的眼光来看；而在你的家中，必永远再没有有权势的长者。

³²and thou hast beheld an adversary [in My] habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.

³³我必不从我的祭坛那里灭绝你家的人，免得你的眼睛昏花，心灵忧伤，但所有你家中增添的人都必像世人一样死去。

³³`And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, [is] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men;

³⁴你的两个儿子何弗尼和非尼哈所要遭遇的事，是给你的一个证据：他们二人必同日而死。

³⁴and this [is] to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas — in one day they die both of them;

³⁵我要为自己兴起一位忠心的祭司，他必依照我的心意行事；我要为他建立一个稳固的家，他一生必行在我的受膏者面前。

³⁵and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

³⁶你家中剩下的人，都要来向他下拜；求一个银币，一块饼，也要说：求你容我参与祭司的职务，使我可以有点饼吃。’”

³⁶and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest`s offices, to eat a morsel of bread.`