¹人民禁食认罪

¹Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

²以色列的后裔跟所有外族人分离，然后站立，承认自己的罪过和他们列祖的罪孽。

²The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

³那天四分之一的时间，他们站在自己的地方，宣读耶和华他们的　神的律法书；另外四分之一的时间，他们认罪和敬拜耶和华他们的　神。

³They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

⁴耶书亚、巴尼、甲篾、示巴尼、布尼、示利比、巴尼和基拿尼，站立在利未人的台阶上，向耶和华他们的　神大声哀求。

⁴Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.

⁵称颂与祷告利未人耶书亚、甲篾、巴尼、哈沙尼、示利比、荷第雅、示巴尼和毗他希雅说：“你们要起立，称颂耶和华你们的　神，直到永永远远。”“耶和华啊，你荣耀的名是应当称颂的；愿你的名被尊崇，超过一切称颂和赞美。

⁵Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Bessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

⁶你，唯独你是耶和华，你造了天，天上的天和天军，地和地上的万物，海和海中的万物，你使这一切生存，天军也都敬拜你。

⁶You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

⁷你是耶和华　神，你拣选亚伯兰，带领他出了迦勒底的吾珥，改他的名字为亚伯拉罕。

⁷You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

⁸你见他在你面前心里诚实可靠，就与他立约，要把迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、耶布斯人和革迦撒人之地，赐给他的后裔；你履行了你的诺言，因为你是公义的。

⁸and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

⁹你看见我们的列祖在埃及所受的困苦，垂听他们在红海的哀求，

⁹“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds ,

¹⁰因为你知道埃及人怎样狂妄自大地对待他们，所以就对法老和他的一切臣仆，以及他国中所有的人民，施行神迹奇事，为你自己建立了至今仍存的名声。

¹⁰and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.

¹¹你又在我们的列祖面前把海分开，使他们在海中的干地上走过去；把追赶他们的人丢在深处，好像石头拋进怒海之中。

¹¹You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

¹²日间你用云柱引导他们，夜间用火柱光照他们要行的路。

¹²Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

¹³你降临西奈山上，从天上与他们说话，赐给他们正直的典章、真实的律法、美好的条例与诫命。

¹³“You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

¹⁴你使他们认识你的圣安息，借你仆人摩西向他们颁布诫命、条例和律法。

¹⁴and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

¹⁵你从天上赐下粮食，给他们充饥，吩咐水从磐石流出来给他们解渴；你又吩咐他们进去占领，你举手起誓要赐给他们的那地。

¹⁵and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

¹⁶但是我们的列祖狂妄自大，硬着颈项，不听从你的命令。

¹⁶“But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

¹⁷他们拒绝听从，也不记念你在他们中间所行的奇事，硬着颈项，存心悖逆，自立首领，要回到他们为奴之地去。但你是乐意饶恕的　神，你有恩典，有怜悯，不轻易发怒，并有丰盛的慈爱，所以你没有撇弃他们。

¹⁷and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

¹⁸他们更为自己铸造了一头牛犊，说：‘这就是把你们从埃及领上来的神！’他们犯了亵渎大罪，

¹⁸Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;

¹⁹你还是因着你丰盛的怜悯，没有把他们撇弃在旷野；日间云柱没有离开他们，仍然在路上引导他们；夜间火柱也没有离开他们，还是光照他们要行的路。

¹⁹yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

²⁰你赐下良善的灵教导他们；你没有留住吗哪不给他们吃；你给他们水解渴。

²⁰You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

²¹在旷野四十年，你供养他们，他们毫无缺乏，衣服没有穿破，他们的脚也没有肿痛。

²¹“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.

²²你把列国和万民赐给他们，你把列国分给他们作疆界，他们就获得西宏之地，希实本王之地和巴珊王噩之地。

²²Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

²³你使他们的子孙众多，像天上的星星那么多；你把他们带进你应许他们的列祖要进去得为业的那地。

²³You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

²⁴于是他们的子孙进去，获得那地；你使那地的迦南居民向他们屈服，又把迦南众王和那地的各民族，都交在以色列人手里，以色列人可以随意对待他们。

²⁴“So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

²⁵他们夺取了坚固的城、肥沃的土地，获得了满载各样财宝的房屋、挖好的水井、葡萄园、橄榄园和很多果树；他们吃得饱足，身体发胖，因你的大恩生活安逸快乐。

²⁵They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

²⁶承认悖逆的罪“可是他们竟悖逆，背叛你，把你的律法丢在背后，杀害那些控告他们，要他们归向你的先知，犯了亵渎的大罪。

²⁶“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

²⁷所以你把他们交在敌人的手中，好让他们受困苦；他们受困苦的时候，就向你呼求，你就从天上垂听，按着你丰盛的怜悯，赐给他们拯救者，拯救他们脱离敌人的手。

²⁷Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

²⁸但他们得享安宁以后，又在你面前行恶，你就撇弃他们在仇敌的手中，让仇敌管辖他们；然而他们回转过来，向你哀求，你就从天上垂听，按着丰盛的怜悯，一次又一次拯救他们。

²⁸But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

²⁹你警告他们，要他们转向你的律法；但他们狂妄自大，不听从你的诫命，犯罪干犯你的典章。人应遵行这些典章，按照它们生活，他们却固执地扭转肩头，硬着颈项，不肯听从。

²⁹and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

³⁰你多年容忍他们，你的灵借着你的众先知劝戒他们，他们还是不侧耳而听，所以你把他们交在各地的民族手中。

³⁰Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

³¹然而因你丰富的怜悯，你不把他们灭尽，也不撇弃他们，因为你是有恩典有怜悯的　神。

³¹“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

³²立约盖印“我们的　神啊，你是至大、全能、至可畏、守约施慈爱的　神，现在求你不要把我们、我们的君王和领袖、我们的祭司和先知、我们的列祖和你的众民，从亚述列王的日子直到今日所遭遇的一切苦难，看为小事。

³²Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

³³在一切临到我们身上的事上，你都是公义的；因为你所行的是信实的，我们所行的是邪恶的。

³³However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

³⁴我们的君王和领袖，我们的祭司和列祖，都没有遵行你的律法，也没有留心听从你的诫命和你向他们郑重的警告。

³⁴neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

³⁵他们在本国中，享受你赐给他们的大福，在你摆在他们面前这广大肥沃的地上，却不事奉你，不转离他们的恶行。

³⁵For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

³⁶我们今天竟成了奴仆！就是在你赐给我们列祖享用其上果实和美物之地，我们竟在这地上作了奴仆！

³⁶“Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

³⁷这地丰富的出产都归给列王，就是你因我们的罪派来管辖我们的；他们也随意管辖我们的身体和我们的牲畜；我们遭遇大患难。

³⁷It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

³⁸现在由于这一切事，我们立下确实的约，写在文件上；我们的领袖、利未人和祭司，都在上面盖了印。”（本节在《马索拉抄本》为10:1）

³⁸Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”