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

¹人民禁食認罪這月二十四日，以色列人聚集，一同禁食，身穿麻衣，頭上蒙灰。

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

²以色列的後裔跟所有外族人分離，然後站立，承認自己的罪過和他們列祖的罪孽。

³And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

³那天四分之一的時間，他們站在自己的地方，宣讀耶和華他們的　神的律法書；另外四分之一的時間，他們認罪和敬拜耶和華他們的　神。

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

⁴耶書亞、巴尼、甲篾、示巴尼、布尼、示利比、巴尼和基拿尼，站立在利未人的臺階上，向耶和華他們的　神大聲哀求。

⁵Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

⁵稱頌與禱告利未人耶書亞、甲篾、巴尼、哈沙尼、示利比、荷第雅、示巴尼和毗他希雅說：“你們要起立，稱頌耶和華你們的　神，直到永永遠遠。”“耶和華啊，你榮耀的名是應當稱頌的；願你的名被尊崇，超過一切稱頌和讚美。

⁶Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

⁶你，唯獨你是耶和華，你造了天，天上的天和天軍，地和地上的萬物，海和海中的萬物，你使這一切生存，天軍也都敬拜你。

⁷Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

⁷你是耶和華　神，你揀選亞伯蘭，帶領他出了迦勒底的吾珥，改他的名字為亞伯拉罕。

⁸And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

⁸你見他在你面前心裡誠實可靠，就與他立約，要把迦南人、赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、耶布斯人和革迦撒人之地，賜給他的後裔；你履行了你的諾言，因為你是公義的。

⁹And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

⁹你看見我們的列祖在埃及所受的困苦，垂聽他們在紅海的哀求，

¹⁰And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

¹⁰因為你知道埃及人怎樣狂妄自大地對待他們，所以就對法老和他的一切臣僕，以及他國中所有的人民，施行神蹟奇事，為你自己建立了至今仍存的名聲。

¹¹And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

¹¹你又在我們的列祖面前把海分開，使他們在海中的乾地上走過去；把追趕他們的人丟在深處，好像石頭拋進怒海之中。

¹²Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

¹²日間你用雲柱引導他們，夜間用火柱光照他們要行的路。

¹³Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

¹³你降臨西奈山上，從天上與他們說話，賜給他們正直的典章、真實的律法、美好的條例與誡命。

¹⁴And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

¹⁴你使他們認識你的聖安息，藉你僕人摩西向他們頒布誡命、條例和律法。

¹⁵And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

¹⁵你從天上賜下糧食，給他們充飢，吩咐水從磐石流出來給他們解渴；你又吩咐他們進去佔領，你舉手起誓要賜給他們的那地。

¹⁶But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

¹⁶但是我們的列祖狂妄自大，硬著頸項，不聽從你的命令。

¹⁷And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

¹⁷他們拒絕聽從，也不記念你在他們中間所行的奇事，硬著頸項，存心悖逆，自立首領，要回到他們為奴之地去。但你是樂意饒恕的　神，你有恩典，有憐憫，不輕易發怒，並有豐盛的慈愛，所以你沒有撇棄他們。

¹⁸Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

¹⁸他們更為自己鑄造了一頭牛犢，說：‘這就是把你們從埃及領上來的神！’他們犯了褻瀆大罪，

¹⁹Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

¹⁹你還是因著你豐盛的憐憫，沒有把他們撇棄在曠野；日間雲柱沒有離開他們，仍然在路上引導他們；夜間火柱也沒有離開他們，還是光照他們要行的路。

²⁰Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

²⁰你賜下良善的靈教導他們；你沒有留住嗎哪不給他們吃；你給他們水解渴。

²¹Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

²¹在曠野四十年，你供養他們，他們毫無缺乏，衣服沒有穿破，他們的腳也沒有腫痛。

²²Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

²²你把列國和萬民賜給他們，你把列國分給他們作疆界，他們就獲得西宏之地，希實本王之地和巴珊王噩之地。

²³Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

²³你使他們的子孫眾多，像天上的星星那麼多；你把他們帶進你應許他們的列祖要進去得為業的那地。

²⁴So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

²⁴於是他們的子孫進去，獲得那地；你使那地的迦南居民向他們屈服，又把迦南眾王和那地的各民族，都交在以色列人手裡，以色列人可以隨意對待他們。

²⁵And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

²⁵他們奪取了堅固的城、肥沃的土地，獲得了滿載各樣財寶的房屋、挖好的水井、葡萄園、橄欖園和很多果樹；他們吃得飽足，身體發胖，因你的大恩生活安逸快樂。

²⁶Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

²⁶承認悖逆的罪“可是他們竟悖逆，背叛你，把你的律法丟在背後，殺害那些控告他們，要他們歸向你的先知，犯了褻瀆的大罪。

²⁷Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

²⁷所以你把他們交在敵人的手中，好讓他們受困苦；他們受困苦的時候，就向你呼求，你就從天上垂聽，按著你豐盛的憐憫，賜給他們拯救者，拯救他們脫離敵人的手。

²⁸But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

²⁸但他們得享安寧以後，又在你面前行惡，你就撇棄他們在仇敵的手中，讓仇敵管轄他們；然而他們回轉過來，向你哀求，你就從天上垂聽，按著豐盛的憐憫，一次又一次拯救他們。

²⁹And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

²⁹你警告他們，要他們轉向你的律法；但他們狂妄自大，不聽從你的誡命，犯罪干犯你的典章。人應遵行這些典章，按照它們生活，他們卻固執地扭轉肩頭，硬著頸項，不肯聽從。

³⁰Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

³⁰你多年容忍他們，你的靈藉著你的眾先知勸戒他們，他們還是不側耳而聽，所以你把他們交在各地的民族手中。

³¹Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

³¹然而因你豐富的憐憫，你不把他們滅盡，也不撇棄他們，因為你是有恩典有憐憫的　神。

³²Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

³²立約蓋印“我們的　神啊，你是至大、全能、至可畏、守約施慈愛的　神，現在求你不要把我們、我們的君王和領袖、我們的祭司和先知、我們的列祖和你的眾民，從亞述列王的日子直到今日所遭遇的一切苦難，看為小事。

³³Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

³³在一切臨到我們身上的事上，你都是公義的；因為你所行的是信實的，我們所行的是邪惡的。

³⁴Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

³⁴我們的君王和領袖，我們的祭司和列祖，都沒有遵行你的律法，也沒有留心聽從你的誡命和你向他們鄭重的警告。

³⁵For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

³⁵他們在本國中，享受你賜給他們的大福，在你擺在他們面前這廣大肥沃的地上，卻不事奉你，不轉離他們的惡行。

³⁶Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

³⁶我們今天竟成了奴僕！就是在你賜給我們列祖享用其上果實和美物之地，我們竟在這地上作了奴僕！

³⁷And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

³⁷這地豐富的出產都歸給列王，就是你因我們的罪派來管轄我們的；他們也隨意管轄我們的身體和我們的牲畜；我們遭遇大患難。

³⁸And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

³⁸現在由於這一切事，我們立下確實的約，寫在文件上；我們的領袖、利未人和祭司，都在上面蓋了印。”（本節在《馬索拉抄本》為10:1）