百姓悖逆
“以色列啊，你要听！你今日要过约旦河，进去占领比你更强大的列国，那里的城镇又大，城墙又坚固，如天一样高。
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2那里的百姓是亚衲族人，又高又壮，是你所知道的；你也听说过：‘谁能在亚衲族人面前站立得住呢？’A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3你今日应当知道，耶和华─你的神在你前面渡过去，如同吞噬的火，要除灭他们，并要在你面前将他们制伏，使你可以赶出他们，速速消灭他们，正如耶和华向你所说的。Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
4“耶和华─你的神将他们从你面前赶出以后，你心里不可说：‘耶和华领我得这地是因我的义。’其实，耶和华将这些国家从你面前赶出去是因他们的恶。Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
5你能进去得他们的地，并不是因你的义，也不是因你心里正直，而是因这些国家的恶，耶和华─你的神才把他们从你面前赶出去，为了应验耶和华向你列祖亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓应许的话。”金牛犊
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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6“你当知道，耶和华─你的神将这美地赐你为业，并不是因你的义；你本是硬着颈项的百姓。Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7你要记得，不要忘记，你在旷野怎样惹耶和华－你的神发怒。自从你出了埃及地的那日，直到你们来到这地方，你们常常悖逆耶和华。Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
8你们在何烈山惹耶和华发怒，耶和华对你们动怒，甚至要除灭你们。Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9我上了山，要领受两块石版，就是耶和华与你们立约的版。那时我在山上住了四十昼夜，没有吃饭，也没有喝水。When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10耶和华把那两块石版交给我，是神用指头写成的；版上是耶和华在大会的那一天，在山上从火中对你们所说的一切话。And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11过了四十昼夜，耶和华把那两块石版，就是约版，交给我。And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12耶和华对我说：‘起来，赶快从这里下去！因为你从埃及领出来的百姓已经败坏了；他们这么快偏离了我所吩咐的道，为自己铸造偶像。’And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13“耶和华对我说：‘我看这百姓，看哪，他们是硬着颈项的百姓。Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
14你且由着我，我要除灭他们，从天下涂去他们的名，我要使你成为比他们更大更强的国。’Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15于是我转身下山，山上有火燃烧，两块约版在我双手中。So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16我观看，看哪，你们得罪了耶和华－你们的神，为自己铸成了一头牛犊，迅速偏离了耶和华所吩咐你们的道，And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17我拿着那两块石版，从我双手中扔出去，在你们眼前把它们摔碎了。And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18因为你们所犯的一切罪，做了耶和华眼中看为恶的事，惹他发怒，我就像从前一样俯伏在耶和华面前四十昼夜，没有吃饭，没有喝水。And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19我很害怕，因为耶和华向你们大发烈怒，要除灭你们。但那一次耶和华又应允了我。For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20耶和华也向亚伦非常生气，甚至要除灭他；那时我也为亚伦祈祷。And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21我把那使你们犯罪所铸的牛犊拿来，用火焚烧，捣碎后再磨成粉末，好像灰尘。我把这灰尘撒在从山上流下来的溪水中。And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22“你们在他备拉、玛撒、基博罗．哈他瓦又惹耶和华发怒。And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23耶和华叫你们离开加低斯．巴尼亚，说：‘你们上去得我所赐给你们的地。’那时，你们违背了耶和华－你们神的指示，不信服他，不听从他的话。Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24自从我认识你们的日子以来，你们常常悖逆耶和华。☛本节撒玛利亚五经和七十士译本是“自从主认识你们的日子以来，你们常常悖逆他。”Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25“我因耶和华说要除灭你们，就在耶和华面前俯伏四十昼夜，像我以前俯伏一样。Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26我向耶和华祈祷，说：‘主耶和华啊，求你不要灭绝你的百姓，你的产业。他们是你用大能救赎，用你强有力的手从埃及领出来的。I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各，不看这百姓的顽梗、邪恶、罪愆，Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28免得你领我们出来的那地之人说：耶和华因为不能将这百姓领进他所应许之地，又因恨他们，所以领他们出去，要在旷野杀他们。Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29其实他们是你的百姓，你的产业，是你用大能和伸出的膀臂领出来的。’”Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.