| 多俾亞傳 |
Tobit |
| 1我心中悲傷至極，痛哭流淚，開始呻吟祈求道： |
1Grief-stricken in spirit, I groaned and wept aloud. Then with sobs I began to pray: |
| 2「上主！你是公義的，你的一切作為都公正，你的一切措施都慈愛忠誠，你審判萬世。 |
2"You are righteous, O Lord, and all your deeds are just; All your ways are mercy and truth; you are the judge of the world. |
| 3上主！現在求你顧念我，看護我，不要因我和我的祖先在你面前所犯的罪惡和愚昧而懲罰我。 |
3And now, O Lord, may you be mindful of me, and look with favor upon me. Punish me not for my sins, nor for my inadvertent offenses, nor for those of my fathers. "They sinned against you, |
| 4因為他們沒有遵守你的誡命，所以你使我們遭遇劫掠、俘擄、死亡，使我們流亡到一切外邦人中，受他們的諷刺、嘲笑、詛咒。 |
4and disobeyed your commandments. So you handed us over to plundering, exile, and death, till we were an object lesson, a byword, a reproach in all the nations among whom you scattered us. |
| 5如今，你因我和我祖先的罪行而加給我的種種刑罰，都是針對事實的，因為我們沒有遵守你的誡命，在你面前沒有忠誠行事。 |
5"Yes, your judgments are many and true in dealing with me as my sins and those of my fathers deserve. For we have not kept your commandments, nor have we trodden the paths of truth before you. |
| 6如今，請你按你的聖意對待我罷！請你收去我的靈魂，使我從地面上消逝，化為灰土，因為死比生為我更好！因為我聽見了虛偽的辱罵，我心中很是憂傷。上主！請你救我脫離這種苦難，領我進入永遠的安所罷！上主！求你不要轉面不顧我，因為死了比活着看見這許多苦難，為我更好。這樣，我再也聽不見辱罵之聲了！」 |
6 "So now, deal with me as you please, and command my life breath to be taken from me, that I may go from the face of the earth into dust. It is better for me to die than to live, because I have heard insulting calumnies, and I am overwhelmed with grief. "Lord, command me to be delivered from such anguish; let me go to the everlasting abode; Lord, refuse me not. For it is better for me to die than to endure so much misery in life, and to hear these insults!" |
| 7同日，在瑪待厄克巴塔納城裏，辣古耳的女兒撒辣聽到了她父親的一個使女的辱罵， |
7 On the same day, at Ecbatana in Media, it so happened that Raguel's daughter Sarah also had to listen to abuse, from one of her father's maids. |
| 8因為她已嫁過七個丈夫，而惡魔阿斯摩太在他們按禮俗與她合房以前，就一一殺死了。使女對她說：「是你殺了你的丈夫，你已嫁過七個丈夫，但是你連他們中的一個姓氏都沒有得到。 |
8 For she had been married to seven husbands, but the wicked demon Asmodeus killed them off before they could have intercourse with her, as it is prescribed for wives. So the maid said to her: "You are the one who strangles your husbands! Look at you! You have already been married seven times, but you have had no joy with any one of your husbands. |
| 9你為什麼因為你丈夫死了，就責打我們呢！你也跟他們去罷！巴不得我們永遠見不到你有子女！」 |
9Why do you beat us? Because your husbands are dead? Then why not join them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!" |
| 10當日她心中十分憂傷，流淚痛苦，便走上她父親的樓台，想要懸樑自盡。但她轉念一想，說道：「決不能讓人譏諷我的父親說：你只有一個愛女，但是她為了許多苦難而自縊了；這樣，我必使我老年的父親悲慘地進入陰間了！還是苦求上主使我死去，總比我自縊為我更好；這樣，我一生再也聽不到辱罵了。」 |
10That day she was deeply grieved in spirit. She went in tears to an upstairs room in her father's house with the intention of hanging herself. But she reconsidered, saying to herself: "No! People would level this insult against my father: 'You had only one beloved daughter, but she hanged herself because of ill fortune!' And thus would I cause my father in his old age to go down to the nether world laden with sorrow. It is far better for me not to hang myself, but to beg the Lord to have me die, so that I need no longer live to hear such insults." |
| 11那時，她便向窗戶伸手祈禱說：「慈悲的天主！你是可頌揚的，你的聖名是永可讚頌的，願你的一切造物永遠讚頌你！ |
11 At that time, then, she spread out her hands, and facing the window, poured out this prayer: "Blessed are you, O Lord, merciful God! Forever blessed and honored is your holy name; may all your works forever bless you. |
| 12現在，我向你仰面舉目， |
12And now, O Lord, to you I turn my face and raise my eyes. |
| 13請你發言，命我脫離現世，使我再聽不到辱罵之聲罷！ |
13Bid me to depart from the earth, never again to hear such insults. |
| 14主你知道，我是清白的，我從沒有受到男子的玷污。 |
14"You know, O Master, that I am innocent of any impure act with a man, |
| 15我在流徙之地，從沒有玷污過我的名和我父親的名。我是我父親的獨生女，他沒有別的兒子來繼承，他也沒有近支的兄弟或近親，可以讓我嫁給他為妻。我的七個丈夫業已死去，我為什麼還活着呢？假使你不願叫我死去，那麼，上主！請你垂顧可憐我，使我再不聽見辱罵罷！」 |
15And that I have never defiled my own name or my father's name in the land of my exile. "I am my father's only daughter, and he has no other child to make his heir, Nor does he have a close kinsman or other relative whom I might bide my time to marry. I have already lost seven husbands; why then should I live any longer? But if it please you, Lord, not to slay me, look favorably upon me and have pity on me; never again let me hear these insults!" |
| 16那時，二人的祈禱，在榮耀的天主前都獲得垂允。 |
16At that very time, the prayer of these two suppliants was heard in the glorious presence of Almighty God. |
| 17所以天主打發辣法耳來醫治他們二人：給托彼特除去了他眼中的白膜，使他再親眼見到天主的光芒；將辣古耳的女兒撒辣嫁給托彼特的兒子多俾亞為妻，把惡魔阿斯摩太從她身上趕出去，因為多俾亞比那一切願意娶她的人，更有權利佔有她。那時，托彼特正從庭院回到屋裏，而辣古耳的女兒撒辣也正從樓台上下來。 |
17 So Raphael was sent to heal them both: to remove the cataracts from Tobit's eyes, so that he might again see God's sunlight; and to marry Raguel's daughter Sarah to Tobit's son Tobiah, and then drive the wicked demon Asmodeus from her. For Tobiah had the right to claim her before any other who might wish to marry her.In the very moment that Tobit returned from the courtyard to his house, Raguel's daughter Sarah came downstairs from her room. |
