| 德訓篇 |
Sirach |
| 1萬有的主宰天主！求你憐憫我們，轉面回顧，賜我們得見你仁慈的光輝。 |
1 Come to our aid, O God of the universe, and put all the nations in dread of you! |
| 2求你賜那不尋找你的萬民都敬畏你，讓他們知道，除你以外別無天主，為叫他們傳揚你偉大的作為。 |
2Raise your hand against the heathen, that they may realize your power. |
| 3求你舉起你的手來，攻擊外邦的人民，使他們見到你的威能。 |
3As you have used us to show them your holiness, so now use them to show us your glory. |
| 4你在他們面前，對我們怎樣顯示了你是聖者，願你在我們面前，也對他們怎樣顯示偉大， |
4Thus they will know, as we know, that there is no God but you. |
| 5好叫他們認識你，如同我們認識了你一樣；除你以外，沒有天主，上主啊！ |
5Give new signs and work new wonders; show forth the splendor of your right hand and arm; |
| 6求你重顯神蹟，重行奇事， |
6Rouse your anger, pour out wrath, humble the enemy, scatter the foe. |
| 7顯耀你的力量和你的大能。 |
7Hasten the day, bring on the time; |
| 8求你大發雷霆，發洩義怒， |
8crush the heads of the hostile rulers. |
| 9剷除敵對，消滅仇人。 |
9Let raging fire consume the fugitive, and your people's oppressors meet destruction. |
| 10求你使拯救的時日急速來臨，記念你的誓約，好叫萬邦稱揚你的偉業。 |
10Gather all the tribes of Jacob, that they may inherit the land as of old, |
| 11願那生還的人，也被怒火燒盡；願那欺壓你民族的人，都遭毀滅。 |
11Show mercy to the people called by your name; Israel, whom you named your first-born. |
| 12求你打碎仇人首領的頭顱，因為他們說：我們以外，沒有別人。 |
12Take pity on your holy city, Jerusalem, your dwelling place. |
| 13求你聚集雅各伯的眾支派，使他們明白，除你以外，沒有天主；使他們傳揚你偉大的作為；以他們作產業，如同起初一樣。 |
13Fill Zion with your majesty, your temple with your glory. |
| 14上主啊！求你憐憫那因你得名的民族，就是你視為長子的以色列民族。 |
14Give evidence of your deeds of old; fulfill the prophecies spoken in your name, |
| 15求你憐憫你的聖城耶路撒冷，你安居的住所。 |
15Reward those who have hoped in you, and let your prophets be proved true. |
| 16求你使熙雍布滿你的威嚴，使聖殿彌漫你的光榮。 |
16Hear the prayer of your servants, for you are ever gracious to your people; |
| 17求你為你首要的功業作證，履行古先知們因你的名所說的預言。 |
17Thus it will be known to the very ends of the earth that you are the eternal God. |
| 18求你賞報期待你的人民，好使你的先知們被人認為忠實。上主啊！求你俯聽你僕人們的祈禱， |
18 The throat can swallow any food, yet some foods are more agreeable than others; |
| 19依照亞郎給與你百姓的祝福，指導我們走上正義的道路，使世上所有的人，都知道你是天主，萬世萬代的天主。 |
19As the palate tests meat by its savor, so does a keen mind insincere words. |
| 20胃能容納任何食物，但有的食物卻比其他食物更好。 |
20A deceitful character causes grief, but an experienced man can turn the tables on him. |
| 21味覺能分辨野味；同樣，明達人的心能辨別虛詐的言語。 |
21Though any man may be accepted as a husband, yet one girl will be more suitable than another: |
| 22歪曲的心使人悲傷，但有經驗的人，卻能防備他。 |
22A woman's beauty makes her husband's face light up, for it surpasses all else that charms the eye; |
| 23一個女子可嫁給任何男子，但有的女子卻比其他女子更好。 |
23And if, besides, her speech is kindly, his lot is beyond that of mortal men. |
| 24婦女的美麗，能使她的丈夫容貌煥發，這也是男人的最大願望。 |
24A wife is her husband's richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying column. |
| 25若婦女善於措辭規勸，說話仁慈溫柔，她的丈夫就決不尋常。 |
25A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no wife becomes a homeless wanderer. |
| 26獲得賢能妻子的，就是獲得了最好的產業；即一個與自己相稱的助手，和扶持自己的柱石。 |
26Who will trust an armed band that shifts from city to city? |
| 27那裏沒有垣墻，財產必被搶掠；那裏沒有妻子，人就要漂泊嗟嘆。 |
27Or a man who has no nest, but lodges where night overtakes him? |
| 28誰能相信一個武裝起來，從一城竄入另一城的強盜呢？同樣，誰也不相信一個沒有家室，一到晚上便到處尋找居所的人。 |
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