撒母耳記上 8
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1撒母耳 年紀老邁，就立他兒子作 以色列 的士師。
1And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.
2長子名叫 約珥 ，次子名叫 亞比亞 ；他們在 別是巴 作士師。
2Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.
3他兒子不行他的道，貪圖財利，收受賄賂，屈枉正直。
3And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
4以色列 的長老都聚集，來到 拉瑪 見 撒母耳 ，
4Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to Samuel to Ramatha.
5對他說：「你年紀老邁了，你兒子不行你的道。現在求你為我們立一個王治理我們，像列國一樣。」
5And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.
6撒母耳 不喜悅他們說「立一個王治理我們」，他就禱告耶和華。
6And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king, to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
7耶和華對 撒母耳 說：「百姓向你說的一切話，你只管依從；因為他們不是厭棄你，乃是厭棄我，不要我作他們的王。
7And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.
8自從我領他們出 埃及 到如今，他們常常離棄我，事奉別神。現在他們向你所行的，是照他們素來所行的。
8According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.
9故此你要依從他們的話，只是當警戒他們，告訴他們將來那王怎樣管轄他們。」
9Now therefore hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.
10撒母耳 將耶和華的話都傳給求他立王的百姓，說：
10Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had desired a king of him,
11「管轄你們的王必這樣行：他必派你們的兒子為他趕車、跟馬，奔走在車前；
11And said: This will be the right of the king, that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen to run before his chariots,
12又派他們作千夫長、五十夫長，為他耕種田地，收割莊稼，打造軍器和車上的器械；
12And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.
13必取你們的女兒為他製造香膏，做飯烤餅；
13Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.
14也必取你們最好的田地、葡萄園、橄欖園賜給他的臣僕。
14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
15你們的糧食和葡萄園所出的，他必取十分之一給他的太監和臣僕；
15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.
16又必取你們的僕人婢女，健壯的少年人和你們的驢，供他的差役。
16Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.
17你們的羊群他必取十分之一，你們也必作他的僕人。
17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.
18那時你們必因所選的王哀求耶和華，耶和華卻不應允你們。」
18And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.
19百姓竟不肯聽 撒母耳 的話，說：「不然！我們定要一個王治理我們，
19But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay: but there shall be a king over us.
20使我們像列國一樣，有王治理我們，統領我們，為我們爭戰。」
20And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and tight our battles for us.
21撒母耳 聽見百姓這一切話，就將這話陳明在耶和華面前。
21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.
22耶和華對 撒母耳 說：「你只管依從他們的話，為他們立王。」 撒母耳 對 以色列 人說：「你們各歸各城去吧！」
22And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.
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