【德训篇】第三十六章 << 上一章下一章 >>

36:1 万有的主宰天主!求你怜悯我们，转面回顾，赐我们得见你仁慈的光辉。
Come to our aid, O God of the universe, and put all the nations in dread of you!

36:2 求你赐那不寻找你的万民都敬畏你，让他们知道，除你以外别无天主，为叫他们传扬你伟大的作为。
Raise your hand against the heathen, that they may realize your power.

36:3 求你举起你的手来，攻击外邦的人民，使他们见到你的威能。
As you have used us to show them your holiness, so now use them to show us your glory.

36:4 你在他们面前，对我们怎样显示了你是圣者，愿你在我们面前，也对他们怎样显示伟大，
Thus they will know, as we know, that there is no God but you.

36:5 好叫他们认识你，如同我们认识了你一样：除你以外，没有天主，上主啊!
Give new signs and work new wonders; show forth the splendor of your right hand and arm;

36:6 求你重显神迹，重行奇事，
Rouse your anger, pour out wrath, humble the enemy, scatter the foe.

36:7 显耀你的力量和你的大能。
Hasten the day, bring on the time;

36:8 求你大发雷霆，发泄义怒，
crush the heads of the hostile rulers.

36:9 铲除敌对，消灭仇人。
Let raging fire consume the fugitive, and your people’s oppressors meet destruction.

36:10 求你使拯救的时日急速来临，记念你的誓约，好叫万邦称扬你的伟业。
Gather all the tribes of Jacob, that they may inherit the land as of old,

36:11 愿那生还的人，也被怒火烧尽，愿那欺压你民族的人，都遭毁灭。
Show mercy to the people called by your name; Israel, whom you named your first-born.

36:12 求你打碎仇人首领的头颅，因为他们说：我们以外，没有别人。
Take pity on your holy city, Jerusalem, your dwelling place.

36:13 求你聚集雅各伯的众支派，使他们明白，除你以外，没有天主；使他们传扬你伟大的作为；以他们作产业，如同起初一样。
Fill Zion with your majesty, your temple with your glory.

36:14 上主啊!求你怜悯那因你得名的民族，就是你视为长子的以色列民族。
Give evidence of your deeds of old; fulfill the prophecies spoken in your name,

36:15 求你怜悯你的圣城耶路撒冷，你安居的住所。
Reward those who have hoped in you, and let your prophets be proved true.

36:16 求你使熙雍布满你的威严，使圣殿弥漫你的光荣。
Hear the prayer of your servants, for you are ever gracious to your people;

36:17 求你为你首要的功业作证，履行古先知们因你的名所说的预言。
Thus it will be known to the very ends of the earth that you are the eternal God.

36:18 求你赏报期待你的子民，好使你的先知们被人认为忠实。上主啊!求你俯听你仆人们的祈祷，
The throat can swallow any food, yet some foods are more agreeable than others;

36:19 依照亚郎给与你百姓的祝福。指导我们走上正义的道路，使世上所有的人，都知道你是天主，万世万代的天主。
As the palate tests meat by its savor, so does a keen mind insincere words.

36:20 胃能容纳任何食物，但有的食物却比其它食物更好。
A deceitful character causes grief, but an experienced man can turn the tables on him.

36:21 味觉能分辨野味；同样，明达人的心能辨别虚诈的言语。
Though any man may be accepted as a husband, yet one girl will be more suitable than another:

36:22 歪曲的心使人悲伤，但有经验的人，却能防备他。
A woman’s beauty makes her husband’s face light up, for it surpasses all else that charms the eye;

36:23 一个女子可嫁给任何男子，但有的女子却比其它女子更好。
And if, besides, her speech is kindly, his lot is beyond that of mortal men.

36:24 妇女的美丽，能使她的丈夫容貌焕发，这也是男人的最大愿望。
A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying column.

36:25 若妇女善于措辞规劝，说话仁慈温柔，她的丈夫就决不寻常。
A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no wife becomes a homeless wanderer.

36:26 获得贤能妻子的，就是获得了最好的产业：即一个与自己相称的助手，和扶持自己的柱石。
Who will trust an armed band that shifts from city to city?

36:27 那里没有垣墙，财产必被抢掠；那里没有妻子，人就要漂泊嗟叹。
Or a man who has no nest, but lodges where night overtakes him?

36:28 谁能相信一个武装起来，从一城窜入另一城的强盗呢﹖同样，谁也不相信一个没有家室，一到晚上便到处寻找居所的人。

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