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4 Esdras (2 Esdras) 2

Latin original · 48 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

2:1

Hæc dicit Dominus : Ego eduxi populum istum de servitute, quibus mandata dedi per pueros meos prophetas, quos audire noluerunt, sed irrita fecerunt mea consilia.

Thus says the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and gave them commandments through my servants the prophets, whom they would not hear, but made my counsels void.

主如此說：我領這子民出了為奴之家，藉著我的僕人眾先知賜給他們誡命，他們卻不肯聽從，反倒使我的籌算歸於無有。

2:2

Mater quæ eos generavit, dicit illis, Ite filii, quia ego vidua sum et derelicta.

The mother who bore them says to them: Go, my children, for I am a widow and forsaken.

生養他們的母親對他們說：兒女啊，你們去吧，因為我是寡婦，又被撇棄了。

2:3

Educavi vos cum lætitia, et amisi vos cum luctu et tristitia, quoniam peccastis coram Domino Deo vestro, et quod malum est coram eo, fecistis.

I brought you up with gladness, and have lost you with grief and sorrow, because you sinned before the Lord your God, and did what is evil in his sight.

我歡歡喜喜地養大你們，如今卻憂傷悲痛地失去你們，因為你們得罪了耶和華你們的神，行了他眼中看為惡的事。

2:4

Modo autem quid faciam vobis ? Ego vidua sum et derelicta : ite filii, et petite a Domino misericordiam.

But now, what shall I do for you? I am a widow and forsaken. Go, my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.

現在我要為你們作甚麼呢？我是寡婦，又被撇棄了。兒女啊，你們去向主求憐憫吧。

2:5

Ego autem te pater testem invoco super matrem filiorum, qui noluerunt testamentum meum servare,

And I call upon you, O Father, as a witness against the mother of these children, who would not keep my covenant,

父啊，我呼求你作見證，控告這些兒女的母親，因她不肯謹守我的約，

2:6

ut des eis confusionem, et matrem eorum in direptionem, ne generatio eorum fiat.

that you may bring confusion upon them, and their mother to plundering, that their offspring may not continue.

求你使他們蒙羞，使他們的母親遭受擄掠，叫他們的後裔不得繁衍。

2:7

Dispergantur in gentes nomina eorum, deleantur a terra : quoniam spreverunt sacramentum meum.

Let their names be scattered among the nations, let them be blotted out from the earth; for they have despised my covenant.

願他們的名分散在列國中，從地上塗抹；因為他們藐視了我的聖約。

2:8

Væ tibi Assur, qui abscondis iniquos penes te. Gens mala, memorare quid fecerim Sodomæ et Gomorrhæ,

Woe to you, Assur, who hide the wicked within you. O evil nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah,

亞述啊，你有禍了，你竟在你中間藏匿惡人。惡邦啊，當記念我向所多瑪和蛾摩拉所行的，

2:9

quorum terra jacet in piceis glebis et aggeribus cinerum : sic dabo eos, qui me non audierunt, dicit Dominus omnipotens.

whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. So will I deal with those who have not heard me, says the Lord Almighty.

那地如今滿是瀝青的土塊和成堆的灰燼。我也要這樣對待那些不聽從我的人，這是全能的主說的。