Judith 3

Latin original · 10 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible, Apocrypha)

3:1

Tunc miserunt legatos suos universarum urbium ac provinciarum reges ac principes, Syriæ scilicet Mesopotamiæ, et Syriæ Sobal, et Libyæ, atque Ciliciæ : qui venientes ad Holofernem, dixerunt :

And they sent to him messengers with words of peace, saying,

他們就打發使者用和平的話去見他，說：

3:2

Desinat indignatio tua circa nos : melius est enim ut viventes serviamus Nabuchodonosor regi magno, et subditi simus tibi, quam morientes cum interitu nostro ipsi servitutis nostræ damna patiamur.

“Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before you. Use us as it is pleasing in your sight.

「看哪，我們這些大王尼布甲尼撒的僕人俯伏在你面前，求你照你眼中所看為好的待我們。

3:3

Omnis civitas nostra, omnisque possessio, omnes montes, et colles, et campi, et armenta boum, gregesque ovium, et caprarum, equorumque et camelorum, et universæ facultates nostræ atque familiæ, in conspectu tuo sunt :

Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepfolds of our tents, lie before your face. Use them as it may please you.

看哪，我們的村莊、我們一切的地方、一切麥田、羊羣牛羣，並我們帳棚的一切羊圈，都擺在你面前，求你照你所喜悅的使用。

3:4

sint omnia nostra sub lege tua.

Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”

看哪，連我們的城邑和住在其中的人都是你的僕人；求你來照你眼中所看為善的待他們。」

3:5

Nos, et filii nostri, servi tui sumus.

So the men came to Holofernes, and declared to him according to these words.

那些人就來見何樂弗尼，照這些話向他陳明。

3:6

Veni nobis pacificus dominus, et utere servitio nostro, sicut placuerit tibi.

He came down toward the sea coast, he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.

他和他的軍兵就下到沿海地帶，在那些高大的城邑設立守軍，又從其中選取精兵作援軍。

3:7

Tunc descendit de montibus cum equitibus in virtute magna, et obtinuit omnem civitatem, et omnem inhabitantem terram.

They received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.

他們和他們四圍的全境，都用花冠、舞蹈和鼓樂迎接他。

3:8

De universis autem urbibus assumpsit sibi auxiliarios viros fortes, et electos ad bellum.

He cast down all their borders, and cut down their sacred groves. It had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes would call upon him as god.

他卻拆毀他們一切的境界，砍倒他們的樹叢。原來他奉命除滅地上一切的神明，使萬民惟獨敬拜尼布甲尼撒，使各方各族都稱他為神。

3:9

Tantusque metus provinciis illis incubuit, ut universarum urbium habitatores principes et honorati simul cum populis exirent obviam venienti,

Then he came towards Esdraelon near to Dotaea, which is opposite the great ridge of Judea.

他來到以斯德倫對面，靠近多大亞，這地正在猶大大山脊的對面。

3:10

excipientes eum cum coronis et lampadibus, ducentes choros in tympanis et tibiis.

He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army.

他在基拜和西古提城之間安營，在那裡停留了整整一個月，要收集他全軍的輜重。

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