1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. 6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. 7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. 12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: 15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, 17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. 18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. 20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. 24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. 30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. 31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: 34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. 35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. 36 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. 38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
1 这月二十四日， 以色列人聚集， 一同禁食， 身穿麻衣， 头上蒙灰。
2 以色列的后裔跟所有外族人分离， 然后站立， 承认自己的罪过和他们列祖的罪孽。
3 那天四分之一的时间， 他们站在自己的地方， 宣读耶和华他们的 神的律法书； 另外四分之一的时间， 他们认罪和敬拜耶和华他们的 神。
4 耶书亚、巴尼、甲篾、示巴尼、布尼、示利比、巴尼和基拿尼， 站立在利未人的台阶上， 向耶和华他们的 神大声哀求。
5 利未人耶书亚、甲篾、巴尼、哈沙尼、示利比、荷第雅、示巴尼和毗他希雅说： "你们要起立， 称颂耶和华你们的 神， 直到永永远远。""耶和华啊， 你荣耀的名是应当称颂的； 愿你的名被尊崇， 超过一切称颂和赞美。
6 你， 唯独你是耶和华， 你造了天， 天上的天和天军， 地和地上的万物， 海和海中的万物， 你使这一切生存， 天军也都敬拜你。
7 你是耶和华 神， 你拣选亚伯兰， 带领他出了迦勒底的吾珥， 改他的名字为亚伯拉罕。
8 你见他在你面前心里诚实可靠， 就与他立约， 要把迦南人、赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、耶布斯人和革迦撒人之地， 赐给他的后裔； 你履行了你的诺言， 因为你是公义的。
9 你看见我们的列祖在埃及所受的困苦， 垂听他们在红海的哀求，
10 因为你知道埃及人怎样狂妄自大地对待他们， 所以就对法老和他的一切臣仆， 以及他国中所有的人民， 施行神迹奇事， 为你自己建立了至今仍存的名声。
11 你又在我们的列祖面前把海分开， 使他们在海中的干地上走过去； 把追赶他们的人丢在深处， 好像石头拋进怒海之中。
12 日间你用云柱引导他们， 夜间用火柱光照他们要行的路。
13 你降临西奈山上， 从天上与他们说话， 赐给他们正直的典章、真实的律法、美好的条例与诫命。
14 你使他们认识你的圣安息， 借你仆人摩西向他们颁布诫命、条例和律法。
15 你从天上赐下粮食， 给他们充饥， 吩咐水从磐石流出来给他们解渴； 你又吩咐他们进去占领， 你举手起誓要赐给他们的那地。
16 但是我们的列祖狂妄自大， 硬着颈项， 不听从你的命令。
17 他们拒绝听从， 也不记念你在他们中间所行的奇事， 硬着颈项， 存心悖逆， 自立首领， 要回到他们为奴之地去。但你是乐意饶恕的 神， 你有恩典， 有怜悯， 不轻易发怒， 并有丰盛的慈爱， 所以你没有撇弃他们。
18 他们更为自己铸造了一头牛犊， 说： ‘这就是把你们从埃及领上来的神！ ’他们犯了亵渎大罪，
19 你还是因着你丰盛的怜悯， 没有把他们撇弃在旷野； 日间云柱没有离开他们， 仍然在路上引导他们； 夜间火柱也没有离开他们， 还是光照他们要行的路。
20 你赐下良善的灵教导他们； 你没有留住吗哪不给他们吃； 你给他们水解渴。
21 在旷野四十年， 你供养他们， 他们毫无缺乏， 衣服没有穿破， 他们的脚也没有肿痛。
22 你把列国和万民赐给他们， 你把列国分给他们作疆界， 他们就获得西宏之地， 希实本王之地和巴珊王噩之地。
23 你使他们的子孙众多， 像天上的星星那么多； 你把他们带进你应许他们的列祖要进去得为业的那地。
24 于是他们的子孙进去， 获得那地； 你使那地的迦南居民向他们屈服， 又把迦南众王和那地的各民族， 都交在以色列人手里， 以色列人可以随意对待他们。
25 他们夺取了坚固的城、肥沃的土地， 获得了满载各样财宝的房屋、挖好的水井、葡萄园、橄榄园和很多果树； 他们吃得饱足， 身体发胖， 因你的大恩生活安逸快乐。
26 "可是他们竟悖逆， 背叛你， 把你的律法丢在背后， 杀害那些控告他们， 要他们归向你的先知， 犯了亵渎的大罪。
27 所以你把他们交在敌人的手中， 好让他们受困苦； 他们受困苦的时候， 就向你呼求， 你就从天上垂听， 按着你丰盛的怜悯， 赐给他们拯救者， 拯救他们脱离敌人的手。
28 但他们得享安宁以后， 又在你面前行恶， 你就撇弃他们在仇敌的手中， 让仇敌管辖他们； 然而他们回转过来， 向你哀求， 你就从天上垂听， 按着丰盛的怜悯， 一次又一次拯救他们。
29 你警告他们， 要他们转向你的律法； 但他们狂妄自大， 不听从你的诫命， 犯罪干犯你的典章。人应遵行这些典章， 按照它们生活， 他们却固执地扭转肩头， 硬着颈项， 不肯听从。
30 你多年容忍他们， 你的灵借着你的众先知劝戒他们， 他们还是不侧耳而听， 所以你把他们交在各地的民族手中。
31 然而因你丰富的怜悯， 你不把他们灭尽， 也不撇弃他们， 因为你是有恩典有怜悯的 神。
32 "我们的 神啊， 你是至大、全能、至可畏、守约施慈爱的 神， 现在求你不要把我们、我们的君王和领袖、我们的祭司和先知、我们的列祖和你的众民， 从亚述列王的日子直到今日所遭遇的一切苦难， 看为小事。
33 在一切临到我们身上的事上， 你都是公义的； 因为你所行的是信实的， 我们所行的是邪恶的。
34 我们的君王和领袖， 我们的祭司和列祖， 都没有遵行你的律法， 也没有留心听从你的诫命和你向他们郑重的警告。
35 他们在本国中， 享受你赐给他们的大福， 在你摆在他们面前这广大肥沃的地上， 却不事奉你， 不转离他们的恶行。
36 我们今天竟成了奴仆！ 就是在你赐给我们列祖享用其上果实和美物之地， 我们竟在这地上作了奴仆！
37 这地丰富的出产都归给列王， 就是你因我们的罪派来管辖我们的； 他们也随意管辖我们的身体和我们的牲畜； 我们遭遇大患难。
38 现在由于这一切事， 我们立下确实的约， 写在文件上； 我们的领袖、利未人和祭司， 都在上面盖了印。"（本节在《马索拉抄本》为10:1）