申8:1 “我今日吩咐你的一切诫命，你们要谨守遵行，使你们可以存活，人数增加，并且可以进去得着耶和华向你们的列祖起誓应许的那地。
申8:1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
申8:2 你也要记念耶和华你的 神这四十年在旷野引导你的一切路程，为要使你受苦，要试炼你，要知道你心里怎样，看看你肯守他的诫命不肯。
申8:2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
申8:3 他使你受苦，任你饥饿，把你和你的列祖不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，使你知道人活着，不是单靠食物，更要靠耶和华口里所出的一切话。
申8:3 And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
申8:4 这四十年来，你身上的衣服没有穿破，你的脚也没有肿起来。
申8:4 Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
申8:5 因此你心里要明白，耶和华你的 神管教你，好像人管教他的儿子一样。
申8:5 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.
申8:6 所以你要谨守耶和华你的 神的诫命，遵行他的道路，敬畏他。
申8:6 Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.
申8:7 因为耶和华你的 神快要领你进入那美地；那地有河流，有泉，有源，水从谷中和山上流出来；
申8:7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
申8:8 那地有小麦、大麦、葡萄树、无花果树、石榴树；那地有橄榄树、油和蜜；
申8:8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
申8:9 你在那地必不缺乏食物，在那里你必一无所缺；那地的石头就是铁；从那里的山上，你可以挖出铜来。
申8:9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
申8:10 你吃饱了，就要称颂耶和华你的 神，因为他把那美地赐了给你。
申8:10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
申8:11 “你要自己谨慎，免得忘记耶和华你的 神，不守他的诫命、典章、律例，就是我今日吩咐你的；
申8:11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:
申8:12 恐怕你吃饱了，建造美好的房屋居住，
申8:12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
申8:13 你的牛羊加多，你的金银增添，你所有的一切都增加了，
申8:13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
申8:14 那时，你就心高气傲，忘记了耶和华你的 神，就是把你从埃及地，从为奴之家领出来的那一位。
申8:14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
申8:15 他引导你走过那大而可畏的旷野，那里有火蛇，有蝎子，有干旱无水之地；他曾经为你使水从坚硬的盘石中流出来。
申8:15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
申8:16 他在旷野把你的列祖不认识的吗哪赐给你吃，是要使你受苦，要试炼你，使你终久得到福乐；
申8:16 Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
申8:17 恐怕你心里说：‘这财富是我的力量，是我手的能力使我得着的。’
申8:17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
申8:18 你要记念耶和华你的 神，因为得财富的能力是他赐给你的，为要坚定他向你的列祖起誓所立的约，像今天一样。
申8:18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
申8:19 如果将来你真的忘记了耶和华你的 神，去随从别的神，事奉和敬拜他们，你们必定灭亡，这是我今日警告你们的。
申8:19 And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.
申8:20 耶和华从你们面前怎样使万国的民灭亡，你们也必照样灭亡，因为你们没有听从耶和华你们 神的话。”
申8:20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.