尼9:1 这月二十四日，以色列人聚集，一同禁食，身穿麻衣，头上蒙灰。
尼9:1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
尼9:2 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。
尼9:2 And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.
尼9:3 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。
尼9:3 And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.
尼9:4 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。
尼9:4 Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.
尼9:5 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。
尼9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.
尼9:6 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。
尼9:6 You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.
尼9:7 你是耶和华 神，你拣选埃布尔兰，带领他出了迦勒底的吾珥，改他的名字为亚伯拉罕。
尼9:7 You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;
尼9:8 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。
尼9:8 You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:
尼9:9 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，
尼9:9 And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;
尼9:10 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。
尼9:10 And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.
尼9:11 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，好像石头抛进怒海之中。
尼9:11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.
尼9:12 日间你用云柱引导他们，夜间用火柱光照他们要行的路。
尼9:12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.
尼9:13 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。
尼9:13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
尼9:14 你使他们认识你的圣安息，藉你仆人摩西向他们颁布诫命、条例和律法。
尼9:14 And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
尼9:15 你从天上赐下粮食，给他们充饥，吩咐水从盘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。
尼9:15 And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.
尼9:16 但是我们的列祖狂妄自大，硬着颈项，不听从你的命令。
尼9:16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
尼9:17 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。
尼9:17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
尼9:18 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，
尼9:18 Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;
尼9:19 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。
尼9:19 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.
尼9:20 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。
尼9:20 And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.
尼9:21 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。
尼9:21 Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.
尼9:22 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。
尼9:22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
尼9:23 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。
尼9:23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
尼9:24 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。
尼9:24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.
尼9:25 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。
尼9:25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
尼9:26 “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。
尼9:26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
尼9:27 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。
尼9:27 And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.
尼9:28 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。
尼9:28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;
尼9:29 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。
尼9:29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.
尼9:30 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。
尼9:30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
尼9:31 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。
尼9:31 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.
尼9:32 “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。
尼9:32 And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
尼9:33 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。
尼9:33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
尼9:34 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。
尼9:34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
尼9:35 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。
尼9:35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.
尼9:36 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！
尼9:36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:
尼9:37 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。
尼9:37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.
尼9:38 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）
尼9:38 And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.