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）

1 And in the twenty and fourth day of this month have the sons of Israel been gathered, with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them;2 and the seed of Israel are separated from all sons of a stranger, and stand and confess concerning their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers,3 and rise up on their station, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth of the day, and a fourth they are confessing and bowing themselves to Jehovah their God.4 And there stand up on the ascent, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and they cry with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.5 And the Levites say, [even] Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise, bless Jehovah your God, from the age unto the age, and they bless the name of Thine honour that [is] exalted above all blessing and praise.6 Thou [art] He, O Jehovah, Thyself -- Thou hast made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that [are] on it, the seas and all that [are] in them, and Thou art keeping all of them alive, and the host of the heavens to Thee are bowing themselves.7 `Thou [art] He, O Jehovah God, who didst fix on Abraham, and didst bring him out from Ur of the Chaldeans, and didst make his name Abraham,8 and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give [it] to his seed. `And Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou [art] righteous,9 and dost see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry hast heard by the sea of Suph,10 and dost give signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land, for Thou hast known that they have acted proudly against them, and Thou makest to Thee a name as [at] this day.11 And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.12 And by a pillar of cloud Thou hast led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night, to lighten to them the way in which they go.13 `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.14 And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;15 and bread from the heavens Thou hast given to them for their hunger, and water from a rock hast brought out to them for their thirst, and dost say to them to go in to possess the land that Thou hast lifted up Thy hand to give to them.16 `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,17 yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou [art] a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.18 `Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this [is] thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,19 and Thou, in Thine abundant mercies, hast not forsaken them in the wilderness -- the pillar of the cloud hath not turned aside from off them by day, to lead them in the way, and the pillar of the fire by night, to give light to them and the way in which they go.20 `And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,21 and forty years Thou hast nourished them in a wilderness; they have not lacked; their garments have not worn out, and their feet have not swelled.22 `And Thou givest to them kingdoms, and peoples, and dost apportion them to the corner, and they possess the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.23 And their sons Thou hast multiplied as the stars of the heavens, and bringest them in unto the land that Thou hast said to their fathers to go in to possess.24 `And the sons come in, and possess the land, and Thou humblest before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and givest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure.25 And they capture fenced cities, and fat ground, and possess houses full of all good, digged-wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit-trees in abundance, and they eat, and are satisfied, and become fat, and delight themselves in Thy great goodness.26 `And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,27 and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries.28 `And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times,29 and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they -- they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, -- which man doth and hath lived in them -- and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.30 `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,31 and in Thine abundant mercies Thou hast not made them a consumption, nor hast forsaken them; for a God, gracious and merciful, [art] Thou.32 `And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;33 and Thou [art] righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;34 and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;35 and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.36 `Lo, we -- to-day -- [are] servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we [are] servants on it,37 and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we [are] in great distress.38 And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed [are] our heads, our Levites, our priests.`