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Jonah
A reluctant prophet, a great fish, and the conversion of Nineveh
A short narrative about the prophet Jonah, sent to preach against the Assyrian capital Nineveh. He flees, is swallowed by a great fish, eventually preaches, and is then dismayed when the city repents and is spared.
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耶和华的话临到亚米太的儿子约拿、说、
Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
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你起来往尼尼微大城去、向其中的居民呼喊、因为他们的恶达到我面前。
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
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约拿却起来、逃往他施去躲避耶和华．下到约帕、遇见一只船、要往他施去。他就给了船价、上了船、要与船上的人同往他施去躲避耶和华。
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
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然而耶和华使海中起大风、海就狂风大作、甚至船几乎破坏。
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
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水手便惧怕、各人哀求自己的神．他们将船上的货物抛在海中、为要使船轻些。约拿已下到底舱、躺卧沉睡。
Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
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船主到他那里对他说、你这沉睡的人哪、为何这样呢。起来、求告你的神、或者神顾念我们、使我们不至灭亡。
So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
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船上的人彼此说、来罢、我们掣签、看看这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故．于是他们掣签、掣出约拿来。
They all said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
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众人对他说、请你告诉我们、这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故．你以何事为业．你从那里来．你是哪一国、属那一族的人。
Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”
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他说、我是希伯来人．我敬畏耶和华、那创造沧海旱地之天上的 神。
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
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他们就大大惧怕、对他说、你作的是甚么事呢．他们已经知道他躲避耶和华、因为他告诉了他们。
Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
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他们问他说、我们当向你怎样行、使海浪平静呢．这话是因海浪越发翻腾。
Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
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他对他们说、你们将我抬起来、抛在海中、海就平静了．我知道你们遭这大风、是因我的缘故。
He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
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然而那些人竭力荡桨、要把船拢岸、却是不能．因为海浪越发向他们翻腾。
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
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他们便求告耶和华说、耶和华阿、我们恳求你、不要因这人的性命使我们死亡．不要使流无辜血的罪归与我们．因为你耶和华是随自己的意旨行事。
Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
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他们遂将约拿抬起、抛在海中、海的狂浪就平息了。
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
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那些人便大大敬畏耶和华、向耶和华献祭、并且许愿。
Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
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耶和华安排一条大鱼吞了约拿、他在鱼腹中三日三夜。
Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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约拿在鱼腹中祷告耶和华他的 神、
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
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说、我遭遇患难求告耶和华、你就应允我．从阴间的深处呼求、你就俯听我的声音。
He said,
“I called because of my affliction to Yahweh.
He answered me.
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried.
You heard my voice.
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你将我投下深渊、就是海的深处．大水环绕我．你的波浪洪涛、都漫过我身。
For you threw me into the depths,
in the heart of the seas.
The flood was all around me.
All your waves and your billows passed over me.
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我说、我从你眼前虽被驱逐、我仍要仰望你的圣殿。
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
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诸水环绕我、几乎淹没我．深渊围住我、海草缠绕我的头．
The waters surrounded me,
even to the soul.
The deep was around me.
The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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我下到山根．地的门将我永远关住。耶和华我的 神阿、你却将我的性命从坑中救出来。
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains.
The earth barred me in forever:
yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
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我心在我里面发昏的时候、我就想念耶和华。我的祷告进入你的圣殿、达到你的面前。
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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那信奉虚无之神的人、离弃怜爱他们的主．
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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但我必用感谢的声音献祭与你．我所许的愿、我必偿还。救恩出于耶和华。
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
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耶和华吩咐鱼、鱼就把约拿吐在旱地上。
Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
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耶和华的话、二次临到约拿说、
Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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你起来、往尼尼微大城去、向其中的居民宣告我所吩咐你的话。
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
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约拿便照耶和华的话起来、往尼尼微去。这尼尼微是极大的城、有三日的路程。
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
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约拿进城走了一日、宣告说、再等四十日、尼尼微必倾覆了。
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
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尼尼微人信服 神、便宣告禁食、从最大的到至小的都穿麻衣。〈或作披上麻布〉
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
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这信息传到尼尼微王的耳中、他就下了宝座、脱下朝服、披上麻布、坐在灰中。
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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他又使人遍告尼尼微通城说、王和大臣有令、人不可尝甚么、牲畜、牛羊、不可吃草、也不可喝水。
He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
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人与牲畜都当披上麻布、人要切切求告 神．各人回头离开所行的恶道、丢弃手中的强暴。
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
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或者 神转意后悔、不发烈怒、使我们不至灭亡、也未可知。
Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
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于是 神察看他们的行为、见他们离开恶道、他就后悔、不把所说的灾祸降与他们了。
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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这事约拿大大不悦、且甚发怒。
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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就祷告耶和华说、耶和华阿、我在本国的时候、岂不是这样说么．我知道你是有恩典、有怜悯的 神、不轻易发怒、有丰盛的慈爱、并且后悔不降所说的灾．所以我急速逃往他施去。
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
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耶和华阿、现在求你取我的命罢．因为我死了比活着还好。
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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耶和华说、你这样发怒合乎理么。
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
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于是约拿出城、坐在城的东边、在那里为自己搭了一座棚、坐在棚的荫下、要看看那城究竟如何。
Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
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耶和华 神安排一棵蓖麻、使其发生高过约拿、影儿遮盖他的头、救他脱离苦楚．约拿因这棵蓖麻大大喜乐。
Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
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次日黎明、 神却安排一条虫子、咬这蓖麻、以致枯槁。
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
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日头出来的时候、 神安排炎热的东风．日头曝晒约拿的头、使他发昏、他就为自己求死、说、我死了比活着还好。
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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神对约拿说、你因这棵蓖麻发怒合乎理么．他说、我发怒以至于死、都合乎理。
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
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耶和华说、这蓖麻不是你栽种的、也不是你培养的．一夜发生、一夜干死你尚且爱惜．
Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
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何况这尼尼微大城、其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人、并有许多牲畜、我岂能不爱惜呢。
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”