友弟德傳/Judith:Chapter 1
出自Chinese Catholic Bible
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| 1 | 拿步高在尼尼微大城為亞述王第十二年，那時阿法撒得也在厄克巴塔納為瑪待王。 | 1 | Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana, |
| 2 | 阿法撒得在厄克巴塔納周圍，用鑿成寬三肘，長六肘的石塊，修建了一座高七十肘，寬五十肘的城垣。 | 2 | Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet. |
| 3 | 在城門旁，還建築了一些碉樓，高一百肘，基廣六十肘； | 3 | And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers: |
| 4 | 又修了城門，高達七十肘，寬四十肘，以便他的大軍可以出發，步隊可以列隊而行。 | 4 | And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots. |
| 5 | 那時，拿步高王在辣高境內一個大平原上，與阿法撒得王作戰。 | 5 | Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him, |
| 6 | 凡居住在山地、幼發拉的、底格里斯、依達斯貝，以及屬厄藍王阿黎約客的平原上的人民，都支持阿法撒得；因此有許多民族前來參加赫婁得人的戰爭。 | 6 | In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians. |
| 7 | 亞述王拿步高遂向波斯所有居民，向西方所有居民：即住在基里基雅、大馬士革、黎巴嫩、安提黎巴嫩，以及所有沿海一帶的人， | 7 | Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus, |
| 8 | 向加爾默耳、基肋阿得、上加里肋亞、厄斯得隆大平原的民族， | 8 | And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon, |
| 9 | 向撒瑪黎雅及所屬城鎮，向約但河西岸直到耶路撒冷、巴塔乃、赫婁斯、卡德士的居民，向埃及河、塔弗乃、辣默色斯及哥笙全境， | 9 | And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of Ethiopia. |
| 10 | 直到塔尼斯上部與孟非斯的居民，向住在埃及至厄提約丕雅邊疆上的居民，派遣使節； | 10 | To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers: |
| 11 | 但上述各地的居民，都輕視亞述王拿步高的號召，不肯與他聯盟參戰，也不怕他，看他不過如一常人，叫他的使者空手蒙羞而回。 | 11 | But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour. |
| 12 | 拿步高對這些國家大怒，即指著自己的御座和帝國發誓，必雪此恨，要用刀兵消滅基里基雅、大馬士革和敘利亞全境，以及摩阿布境內一切居民，阿孟子民，猶太全國與埃及，直到兩海邊境間的一切居民。 | 12 | Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries. |
| 13 | 第十七年，他果然率領大軍，進攻阿法撒得王，一戰告捷，使阿法撒得的全軍，馬隊戰車，全部潰敗， | 13 | |
| 14 | 遂佔領他的城池，來到厄克巴塔納，奪取城樓，沿街掠奪，使京華變為恥辱。 | 14 | |
| 15 | 後又在辣高山上，擒獲了阿法撒得，命自己的槍手當天刺殺了他。 | 15 | |
| 16 | 然後率領大軍，並所有龐大的混合軍隊回了國。在國內與自己的軍隊，慶祝宴樂，凡一百二十日。 | 16 | |
