邑人絕糧易子而食
26.一日，以色列王在城上經過，有一個婦人向他呼叫說：「我主，我王啊！求你幫助。」
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, 「Help me, my lord the king!」
27.王說：「耶和華不幫助你，我從何處幫助你？是從禾場，是從酒醡呢？」
The king replied, 「If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?」
28.王問婦人說：「你有甚麼苦處？」她回答說：「這婦人對我說：『將你的兒子取來，我們今日可以吃，明日可以吃我的兒子。』
Then he asked her, 「What’s the matter?」 She answered, 「This woman said to me, 『Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.』
29.我們就煮了我的兒子吃了。次日我對她說：『要將你的兒子取來，我們可以吃。』她卻將她的兒子藏起來了。」
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 『Give up your son so we may eat him,』 but she had hidden him.」
30.王聽見婦人的話，就撕裂衣服；（王在城上經過）百姓看見王貼身穿著麻衣。
When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.
31.王說：「我今日若容沙法的兒子以利沙的頭仍在他項上，願 神重重地降罰與我！」
He said, 「May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!」
32.那時，以利沙正坐在家中，長老也與他同坐。王打發一個伺候他的人去；他還沒有到，以利沙對長老說：「你們看這凶手之子，打發人來斬我的頭；你們看著使者來到，就關上門，用門將他推出去。在他後頭不是有他主人腳步的響聲嗎？」
Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, 「Don’t you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?」
33.正說話的時候，使者來到，王也到了，說：「這災禍是從耶和華那裏來的，我何必再仰望耶和華呢？」
While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, 「This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?」 |
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