| 1 | 当士师秉政的时候,国中遭遇饥荒,在犹大伯利恒,有一个人带着妻子和两个儿子,往摩押地去寄居。
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
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| 2 | 这人名叫以利米勒,他的妻名叫拿俄米。他两个儿子,一个名叫玛伦,一个名叫基连,都是犹大伯利恒的以法他人。他们到了摩押地,就住在那里。
The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.
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| 3 | 后来拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了,剩下妇人和她两个儿子。
Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
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| 4 | 这两个儿子娶了摩押女子为妻,一个名叫俄珥巴,一个名叫路得,在那里住了约有十年。
They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
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| 5 | 玛伦和基连二人也死了,剩下拿俄米,没有丈夫,也没有儿子。
both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
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| 6 | 她就与两个儿妇起身,要从摩押地归回。因为她在摩押地,听见耶和华眷顾自己的百姓,赐粮食与他们。
When she heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.
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| 7 | 于是她和两个儿妇起行离开所住的地方,要回犹大地去。
With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
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| 8 | 拿俄米对两个儿妇说,你们各人回娘家去吧,愿耶和华恩待你们,象你们恩待已死的人与我一样。
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
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| 9 | 愿耶和华使你们各在新夫家中得平安。于是,拿俄米与她们亲嘴。她们就放声而哭,
May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them and they wept aloud
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| 10 | 说,不然,我们必与你一同回你本国去。
and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."
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| 11 | 拿俄米说,我女儿们哪,回去吧,为何要跟我去呢?我还能生子作你们的丈夫吗?
But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?
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| 12 | 我女儿们哪,回去吧,我年纪老迈,不能再有丈夫。即或说,我还有指望,今夜有丈夫可以生子。
Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me--even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons--
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| 13 | 你们岂能等着他们长大呢?你们岂能等着他们不嫁别人呢?我女儿们哪,不要这样,我为你们的缘故,甚是愁苦,因为耶和华伸手攻击我。
would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD'S hand has gone out against me!"
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| 14 | 两个儿妇又放声而哭,俄珥巴与婆婆亲嘴而别,只是路得舍不得拿俄米。
At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.
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| 15 | 拿俄米说,看哪,你嫂子已经回她本国,和她所拜的神那里去了,你也跟着你嫂子回去吧。
"Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her."
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| 16 | 路得说,不要催我回去不跟随你,你往哪里去,我也往哪里去。你在哪里住宿,我也在哪里住宿。你的国就是我的国,你的神就是我的神。
But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
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| 17 | 你在哪里死,我也在哪里死,也葬在那里。除非死能使你我相离,不然,愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。
Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
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| 18 | 拿俄米见路得定意要跟随自己去,就不再劝她了。
When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
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| 19 | 于是二人同行,来到伯利恒。她们到了伯利恒,合城的人就都惊讶。妇女们说,这是拿俄米吗?
So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"
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| 20 | 拿俄米对他们说,不要叫我拿俄米(拿俄米就是甜的意思),要叫我玛拉(玛拉就是苦的意思),因为全能者使我受了大苦。
"Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
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| 21 | 我满满的出去,耶和华使我空空的回来。耶和华降祸与我,全能者使我受苦,既是这样,你们为何还叫我拿俄米呢?
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."
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| 22 | 拿俄米和她儿妇摩押女子路得,从摩押地回来到伯利恒,正是动手割大麦的时候。
So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
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