¹ 這是耶和華─你們神所吩咐教訓你們的誡命、律例、典章，使你們在所要過去得為業的地上遵行，

² 好叫你和你子子孫孫一生敬畏耶和華─你的神，謹守他的一切律例誡命，就是我所吩咐你的，使你的日子得以長久。

³ 以色列阿，你要聽，要謹守遵行，使你可以在那流奶與蜜之地得以享福，人數極其增多，正如耶和華─你列祖的神所應許你的。

⁴ 以色列阿，你要聽！耶和華─我們神是獨一的主。

⁵ 你要盡心、盡性、盡力愛耶和華─你的神。

⁶ 我今日所吩咐你的話都要記在心上，

⁷ 也要殷勤教訓你的兒女。無論你坐在家裡，行在路上，躺下，起來，都要談論。

⁸ 也要繫在手上為記號，戴在額上為經文；

⁹ 又要寫在你房屋的門框上，並你的城門上。

¹⁰ 耶和華─你的神領你進他向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許給你的地。那裡有城邑，又大又美，非你所建造的；

¹¹ 有房屋，裝滿各樣美物，非你所裝滿的；有鑿成的水井，非你所鑿成的；還有葡萄園、橄欖園，非你所栽種的；你吃了而且飽足。

¹² 那時你要謹慎，免得你忘記將你從埃及地、為奴之家領出來的耶和華。

¹³ 你要敬畏耶和華─你的神，事奉他，指著他的名起誓。

¹⁴ 不可隨從別神，就是你們四圍國民的神；

¹⁵ 因為在你們中間的耶和華─你神是忌邪的神，惟恐耶和華─你神的怒氣向你發作，就把你從地上除滅。

¹⁶ 你們不可試探耶和華─你們的神，像你們在瑪撒那樣試探他。

¹⁷ 要留意遵守耶和華─你們神所吩咐的誡命、法度、律例。

¹⁸ 耶和華眼中看為正、看為善的，你都要遵行，使你可以享福，並可以進去得耶和華向你列祖起誓應許的那美地，

¹⁹ 照耶和華所說的，從你面前攆出你的一切仇敵。

²⁰ 日後，你的兒子問你說：耶和華─我們神吩咐你們的這些法度、律例、典章是甚麼意思呢？

²¹ 你就告訴你的兒子說：我們在埃及作過法老的奴僕；耶和華用大能的手將我們從埃及領出來，

²² 在我們眼前，將重大可怕的神蹟奇事施行在埃及地和法老並他全家的身上，

²³ 將我們從那裡領出來，要領我們進入他向我們列祖起誓應許之地，把這地賜給我們。

²⁴ 耶和華又吩咐我們遵行這一切律例，要敬畏耶和華─我們的神，使我們常得好處，蒙他保全我們的生命，像今日一樣。

²⁵ 我們若照耶和華─我們神所吩咐的一切誡命謹守遵行，這就是我們的義了。

¹ The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

² The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

³ The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

⁴ "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

⁵ It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶ Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁷ In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

⁸ They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

⁹ In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

¹⁰ For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

¹¹ In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹² Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹³ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

¹⁴ At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.