 納:1.(jon)  [約納]   [Jona]   [共 4 章]   [思高聖經]
  
 納:1.1      [約納違命遠逃]  那時，上主的話傳給阿米泰的兒子約納說：
 納:1.2     「你起身往尼尼微大城去，向他們宣佈：他們的邪惡已達到我前」。
 納:1.3      約納卻起身，想躲開上主的面，逃到塔爾史士去：遂下到約培，找到一隻要開往塔爾史士的船，繳了船費，上了船，同他們往塔爾史士去，好躲開上主的面。
 納:1.4      [海上忽起風暴]  但是上主卻使海上起了大風，海中風浪大作，那隻船眼看就要被擊破。
 納:1.5      水手們都驚慌起來，每人呼求自己的神，並將船上的貨物拋在海裏，為減輕載重。約納卻下到船艙，躺下沈睡了。
 納:1.6      船長走到他跟前，向他說：「怎麼，你還在睡覺﹖起來! 呼求你的神吧! 你的神也許會眷念我們，使我們不致喪亡」。
 納:1.7      [約納自認為禍因]  他們彼此說：「來，我們抽籤，以便知道，我們遇到這場災禍，是因誰的緣故」。他們便抽籤，約納竟抽中了。
 納:1.8      他們向他說：「請告訴我們：我們遇到這場災禍，是因什麼緣故﹖你是幹什麼的﹖從那裏來﹖你是什麼地方的人﹖屬於那一個民族﹖」
 納:1.9      他回答他們說：「我是個希伯來人，我敬畏的，是那創造海洋和陸地的上天的上主天主。」
 納:1.10     那些人都很害怕，就對他說：「怎麼你做了這事﹖」人們都知道，他是從天主面前逃跑的，因為他已告訴了他們。
 納:1.11     [約納被拋入海風暴平息]  他們又向他說：「我們該怎樣處置你，才能使海為我們而平靜﹖」因為海越來越洶湧了。
 納:1.12     他對他們說：「你們舉起我，將我拋在海裏，海就會為你們平靜下來，因為我知道，這場大風暴，臨到你們身上，只是因了我的緣故。」
 納:1.13     眾人雖然盡力搖櫓，想回到海岸，卻是不能，因為海上風暴，越來越洶湧。
 納:1.14     所以他們便呼求上主說：「上主! 求你不要因這一個人的性命，使我們全部喪亡；不要將無辜者的血，歸在我們身上，因為你是上主，就按你的意願作吧! 」
 納:1.15     他們於是舉起約納，將他拋在海裏，海遂平靜。
 納:1.16     眾人都極其敬畏上主，遂向上主祭獻，許下誓願。
  
 納:2.1      [大魚吞約納]  上主安排了一條大魚，吞了約納；約納在魚腹裏，三天三夜。
 納:2.2      約納從魚腹裏，祈求上主，他的天主。
 納:2.3      [約納的感恩詩]  他說：「我在患難中，呼求上主，祂便應允了我，我從陰府的深處呼求，你便俯聽了我的呼聲。
 納:2.4      你將我拋入海心深處，大水包圍了我；你的波濤和巨浪漫過了我。
 納:2.5      我曾說：我雖從你面前被拋棄，但我仍要瞻仰你的聖殿。
 納:2.6      大水圍困我，危及我的性命；深淵包圍我，海草纏住我的頭。
 納:2.7      我下深直到礁底，大地的門閂永為我關閉。上主，卜天主! 你卻從坑裏救出了我的性命。
 納:2.8      當我奄奄一息時，我記起了上主；我的祈禱達於你前，達於你的聖殿中。
 納:2.9      敬奉虛無偶像的人，實在是捨棄了慈愛的根源。
 納:2.10     至於我，我要在頌謝的歌聲中，向你獻祭，償還我許的誓願。救恩屬於上主! 」
 納:2.11     [約納獲救]  當時，上主命令那魚，那魚便將約納吐在陸地上。
  
 納:3.1      [約納從命前往尼尼微]  上主的話再次傳給約納說：
 納:3.2     「 你起身往尼尼微大城去，向他們宣告我曉諭你的事。」
 納:3.3      約納便依從上主的話，起身去了尼尼微。尼尼微在天主前是一座大城，須要三天的行程。
 納:3.4      約納開始進城，行了一天的路程，宣佈說：「還有四十天，尼尼微就要毀滅了。」
 納:3.5      [尼尼微的懺悔與獲救]  尼尼微人便信仰了天主，立刻宣佈禁食，從大到小，都身披苦衣。
 納:3.6      當這傳到尼尼微王那裏，他便起來，離開自己的寶座，脫去長服，披上苦衣，坐在灰土中；
 納:3.7      然後命令以君王的諭令和其大臣的名義，在尼尼微宣佈說：「人、牲畜、牛羊，都可不可吃什麼；不可牧放，也不可喝水。
 納:3.8      人和牲畜都應身披苦衣，人要懇切呼求天主，更要轉離自己的邪路，放棄手中的暴行。
 納:3.9      誰知道天主也許會轉意憐憫，收回自己的烈怒，使我們不致滅亡。」
 納:3.10     天主看到他們所行的事，看到他們離開自己的邪路，遂憐憫他們，不將已宣佈的災禍，降在他們身上。
  
 納:4.1      [約納對天主仁慈表示不滿]納因此很不高興，遂發起怒來。
 納:4.2      他懇求天主說：「上主，當在故鄉時，我豈不是已想到這事﹖所以我預先要逃往塔爾史士去，因為我知道你是慈悲的，寬仁的天主；是緩於發怒，富於慈愛，憐憫而不願降災禍的天主。
 納:4.3      上主，現在，求你從我身上我的性命，因為，我死了比活著還好! 」
 納:4.4      上主說：「你的憤怒合理嗎﹖」
 納:4.5      [約納憐惜篦麻]  約納出了坐在城東，在那裏為自己搭了一個棚坐在棚蔭下，要看看那城究竟要發生什麼事。
 納:4.6      上主天主安排了一株篦麻，得高過約納，為他的頭遮蔭，消除自己尸煩惱。約納很喜愛這株篦麻。
 納:4.7      但第二天曙升起時，天主安一個蟲咬死了篦麻，篦麻便枯萎了
 納:4.8      當太陽升起時，天主又安排熱的東風，太陽射在約納頭上，使他無法忍受，遂要求死去，說：「我死了比活著還好! 」
 納:4.9      天主血約納說：「你為這株發怒合理嗎﹖」他回答說：「我發怒以致於死，是合理的! 」
 納:4.10     [上主訓戒約納]  上主說：為這株篦麻，並沒有勞過力，也沒有使它生長，還憐惜它：它不過是一夜生，出一夜死去的植物；
 納:4.11     對尼尼微這座大城，其中有萬不能分辨自己左右手的人，且有許多牲畜，我就不該憐他們麼﹖」　 [約納完篇]

 jon        [Jonah]    4 chapters    [約納]  [英文版]

 jon:1.1.    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai:
 jon:1.2.    "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; their wickedness has come up before me."
 jon:1.3.    But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD. He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went aboard to journey with them to Tarshish, away from the LORD.
 jon:1.4.    The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea, and in the furious tempest that arose the ship was on the point of breaking up.
 jon:1.5.    Then the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, and lay there fast asleep.
 jon:1.6.    The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Rise up, call upon your God! Perhaps God will be mindful of us so that we may not perish."
 jon:1.7.    Then they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots to find out on whose account we have met with this misfortune." So they cast lots, and thus singled out Jonah.
 jon:1.8.    "Tell us," they said, "what is your business? Where do you come from? What is your country, and to what people do you belong?"
 jon:1.9.    "I am a Hebrew," Jonah answered them; "I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
 jon:1.10.   Now the men were seized with great fear and said to him, "How could you do such a thing!"--They knew that he was fleeing from the LORD, because he had told them.--
 jon:1.11.   "What shall we do with you," they asked, "that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea was growing more and more turbulent.
 jon:1.12.   Jonah said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea, that it may quiet down for you; since I know it is because of me that this violent storm has come upon you."
 jon:1.13.   Still the men rowed hard to regain the land, but they could not, for the sea grew ever more turbulent.
 jon:1.14.   Then they cried to the LORD: "We beseech you, O LORD, let us not perish for taking this man's life; do not charge us with shedding innocent blood, for you, LORD, have done as you saw fit."
 jon:1.15.   Then they took Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea's raging abated.
 jon:1.16.   Struck with great fear of the LORD, the men offered sacrifice and made vows to him.
   
 jon:2.1.    But the LORD sent a large fish, that swallowed Jonah; and he remained in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
 jon:2.2.    From the belly of the fish Jonah said this prayer to the LORD, his God:
 jon:2.3.    Out of my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me; From the midst of the nether world I cried for help, and you heard my voice.
 jon:2.4.    For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, and the flood enveloped me; All your breakers and your billows passed over me.
 jon:2.5.    Then I said, "I am banished from your sight! yet would I again look upon your holy temple."
 jon:2.6.    The waters swirled about me, threatening my life; the abyss enveloped me; seaweed clung about my head.
 jon:2.7.    Down I went to the roots of the mountains; the bars of the nether world were closing behind me forever, But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD, my God.
 jon:2.8.    When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; My prayer reached you in your holy temple.
 jon:2.9.    Those who worship vain idols forsake their source of mercy.
 jon:2.10.   But I, with resounding praise, will sacrifice to you; What I have vowed I will pay: deliverance is from the LORD.
 jon:2.11.   Then the LORD commanded the fish to spew Jonah upon the shore.
   
 jon:3.1.    The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
 jon:3.2.    "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you."
 jon:3.3.    So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD'S bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it.
 jon:3.4.    Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,"
 jon:3.5.    when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.
 jon:3.6.    When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
 jon:3.7.    Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: "Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.
 jon:3.8.    Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; every man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in hand.
 jon:3.9.    Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we shall not perish."
 jon:3.10.   When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.
   
 jon:4.1.    But this was greatly displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry.
 jon:4.2.    "I beseech you, LORD," he prayed, "is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, rich in clemency, loathe to punish.
 jon:4.3.    And now, LORD, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
 jon:4.4.    But the LORD asked, "Have you reason to be angry?"
 jon:4.5.    Jonah then left the city for a place to the east of it, where he built himself a hut and waited under it in the shade, to see what would happen to the city.
 jon:4.6.    And when the LORD God provided a gourd plant, that grew up over Jonah's head, giving shade that relieved him of any discomfort, Jonah was very happy over the plant.
 jon:4.7.    But the next morning at dawn God sent a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
 jon:4.8.    And when the sun arose, God sent a burning east wind; and the sun beat upon Jonah's head till he became faint. Then he asked for death, saying, "I would be better off dead than alive."
 jon:4.9.    But God said to Jonah, "Have you reason to be angry over the plant?" "I have reason to be angry," Jonah answered, "angry enough to die."
 jon:4.10.   Then the LORD said, "You are concerned over the plant which cost you no labor and which you did not raise; it came up in one night and in one night it perished.
 jon:4.11.   And should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot distinguish their right hand from their left, not to mention the many cattle?" [end of Jonah]

