今日讀經

不要為作惡的心懷不平

¹（大衛的詩。）不要為作惡的心懷不平，也不要向那行不義的生出嫉妒。Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

²因為他們如草快被割下，又如青菜快要枯乾。For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

倚靠耶和華而行善

³你當倚靠耶和華而行善，住在地上，以他的信實為糧；Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

⁴又要以耶和華為樂，他就將你心裡所求的賜給你。Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵當將你的事交託耶和華，並倚靠他，他就必成全。Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

⁶他要使你的公義如光發出，使你的公平明如正午。He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

默然倚靠，耐性等候

⁷你當默然倚靠耶和華，耐性等候他；不要因那道路通達的和那惡謀成就的心懷不平。Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

⁸當止住怒氣，離棄忿怒；不要心懷不平，以致作惡。Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.

⁹因為作惡的必被剪除；惟有等候耶和華的必承受地土。For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

¹⁰還有片時，惡人要歸於無有；你就是細察他的住處也要歸於無有。Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

¹¹但謙卑人必承受地土，以豐盛的平安為樂。But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

惡人的刀必刺入自己的心

¹²惡人設謀害義人，又向他咬牙。The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

¹³主要笑他，因見他受罰的日子將要來到。but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

¹⁴惡人已經弓上弦，刀出鞘，要打倒困苦窮乏的人，要殺害行動正直的人。The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

¹⁵他們的刀必刺入自己的心；他們的弓必被折斷。But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

¹⁶一個義人所有的雖少，強過許多惡人的富餘。Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

¹⁷因為惡人的膀臂必被折斷；但耶和華是扶持義人。For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

耶和華知道完全人的日子

¹⁸耶和華知道完全人的日子；他們的產業要存到永遠。The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

¹⁹他們在急難的時候不致羞愧，在饑荒的日子必得飽足。In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

²⁰惡人卻要滅亡。耶和華的仇敵要像羊羔的脂油（或譯：像草地的華美）；他們要消滅，要如煙消滅。But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

²¹惡人借貸而不償還；義人卻恩待人，並且施捨。The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.

²²蒙耶和華賜福的必承受地土；被他咒詛的必被剪除。Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.

義人的腳步被耶和華立定

²³義人的腳步被耶和華立定；他的道路，耶和華也喜愛。The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.

²⁴他雖失腳也不致全身仆倒，因為耶和華用手攙扶他（或譯：攙扶他的手）。Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

²⁵我從前年幼，現在年老，卻未見過義人被棄，也未見過他的後裔討飯。I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

²⁶他終日恩待人，借給人；他的後裔也蒙福！They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.

²⁷你當離惡行善，就可永遠安居。Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

²⁸因為，耶和華喜愛公平，不撇棄他的聖民；他們永蒙保佑，但惡人的後裔必被剪除。For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

²⁹義人必承受地土，永居其上。The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

義人的口談論智慧

³⁰義人的口談論智慧；他的舌頭講說公平。The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

³¹神的律法在他心裡；他的腳總不滑跌。The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

³²惡人窺探義人，想要殺他。Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

³³耶和華必不撇他在惡人手中；當審判的時候，也不定他的罪。the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

³⁴你當等候耶和華，遵守他的道，他就抬舉你，使你承受地土；惡人被剪除的時候，你必看見。Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

惡人消逝，和平人有好結局

³⁵我見過惡人大有勢力，好像一棵青翠樹在本土生發。I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

³⁶有人從那裡經過，不料，他沒有了；我也尋找他，卻尋不著。yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

³⁷你要細察那完全人，觀看那正直人，因為和平人有好結局。Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.

³⁸至於犯法的人，必一同滅絕；惡人終必剪除。But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

³⁹但義人得救是由於耶和華；他在患難時作他們的營寨。The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.

⁴⁰耶和華幫助他們，解救他們；他解救他們脫離惡人，把他們救出來，因為他們投靠他。The LORD helps and delivers them; He rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in Him.

求你不要在怒中責備我

¹（大衛的記念詩。）耶和華啊，求你不要在怒中責備我，不要在烈怒中懲罰我！A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

²因為，你的箭射入我身；你的手壓住我。For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

³因你的惱怒，我的肉無一完全；因我的罪過，我的骨頭也不安寧。There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

⁴我的罪孽高過我的頭，如同重擔叫我擔當不起。For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

⁵因我的愚昧，我的傷發臭流膿。My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

⁶我疼痛，大大拳曲，終日哀痛。I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

⁷我滿腰是火；我的肉無一完全。For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

⁸我被壓傷，身體疲倦；因心裡不安，我就唉哼。I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

我的心願都在你面前

⁹主啊，我的心願都在你面前；我的歎息不向你隱瞞。O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

¹⁰我心跳動，我力衰微，連我眼中的光也沒有了。My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

¹¹我的良朋密友因我的災病都躲在旁邊站著；我的親戚本家也遠遠地站立。My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

¹²那尋索我命的設下網羅；那想要害我的口出惡言，終日思想詭計。Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

¹³但我如聾子不聽，像啞巴不開口。But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

¹⁴我如不聽見的人，口中沒有回話。I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

耶和華啊，我仰望你

¹⁵耶和華啊，我仰望你！主─我的　神啊，你必應允我！I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶我曾說：恐怕他們向我誇耀；我失腳的時候，他們向我誇大。For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

¹⁷我幾乎跌倒；我的痛苦常在我面前。For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

¹⁸我要承認我的罪孽；我要因我的罪憂愁。Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

¹⁹但我的仇敵又活潑又強壯，無理恨我的增多了。Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

²⁰以惡報善的與我作對，因我是追求良善。Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

²¹耶和華啊，求你不要撇棄我！我的　神啊，求你不要遠離我！Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.

²²拯救我的主啊，求你快快幫助我！Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

窯匠與泥

¹⁹這樣，你必對我說：「他為甚麼還指責人呢？有誰抗拒他的旨意呢？」One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

²⁰你這個人哪，你是誰，竟敢向　神強嘴呢？受造之物豈能對造他的說：「你為甚麼這樣造我呢？」But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

²¹窯匠難道沒有權柄從一團泥裡拿一塊做成貴重的器皿，又拿一塊做成卑賤的器皿嗎？Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

憐憫的器皿

²²倘若　神要顯明他的忿怒，彰顯他的權能，就多多忍耐寬容那可怒、預備遭毀滅的器皿，What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

²³又要將他豐盛的榮耀彰顯在那蒙憐憫、早預備得榮耀的器皿上。What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

²⁴這器皿就是我們被　神所召的，不但是從猶太人中，也是從外邦人中。這有甚麼不可呢？including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

不是我子民的，要稱為我的子民

²⁵就像　神在何西阿書上說：那本來不是我子民的，我要稱為「我的子民」；本來不是蒙愛的，我要稱為「蒙愛的」。As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

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²⁶從前在甚麼地方對他們說：你們不是我的子民，將來就在那裡稱他們為「永生　神的兒子」。and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

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²⁷以賽亞指著以色列人喊著說：「以色列人雖多如海沙，得救的不過是剩下的餘數；Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

²⁸因為主要在世上施行他的話，叫他的話都成全，速速地完結。」For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

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²⁹又如以賽亞先前說過：若不是萬軍之主給我們存留餘種，我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

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外邦人因信得義

³⁰這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？那本來不追求義的外邦人反得了義，就是因信而得的義。What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

³¹但以色列人追求律法的義，反得不著律法的義。but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

³²這是甚麼緣故呢？是因為他們不憑著信心求，只憑著行為求；他們正跌在那絆腳石上。Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

³³就如經上所記：我在錫安放一塊絆腳的石頭，跌人的磐石；信靠他的人必不至於羞愧。as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

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保羅為以色列人禱告

¹弟兄們，我心裡所願的，向　神所求的，是要以色列人得救。Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

²我可以證明，他們向　神有熱心，但不是按著真知識；For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

³因為不知道　神的義，想要立自己的義，就不服　神的義了。Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.