今日讀經

神召列國上法庭

¹眾海島啊，當在我面前靜默；眾民當重新得力，都要近前來才可以說話，我們可以彼此辯論。“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.

²誰從東方興起一人，憑公義召他來到腳前呢？耶和華將列國交給他，使他管轄君王，把他們如灰塵交與他的刀，如風吹的碎秸交與他的弓。Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

³他追趕他們，走他所未走的道，坦然前行。He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

⁴誰行做成就這事，從起初宣召歷代呢？就是我─耶和華！我是首先的，也與末後的同在。Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

列國慌忙造偶像

⁵海島看見就都害怕；地極也都戰兢，就近前來。The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

⁶他們各人幫助鄰舍，各人對弟兄說：壯膽吧！Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

⁷木匠勉勵銀匠，用鎚打光的勉勵打砧的，論銲工說，銲得好；又用釘子釘穩，免得偶像動搖。The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

以色列是神揀選的僕人

⁸惟你以色列─我的僕人，雅各─我所揀選的，我朋友亞伯拉罕的後裔，“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

⁹你是我從地極所領（原文是抓）來的，從地角所召來的，且對你說：你是我的僕人；我揀選你，並不棄絕你。I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.

¹⁰你不要害怕，因為我與你同在；不要驚惶，因為我是你的　神。我必堅固你，我必幫助你；我必用我公義的右手扶持你。Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

¹¹凡向你發怒的必都抱愧蒙羞；與你相爭的必如無有，並要滅亡。Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

¹²與你爭競的，你要找他們也找不著；與你爭戰的必如無有，成為虛無。You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.

¹³因為我耶和華─你的　神必攙扶你的右手，對你說：不要害怕！我必幫助你。For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

你這蟲雅各，不要害怕

¹⁴你這蟲雅各和你們以色列人，不要害怕！耶和華說：我必幫助你。你的救贖主就是以色列的聖者。Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵看哪，我已使你成為有快齒打糧的新器具；你要把山嶺打得粉碎，使岡陵如同糠秕。Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

¹⁶你要把它簸揚，風要吹去；旋風要把它颳散。你倒要以耶和華為喜樂，以以色列的聖者為誇耀。You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

神使乾地變為湧泉

¹⁷困苦窮乏人尋求水卻沒有；他們因口渴，舌頭乾燥。我─耶和華必應允他們；我─以色列的　神必不離棄他們。The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

¹⁸我要在淨光的高處開江河，在谷中開泉源；我要使沙漠變為水池，使乾地變為湧泉。I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

¹⁹我要在曠野種上香柏樹、皂莢樹、番石榴樹，和野橄欖樹。我在沙漠要把松樹、杉樹，並黃楊樹一同栽植；I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

²⁰好叫人看見、知道、思想、明白；這是耶和華的手所做的，是以色列的聖者所造的。so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

偶像說不出將來的事

²¹耶和華對假神說：你們要呈上你們的案件；雅各的君說：你們要聲明你們確實的理由。“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

²²可以聲明，指示我們將來必遇的事，說明先前的是甚麼事，好叫我們思索，得知事的結局，或者把將來的事指示我們。“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

²³要說明後來的事，好叫我們知道你們是　神。你們或降福，或降禍，使我們驚奇，一同觀看。Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

²⁴看哪，你們屬乎虛無；你們的作為也屬乎虛空。那選擇你們的是可憎惡的。Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

唯有神預先說明

²⁵我從北方興起一人；他是求告我名的，從日出之地而來。他必臨到掌權的，好像臨到灰泥，彷彿窯匠踹泥一樣。I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

²⁶誰從起初指明這事，使我們知道呢？誰從先前說明，使我們說他不錯呢？誰也沒有指明；誰也沒有說明；誰也沒有聽見你們的話。Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.

²⁷我首先對錫安說：看哪，我要將一位報好信息的賜給耶路撒冷。I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

²⁸我看的時候並沒有人；我問的時候，他們中間也沒有謀士可以回答一句。When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

²⁹看哪，他們和他們的工作都是虛空，且是虛無。他們所鑄的偶像都是風，都是虛的。See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

神所喜悅的僕人

¹看哪，我的僕人─我所扶持所揀選、心裡所喜悅的！我已將我的靈賜給他；他必將公理傳給外邦。“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

²他不喧嚷，不揚聲，也不使街上聽見他的聲音。He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

³壓傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將殘的燈火，他不吹滅。他憑真實將公理傳開。A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

⁴他不灰心，也不喪膽，直到他在地上設立公理；海島都等候他的訓誨。He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

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作外邦人的光

⁵創造諸天，鋪張穹蒼，將地和地所出的一併鋪開，賜氣息給地上的眾人，又賜靈性給行在其上之人的　神耶和華，他如此說：This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

⁶我─耶和華憑公義召你，必攙扶你的手，保守你，使你作眾民的中保（中保：原文是約），作外邦人的光，“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

⁷開瞎子的眼，領被囚的出牢獄，領坐黑暗的出監牢。to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

⁸我是耶和華，這是我的名；我必不將我的榮耀歸給假神，也不將我的稱讚歸給雕刻的偶像。I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.

⁹看哪，先前的事已經成就，現在我將新事說明，這事未發以先，我就說給你們聽。Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

向耶和華唱新歌

¹⁰航海的和海中所有的，海島和其上的居民，都當向耶和華唱新歌，從地極讚美他。Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

¹¹曠野和其中的城邑，並基達人居住的村莊都當揚聲；西拉的居民當歡呼，在山頂上吶喊。Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

¹²他們當將榮耀歸給耶和華，在海島中傳揚他的頌讚。Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.

神像勇士出去

¹³耶和華必像勇士出去，必像戰士激動熱心，要喊叫，大聲吶喊，要用大力攻擊仇敵。The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

¹⁴我許久閉口不言，靜默不語；現在我要喊叫，像產難的婦人；我要急氣而喘哮。“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

¹⁵我要使大山小岡變為荒場，使其上的花草都枯乾；我要使江河變為洲島，使水池都乾涸。I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

¹⁶我要引瞎子行不認識的道，領他們走不知道的路；在他們面前使黑暗變為光明，使彎曲變為平直。這些事我都要行，並不離棄他們。I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

¹⁷倚靠雕刻的偶像，對鑄造的偶像說：你是我們的神；這等人要退後，全然蒙羞。But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

眼瞎耳聾的僕人

¹⁸你們這耳聾的，聽吧！你們這眼瞎的，看吧！使你們能看見。Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

¹⁹誰比我的僕人眼瞎呢？誰比我差遣的使者耳聾呢？誰瞎眼像那與我和好的？誰瞎眼像耶和華的僕人呢？Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

²⁰你看見許多事卻不領會，耳朵開通卻不聽見。Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

²¹耶和華因自己公義的緣故，喜歡使律法（或譯：訓誨）為大，為尊。The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

²²但這百姓是被搶被奪的，都牢籠在坑中，隱藏在獄裡；他們作掠物，無人拯救，作擄物，無人說交還。But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

²³你們中間誰肯側耳聽此，誰肯留心而聽，以防將來呢？Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

²⁴誰將雅各交出當作擄物，將以色列交給搶奪的呢？豈不是耶和華嗎？就是我們所得罪的那位。他們不肯遵行他的道，也不聽從他的訓誨。Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

²⁵所以，他將猛烈的怒氣和爭戰的勇力傾倒在以色列的身上。在他四圍如火著起，他還不知道，燒著他，他也不介意。So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

保羅為他們盡心竭力

¹我願意你們曉得，我為你們和老底嘉人，並一切沒有與我親自見面的人，是何等地盡心竭力；For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

²要叫他們的心得安慰，因愛心互相聯絡，以致豐豐足足在悟性中有充足的信心，使他們真知　神的奧祕，就是基督；that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

³所積蓄的一切智慧知識，都在他裡面藏著。in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴我說這話，免得有人用花言巧語迷惑你們。I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

⁵我身子雖與你們相離，心卻與你們同在，見你們循規蹈矩，信基督的心也堅固，我就歡喜了。For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

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在基督裡生根建造

⁶你們既然接受了主基督耶穌，就當遵他而行，Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

⁷在他裡面生根建造，信心堅固，正如你們所領的教訓，感謝的心也更增長了。rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

不要被虛空的妄言擄去

⁸你們要謹慎，恐怕有人用他的理學和虛空的妄言，不照著基督，乃照人間的遺傳和世上的小學就把你們擄去。See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

在基督裡得了豐盛

⁹因為　神本性一切的豐盛都有形有體地居住在基督裡面，For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

¹⁰你們在他裡面也得了豐盛。他是各樣執政掌權者的元首。And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

¹¹你們在他裡面也受了不是人手所行的割禮，乃是基督使你們脫去肉體情慾的割禮。In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

¹²你們既受洗與他一同埋葬，也就在此與他一同復活，都因信那叫他從死裡復活　神的功用。And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

與基督一同活過來，字據被撤去

¹³你們從前在過犯和未受割禮的肉體中死了，　神赦免了你們（或譯：我們）一切過犯，便叫你們與基督一同活過來；When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

¹⁴又塗抹了在律例上所寫、攻擊我們、有礙於我們的字據，把它撤去，釘在十字架上。having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

¹⁵既將一切執政的、掌權的擄來，明顯給眾人看，就仗著十字架誇勝。And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

規條只是影兒

¹⁶所以，不拘在飲食上，或節期、月朔、安息日都不可讓人論斷你們。Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

¹⁷這些原是後事的影兒；那形體卻是基督。These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

¹⁸不可讓人因著故意謙虛和敬拜天使，就奪去你們的獎賞。這等人拘泥在所見過的（有古卷：這等人窺察所沒有見過的），隨著自己的慾心，無故地自高自大，Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

¹⁹不持定元首。全身既然靠著他，筋節得以相助聯絡，就因　神大得長進。He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

何必再服從人的規條

^20–21你們若是與基督同死，脫離了世上的小學，為甚麼仍像在世俗中活著、服從那「不可拿、不可嘗、不可摸」等類的規條呢？If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

²²這都是照人所吩咐、所教導的。說到這一切，正用的時候就都敗壞了。These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

²³這些規條使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表謙卑，苦待己身，其實在克制肉體的情慾上是毫無功效。Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.