今日讀經

重修荒場，作耶和華的祭司

⁴他們必修造已久的荒場，建立先前淒涼之處，重修歷代荒涼之城。They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

⁵那時，外人必起來牧放你們的羊群；外邦人必作你們耕種田地的，修理葡萄園的。Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

⁶你們倒要稱為耶和華的祭司；人必稱你們為我們　神的僕役。你們必吃用列國的財物，因得他們的榮耀自誇。But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

⁷你們必得加倍的好處，代替所受的羞辱；分中所得的喜樂，必代替所受的凌辱。在境內必得加倍的產業；永遠之樂必歸與你們（原文是他們）。Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

神要與百姓立永約

⁸因為我─耶和華喜愛公平，恨惡搶奪和罪孽；我要憑誠實施行報應，並要與我的百姓立永約。For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹他們的後裔必在列國中被人認識；他們的子孫在眾民中也是如此。凡看見他們的必認他們是耶和華賜福的後裔。Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

披上公義的袍

¹⁰我因耶和華大大歡喜；我的心靠　神快樂。因他以拯救為衣給我穿上，以公義為袍給我披上，好像新郎戴上華冠，又像新婦佩戴妝飾。I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

¹¹田地怎樣使百穀發芽，園子怎樣使所種的發生，主耶和華必照樣使公義和讚美在萬民中發出。For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

為錫安必不靜默

¹我因錫安必不靜默，為耶路撒冷必不息聲，直到他的公義如光輝發出，他的救恩如明燈發亮。For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

²列國必見你的公義；列王必見你的榮耀。你必得新名的稱呼，是耶和華親口所起的。Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

³你在耶和華的手中要作為華冠，在你　神的掌上必作為冕旒。You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

你必稱為「我所喜悅的」

⁴你必不再稱為「撇棄的」；你的地也不再稱為「荒涼的」。你卻要稱為「我所喜悅的」；你的地也必稱為「有夫之婦」。因為耶和華喜悅你，你的地也必歸他。No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

⁵少年人怎樣娶處女，你的眾民（民：原文是子）也要照樣娶你；新郎怎樣喜悅新婦，你的　神也要照樣喜悅你。For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

城上的守望者

⁶耶路撒冷啊，我在你城上設立守望的，他們晝夜必不靜默。呼籲耶和華的，你們不要歇息，On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,

⁷也不要使他歇息，直等他建立耶路撒冷，使耶路撒冷在地上成為可讚美的。nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

⁸耶和華指著自己的右手和大能的膀臂起誓說：我必不再將你的五穀給你仇敵作食物；外邦人也不再喝你勞碌得來的新酒。The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

⁹惟有那收割的要吃，並讚美耶和華；那聚斂的要在我聖所的院內喝。For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”

預備百姓的路

¹⁰你們當從門經過經過，預備百姓的路；修築修築大道，撿去石頭，為萬民豎立大旗，Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

¹¹看哪，耶和華曾宣告到地極，對錫安的居民（原文是女子）說：你的拯救者來到。他的賞賜在他那裡；他的報應在他面前。Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”

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¹²人必稱他們為「聖民」，為「耶和華的贖民」；你也必稱為「被眷顧、不撇棄的城」。And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

從以東來的戰士

¹這從以東的波斯拉來，穿紅衣服，裝扮華美，能力廣大，大步行走的是誰呢？就是我，是憑公義說話，以大能施行拯救。Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

²你的裝扮為何有紅色？你的衣服為何像踹酒醡的呢？Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

³我獨自踹酒醡；眾民中無一人與我同在。我發怒將他們踹下，發烈怒將他們踐踏。他們的血濺在我衣服上，並且污染了我一切的衣裳。“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

⁴因為，報仇之日在我心中；救贖我民之年已經來到。For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.

⁵我仰望，見無人幫助；我詫異，沒有人扶持。所以，我自己的膀臂為我施行拯救；我的烈怒將我扶持。I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

⁶我發怒，踹下眾民；發烈怒，使他們沉醉，又將他們的血倒在地上。I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

追想神古時的慈愛

⁷我要照耶和華一切所賜給我們的，提起他的慈愛和美德，並他向以色列家所施的大恩；這恩是照他的憐恤和豐盛的慈愛賜給他們的。I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

⁸他說：他們誠然是我的百姓，不行虛假的子民；這樣，他就作了他們的救主。For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

⁹他們在一切苦難中，他也同受苦難；並且他面前的使者拯救他們；他以慈愛和憐憫救贖他們；在古時的日子常保抱他們，懷搋他們。In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰他們竟悖逆，使主的聖靈擔憂。他就轉作他們的仇敵，親自攻擊他們。But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

帶領他們過海的在哪裡

¹¹那時，他們（原文是他）想起古時的日子─摩西和他百姓，說：將百姓和牧養他全群的人從海裡領上來的在哪裡呢？將他的聖靈降在他們中間的在哪裡呢？Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

¹²使他榮耀的膀臂在摩西的右手邊行動，在他們前面將水分開，要建立自己永遠的名，who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

¹³帶領他們經過深處，如馬行走曠野，使他們不致絆跌的在哪裡呢？who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

¹⁴耶和華的靈使他們得安息，彷彿牲畜下到山谷；照樣，你也引導你的百姓，要建立自己榮耀的名。Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

求你從天上垂顧

¹⁵求你從天上垂顧，從你聖潔榮耀的居所觀看。你的熱心和你大能的作為在哪裡呢？你愛慕的心腸和憐憫向我們止住了。Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

¹⁶亞伯拉罕雖然不認識我們，以色列也不承認我們，你卻是我們的父。耶和華啊，你是我們的父；從萬古以來，你名稱為「我們的救贖主」。Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

¹⁷耶和華啊，你為何使我們走差離開你的道，使我們心裡剛硬、不敬畏你呢？求你為你僕人，為你產業支派的緣故，轉回來。Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

¹⁸你的聖民不過暫時得這產業；我們的敵人已經踐踏你的聖所。For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

¹⁹我們好像你未曾治理的人，又像未曾得稱你名下的人。We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

討神喜悅的生活

¹弟兄們，我還有話說：我們靠著主耶穌求你們，勸你們，你們既然受了我們的教訓，知道該怎樣行可以討　神的喜悅，就要照你們現在所行的更加勉勵。Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

²你們原曉得，我們憑主耶穌傳給你們甚麼命令。For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

成為聖潔，遠避淫行

³神的旨意就是要你們成為聖潔，遠避淫行；For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

⁴要你們各人曉得怎樣用聖潔、尊貴守著自己的身體，each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

⁵不放縱私慾的邪情，像那不認識　神的外邦人。not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

⁶不要一個人在這事上越分，欺負他的弟兄；因為這一類的事，主必報應，正如我預先對你們說過、又切切囑咐你們的。and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

⁷神召我們，本不是要我們沾染污穢，乃是要我們成為聖潔。For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

⁸所以，那棄絕的，不是棄絕人，乃是棄絕那賜聖靈給你們的　神。Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

彼此相愛，安靜做工

⁹論到弟兄們相愛，不用人寫信給你們；因為你們自己蒙了　神的教訓，叫你們彼此相愛。Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

¹⁰你們向馬其頓全地的眾弟兄固然是這樣行，但我勸弟兄們要更加勉勵。And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

¹¹又要立志作安靜人，辦自己的事，親手做工，正如我們從前所吩咐你們的，and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

¹²叫你們可以向外人行事端正，自己也就沒有甚麼缺乏了。Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

論到睡了的人

¹³論到睡了的人，我們不願意弟兄們不知道，恐怕你們憂傷，像那些沒有指望的人一樣。Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

¹⁴我們若信耶穌死而復活了，那已經在耶穌裡睡了的人，　神也必將他們與耶穌一同帶來。For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

¹⁵我們現在照主的話告訴你們一件事：我們這活著還存留到主降臨的人，斷不能在那已經睡了的人之先。By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

主必親自從天降臨

¹⁶因為主必親自從天降臨，有呼叫的聲音和天使長的聲音，又有　神的號吹響；那在基督裡死了的人必先復活。For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

¹⁷以後我們這活著還存留的人必和他們一同被提到雲裡，在空中與主相遇。這樣，我們就要和主永遠同在。After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

¹⁸所以，你們當用這些話彼此勸慰。Therefore encourage one another with these words.