今日讀經

不可娶妻生子

¹耶和華的話又臨到我說：Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²「你在這地方不可娶妻，生兒養女。“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

³因為論到在這地方所生的兒女，又論到在這國中生養他們的父母，耶和華如此說：For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

⁴他們必死得甚苦，無人哀哭，必不得葬埋，必在地上像糞土，必被刀劍和饑荒滅絕；他們的屍首必給空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸作食物。」“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

不可進喪家或宴樂的家

⁵耶和華如此說：「不要進入喪家，不要去哀哭，也不要為他們悲傷，因我已將我的平安、慈愛、憐憫從這百姓奪去了。這是耶和華說的。Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

⁶連大帶小，都必在這地死亡，不得葬埋。人必不為他們哀哭，不用刀劃身，也不使頭光禿。“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

⁷他們有喪事，人必不為他們擘餅，因死人安慰他們；他們喪父喪母，人也不給他們一杯酒安慰他們。No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

⁸你不可進入宴樂的家，與他們同坐吃喝。You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

⁹因為萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：你們還活著的日子在你們眼前，我必使歡喜和快樂的聲音，新郎和新婦的聲音，從這地方止息了。For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

為何降這大災禍

¹⁰「你將這一切的話指示這百姓。他們問你說：『耶和華為甚麼說，要降這大災禍攻擊我們呢？我們有甚麼罪孽呢？我們向耶和華─我們的　神犯了甚麼罪呢？』When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

¹¹你就對他們說：『耶和華說：因為你們列祖離棄我，隨從別神，事奉敬拜，不遵守我的律法，Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

¹²而且你們行惡比你們列祖更甚；因為各人隨從自己頑梗的惡心行事，甚至不聽從我，And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

¹³所以我必將你們從這地趕出，直趕到你們和你們列祖素不認識的地。你們在那裡必晝夜事奉別神，因為我必不向你們施恩。』So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

將來從北方領回

¹⁴耶和華說：「日子將到，人必不再指著那領以色列人從埃及地上來之永生的耶和華起誓，Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’

¹⁵卻要指著那領以色列人從北方之地，並趕他們到的各國上來之永生的耶和華起誓，並且我要領他們再入我從前賜給他們列祖之地。」Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

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打魚的和打獵的

¹⁶耶和華說：「我要召許多打魚的把以色列人打上來，然後我要召許多打獵的，從各山上、各岡上、各石穴中獵取他們。But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

¹⁷因我的眼目察看他們的一切行為；他們不能在我面前遮掩，他們的罪孽也不能在我眼前隱藏。For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

¹⁸我先要加倍報應他們的罪孽和罪惡；因為他們用可憎之屍玷污我的地土，又用可厭之物充滿我的產業。」And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

列國要歸向神

¹⁹耶和華啊，你是我的力量，是我的保障；在苦難之日是我的避難所。列國人必從地極來到你這裡，說：我們列祖所承受的，不過是虛假，是虛空無益之物。O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

²⁰人豈可為自己製造神呢？其實這不是神。Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

²¹耶和華說：「我要使他們知道，就是這一次使他們知道我的手和我的能力。他們就知道我的名是耶和華了。」“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

罪刻在心版上

¹猶大的罪是用鐵筆、用金鋼鑽記錄的，銘刻在他們的心版上和壇角上。“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

²他們的兒女記念他們高岡上、青翠樹旁的壇和木偶。Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.

³我田野的山哪，我必因你在四境之內所犯的罪，把你的貨物、財寶，並邱壇當掠物交給仇敵；O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

⁴並且你因自己的罪必失去我所賜給你的產業。我也必使你在你所不認識的地上服事你的仇敵；因為你使我怒中起火，直燒到永遠。And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

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倚靠人的有禍，倚靠神的有福

⁵耶和華如此說：倚靠人血肉的膀臂，心中離棄耶和華的，那人有禍了！This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

⁶因他必像沙漠的杜松，不見福樂來到，卻要住曠野乾旱之處，無人居住的鹼地。He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

⁷倚靠耶和華、以耶和華為可靠的，那人有福了！But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

⁸他必像樹栽於水旁，在河邊扎根，炎熱來到，並不懼怕，葉子仍必青翠，在乾旱之年毫無掛慮，而且結果不止。He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

人心比萬物都詭詐

⁹人心比萬物都詭詐，壞到極處，誰能識透呢？The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

¹⁰我─耶和華是鑒察人心、試驗人肺腑的，要照各人所行的和他做事的結果報應他。I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

¹¹那不按正道得財的，好像鷓鴣菢不是自己下的蛋；到了中年，那財都必離開他，他終久成為愚頑人。Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

離棄活水泉源的必蒙羞

¹²我們的聖所是榮耀的寶座，從太初安置在高處。A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

¹³耶和華─以色列的盼望啊，凡離棄你的必致蒙羞。耶和華說：離開我的，他們的名字必寫在土裡，因為他們離棄我這活水的泉源。O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

耶利米求神醫治

¹⁴耶和華啊，求你醫治我，我便痊癒，拯救我，我便得救；因你是我所讚美的。Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

¹⁵他們對我說：耶和華的話在哪裡呢？叫這話應驗吧！Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

¹⁶至於我，那跟從你作牧人的職分，我並沒有急忙離棄，也沒有想那災殃的日子；這是你知道的。我口中所出的言語都在你面前。But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

¹⁷不要使我因你驚恐；當災禍的日子，你是我的避難所。Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

¹⁸願那些逼迫我的蒙羞，卻不要使我蒙羞；使他們驚惶，卻不要使我驚惶；使災禍的日子臨到他們，以加倍的毀壞毀壞他們。Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

以安息日為聖日

¹⁹耶和華對我如此說：「你去站在平民的門口，就是猶大君王出入的門，又站在耶路撒冷的各門口，This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰對他們說：『你們這猶大君王和猶大眾人，並耶路撒冷的一切居民，凡從這些門進入的都當聽耶和華的話。Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

²¹耶和華如此說：你們要謹慎，不要在安息日擔甚麼擔子進入耶路撒冷的各門；This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

²²也不要在安息日從家中擔出擔子去。無論何工都不可做，只要以安息日為聖日，正如我所吩咐你們列祖的。』You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.

²³他們卻不聽從，不側耳而聽，竟硬著頸項不聽，不受教訓。」Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

²⁴耶和華說：「你們若留意聽從我，在安息日不擔甚麼擔子進入這城的各門，只以安息日為聖日，在那日無論何工都不做；If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

²⁵那時就有坐大衛寶座的君王和首領，他們與猶大人，並耶路撒冷的居民，或坐車，或騎馬，進入這城的各門，而且這城必存到永遠。then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

²⁶也必有人從猶大城邑和耶路撒冷四圍的各處，從便雅憫地、高原、山地，並南地而來，都帶燔祭、平安祭、素祭，和乳香，並感謝祭，到耶和華的殿去。And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

²⁷你們若不聽從我，不以安息日為聖日，仍在安息日擔擔子，進入耶路撒冷的各門，我必在各門中點火；這火也必燒毀耶路撒冷的宮殿，不能熄滅。」But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

後來有人離棄真道

¹聖靈明說，在後來的時候，必有人離棄真道，聽從那引誘人的邪靈和鬼魔的道理。Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

²這是因為說謊之人的假冒；這等人的良心如同被熱鐵烙慣了一般。influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

³他們禁止嫁娶，又禁戒食物（或譯：又叫人戒葷），就是　神所造、叫那信而明白真道的人感謝著領受的。They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

神所造的物都是好的

⁴凡　神所造的物都是好的，若感謝著領受，就沒有一樣可棄的，For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

⁵都因　神的道和人的祈求成為聖潔了。because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

作基督耶穌的好執事

⁶你若將這些事提醒弟兄們，便是基督耶穌的好執事，在真道的話語和你向來所服從的善道上得了教育。By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed.

在敬虔上操練自己

⁷只是要棄絕那世俗的言語和老婦荒渺的話，在敬虔上操練自己。But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.

⁸「操練身體，益處還少；惟獨敬虔，凡事都有益處，因有今生和來生的應許。」For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

⁹這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.

¹⁰我們勞苦努力，正是為此，因我們的指望在乎永生的　神；他是萬人的救主，更是信徒的救主。To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.

不可叫人小看你年輕

¹¹這些事，你要吩咐人，也要教導人。Command and teach these things.

¹²不可叫人小看你年輕，總要在言語、行為、愛心、信心、清潔上，都作信徒的榜樣。Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

以宣讀、勸勉、教導為念

¹³你要以宣讀、勸勉、教導為念，直等到我來。Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.

¹⁴你不要輕忽所得的恩賜，就是從前藉著預言、在眾長老按手的時候賜給你的。Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.

謹慎自己和自己的教訓

¹⁵這些事你要殷勤去做，並要在此專心，使眾人看出你的長進來。Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

¹⁶你要謹慎自己和自己的教訓，要在這些事上恆心；因為這樣行，又能救自己，又能救聽你的人。Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.