今日讀經

把話寫在書上

¹耶和華的話臨到耶利米說：This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

²「耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：你將我對你說過的一切話都寫在書上。“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

³耶和華說：日子將到，我要使我的百姓以色列和猶大被擄的人歸回；我也要使他們回到我所賜給他們列祖之地，他們就得這地為業。這是耶和華說的。」For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”

雅各遭難的時候

⁴以下是耶和華論到以色列和猶大所說的話：These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

⁵耶和華如此說：我們聽見聲音，是戰抖懼怕而不平安的聲音。Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.

⁶你們且訪問看看，男人有產難嗎？我怎麼看見人人用手掐腰，像產難的婦人，臉面都變青了呢？Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

⁷哀哉！那日為大，無日可比；這是雅各遭難的時候，但他必被救出來。How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

⁸萬軍之耶和華說：「到那日，我必從你頸項上折斷仇敵的軛，扭開他的繩索；外邦人不得再使你作他們的奴僕。On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

⁹你們卻要事奉耶和華─你們的　神和我為你們所要興起的王大衛。」Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

不要懼怕，我必拯救你

¹⁰故此，耶和華說：我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕；以色列啊，不要驚惶；因我要從遠方拯救你，從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔；雅各必回來得享平靖安逸，無人使他害怕。As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

¹¹因我與你同在，要拯救你，也要將所趕散你到的那些國滅絕淨盡，卻不將你滅絕淨盡，倒要從寬懲治你，萬不能不罰你（不罰你：或譯以你為無罪）。這是耶和華說的。For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

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無法醫治的傷，神必醫好

¹²耶和華如此說：你的損傷無法醫治；你的傷痕極其重大。For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

¹³無人為你分訴，使你的傷痕得以纏裹；你沒有醫治的良藥。There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

¹⁴你所親愛的都忘記你，不來探問（或譯：理會）你。我因你的罪孽甚大，罪惡眾多，曾用仇敵加的傷害傷害你，用殘忍者的懲治懲治你。All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

¹⁵你為何因損傷哀號呢？你的痛苦無法醫治。我因你的罪孽甚大，罪惡眾多，曾將這些加在你身上。Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

¹⁶故此，凡吞吃你的必被吞吃；你的敵人個個都被擄去；擄掠你的必成為擄物；搶奪你的必成為掠物。Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

¹⁷耶和華說：我必使你痊癒，醫好你的傷痕，都因人稱你為被趕散的，說：這是錫安，無人來探問（或譯：理會）的！But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”

城必重新建造

¹⁸耶和華如此說：我必使雅各被擄去的帳棚歸回，也必顧惜他的住處。城必建造在原舊的山岡；宮殿也照舊有人居住。This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

¹⁹必有感謝和歡樂的聲音從其中發出，我要使他們增多，不致減少；使他們尊榮，不致卑微。Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.

²⁰他們的兒女要如往日；他們的會眾堅立在我面前；凡欺壓他們的，我必刑罰他。Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.

²¹他們的君王必是屬乎他們的；掌權的必從他們中間而出。我要使他就近我，他也要親近我；不然，誰有膽量親近我呢？這是耶和華說的。Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

²²你們要作我的子民，我要作你們的　神。“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”

耶和華的忿怒像暴風

²³看哪，耶和華的忿怒好像暴風已經發出；是掃滅的暴風，必轉到惡人的頭上。Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

²⁴耶和華的烈怒必不轉消，直到他心中所擬定的成就了；末後的日子你們要明白。The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.

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我以永遠的愛愛你

¹耶和華說：「那時，我必作以色列各家的　神；他們必作我的子民。」“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

²耶和華如此說：脫離刀劍的就是以色列人。我使他享安息的時候，他曾在曠野蒙恩。This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

³古時（或譯：從遠方）耶和華向以色列（原文是我）顯現，說：我以永遠的愛愛你，因此我以慈愛吸引你。The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

⁴以色列的民（原文是處女）哪，我要再建立你，你就被建立；你必再以擊鼓為美，與歡樂的人一同跳舞而出；Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.

⁵又必在撒馬利亞的山上栽種葡萄園，栽種的人要享用所結的果子。Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

⁶日子必到，以法蓮山上守望的人必呼叫說：起來吧！我們可以上錫安，到耶和華─我們的　神那裡去。For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”

從地極招聚歸回

⁷耶和華如此說：你們當為雅各歡樂歌唱，因萬國中為首的歡呼。當傳揚頌讚說：耶和華啊，求你拯救你的百姓以色列所剩下的人。For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’

⁸我必將他們從北方領來，從地極招聚；同著他們來的有瞎子、瘸子、孕婦、產婦；他們必成為大幫回到這裡來。Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

⁹他們要哭泣而來。我要照他們懇求的引導他們，使他們在河水旁走正直的路，在其上不致絆跌；因為我是以色列的父，以法蓮是我的長子。They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

¹⁰列國啊，要聽耶和華的話，傳揚在遠處的海島說：趕散以色列的必招聚他，又看守他，好像牧人看守羊群。Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

¹¹因耶和華救贖了雅各，救贖他脫離比他更強之人的手。For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

¹²他們要來到錫安的高處歌唱，又流歸耶和華施恩之地，就是有五穀、新酒，和油，並羊羔、牛犢之地。他們的心必像澆灌的園子；他們也不再有一點愁煩。They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

¹³那時，處女必歡樂跳舞；年少的、年老的，也必一同歡樂；因為我要使他們的悲哀變為歡喜，並要安慰他們，使他們的愁煩轉為快樂。Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

¹⁴我必以肥油使祭司的心滿足；我的百姓也要因我的恩惠知足。這是耶和華說的。I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.

拉結哭她兒女

¹⁵耶和華如此說：在拉瑪聽見號咷痛哭的聲音，是拉結哭她兒女，不肯受安慰，因為他們都不在了。This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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¹⁶耶和華如此說：你禁止聲音不要哀哭，禁止眼目不要流淚，因你所做之工必有賞賜；他們必從敵國歸回。這是耶和華說的。This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

¹⁷耶和華說：你末後必有指望；你的兒女必回到自己的境界。So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

以法蓮悔改，神必憐憫

¹⁸我聽見以法蓮為自己悲歎說：你責罰我，我便受責罰，像不慣負軛的牛犢一樣。求你使我回轉，我便回轉，因為你是耶和華─我的　神。I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

¹⁹我回轉以後就真正懊悔；受教以後就拍腿歎息；我因擔當幼年的凌辱就抱愧蒙羞。After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

²⁰耶和華說：以法蓮是我的愛子嗎？是可喜悅的孩子嗎？我每逢責備他，仍深顧念他；所以我的心腸戀慕他；我必要憐憫他。Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

設立指路碑，回轉吧

²¹以色列民（原文是處女）哪，你當為自己設立指路碑，豎起引路柱。你要留心向大路，就是你所去的原路；你當回轉，回轉到你這些城邑。“Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

²²背道的民（原文是女子）哪，你反來覆去要到幾時呢？耶和華在地上造了一件新事，就是女子護衛男子。How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

²³萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：我使被擄之人歸回的時候，他們在猶大地和其中的城邑必再這樣說：「公義的居所啊，聖山哪，願耶和華賜福給你。This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’

²⁴猶大和屬猶大城邑的人，農夫和放羊的人，要一同住在其中。And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

²⁵疲乏的人，我使他飽飫；愁煩的人，我使他知足。」for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

²⁶先知說：「我醒了，覺著睡得香甜！」At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

不再說父親吃了酸葡萄

²⁷耶和華說：「日子將到，我要把人的種和牲畜的種播種在以色列家和猶大家。“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

²⁸我先前怎樣留意將他們拔出、拆毀、毀壞、傾覆、苦害，也必照樣留意將他們建立、栽植。這是耶和華說的。Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

²⁹當那些日子，人不再說：父親吃了酸葡萄，兒子的牙酸倒了。“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

³⁰但各人必因自己的罪死亡；凡吃酸葡萄的，自己的牙必酸倒。」Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

另立新約

³¹耶和華說：「日子將到，我要與以色列家和猶大家另立新約，Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

³²不像我拉著他們祖宗的手，領他們出埃及地的時候，與他們所立的約。我雖作他們的丈夫，他們卻背了我的約。這是耶和華說的。」It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

³³耶和華說：「那些日子以後，我與以色列家所立的約乃是這樣：我要將我的律法放在他們裡面，寫在他們心上。我要作他們的　神，他們要作我的子民。“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

³⁴他們各人不再教導自己的鄰舍和自己的弟兄說：『你該認識耶和華』，因為他們從最小的到至大的都必認識我。我要赦免他們的罪孽，不再記念他們的罪惡。這是耶和華說的。」No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

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以色列必不斷絕

³⁵那使太陽白日發光，使星月有定例，黑夜發亮，又攪動大海，使海中波浪匉訇的，萬軍之耶和華是他的名。他如此說：Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

³⁶這些定例若能在我面前廢掉，以色列的後裔也就在我面前斷絕，永遠不再成國。這是耶和華說的。“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

³⁷耶和華如此說：若能量度上天，尋察下地的根基，我就因以色列後裔一切所行的棄絕他們。這是耶和華說的。This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

³⁸耶和華說：「日子將到，這城必為耶和華建造，從哈楠業樓直到角門。“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

³⁹準繩要往外量出，直到迦立山，又轉到歌亞。The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

⁴⁰拋屍的全谷和倒灰之處，並一切田地，直到汲淪溪，又直到東方馬門的拐角，都要歸耶和華為聖，不再拔出，不再傾覆，直到永遠。」The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

問安

¹神的僕人，耶穌基督的使徒保羅，憑著　神選民的信心與敬虔真理的知識，Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

²盼望那無謊言的　神在萬古之先所應許的永生，in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

³到了日期，藉著傳揚的工夫把他的道顯明了；這傳揚的責任是按著　神─我們救主的命令交託了我。In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.

⁴現在寫信給提多，就是照著我們共信之道作我真兒子的。願恩惠、平安從父　神和我們的救主基督耶穌歸與你！To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

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在各城設立長老

⁵我從前留你在克里特，是要你將那沒有辦完的事都辦整齊了，又照我所吩咐你的，在各城設立長老。The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

⁶若有無可指責的人，只作一個婦人的丈夫，兒女也是信主的，沒有人告他們是放蕩不服約束的，就可以設立。An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

監督是神的管家

⁷監督既是　神的管家，必須無可指責，不任性，不暴躁，不因酒滋事，不打人，不貪無義之財；As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

⁸樂意接待遠人，好善，莊重，公平，聖潔自持；Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

⁹堅守所教真實的道理，就能將純正的教訓勸化人，又能把爭辯的人駁倒了。He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.

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堵住傳錯謬的口

¹⁰因為有許多人不服約束，說虛空話欺哄人；那奉割禮的更是這樣。For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

¹¹這些人的口總要堵住。他們因貪不義之財，將不該教導的教導人，敗壞人的全家。who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

克里特人的先知說

¹²有克里特人中的一個本地先知說：「克里特人常說謊話，乃是惡獸，又饞又懶。」As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

¹³這個見證是真的。所以，你要嚴嚴地責備他們，使他們在真道上純全無疵，This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

¹⁴不聽猶太人荒渺的言語和離棄真道之人的誡命。and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

在潔淨的人，凡物都潔淨

¹⁵在潔淨的人，凡物都潔淨；在污穢不信的人，甚麼都不潔淨，連心地和天良也都污穢了。To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

¹⁶他們說是認識　神，行事卻和他相背；本是可憎惡的，是悖逆的，在各樣善事上是可廢棄的。They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.