今日讀經

用一塊磚演出圍城

¹「人子啊，你要拿一塊磚，擺在你面前，將一座耶路撒冷城畫在其上，“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

²又圍困這城，造臺築壘，安營攻擊，在四圍安設撞錘攻城，Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

³又要拿個鐵鏊，放在你和城的中間，作為鐵牆。你要對面攻擊這城，使城被困；這樣，好作以色列家的預兆。Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

側臥擔當百姓的罪孽

⁴你要向左側臥，承當以色列家的罪孽；要按你向左側臥的日數，擔當他們的罪孽。Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

⁵因為我已將他們作孽的年數定為你向左側臥的日數，就是三百九十日，你要這樣擔當以色列家的罪孽。For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶再者，你滿了這些日子，還要向右側臥，擔當猶大家的罪孽。我給你定規側臥四十日，一日頂一年。When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

⁷你要露出膀臂，面向被困的耶路撒冷，說預言攻擊這城。You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

⁸我用繩索捆綁你，使你不能輾轉，直等你滿了困城的日子。Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

按分兩吃餅喝水

⁹你要取小麥、大麥、豆子、紅豆、小米、粗麥，裝在一個器皿中，用以為自己做餅；要按你側臥的三百九十日吃這餅。But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

¹⁰你所吃的要按分兩吃，每日二十舍客勒，按時而吃。You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

¹¹你喝水也要按制子，每日喝一欣六分之一，按時而喝。You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

¹²你吃這餅像吃大麥餅一樣，要用人糞在眾人眼前燒烤。」And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

¹³耶和華說：「以色列人在我所趕他們到的各國中，也必這樣吃不潔淨的食物。」Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

¹⁴我說：「哎！主耶和華啊，我素來未曾被玷污，從幼年到如今沒有吃過自死的，或被野獸撕裂的，那可憎的肉也未曾入我的口。」“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

¹⁵於是他對我說：「看哪，我給你牛糞代替人糞，你要將你的餅烤在其上。」“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

¹⁶他又對我說：「人子啊，我必在耶路撒冷折斷他們的杖，就是斷絕他們的糧。他們吃餅要按分兩，憂慮而吃；喝水也要按制子，驚惶而喝；Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

¹⁷使他們缺糧缺水，彼此驚惶，因自己的罪孽消滅。」So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

剃下鬚髮分成三分

¹「人子啊，你要拿一把快刀，當作剃頭刀，用這刀剃你的頭髮和你的鬍鬚，用天平將鬚髮平分。“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

²圍困城的日子滿了，你要將三分之一在城中用火焚燒，將三分之一在城的四圍用刀砍碎，將三分之一任風吹散；我也要拔刀追趕。When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

³你要從其中取幾根包在衣襟裡，But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

⁴再從這幾根中取些扔在火中焚燒，從裡面必有火出來燒入以色列全家。Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

這就是耶路撒冷

⁵主耶和華如此說：這就是耶路撒冷。我曾將她安置在列邦之中；列國都在她的四圍。This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

⁶她行惡，違背我的典章，過於列國；干犯我的律例，過於四圍的列邦，因為她棄掉我的典章。至於我的律例，她並沒有遵行。But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

⁷所以主耶和華如此說：因為你們紛爭過於四圍的列國，也不遵行我的律例，不謹守我的典章，並以遵從四圍列國的惡規尚不滿意，Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

⁸所以主耶和華如此說：看哪，我與你反對，必在列國的眼前，在你中間，施行審判；Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

⁹並且因你一切可憎的事，我要在你中間行我所未曾行的，以後我也不再照著行。Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

¹⁰在你中間父親要吃兒子，兒子要吃父親。我必向你施行審判，我必將你所剩下的分散四方（方：原文是風）。」As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

¹¹主耶和華說：「我指著我的永生起誓，因你用一切可憎的物、可厭的事玷污了我的聖所，故此，我定要使你人數減少，我眼必不顧惜你，也不可憐你。Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

¹²你的民三分之一必遭瘟疫而死，在你中間必因饑荒消滅；三分之一必在你四圍倒在刀下；我必將三分之一分散四方（方：原文是風），並要拔刀追趕他們。A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

¹³「我要這樣成就怒中所定的；我向他們發的忿怒止息了，自己就得著安慰。我在他們身上成就怒中所定的那時，他們就知道我─耶和華所說的是出於熱心；And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

¹⁴並且我必使你在四圍的列國中，在經過的眾人眼前，成了荒涼和羞辱。I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

¹⁵這樣，我必以怒氣和忿怒，並烈怒的責備，向你施行審判。那時，你就在四圍的列國中成為羞辱、譏刺、警戒、驚駭。這是我─耶和華說的。So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

¹⁶那時，我要將滅人、使人饑荒的惡箭，就是射去滅人的，射在你們身上，並要加增你們的饑荒，斷絕你們所倚靠的糧食；When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

¹⁷又要使饑荒和惡獸到你那裡，叫你喪子，瘟疫和流血的事也必盛行在你那裡；我也要使刀劍臨到你。這是我─耶和華說的。」I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

向以色列的眾山說預言

¹耶和華的話臨到我說：And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²「人子啊，你要面向以色列的眾山說預言，“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

³說：以色列的眾山哪，要聽主耶和華的話。主耶和華對大山、小岡、水溝、山谷如此說：我必使刀劍臨到你們，也必毀滅你們的邱壇。You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

⁴你們的祭壇必然荒涼，你們的日像必被打碎。我要使你們被殺的人倒在你們的偶像面前；Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

⁵我也要將以色列人的屍首放在他們的偶像面前，將你們的骸骨拋散在你們祭壇的四圍。I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

⁶在你們一切的住處，城邑要變為荒場，邱壇必然淒涼，使你們的祭壇荒廢，將你們的偶像打碎。你們的日像被砍倒，你們的工作被毀滅。Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

⁷被殺的人必倒在你們中間，你們就知道我是耶和華。The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

剩下的人必記念神

⁸你們分散在各國的時候，我必在列邦中使你們有剩下脫離刀劍的人。Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

⁹那脫離刀劍的人必在所擄到的各國中記念我，為他們心中何等傷破，是因他們起淫心，遠離我，眼對偶像行邪淫。他們因行一切可憎的惡事，必厭惡自己。Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

¹⁰他們必知道我是耶和華；我說要使這災禍臨到他們身上，並非空話。And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

拍手頓足說：哀哉

¹¹「主耶和華如此說：你當拍手頓足，說：哀哉！以色列家行這一切可憎的惡事，他們必倒在刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫之下。This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

¹²在遠處的，必遭瘟疫而死；在近處的，必倒在刀劍之下；那存留被圍困的，必因饑荒而死；我必這樣在他們身上成就我怒中所定的。He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

¹³他們被殺的人倒在他們祭壇四圍的偶像中，就是各高岡、各山頂、各青翠樹下、各茂密的橡樹下，乃是他們獻馨香的祭牲給一切偶像的地方。那時，他們就知道我是耶和華。Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

¹⁴我必伸手攻擊他們，使他們的地從曠野到第伯拉他一切住處極其荒涼，他們就知道我是耶和華。」I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

結局到了

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

²「人子啊，主耶和華對以色列地如此說：結局到了，結局到了地的四境！“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³現在你的結局已經臨到，我必使我的怒氣歸與你，也必按你的行為審判你，照你一切可憎的事刑罰你。The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

⁴我眼必不顧惜你，也不可憐你，卻要按你所行的報應你，照你中間可憎的事刑罰你。你就知道我是耶和華。I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

⁵「主耶和華如此說：有一災，獨有一災；看哪，臨近了！This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!

⁶結局來了，結局來了，向你興起。看哪，來到了！The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

⁷境內的居民哪，所定的災臨到你，時候到了，日子近了，乃是鬨嚷並非在山上歡呼的日子。Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

⁸我快要將我的忿怒傾在你身上，向你成就我怒中所定的，按你的行為審判你，照你一切可憎的事刑罰你。Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

⁹我眼必不顧惜你，也不可憐你，必按你所行的報應你，照你中間可憎的事刑罰你。你就知道擊打你的是我耶和華。I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

杖已經開花

¹⁰「看哪，看哪，日子快到了，所定的災已經發出。杖已經開花，驕傲已經發芽。Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

¹¹強暴興起，成了罰惡的杖。以色列人，或是他們的群眾，或是他們的財寶，無一存留，他們中間也沒有得尊榮的。Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

¹²時候到了，日子近了，買主不可歡喜，賣主不可愁煩，因為烈怒已經臨到他們眾人身上。The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

¹³賣主雖然存活，卻不能歸回再得所賣的，因為這異象關乎他們眾人。誰都不得歸回，也沒有人在他的罪孽中堅立自己。」The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

吹角卻無人出戰

¹⁴「他們已經吹角，預備齊全，卻無一人出戰，因為我的烈怒臨到他們眾人身上。They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

¹⁵在外有刀劍，在內有瘟疫、饑荒；在田野的，必遭刀劍而死；在城中的，必有饑荒、瘟疫吞滅他。The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

¹⁶其中所逃脫的就必逃脫，各人因自己的罪孽在山上發出悲聲，好像谷中的鴿子哀鳴。The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

¹⁷手都發軟，膝弱如水。Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

¹⁸要用麻布束腰，被戰兢所蓋；各人臉上羞愧，頭上光禿。They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

金銀不能救他們

¹⁹他們要將銀子拋在街上，金子看如污穢之物。當耶和華發怒的日子，他們的金銀不能救他們，不能使心裡知足，也不能使肚腹飽滿，因為這金銀作了他們罪孽的絆腳石。They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

²⁰論到耶和華妝飾華美的殿，他建立得威嚴，他們卻在其中製造可憎可厭的偶像，所以這殿我使他們看如污穢之物。His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

²¹我必將這殿交付外邦人為掠物，交付地上的惡人為擄物；他們也必褻瀆這殿。And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

²²我必轉臉不顧以色列人，他們褻瀆我隱密之所，強盜也必進去褻瀆。I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

要製造鎖鍊

²³「要製造鎖鍊；因為這地遍滿流血的罪，城邑充滿強暴的事，Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

²⁴所以我必使列國中最惡的人來佔據他們的房屋；我必使強暴人的驕傲止息，他們的聖所都要被褻瀆。So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

²⁵毀滅臨近了，他們要求平安，卻無平安可得。Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

²⁶災害加上災害，風聲接連風聲；他們必向先知求異象，但祭司講的律法、長老設的謀略都必斷絕。Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

²⁷君要悲哀，王要披淒涼為衣，國民的手都發顫。我必照他們的行為待他們，按他們應得的審判他們，他們就知道我是耶和華。」The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

問安

¹作　神和主耶穌基督僕人的雅各請散住十二個支派之人的安。James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.

在試煉中要喜樂

²我的弟兄們，你們落在百般試煉中，都要以為大喜樂；Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

³因為知道你們的信心經過試驗，就生忍耐。because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

⁴但忍耐也當成功，使你們成全、完備，毫無缺欠。Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

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缺少智慧就當求

⁵你們中間若有缺少智慧的，應當求那厚賜與眾人、也不斥責人的　神，主就必賜給他。Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

⁶只要憑著信心求，一點不疑惑；因為那疑惑的人，就像海中的波浪，被風吹動翻騰。But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

⁷這樣的人不要想從主那裡得甚麼。That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

⁸心懷二意的人，在他一切所行的路上都沒有定見。He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

貧富都如草上的花

⁹卑微的弟兄升高，就該喜樂；The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.

¹⁰富足的降卑，也該如此；因為他必要過去，如同草上的花一樣。But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

¹¹太陽出來，熱風颳起，草就枯乾，花也凋謝，美容就消沒了；那富足的人，在他所行的事上也要這樣衰殘。For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

忍受試探的人有福

¹²忍受試探的人是有福的，因為他經過試驗以後，必得生命的冠冕；這是主應許給那些愛他之人的。Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.