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守望的人

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

²「人子啊，你要告訴本國的子民說：我使刀劍臨到哪一國，那一國的民從他們中間選立一人為守望的。“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

³他見刀劍臨到那地，若吹角警戒眾民，and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people.

⁴凡聽見角聲不受警戒的，刀劍若來除滅了他，他的罪（原文是血）就必歸到自己的頭上。Then if anyone hears the sound of the horn but fails to heed the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

⁵他聽見角聲，不受警戒，他的罪必歸到自己的身上；他若受警戒，便是救了自己的性命。Since he heard the sound of the horn but failed to heed the warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life.

⁶倘若守望的人見刀劍臨到，不吹角，以致民不受警戒，刀劍來殺了他們中間的一個人，他雖然死在罪孽之中，我卻要向守望的人討他喪命的罪（原文是血）。But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’

⁷「人子啊，我照樣立你作以色列家守望的人。所以你要聽我口中的話，替我警戒他們。As for you, O son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word from My mouth and give them the warning from Me.

⁸我對惡人說：『惡人哪，你必要死！』你─以西結若不開口警戒惡人，使他離開所行的道，這惡人必死在罪孽之中，我卻要向你討他喪命的罪（原文是血）。If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.

⁹倘若你警戒惡人轉離所行的道，他仍不轉離，他必死在罪孽之中，你卻救自己脫離了罪。」But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

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轉回，轉回吧

¹⁰「人子啊，你要對以色列家說：你們常說：『我們的過犯罪惡在我們身上，我們必因此消滅，怎能存活呢？』Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

¹¹你對他們說，主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，我斷不喜悅惡人死亡，惟喜悅惡人轉離所行的道而活。以色列家啊，你們轉回，轉回吧！離開惡道，何必死亡呢？Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

義人的義與惡人的惡

¹²人子啊，你要對本國的人民說：義人的義，在犯罪之日不能救他；至於惡人的惡，在他轉離惡行之日也不能使他傾倒；義人在犯罪之日也不能因他的義存活。Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

¹³我對義人說：『你必定存活！』他若倚靠他的義而作罪孽，他所行的義都不被記念。他必因所作的罪孽死亡。If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

¹⁴再者，我對惡人說：『你必定死亡！』他若轉離他的罪，行正直與合理的事：But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

¹⁵還人的當頭和所搶奪的，遵行生命的律例，不作罪孽，他必定存活，不致死亡。if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

¹⁶他所犯的一切罪必不被記念。他行了正直與合理的事，必定存活。None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

主的道不公平嗎

¹⁷「你本國的子民還說：『主的道不公平。』其實他們的道不公平。Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

¹⁸義人轉離他的義而作罪孽，就必因此死亡。If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

¹⁹惡人轉離他的惡，行正直與合理的事，就必因此存活。But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

²⁰你們還說：『主的道不公平。』以色列家啊，我必按你們各人所行的審判你們。」Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

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城已攻破

²¹我們被擄之後十二年十月初五日，有人從耶路撒冷逃到我這裡，說：「城已攻破。」In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

²²逃來的人未到前一日的晚上，耶和華的靈（原文是手）降在我身上，開我的口。到第二日早晨，那人來到我這裡，我口就開了，不再緘默。Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

留在荒地的人

²³耶和華的話臨到我說：Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²⁴「人子啊，住在以色列荒廢之地的人說：『亞伯拉罕獨自一人能得這地為業，我們人數眾多，這地更是給我們為業的。』“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’

²⁵所以你要對他們說，主耶和華如此說：你們吃帶血的物，仰望偶像，並且殺人流血，你們還能得這地為業嗎？Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

²⁶你們倚仗自己的刀劍行可憎的事，人人玷污鄰舍的妻，你們還能得這地為業嗎？You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’

²⁷你要對他們這樣說，主耶和華如此說：我指著我的永生起誓，在荒場中的，必倒在刀下；在田野間的，必交給野獸吞吃；在保障和洞裡的，必遭瘟疫而死。Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

²⁸我必使這地荒涼，令人驚駭；她因勢力而有的驕傲也必止息。以色列的山都必荒涼，無人經過。I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.

²⁹我因他們所行一切可憎的事使地荒涼，令人驚駭。那時，他們就知道我是耶和華。」Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’

聽道卻不去行

³⁰「人子啊，你本國的子民在牆垣旁邊、在房屋門口談論你。弟兄對弟兄彼此說：『來吧！聽聽有甚麼話從耶和華而出。』As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

³¹他們來到你這裡如同民來聚會，坐在你面前彷彿是我的民。他們聽你的話卻不去行；因為他們的口多顯愛情，心卻追隨財利。So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

³²他們看你如善於奏樂、聲音幽雅之人所唱的雅歌，他們聽你的話卻不去行。Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

³³看哪，所說的快要應驗；應驗了，他們就知道在他們中間有了先知。」So when it comes to pass—and surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

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只知牧養自己的牧人

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

²「人子啊，你要向以色列的牧人發預言，攻擊他們，說，主耶和華如此說：禍哉！以色列的牧人只知牧養自己。牧人豈不當牧養群羊嗎？“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?

³你們吃脂油、穿羊毛、宰肥壯的，卻不牧養群羊。You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

⁴瘦弱的，你們沒有養壯；有病的，你們沒有醫治；受傷的，你們沒有纏裹；被逐的，你們沒有領回；失喪的，你們沒有尋找；但用強暴嚴嚴地轄制。You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

⁵因無牧人，羊就分散；既分散，便作了一切野獸的食物。They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

⁶我的羊在諸山間、在各高岡上流離，在全地上分散，無人去尋，無人去找。My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

神要與牧人為敵

⁷「所以，你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

⁸主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，我的羊因無牧人就成為掠物，也作了一切野獸的食物。我的牧人不尋找我的羊；這些牧人只知牧養自己，並不牧養我的羊。‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

⁹所以你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’

¹⁰主耶和華如此說：我必與牧人為敵，必向他們的手追討我的羊，使他們不再牧放群羊；牧人也不再牧養自己。我必救我的羊脫離他們的口，不再作他們的食物。」This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’

客旅和寄居的

¹¹親愛的弟兄啊，你們是客旅，是寄居的。我勸你們要禁戒肉體的私慾；這私慾是與靈魂爭戰的。Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

¹²你們在外邦人中，應當品行端正，叫那些毀謗你們是作惡的，因看見你們的好行為，便在鑒察（或譯：眷顧）的日子歸榮耀給　神。Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

順服在上掌權的

¹³你們為主的緣故，要順服人的一切制度，或是在上的君王，Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

¹⁴或是君王所派罰惡賞善的臣宰。or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

¹⁵因為　神的旨意原是要你們行善，可以堵住那糊塗無知人的口。For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

¹⁶你們雖是自由的，卻不可藉著自由遮蓋惡毒（或譯：陰毒），總要作　神的僕人。Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

¹⁷務要尊敬眾人，親愛教中的弟兄，敬畏　神，尊敬君王。Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

作僕人的要順服

¹⁸你們作僕人的，凡事要存敬畏的心順服主人；不但順服那善良溫和的，就是那乖僻的也要順服。Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.

¹⁹倘若人為叫良心對得住　神，就忍受冤屈的苦楚，這是可喜愛的。For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

²⁰你們若因犯罪受責打，能忍耐，有甚麼可誇的呢？但你們若因行善受苦，能忍耐，這在　神看是可喜愛的。How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

跟隨基督的腳蹤

²¹你們蒙召原是為此；因基督也為你們受過苦，給你們留下榜樣，叫你們跟隨他的腳蹤行。For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

²²他並沒有犯罪，口裡也沒有詭詐。“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

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²³他被罵不還口；受害不說威嚇的話，只將自己交託那按公義審判人的主。When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

因他受的鞭傷

²⁴他被掛在木頭上，親身擔當了我們的罪，使我們既然在罪上死，就得以在義上活。因他受的鞭傷，你們便得了醫治。He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

²⁵你們從前好像迷路的羊，如今卻歸到你們靈魂的牧人監督了。For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.