今日讀經

禍哉，以法蓮的酒徒

¹禍哉！以法蓮的酒徒，住在肥美谷的山上，他們心裡高傲，以所誇的為冠冕，猶如將殘之花。Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

²看哪，主有一大能大力者，像一陣冰雹，像毀滅的暴風，像漲溢的大水，他必用手將冠冕摔落於地。Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

³以法蓮高傲的酒徒，他的冠冕必被踏在腳下。The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

⁴那榮美將殘之花，就是在肥美谷山上的，必像夏令以前初熟的無花果；看見這果的就注意，一到手中就吞吃了。The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

耶和華作餘民的榮冠

⁵到那日，萬軍之耶和華必作他餘剩之民的榮冠華冕，On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,

⁶也作了在位上行審判者公平之靈，並城門口打退仇敵者的力量。a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

祭司和先知東倒西歪

⁷就是這地的人也因酒搖搖晃晃，因濃酒東倒西歪。祭司和先知因濃酒搖搖晃晃，被酒所困，因濃酒東倒西歪。他們錯解默示，謬行審判。These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

⁸因為各席上滿了嘔吐的污穢，無一處乾淨。For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

命上加命，令上加令

⁹譏誚先知的說：他要將知識指教誰呢？要使誰明白傳言呢？是那剛斷奶離懷的嗎？Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

¹⁰他竟命上加命，令上加令，律上加律，例上加例，這裡一點，那裡一點。For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

¹¹先知說：不然，主要藉異邦人的嘴唇和外邦人的舌頭對這百姓說話。Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

¹²他曾對他們說：你們要使疲乏人得安息，這樣才得安息，才得舒暢，他們卻不肯聽。to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

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¹³所以，耶和華向他們說的話是命上加命，令上加令，律上加律，例上加例，這裡一點，那裡一點，以致他們前行仰面跌倒，而且跌碎，並陷入網羅被纏住。Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

與死亡立約

¹⁴所以，你們這些褻慢的人，就是轄管住在耶路撒冷這百姓的，要聽耶和華的話。Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

¹⁵你們曾說：我們與死亡立約，與陰間結盟；敵軍（原文是鞭子）如水漲漫經過的時候，必不臨到我們；因我們以謊言為避所，在虛假以下藏身。For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

錫安寶貴的房角石

¹⁶所以，主耶和華如此說：看哪，我在錫安放一塊石頭作為根基，是試驗過的石頭，是穩固根基，寶貴的房角石；信靠的人必不著急。So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

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¹⁷我必以公平為準繩，以公義為線鉈。冰雹必沖去謊言的避所；大水必漫過藏身之處。I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

¹⁸你們與死亡所立的約必然廢掉，與陰間所結的盟必立不住。敵軍（原文是鞭子）如水漲漫經過的時候，你們必被他踐踏；Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

¹⁹每逢經過必將你們擄去。因為每早晨他必經過，白晝黑夜都必如此。明白傳言的必受驚恐。As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

²⁰原來，床榻短，使人不能舒身；被窩窄，使人不能遮體。Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

²¹耶和華必興起，像在毘拉心山；他必發怒，像在基遍谷，好做成他的工，就是非常的工；成就他的事，就是奇異的事。For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

²²現在你們不可褻慢，恐怕捆你們的綁索更結實了；因為我從主─萬軍之耶和華那裡聽見，已經決定在全地上施行滅絕的事。So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

農夫耕種的比喻

²³你們當側耳聽我的聲音，留心聽我的言語。Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

²⁴那耕地為要撒種的，豈是常常耕地呢？豈是常常開墾耙地呢？Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

²⁵他拉平了地面，豈不就撒種小茴香，播種大茴香，按行列種小麥，在定處種大麥，在田邊種粗麥呢？When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

²⁶因為他的　神教導他務農相宜，並且指教他。For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

²⁷原來打小茴香，不用尖利的器具，軋大茴香，也不用碌碡（原文是車輪；下同）；但用杖打小茴香，用棍打大茴香。Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

²⁸做餅的糧食是用磨磨碎，因它不必常打；雖用碌碡和馬打散，卻不磨它。Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

²⁹這也是出於萬軍之耶和華─他的謀略奇妙；他的智慧廣大。This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

亞利伊勒被圍困

¹唉！亞利伊勒，亞利伊勒，大衛安營的城，任憑你年上加年，節期照常周流。Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

²我終必使亞利伊勒困難；她必悲傷哀號，我卻仍以她為亞利伊勒。And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

³我必四圍安營攻擊你，屯兵圍困你，築壘攻擊你。I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

⁴你必敗落，從地中說話；你的言語必微細出於塵埃。你的聲音必像那交鬼者的聲音出於地；你的言語低低微微出於塵埃。You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

仇敵忽然像飛糠散去

⁵你仇敵的群眾，卻要像細塵；強暴人的群眾，也要像飛糠。這事必頃刻之間忽然臨到。But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

⁶萬軍之耶和華必用雷轟、地震、大聲、旋風、暴風，並吞滅的火焰，向她討罪。you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

⁷那時，攻擊亞利伊勒列國的群眾，就是一切攻擊亞利伊勒和她的保障，並使她困難的，必如夢景，如夜間的異象；All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

⁸又必像飢餓的人夢中吃飯，醒了仍覺腹空；或像口渴的人夢中喝水，醒了仍覺發昏，心裡想喝。攻擊錫安山列國的群眾也必如此。as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.

沉睡的靈、封住的書卷

⁹你們等候驚奇吧！你們宴樂昏迷吧！他們醉了，卻非因酒；他們東倒西歪，卻非因濃酒。Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

¹⁰因為耶和華將沉睡的靈澆灌你們，封閉你們的眼，蒙蓋你們的頭。你們的眼就是先知；你們的頭就是先見。For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

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¹¹所有的默示，你們看如封住的書卷，人將這書卷交給識字的，說：「請念吧！」他說：「我不能念，因為是封住了。」And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

¹²又將這書卷交給不識字的人，說：「請念吧！」他說：「我不識字。」Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

嘴唇尊敬，心卻遠離

¹³主說：因為這百姓親近我，用嘴唇尊敬我，心卻遠離我；他們敬畏我，不過是領受人的吩咐。Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

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¹⁴所以，我在這百姓中要行奇妙的事，就是奇妙又奇妙的事。他們智慧人的智慧必然消滅，聰明人的聰明必然隱藏。Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”

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豈可看窯匠如泥

¹⁵禍哉！那些向耶和華深藏謀略的，又在暗中行事，說：誰看見我們呢？誰知道我們呢？Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

¹⁶你們把事顛倒了，豈可看窯匠如泥嗎？被製作的物豈可論製作物的說：他沒有製作我？或是被創造的物論造物的說：他沒有聰明？You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

聾子聽見，瞎子看見

¹⁷黎巴嫩變為肥田，肥田看如樹林，不是只有一點點時候嗎？In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

¹⁸那時，聾子必聽見這書上的話；瞎子的眼必從迷矇黑暗中得以看見。On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

¹⁹謙卑人必因耶和華增添歡喜；人間貧窮的必因以色列的聖者快樂。The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰因為，強暴人已歸無有，褻慢人已經滅絕，一切找機會作孽的都被剪除。For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

²¹他們在爭訟的事上定無罪的為有罪，為城門口責備人的設下網羅，用虛無的事屈枉義人。those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

²²所以，救贖亞伯拉罕的耶和華論雅各家如此說：雅各必不再羞愧，面容也不致變色。Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

²³但他看見他的眾子，就是我手的工作在他那裡，他們必尊我的名為聖，必尊雅各的聖者為聖，必敬畏以色列的　神。For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

²⁴心中迷糊的必得明白；發怨言的必受訓誨。Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

意念相同，存心謙卑

¹所以，在基督裡若有甚麼勸勉，愛心有甚麼安慰，聖靈有甚麼交通，心中有甚麼慈悲憐憫，Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

²你們就要意念相同，愛心相同，有一樣的心思，有一樣的意念，使我的喜樂可以滿足。then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.

³凡事不可結黨，不可貪圖虛浮的榮耀；只要存心謙卑，各人看別人比自己強。Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

⁴各人不要單顧自己的事，也要顧別人的事。Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

以基督耶穌的心為心

⁵你們當以基督耶穌的心為心：Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

⁶他本有　神的形像，不以自己與　神同等為強奪的；Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

⁷反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

⁸既有人的樣子，就自己卑微，存心順服，以至於死，且死在十字架上。And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.

神將他升為至高

⁹所以，　神將他升為至高，又賜給他那超乎萬名之上的名，Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

¹⁰叫一切在天上的、地上的，和地底下的，因耶穌的名無不屈膝，that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹¹無不口稱「耶穌基督為主」，使榮耀歸與父　神。and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

做成得救的工夫

¹²這樣看來，我親愛的弟兄，你們既是常順服的，不但我在你們那裡，就是我如今不在你們那裡，更是順服的，就當恐懼戰兢做成你們得救的工夫。Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

¹³因為你們立志行事都是　神在你們心裡運行，為要成就他的美意。For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

好像明光照耀

¹⁴凡所行的，都不要發怨言，起爭論，Do everything without complaining or arguing,

¹⁵使你們無可指摘，誠實無偽，在這彎曲悖謬的世代作　神無瑕疵的兒女。你們顯在這世代中，好像明光照耀，so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

¹⁶將生命的道表明出來，叫我在基督的日子好誇我沒有空跑，也沒有徒勞。as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

¹⁷我以你們的信心為供獻的祭物，我若被澆奠在其上，也是喜樂，並且與你們眾人一同喜樂。But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

¹⁸你們也要照樣喜樂，並且與我一同喜樂。So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

推薦提摩太

¹⁹我靠主耶穌指望快打發提摩太去見你們，叫我知道你們的事，心裡就得著安慰。Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.

²⁰因為我沒有別人與我同心，實在掛念你們的事。I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.

²¹別人都求自己的事，並不求耶穌基督的事。For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

²²但你們知道提摩太的明證；他興旺福音，與我同勞，待我像兒子待父親一樣。But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.

²³所以，我一看出我的事要怎樣了結，就盼望立刻打發他去；So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.

²⁴但我靠著主自信我也必快去。And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

推薦以巴弗提

²⁵然而，我想必須打發以巴弗提到你們那裡去。他是我的兄弟，與我一同做工，一同當兵，是你們所差遣的，也是供給我需用的。But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.

²⁶他很想念你們眾人，並且極其難過，因為你們聽見他病了。For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

²⁷他實在是病了，幾乎要死；然而　神憐恤他，不但憐恤他，也憐恤我，免得我憂上加憂。He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

²⁸所以我越發急速打發他去，叫你們再見他，就可以喜樂，我也可以少些憂愁。Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

²⁹故此，你們要在主裡歡歡樂樂地接待他，而且要尊重這樣的人；Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,

³⁰因他為做基督的工夫，幾乎至死，不顧性命，要補足你們供給我的不及之處。because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.