今日讀經

站在聖殿門口宣講

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

²「你當站在耶和華殿的門口，在那裡宣傳這話說：你們進這些門敬拜耶和華的一切猶大人，當聽耶和華的話。“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

³萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：你們改正行動作為，我就使你們在這地方仍然居住。Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

不要倚靠虛謊的話

⁴你們不要倚靠虛謊的話，說：『這些是耶和華的殿，是耶和華的殿，是耶和華的殿！』Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

⁵「你們若實在改正行動作為，在人和鄰舍中間誠然施行公平，For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

⁶不欺壓寄居的和孤兒寡婦，在這地方不流無辜人的血，也不隨從別神陷害自己，if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

⁷我就使你們在這地方仍然居住，就是我古時所賜給你們列祖的地，直到永遠。then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

聖殿豈可成為賊窩

⁸「看哪，你們倚靠虛謊無益的話。But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

⁹你們偷盜，殺害，姦淫，起假誓，向巴力燒香，並隨從素不認識的別神，Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

¹⁰且來到這稱為我名下的殿，在我面前敬拜；又說：『我們可以自由了。』你們這樣的舉動是要行那些可憎的事嗎？and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

¹¹這稱為我名下的殿在你們眼中豈可看為賊窩嗎？我都看見了。這是耶和華說的。Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

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往示羅去察看

¹²你們且往示羅去，就是我先前立為我名的居所，察看我因這百姓以色列的罪惡向那地所行的如何。」But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

¹³耶和華說：「現在因你們行了這一切的事，我也從早起來警戒你們，你們卻不聽從；呼喚你們，你們卻不答應。And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

¹⁴所以我要向這稱為我名下、你們所倚靠的殿，與我所賜給你們和你們列祖的地施行，照我從前向示羅所行的一樣。therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

¹⁵我必將你們從我眼前趕出，正如趕出你們的眾弟兄，就是以法蓮的一切後裔。」And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

不要為這百姓祈禱

¹⁶「所以，你不要為這百姓祈禱；不要為他們呼求禱告，也不要向我為他們祈求，因我不聽允你。As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

¹⁷他們在猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上所行的，你沒有看見嗎？Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁸孩子撿柴，父親燒火，婦女摶麵做餅，獻給天后，又向別神澆奠祭，惹我發怒。」The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

¹⁹耶和華說：「他們豈是惹我發怒呢？不是自己惹禍，以致臉上慚愧嗎？」But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

²⁰所以主耶和華如此說：「看哪，我必將我的怒氣和忿怒傾在這地方的人和牲畜身上，並田野的樹木和地裡的出產上，必如火著起，不能熄滅。」Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

聽從神的話勝於獻祭

²¹萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：「你們將燔祭加在平安祭上，吃肉吧！This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

²²因為我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來的那日，燔祭平安祭的事我並沒有提說，也沒有吩咐他們。For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

²³我只吩咐他們這一件說：『你們當聽從我的話，我就作你們的　神，你們也作我的子民。你們行我所吩咐的一切道，就可以得福。』but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

²⁴他們卻不聽從，不側耳而聽，竟隨從自己的計謀和頑梗的惡心，向後不向前。Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

²⁵自從你們列祖出埃及地的那日，直到今日，我差遣我的僕人眾先知到你們那裡去，每日從早起來差遣他們。From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

²⁶你們卻不聽從，不側耳而聽，竟硬著頸項行惡，比你們列祖更甚。Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

²⁷「你要將這一切的話告訴他們，他們卻不聽從；呼喚他們，他們卻不答應。When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

²⁸你要對他們說：這就是不聽從耶和華─他們　神的話、不受教訓的國民；從他們的口中，誠實滅絕了。」Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

剪髮舉哀，欣嫩子谷要稱為殺戮谷

²⁹耶路撒冷啊，要剪髮拋棄，在淨光的高處舉哀；因為耶和華丟掉離棄了惹他忿怒的世代。Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

³⁰耶和華說：「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事，將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中，污穢這殿。For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

³¹他們在欣嫩子谷建築陀斐特的邱壇，好在火中焚燒自己的兒女。這並不是我所吩咐的，也不是我心所起的意。」They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

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³²耶和華說：「因此，日子將到，這地方不再稱為陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒稱為殺戮谷。因為要在陀斐特葬埋屍首，甚至無處可葬；So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

³³並且這百姓的屍首必給空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸作食物，並無人鬨趕。The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

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³⁴那時，我必使猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街上，歡喜和快樂的聲音，新郎和新婦的聲音，都止息了，因為地必成為荒場。」I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

骸骨拋散在日月星辰之下

¹耶和華說：「到那時，人必將猶大王的骸骨和他首領的骸骨、祭司的骸骨、先知的骸骨，並耶路撒冷居民的骸骨，都從墳墓中取出來，“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

²拋散在日頭、月亮，和天上眾星之下，就是他們從前所喜愛、所事奉、所隨從、所求問、所敬拜的。這些骸骨不再收殮，不再葬埋，必在地面上成為糞土；They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.

³並且這惡族所剩下的民在我所趕他們到的各處，寧可揀死不揀生。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。」And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

人跌倒，不再起來嗎

⁴你要對他們說，耶和華如此說：人跌倒，不再起來嗎？人轉去，不再轉來嗎？So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

⁵這耶路撒冷的民，為何恆久背道呢？他們守定詭詐，不肯回頭。Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

⁶我留心聽，聽見他們說不正直的話。無人悔改惡行，說：我做的是甚麼呢？他們各人轉奔己路，如馬直闖戰場。I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

鸛鳥知道來去的定期

⁷空中的鸛鳥知道來去的定期；斑鳩燕子與白鶴也守候當來的時令；我的百姓卻不知道耶和華的法則。Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

文士的假筆

⁸你們怎麼說：我們有智慧，耶和華的律法在我們這裡？看哪，文士的假筆舞弄虛假。How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

⁹智慧人慚愧，驚惶，被擒拿；他們棄掉耶和華的話，心裡還有甚麼智慧呢？The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

¹⁰所以我必將他們的妻子給別人，將他們的田地給別人為業；因為他們從最小的到至大的都一味地貪婪，從先知到祭司都行事虛謊。Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

¹¹他們輕輕忽忽地醫治我百姓的損傷，說：平安了！平安了！其實沒有平安。They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

¹²他們行可憎的事知道慚愧嗎？不然，他們毫不慚愧，也不知羞恥。因此他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒；我向他們討罪的時候，他們必致跌倒。這是耶和華說的。Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

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葡萄樹上沒有葡萄

¹³耶和華說：我必使他們全然滅絕；葡萄樹上必沒有葡萄，無花果樹上必沒有果子，葉子也必枯乾。我所賜給他們的，必離開他們過去。I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

¹⁴我們為何靜坐不動呢？我們當聚集，進入堅固城，在那裡靜默不言；因為耶和華─我們的　神使我們靜默不言，又將苦膽水給我們喝，都因我們得罪了耶和華。Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

¹⁵我們指望平安，卻得不著好處；指望痊癒的時候，不料，受了驚惶。We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

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¹⁶聽見從但那裡敵人的馬噴鼻氣，他的壯馬發嘶聲，全地就都震動；因為他們來吞滅這地和其上所有的，吞滅這城與其中的居民。The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

¹⁷看哪，我必使毒蛇到你們中間，是不服法術的，必咬你們。這是耶和華說的。“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

在基列豈沒有乳香

¹⁸我有憂愁，願能自慰；我心在我裡面發昏。My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

¹⁹聽啊，是我百姓的哀聲從極遠之地而來，說：耶和華不在錫安嗎？錫安的王不在其中麼？耶和華說：他們為甚麼以雕刻的偶像和外邦虛無的神惹我發怒呢？Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

²⁰麥秋已過，夏令已完，我們還未得救！“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

²¹先知說：因我百姓的損傷，我也受了損傷。我哀痛，驚惶將我抓住。For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

²²在基列豈沒有乳香呢？在那裡豈沒有醫生呢？我百姓為何不得痊癒呢？Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

遠離不按規矩而行的人

⁶弟兄們，我們奉主耶穌基督的名吩咐你們，凡有弟兄不按規矩而行，不遵守從我們所受的教訓，就當遠離他。Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

保羅晝夜做工作榜樣

⁷你們自己原知道應當怎樣效法我們。因為我們在你們中間，未嘗不按規矩而行，For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

⁸也未嘗白吃人的飯，倒是辛苦勞碌，晝夜做工，免得叫你們一人受累。nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

⁹這並不是因我們沒有權柄，乃是要給你們作榜樣，叫你們效法我們。Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

不肯做工就不可吃飯

¹⁰我們在你們那裡的時候，曾吩咐你們說，若有人不肯做工，就不可吃飯。For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

¹¹因我們聽說，在你們中間有人不按規矩而行，甚麼工都不做，反倒專管閒事。For we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives, accomplishing nothing, but being busybodies.

¹²我們靠主耶穌基督吩咐、勸戒這樣的人，要安靜做工，吃自己的飯。We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

行善不可喪志

¹³弟兄們，你們行善不可喪志。But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

¹⁴若有人不聽從我們這信上的話，要記下他，不和他交往，叫他自覺羞愧。Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

¹⁵但不要以他為仇人，要勸他如弟兄。Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

祝福與親筆問安

¹⁶願賜平安的主隨時隨事親自給你們平安！願主常與你們眾人同在！Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

¹⁷我─保羅親筆問你們安。凡我的信都以此為記，我的筆跡就是這樣。This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is my mark in every letter; it is the way I write.

¹⁸願我們主耶穌基督的恩常與你們眾人同在！The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.