今日讀經

我的眼為淚的泉源

¹但願我的頭為水，我的眼為淚的泉源，我好為我百姓（原文是民女；七節同）中被殺的人晝夜哭泣。Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

²惟願我在曠野有行路人住宿之處，使我可以離開我的民出去；因他們都是行姦淫的，是行詭詐的一黨。If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

舌頭像弓一樣說謊

³他們彎起舌頭像弓一樣，為要說謊話。他們在國中增長勢力，不是為行誠實，乃是惡上加惡，並不認識我。這是耶和華說的。“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

⁴你們各人當謹防鄰舍，不可信靠弟兄；因為弟兄盡行欺騙，鄰舍都往來讒謗人。“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

⁵他們各人欺哄鄰舍，不說真話；他們教舌頭學習說謊，勞勞碌碌地作孽。Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

⁶你的住處在詭詐的人中；他們因行詭詐，不肯認識我。這是耶和華說的。You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

我要鎔化熬煉他們

⁷所以萬軍之耶和華如此說：看哪，我要將他們鎔化熬煉；不然，我因我百姓的罪該怎樣行呢？Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

⁸他們的舌頭是毒箭，說話詭詐；人與鄰舍口說和平話，心卻謀害他。Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

⁹耶和華說：我豈不因這些事討他們的罪呢？豈不報復這樣的國民呢？Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

耶路撒冷要變為亂堆

¹⁰我要為山嶺哭泣悲哀，為曠野的草場揚聲哀號；因為都已乾焦，甚至無人經過。人也聽不見牲畜鳴叫，空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸都已逃去。I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

¹¹我必使耶路撒冷變為亂堆，為野狗的住處，也必使猶大的城邑變為荒場，無人居住。“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

遍地為何滅亡

¹²誰是智慧人，可以明白這事？耶和華的口向誰說過，使他可以傳說？遍地為何滅亡，乾焦好像曠野，甚至無人經過呢？Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

¹³耶和華說：「因為這百姓離棄我，在他們面前所設立的律法沒有遵行，也沒有聽從我的話；And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

¹⁴只隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的隨從眾巴力。」Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

¹⁵所以萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神如此說：「看哪，我必將茵蔯給這百姓吃，又將苦膽水給他們喝。Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

¹⁶我要把他們散在列邦中，就是他們和他們列祖素不認識的列邦。我也要使刀劍追殺他們，直到將他們滅盡。」I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

召善哭的婦女來

¹⁷萬軍之耶和華如此說：你們應當思想，將善唱哀歌的婦女召來，又打發人召善哭的婦女來，This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

¹⁸叫她們速速為我們舉哀，使我們眼淚汪汪，使我們的眼皮湧出水來。Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

¹⁹因為聽見哀聲出於錫安，說：我們怎樣敗落了！我們大大地慚愧！我們撇下地土；人也拆毀了我們的房屋。For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

²⁰婦女們哪，你們當聽耶和華的話，領受他口中的言語；又當教導你們的兒女舉哀，各人教導鄰舍唱哀歌。Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

²¹因為死亡上來，進了我們的窗戶，入了我們的宮殿；要從外邊剪除孩童，從街上剪除少年人。For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

²²你當說，耶和華如此說：人的屍首必倒在田野像糞土，又像收割的人遺落的一把禾稼，無人收取。Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

要因認識神誇口

²³耶和華如此說：「智慧人不要因他的智慧誇口，勇士不要因他的勇力誇口，財主不要因他的財物誇口。This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

²⁴誇口的卻因他有聰明，認識我是耶和華，又知道我喜悅在世上施行慈愛、公平，和公義，以此誇口。這是耶和華說的。」But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

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心未受割禮的必受刑罰

²⁵耶和華說：「看哪，日子將到，我要刑罰一切受過割禮、心卻未受割禮的，“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

²⁶就是埃及、猶大、以東、亞捫人、摩押人，和一切住在曠野剃周圍頭髮的；因為列國人都沒有受割禮，以色列人心中也沒有受割禮。」Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

不要效法列國，偶像不能說話

¹以色列家啊，要聽耶和華對你們所說的話。Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

²耶和華如此說：你們不要效法列國的行為，也不要為天象驚惶，因列國為此事驚惶。This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

³眾民的風俗是虛空的；他們在樹林中用斧子砍伐一棵樹，匠人用手工造成偶像。For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

⁴他們用金銀妝飾它，用釘子和錘子釘穩，使它不動搖。They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

⁵它好像棕樹，是鏇成的，不能說話，不能行走，必須有人抬著。你們不要怕它；它不能降禍，也無力降福。Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”

沒有能比你的

⁶耶和華啊，沒有能比你的！你本為大，有大能大力的名。There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

⁷萬國的王啊，誰不敬畏你？敬畏你本是合宜的；因為在列國的智慧人中，雖有政權的尊榮，也不能比你。Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

⁸他們盡都是畜類，是愚昧的。偶像的訓誨算甚麼呢？偶像不過是木頭。But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

⁹有銀子打成片，是從他施帶來的，並有從烏法來的金子，都是匠人和銀匠的手工，又有藍色紫色料的衣服，都是巧匠的工作。Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

¹⁰惟耶和華是真　神，是活　神，是永遠的王。他一發怒，大地震動；他一惱恨，列國都擔當不起。But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

¹¹（你們要對他們如此說：不是那創造天地的神，必從地上從天下被除滅！）Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

用智慧建立世界的神

¹²耶和華用能力創造大地，用智慧建立世界，用聰明鋪張穹蒼。The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

¹³他一發聲，空中便有多水激動；他使雲霧從地極上騰；他造電隨雨而閃，從他府庫中帶出風來。When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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¹⁴各人都成了畜類，毫無知識；各銀匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的，其中並無氣息，Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁵都是虛無的，是迷惑人的工作；到追討的時候必被除滅。They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

¹⁶雅各的分不像這些，因他是造作萬有的主。以色列也是他產業的支派，萬軍之耶和華是他的名。The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

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收拾財物，準備被擄

¹⁷受圍困的人哪，當收拾你的財物，從國中帶出去。Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

¹⁸因為耶和華如此說：這時候，我必將此地的居民，好像用機弦甩出去，又必加害在他們身上，使他們覺悟。For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

¹⁹民說：禍哉！我受損傷；我的傷痕極其重大。我卻說：這真是我的痛苦，必須忍受。Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

²⁰我的帳棚毀壞；我的繩索折斷。我的兒女離我出去，沒有了。無人再支搭我的帳棚，掛起我的幔子。My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

²¹因為牧人都成為畜類，沒有求問耶和華，所以不得順利；他們的羊群也都分散。For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

²²有風聲！看哪，敵人來了！有大擾亂從北方出來，要使猶大城邑變為荒涼，成為野狗的住處。Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

求你從寬懲治我

²³耶和華啊，我曉得人的道路不由自己，行路的人也不能定自己的腳步。I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

²⁴耶和華啊，求你從寬懲治我，不要在你的怒中懲治我，恐怕使我歸於無有。Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

²⁵願你將忿怒傾在不認識你的列國中，和不求告你名的各族上；因為他們吞了雅各，不但吞了，而且滅絕，把他的住處變為荒場。Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

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問安

¹奉我們救主　神和我們的盼望基督耶穌之命，作基督耶穌使徒的保羅，Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

²寫信給那因信主作我真兒子的提摩太。願恩惠、憐憫、平安從父　神和我們主基督耶穌歸與你！To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

制止傳異教的人

³我往馬其頓去的時候，曾勸你仍住在以弗所，好囑咐那幾個人不可傳異教，As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines

⁴也不可聽從荒渺無憑的話語和無窮的家譜；這等事只生辯論，並不發明　神在信上所立的章程。or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.

⁵但命令的總歸就是愛；這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心，無偽的信心生出來的。The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

⁶有人偏離這些，反去講虛浮的話，Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

⁷想要作教法師，卻不明白自己所講說的所論定的。They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

律法原是好的

⁸我們知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

⁹因為律法不是為義人設立的，乃是為不法和不服的，不虔誠和犯罪的，不聖潔和戀世俗的，弒父母和殺人的，We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

¹⁰行淫和親男色的，搶人口和說謊話的，並起假誓的，或是為別樣敵正道的事設立的。for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

¹¹這是照著可稱頌之　神交託我榮耀福音說的。that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

保羅蒙了憐憫

¹²我感謝那給我力量的我們主基督耶穌，因他以我有忠心，派我服事他。I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, that He considered me faithful and appointed me to service.

¹³我從前是褻瀆　神的，逼迫人的，侮慢人的；然而我還蒙了憐憫，因我是不信不明白的時候而做的。I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

¹⁴並且我主的恩是格外豐盛，使我在基督耶穌裡有信心和愛心。And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

基督耶穌降世拯救罪人

¹⁵「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

¹⁶然而，我蒙了憐憫，是因耶穌基督要在我這罪魁身上顯明他一切的忍耐，給後來信他得永生的人作榜樣。But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

頌讚獨一的神

¹⁷但願尊貴、榮耀歸與那不能朽壞、不能看見、永世的君王、獨一的　神，直到永永遠遠。阿們！Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

打那美好的仗

¹⁸我兒提摩太啊，我照從前指著你的預言，將這命令交託你，叫你因此可以打那美好的仗。Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

¹⁹常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心，就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

²⁰其中有許米乃和亞歷山大；我已經把他們交給撒但，使他們受責罰就不再謗瀆了。Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.