今日讀經

神給巴錄的話

¹猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年，尼利亞的兒子巴錄將先知耶利米口中所說的話寫在書上。耶利米說：This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

²「巴錄啊，耶和華─以色列的　神說：“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

³巴錄（原文是你）曾說：『哀哉！耶和華將憂愁加在我的痛苦上，我因唉哼而困乏，不得安歇。』You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

⁴你要這樣告訴他，耶和華如此說：我所建立的，我必拆毀；我所栽植的，我必拔出；在全地我都如此行。Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

⁵你為自己圖謀大事嗎？不要圖謀！我必使災禍臨到凡有血氣的。但你無論往哪裡去，我必使你以自己的命為掠物。這是耶和華說的。」But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

論埃及：迦基米施之戰

¹耶和華論列國的話臨到先知耶利米。This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet

²論到關乎埃及王法老尼哥的軍隊：這軍隊安營在幼發拉底河邊的迦基米施，是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒在猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬第四年所打敗的。concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:

³你們要預備大小盾牌，往前上陣。“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

⁴你們套上車，騎上馬！頂盔站立，磨槍貫甲！Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

⁵我為何看見他們驚惶轉身退後呢？他們的勇士打敗了，急忙逃跑，並不回頭；驚嚇四圍都有！這是耶和華說的。Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

⁶不要容快跑的逃避；不要容勇士逃脫（或譯：快跑的不能逃避；勇士不能逃脫）；他們在北方幼發拉底河邊絆跌仆倒。“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

埃及像尼羅河漲發

⁷像尼羅河漲發，像江河之水翻騰的是誰呢？Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

⁸埃及像尼羅河漲發，像江河的水翻騰。他說：我要漲發遮蓋遍地；我要毀滅城邑和其中的居民。Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’

⁹馬匹上去吧！車輛急行吧！勇士，就是手拿盾牌的古實人和弗人（又作利比亞人），並拉弓的路德族，都出去吧！Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.

¹⁰那日是主─萬軍之耶和華報仇的日子，要向敵人報仇。刀劍必吞吃得飽，飲血飲足；因為主─萬軍之耶和華在北方幼發拉底河邊有獻祭的事。For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

¹¹埃及的民（原文是處女）哪，可以上基列取乳香去；你雖多服良藥，總是徒然，不得治好。Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

¹²列國聽見你的羞辱，遍地滿了你的哀聲；勇士與勇士彼此相碰，一齊跌倒。The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”

巴比倫要攻擊埃及

¹³耶和華對先知耶利米所說的話，論到巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒要來攻擊埃及地：This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

¹⁴你們要傳揚在埃及，宣告在密奪，報告在挪弗、答比匿說：要站起出隊，自作準備，因為刀劍在你四圍施行吞滅的事。“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’

¹⁵你的壯士為何被沖去呢？他們站立不住；因為耶和華驅逐他們，Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

¹⁶使多人絆跌；他們也彼此撞倒，說：起來吧！我們再往本民本地去，好躲避欺壓的刀劍。They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’

¹⁷他們在那裡喊叫說：埃及王法老不過是個聲音（或譯：已經敗亡）；他已錯過所定的時候了。There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’

¹⁸君王─名為萬軍之耶和華的說：我指著我的永生起誓：尼布甲尼撒（原文是他）來的勢派必像他泊在眾山之中，像迦密在海邊一樣。As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.

¹⁹住在埃及的民（原文是女子）哪，要預備擄去時所用的物件；因為挪弗必成為荒場，且被燒毀，無人居住。Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

肥美的母牛犢

²⁰埃及是肥美的母牛犢；但出於北方的毀滅（或譯：牛虻）來到了！來到了！Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

²¹其中的雇勇好像圈裡的肥牛犢，他們轉身退後，一齊逃跑，站立不住；因為他們遭難的日子、追討的時候已經臨到。Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

²²其中的聲音好像蛇行一樣。敵人要成隊而來，如砍伐樹木的手拿斧子攻擊他。Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

²³耶和華說：埃及的樹林雖然不能尋察（或譯：穿不過），敵人卻要砍伐，因他們多於蝗蟲，不可勝數。They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

²⁴埃及的民（原文是女子）必然蒙羞，必交在北方人的手中。The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”

神要刑罰埃及的神

²⁵萬軍之耶和華─以色列的　神說：「我必刑罰挪的亞捫（埃及尊大之神）和法老，並埃及與埃及的神，以及君王，也必刑罰法老和倚靠他的人。The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.

²⁶我要將他們交付尋索其命之人的手和巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒與他臣僕的手；以後埃及必再有人居住，與從前一樣。這是耶和華說的。」I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.

雅各啊，不要懼怕

²⁷我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！以色列啊，不要驚惶！因我要從遠方拯救你，從被擄到之地拯救你的後裔。雅各必回來，得享平靖安逸，無人使他害怕。But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

²⁸我的僕人雅各啊，不要懼怕！因我與你同在。我要將我所趕你到的那些國滅絕淨盡，卻不將你滅絕淨盡，倒要從寬懲治你，萬不能不罰你（不罰你：或譯以你為無罪）。這是耶和華說的。And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

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論非利士人

¹法老攻擊迦薩之先，有耶和華論非利士人的話臨到先知耶利米。This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

²耶和華如此說：有水從北方發起，成為漲溢的河，要漲過遍地和其中所有的，並城和其中所住的。人必呼喊；境內的居民都必哀號。This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

³聽見敵人壯馬蹄跳的響聲和戰車隆隆、車輪轟轟；為父的手就發軟，不回頭看顧兒女。at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

⁴因為日子將到，要毀滅一切非利士人，剪除幫助泰爾、西頓所剩下的人。原來耶和華必毀滅非利士人，就是迦斐託海島餘剩的人。For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

⁵迦薩成了光禿；平原中所剩的亞實基倫歸於無有。你用刀劃身，要到幾時呢？The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

耶和華的刀劍何時止息

⁶耶和華的刀劍哪，你到幾時才止息呢？你要入鞘，安靖不動。‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

⁷耶和華既吩咐你攻擊亞實基倫和海邊之地，他已經派定你，焉能止息呢？How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

來到施恩的寶座前

¹⁴我們既然有一位已經升入高天尊榮的大祭司，就是　神的兒子耶穌，便當持定所承認的道。Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.

¹⁵因我們的大祭司並非不能體恤我們的軟弱。他也曾凡事受過試探，與我們一樣，只是他沒有犯罪。For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

¹⁶所以，我們只管坦然無懼地來到施恩的寶座前，為要得憐恤，蒙恩惠，作隨時的幫助。Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

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大祭司的職分

¹凡從人間挑選的大祭司，是奉派替人辦理屬　神的事，為要獻上禮物和贖罪祭（或譯：要為罪獻上禮物和祭物）。Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

²他能體諒那愚蒙的和失迷的人，因為他自己也是被軟弱所困。He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.

³故此，他理當為百姓和自己獻祭贖罪。That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

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蒙神所召，像亞倫一樣

⁴這大祭司的尊榮，沒有人自取。惟要蒙　神所召，像亞倫一樣。No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.

⁵如此，基督也不是自取榮耀作大祭司，乃是在乎向他說「你是我的兒子，我今日生你」的那一位；So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.”

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⁶就如經上又有一處說：「你是照著麥基洗德的等次永遠為祭司。」And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

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因受苦學了順從

⁷基督在肉體的時候，既大聲哀哭，流淚禱告，懇求那能救他免死的主，就因他的虔誠蒙了應允。During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

⁸他雖然為兒子，還是因所受的苦難學了順從。Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

⁹他既得以完全，就為凡順從他的人成了永遠得救的根源，And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

¹⁰並蒙　神照著麥基洗德的等次稱他為大祭司。and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

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