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耶和華與百姓爭辯

¹以色列人哪，當聽耶和華的話！要起來向山嶺爭辯，使岡陵聽你的話。Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

²山嶺和地永久的根基啊，要聽耶和華爭辯的話！因為耶和華要與他的百姓爭辯，與以色列爭論。Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

我向你做了甚麼呢

³我的百姓啊，我向你做了甚麼呢？我在甚麼事上使你厭煩？你可以對我證明。‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

⁴我曾將你從埃及地領出來，從作奴僕之家救贖你；我也差遣摩西、亞倫，和米利暗在你前面行。For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

⁵我的百姓啊，你們當追念摩押王巴勒所設的謀和比珥的兒子巴蘭回答他的話，並你們從什亭到吉甲所遇見的事，好使你們知道耶和華公義的作為。My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

當獻上甚麼呢

⁶我朝見耶和華，在至高　神面前跪拜，當獻上甚麼呢？豈可獻一歲的牛犢為燔祭嗎？With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

⁷耶和華豈喜悅千千的公羊，或是萬萬的油河嗎？我豈可為自己的罪過獻我的長子嗎？為心中的罪惡獻我身所生的嗎？Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

行公義，好憐憫，與神同行

⁸世人哪，耶和華已指示你何為善。他向你所要的是甚麼呢？只要你行公義，好憐憫，存謙卑的心，與你的　神同行。He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

詭詐的天平和法碼

⁹耶和華向這城呼叫，智慧人必敬畏他的名。你們當聽是誰派定刑杖的懲罰。The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.

¹⁰惡人家中不仍有非義之財和可惡的小升斗嗎？Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

¹¹我若用不公道的天平和囊中詭詐的法碼，豈可算為清潔呢？Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

¹²城裡的富戶滿行強暴；其中的居民也說謊言，口中的舌頭是詭詐的。For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

吃不飽，種不收

¹³因此，我擊打你，使你的傷痕甚重，使你因你的罪惡荒涼。Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

¹⁴你要吃，卻吃不飽；你的虛弱必顯在你中間。你必挪去，卻不得救護；所救護的，我必交給刀劍。You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

¹⁵你必撒種，卻不得收割；踹橄欖，卻不得油抹身；踹葡萄，卻不得酒喝。You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

¹⁶因為你守暗利的惡規，行亞哈家一切所行的，順從他們的計謀；因此，我必使你荒涼，使你的居民令人嗤笑，你們也必擔當我民的羞辱。You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

地上虔誠人滅盡

¹哀哉！我（或譯：以色列）好像夏天的果子已被收盡，又像摘了葡萄所剩下的，沒有一掛可吃的；我心羨慕初熟的無花果。Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

²地上虔誠人滅盡；世間沒有正直人；各人埋伏，要殺人流血，都用網羅獵取弟兄。The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

³他們雙手作惡；君王徇情面，審判官要賄賂；位分大的吐出惡意，都彼此結聯行惡。Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

⁴他們最好的，不過是蒺藜；最正直的，不過是荊棘籬笆。你守望者說，降罰的日子已經來到。他們必擾亂不安。The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

不要倚賴鄰舍

⁵不要倚賴鄰舍；不要信靠密友。要守住你的口；不要向你懷中的妻提說。Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

⁶因為，兒子藐視父親；女兒抗拒母親；媳婦抗拒婆婆；人的仇敵就是自己家裡的人。For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

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我要仰望耶和華

⁷至於我，我要仰望耶和華，要等候那救我的　神；我的　神必應允我。But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

我雖跌倒，卻要起來

⁸我的仇敵啊，不要向我誇耀。我雖跌倒，卻要起來；我雖坐在黑暗裡，耶和華卻作我的光。Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

⁹我要忍受耶和華的惱怒；因我得罪了他，直等他為我辨屈，為我伸冤。他必領我到光明中；我必得見他的公義。Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

¹⁰那時我的仇敵，就是曾對我說「耶和華─你　神在哪裡」的，他一看見這事就被羞愧遮蓋。我必親眼見他遭報；他必被踐踏，如同街上的泥土。Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

你的牆垣必重修

¹¹以色列啊，日子必到，你的牆垣必重修；到那日，你的境界必開展（或譯：命令必傳到遠方）。The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.

¹²當那日，人必從亞述，從埃及的城邑，從埃及到大河，從這海到那海，從這山到那山，都歸到你這裡。On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

¹³然而，這地因居民的緣故，又因他們行事的結果，必然荒涼。Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

求你牧放你的民

¹⁴求耶和華在迦密山的樹林中，用你的杖牧放你獨居的民，就是你產業的羊群。求你容他們在巴珊和基列得食物，像古時一樣。Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹⁵耶和華說：我要把奇事顯給他們看，好像出埃及地的時候一樣。As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.

¹⁶列國看見這事就必為自己的勢力慚愧；他們必用手摀口，掩耳不聽。Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

¹⁷他們必舔土如蛇，又如土中腹行的物，戰戰兢兢地出他們的營寨。他們必戰懼投降耶和華，也必因我們的　神而懼怕。They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

有何神像你

¹⁸神啊，有何神像你，赦免罪孽，饒恕你產業之餘民的罪過，不永遠懷怒，喜愛施恩？Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁹必再憐憫我們，將我們的罪孽踏在腳下，又將我們的一切罪投於深海。He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

²⁰你必按古時起誓應許我們列祖的話，向雅各發誠實，向亞伯拉罕施慈愛。You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

從海中上來的獸

¹我又看見一個獸從海中上來，有十角七頭，在十角上戴著十個冠冕，七頭上有褻瀆的名號。Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

²我所看見的獸，形狀像豹，腳像熊的腳，口像獅子的口。那龍將自己的能力、座位，和大權柄都給了牠。The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

死傷醫好，全地拜獸

³我看見獸的七頭中，有一個似乎受了死傷，那死傷卻醫好了。全地的人都希奇跟從那獸，One of the heads of the beast appeared to have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.

⁴又拜那龍─因為牠將自己的權柄給了獸，也拜獸，說：「誰能比這獸，誰能與牠交戰呢？」They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?”

說褻瀆話，與聖徒爭戰

⁵又賜給牠說誇大褻瀆話的口，又有權柄賜給牠，可以任意而行四十二個月。The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

⁶獸就開口向　神說褻瀆的話，褻瀆　神的名並他的帳幕，以及那些住在天上的。And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.

⁷又任憑牠與聖徒爭戰，並且得勝；也把權柄賜給牠，制伏各族、各民、各方、各國。Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

⁸凡住在地上、名字從創世以來沒有記在被殺之羔羊生命冊上的人，都要拜牠。And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

凡有耳的，就應當聽

⁹凡有耳的，就應當聽！He who has an ear, let him hear:

¹⁰擄掠人的，必被擄掠；用刀殺人的，必被刀殺。聖徒的忍耐和信心就是在此。“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.

從地中上來的獸

¹¹我又看見另有一個獸從地中上來，有兩角如同羊羔，說話好像龍。Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.

¹²牠在頭一個獸面前，施行頭一個獸所有的權柄，並且叫地和住在地上的人拜那死傷醫好的頭一個獸。And this beast exercised all the authority of the first beast and caused the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.

¹³又行大奇事，甚至在人面前，叫火從天降在地上。And the second beast performed great signs, even causing fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people.

叫人為獸作像

¹⁴牠因賜給牠權柄在獸面前能行奇事，就迷惑住在地上的人，說：「要給那受刀傷還活著的獸作個像。」Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

¹⁵又有權柄賜給牠，叫獸像有生氣，並且能說話，又叫所有不拜獸像的人都被殺害。The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.

獸的印記

¹⁶牠又叫眾人，無論大小、貧富、自主的、為奴的，都在右手上或是在額上受一個印記。And the second beast required all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

¹⁷除了那受印記、有了獸名或有獸名數目的，都不得做買賣。so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.

六百六十六

¹⁸在這裡有智慧：凡有聰明的，可以算計獸的數目；因為這是人的數目，它的數目是六百六十六。Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.