今日读经

巴比伦使者来访

¹那时，巴比伦王巴拉但的儿子米罗达·巴拉但听见希西家病而痊愈，就送书信和礼物给他。At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.

²希西家喜欢见使者，就把自己宝库的金子、银子、香料、贵重的膏油，和他武库的一切军器，并所有的财宝都给他们看；他家中和全国之内，希西家没有一样不给他们看的。And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

以赛亚预言被掳到巴比伦

³于是先知以赛亚来见希西家王，问他说：“这些人说什么？他们从哪里来见你？”希西家说：“他们从远方的巴比伦来见我。”Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

⁴以赛亚说：“他们在你家里看见了什么？”希西家说：“凡我家中所有的，他们都看见了；我财宝中没有一样不给他们看的。”“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

⁵以赛亚对希西家说：“你要听万军之耶和华的话：Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:

⁶日子必到，凡你家里所有的，并你列祖积蓄到如今的，都要被掳到巴比伦去，不留下一样；这是耶和华说的。The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

⁷并且从你本身所生的众子，其中必有被掳去、在巴比伦王宫里当太监的。”And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

⁸希西家对以赛亚说：“你所说耶和华的话甚好，因为在我的年日中必有太平和稳固的景况。”But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

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安慰我的百姓

¹你们的　神说：你们要安慰，安慰我的百姓。“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

²要对耶路撒冷说安慰的话，又向她宣告说，她争战的日子已满了；她的罪孽赦免了；她为自己的一切罪，从耶和华手中加倍受罚。“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

在旷野预备耶和华的路

³有人声喊着说：在旷野预备耶和华的路（或译：在旷野，有人声喊着说：当预备耶和华的路），在沙漠地修平我们　神的道。A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

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⁴一切山洼都要填满，大小山冈都要削平；高高低低的要改为平坦，崎崎岖岖的必成为平原。Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

⁵耶和华的荣耀必然显现；凡有血气的必一同看见；因为这是耶和华亲口说的。And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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草必枯干，神的话永远立定

⁶有人声说：你喊叫吧！有一个说：我喊叫什么呢？说：凡有血气的尽都如草；他的美容都像野地的花。A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

⁷草必枯干，花必凋残，因为耶和华的气吹在其上；百姓诚然是草。The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

⁸草必枯干，花必凋残，惟有我们　神的话必永远立定。The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

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看哪，你们的神

⁹报好信息给锡安的啊，你要登高山；报好信息给耶路撒冷的啊，你要极力扬声。扬声不要惧怕，对犹大的城邑说：看哪，你们的　神！Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

¹⁰主耶和华必像大能者临到；他的膀臂必为他掌权。他的赏赐在他那里；他的报应在他面前。Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.

¹¹他必像牧人牧养自己的羊群，用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在怀中，慢慢引导那乳养小羊的。He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

谁能与神相比

¹²谁曾用手心量诸水，用手虎口量苍天，用升斗盛大地的尘土，用秤称山岭，用天平平冈陵呢？Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

¹³谁曾测度耶和华的心（或译：谁曾指示耶和华的灵），或作他的谋士指教他呢？Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

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¹⁴他与谁商议，谁教导他，谁将公平的路指示他，又将知识教训他，将通达的道指教他呢？Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

¹⁵看哪，万民都像水桶的一滴，又算如天平上的微尘；他举起众海岛，好像极微之物。Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

¹⁶黎巴嫩的树林不够当柴烧；其中的走兽也不够作燔祭。Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

¹⁷万民在他面前好像虚无，被他看为不及虚无，乃为虚空。All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

偶像算甚么

¹⁸你们究竟将谁比　神，用什么形象与　神比较呢？To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

¹⁹偶像是匠人铸造，银匠用金包裹，为它铸造银链。To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

²⁰穷乏献不起这样供物的，就拣选不能朽坏的树木，为自己寻找巧匠，立起不能摇动的偶像。One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

神坐在地球大圈之上

²¹你们岂不曾知道吗？你们岂不曾听见吗？从起初岂没有人告诉你们吗？自从立地的根基，你们岂没有明白吗？Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

²²神坐在地球大圈之上；地上的居民好像蝗虫。他铺张穹苍如幔子，展开诸天如可住的帐棚。He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

²³他使君王归于虚无，使地上的审判官成为虚空。He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

²⁴他们是刚才（或译：不曾；下同）栽上，刚才种上，根也刚才扎在地里，他一吹在其上，便都枯干；旋风将他们吹去，像碎秸一样。No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

²⁵那圣者说：你们将谁比我，叫他与我相等呢？“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

²⁶你们向上举目，看谁创造这万象，按数目领出，他一一称其名；因他的权能，又因他的大能大力，连一个都不缺。Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

等候耶和华的必重新得力

²⁷雅各啊，你为何说，我的道路向耶和华隐藏？以色列啊，你为何言，我的冤屈　神并不查问？Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

²⁸你岂不曾知道吗？你岂不曾听见吗？永在的　神耶和华，创造地极的主，并不疲乏，也不困倦；他的智慧无法测度。Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

²⁹疲乏的，他赐能力；软弱的，他加力量。He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

³⁰就是少年人也要疲乏困倦；强壮的也必全然跌倒。Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

³¹但那等候耶和华的必重新得力。他们必如鹰展翅上腾；他们奔跑却不困倦，行走却不疲乏。But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

基督是神的像，万有藉他而造

¹⁵爱子是那不能看见之　神的像，是首生的，在一切被造的以先。The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁶因为万有都是靠他造的，无论是天上的，地上的；能看见的，不能看见的；或是有位的，主治的，执政的，掌权的；一概都是借着他造的，又是为他造的。For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁷他在万有之先；万有也靠他而立。He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

基督是教会之首

¹⁸他也是教会全体之首。他是元始，是从死里首先复生的，使他可以在凡事上居首位。And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

¹⁹因为父喜欢叫一切的丰盛在他里面居住。For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

²⁰既然借着他在十字架上所流的血成就了和平，便借着他叫万有—无论是地上的、天上的—都与自己和好了。and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

藉基督与神和好

²¹你们从前与　神隔绝，因着恶行，心里与他为敌。Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

²²但如今他借着基督的肉身受死，叫你们与自己和好，都成了圣洁，没有瑕疵，无可责备，把你们引到自己面前。But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

²³只要你们在所信的道上恒心，根基稳固，坚定不移，不至被引动失去（原文是离开）福音的盼望。这福音就是你们所听过的，也是传与普天下万人听的（原文是凡受造的），我—保罗也作了这福音的执事。if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

为教会受苦

²⁴现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐；并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

²⁵我照　神为你们所赐我的职分作了教会的执事，要把　神的道理传得全备，I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,

历世历代隐藏的奥秘

²⁶这道理就是历世历代所隐藏的奥秘；但如今向他的圣徒显明了。the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.

²⁷神愿意叫他们知道，这奥秘在外邦人中有何等丰盛的荣耀，就是基督在你们心里成了有荣耀的盼望。To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

把各人完完全全引到神面前

²⁸我们传扬他，是用诸般的智慧，劝戒各人，教导各人，要把各人在基督里完完全全地引到　神面前。We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

²⁹我也为此劳苦，照着他在我里面运用的大能尽心竭力。To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.