今日读经

巴比伦的神像自身难保

¹彼勒屈身，尼波弯腰；巴比伦的偶像驮在兽和牲畜上。他们所抬的如今成了重驮，使牲畜疲乏，Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

²都一同弯腰屈身，不能保全重驮，自己倒被掳去。The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

神从出生到年老都怀搋你

³雅各家，以色列家一切余剩的要听我言：你们自从生下，就蒙我保抱，自从出胎，便蒙我怀搋。“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

⁴直到你们年老，我仍这样；直到你们发白，我仍怀搋。我已造作，也必保抱；我必怀抱，也必拯救。Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

谁能与神相比

⁵你们将谁与我相比，与我同等，可以与我比较，使我们相同呢？To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?

⁶那从囊中抓金子，用天平平银子的人，雇银匠制造神像，他们又俯伏，又叩拜。They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

⁷他们将神像抬起，扛在肩上，安置在定处，它就站立，不离本位；人呼求它，它不能答应，也不能救人脱离患难。They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

唯有神预言并成就

⁸你们当想念这事，自己作大丈夫。悖逆的人哪，要心里思想。Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

⁹你们要追念上古的事。因为我是　神，并无别神；我是　神，再没有能比我的。Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

¹⁰我从起初指明末后的事，从古时言明未成的事，说：我的筹算必立定；凡我所喜悦的，我必成就。I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

¹¹我召鸷鸟从东方来，召那成就我筹算的人从远方来。我已说出，也必成就；我已谋定，也必做成。I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

¹²你们这些心中顽梗、远离公义的，当听我言。Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

¹³我使我的公义临近，必不远离。我的救恩必不迟延；我要为以色列—我的荣耀，在锡安施行救恩。I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.

巴比伦从宝座跌落

¹巴比伦的处女啊，下来坐在尘埃；迦勒底的闺女啊，没有宝座，要坐在地上；因为你不再称为柔弱娇嫩的。“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

²要用磨磨面，揭去帕子，脱去长衣，露腿蹚河。Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

³你的下体必被露出；你的丑陋必被看见。我要报仇，谁也不宽容。Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

⁴我们救赎主的名是万军之耶和华—以色列的圣者。Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.

⁵迦勒底的闺女啊，你要默然静坐，进入暗中，因为你不再称为列国的主母。“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

⁶我向我的百姓发怒，使我的产业被亵渎，将他们交在你手中，你毫不怜悯他们，把极重的轭加在老年人身上。I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

⁷你自己说：我必永为主母，所以你不将这事放在心上，也不思想这事的结局。You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

自夸安稳，邪术星象也救不了

⁸你这专好宴乐、安然居住的，现在当听这话。你心中说：惟有我，除我以外再没有别的。我必不致寡居，也不遭丧子之事。So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

⁹哪知，丧子、寡居这两件事在一日转眼之间必临到你；正在你多行邪术、广施符咒的时候，这两件事必全然临到你身上。These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

¹⁰你素来倚仗自己的恶行，说：无人看见我。你的智慧聪明使你偏邪，并且你心里说：惟有我，除我以外再没有别的。You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

¹¹因此，祸患要临到你身，你不知何时发现（或译：如何驱逐）；灾害落在你身上，你也不能除掉；所不知道的毁灭也必忽然临到你身。But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

¹²站起来吧！用你从幼年劳神施行的符咒和你许多的邪术；或者可得益处，或者可得强胜。So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

¹³你筹划太多，以致疲倦。让那些观天象的，看星宿的，在月朔说预言的，都站起来，救你脱离所要临到你的事。You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

¹⁴他们要像碎秸被火焚烧，不能救自己脱离火焰之力；这火并非可烤的炭火，也不是可以坐在其前的火。Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

¹⁵你所劳神的事都要这样与你无益；从幼年与你贸易的也都各奔各乡，无人救你。This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

神为自己的名预先说明

¹雅各家，称为以色列名下，从犹大水源出来的，当听我言！你们指着耶和华的名起誓，提说以色列的　神，却不凭诚实，不凭公义。“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

²他们自称为圣城的人，所倚靠的是名为万军之耶和华—以色列的　神。who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.

³主说：早先的事，我从古时说明，已经出了我的口，也是我所指示的；我忽然行做，事便成就。I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

⁴因为我素来知道你是顽梗的—你的颈项是铁的；你的额是铜的。For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

⁵所以，我从古时将这事给你说明，在未成以先指示你，免得你说：这些事是我的偶像所行的，是我雕刻的偶像和我铸造的偶像所命定的。Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’

⁶你已经听见，现在要看见这一切；你不说明吗？从今以后，我将新事，就是你所不知道的隐密事指示你。You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.

⁷这事是现今造的，并非从古就有；在今日以先，你也未曾听见，免得你说：这事我早已知道了。They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’

⁸你未曾听见，未曾知道；你的耳朵从来未曾开通。我原知道你行事极其诡诈，你自从出胎以来，便称为悖逆的。You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

⁹我为我的名暂且忍怒，为我的颂赞向你容忍，不将你剪除。For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

¹⁰我熬炼你，却不像熬炼银子；你在苦难的炉中，我拣选你。See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹我为自己的缘故必行这事，我焉能使我的名被亵渎？我必不将我的荣耀归给假神。For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

神呼召祂所拣选的人

¹²雅各—我所选召的以色列啊，当听我言：我是耶和华，我是首先的，也是末后的。Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.

¹³我手立了地的根基；我右手铺张诸天；我一招呼便都立住。Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

¹⁴你们都当聚集而听，他们（或译：偶像）内中谁说过这些事？耶和华所爱的人必向巴比伦行他所喜悦的事；他的膀臂也要加在迦勒底人身上。Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

¹⁵惟有我曾说过，我又选召他，领他来，他的道路就必亨通。I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.

¹⁶你们要就近我来听这话：我从起头并未曾在隐密处说话；自从有这事，我就在那里。现在，主耶和华差遣我和他的灵来（或译：耶和华和他的灵差遣我来）。Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.

若早听从，平安如河

¹⁷耶和华—你的救赎主，以色列的圣者如此说：我是耶和华—你的　神，教训你，使你得益处，引导你所当行的路。Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

¹⁸甚愿你素来听从我的命令！你的平安就如河水；你的公义就如海浪。If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

¹⁹你的后裔也必多如海沙；你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。他的名在我面前必不剪除，也不灭绝。Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

从巴比伦出来

²⁰你们要从巴比伦出来，从迦勒底人中逃脱，以欢呼的声音传扬说：耶和华救赎了他的仆人雅各！你们要将这事宣扬到地极。Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

²¹耶和华引导他们经过沙漠。他们并不干渴；他为他们使水从磐石而流，分裂磐石，水就涌出。They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.

²²耶和华说：恶人必不得平安！“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

仆人要作外邦人的光

¹众海岛啊，当听我言！远方的众民哪，留心而听！自我出胎，耶和华就选召我；自出母腹，他就提我的名。Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

²他使我的口如快刀，将我藏在他手荫之下；又使我成为磨亮的箭，将我藏在他箭袋之中；He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.

³对我说：你是我的仆人以色列；我必因你得荣耀。He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”

⁴我却说：我劳碌是徒然；我尽力是虚无虚空。然而，我当得的理必在耶和华那里；我的赏赐必在我　神那里。But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

⁵耶和华从我出胎，造就我作他的仆人，要使雅各归向他，使以色列到他那里聚集。原来耶和华看我为尊贵；我的　神也成为我的力量。And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—

⁶现在他说：你作我的仆人，使雅各众支派复兴，使以色列中得保全的归回尚为小事，我还要使你作外邦人的光，叫你施行我的救恩，直到地极。He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

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⁷救赎主—以色列的圣者耶和华对那被人所藐视、本国所憎恶、官长所虐待的如此说：君王要看见就站起，首领也要下拜；都因信实的耶和华，就是拣选你—以色列的圣者。Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”

悦纳的时候、拯救的日子

⁸耶和华如此说：在悦纳的时候，我应允了你；在拯救的日子，我济助了你。我要保护你，使你作众民的中保（中保：原文是约）；复兴遍地，使人承受荒凉之地为业。This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

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⁹对那被捆绑的人说：出来吧！对那在黑暗的人说：显露吧！他们在路上必得饮食，在一切净光的高处必有食物。to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

¹⁰不饥不渴，炎热和烈日必不伤害他们；因为怜恤他们的必引导他们，领他们到水泉旁边。They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

¹¹我必使我的众山成为大道；我的大路也被修高。I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.

¹²看哪，这些从远方来；这些从北方、从西方来；这些从秦（原文是希尼）国来。Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”

¹³诸天哪，应当欢呼！大地啊，应当快乐！众山哪，应当发声歌唱！因为耶和华已经安慰他的百姓，也要怜恤他困苦之民。Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

母亲怎能忘记孩子

¹⁴锡安说：耶和华离弃了我；主忘记了我。But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

¹⁵妇人焉能忘记她吃奶的婴孩，不怜恤她所生的儿子？即或有忘记的，我却不忘记你。“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

¹⁶看哪，我将你铭刻在我掌上；你的墙垣常在我眼前。Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

¹⁷你的儿女必急速归回；毁坏你的，使你荒废的，必都离你出去，Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

¹⁸你举目向四方观看；他们都聚集来到你这里。耶和华说：我指着我的永生起誓：你必要以他们为妆饰佩戴，以他们为华带束腰，像新妇一样。Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

¹⁹至于你荒废凄凉之处，并你被毁坏之地，现今众民居住必显为太窄；吞灭你的必离你遥远。For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

²⁰你必听见丧子之后所生的儿女说：这地方我居住太窄，求你给我地方居住。Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

²¹那时你心里必说：我既丧子独居，是被掳的，漂流在外。谁给我生这些？谁将这些养大呢？撇下我一人独居的时候，这些在哪里呢？Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

万民要把你的儿女带回

²²主耶和华如此说：我必向列国举手，向万民竖立大旗；他们必将你的众子怀中抱来，将你的众女肩上扛来。This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

²³列王必作你的养父；王后必作你的乳母。他们必将脸伏地，向你下拜，并舔你脚上的尘土。你便知道我是耶和华；等候我的必不致羞愧。Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

²⁴勇士抢去的岂能夺回？该掳掠的岂能解救吗？Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

²⁵但耶和华如此说：就是勇士所掳掠的，也可以夺回；强暴人所抢的，也可以解救。与你相争的，我必与他相争；我要拯救你的儿女。Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

²⁶并且我必使那欺压你的吃自己的肉，也要以自己的血喝醉，好像喝甜酒一样。凡有血气的必都知道我—耶和华是你的救主，是你的救赎主，是雅各的大能者。I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

穿上新人的品格

¹²所以，你们既是　神的选民，圣洁蒙爱的人，就要存（原文是穿；下同）怜悯、恩慈、谦虚、温柔、忍耐的心。Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

¹³倘若这人与那人有嫌隙，总要彼此包容，彼此饶恕；主怎样饶恕了你们，你们也要怎样饶恕人。Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

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¹⁴在这一切之外，要存着爱心，爱心就是联络全德的。And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

让基督的平安和道理住在心里

¹⁵又要叫基督的平安在你们心里作主；你们也为此蒙召，归为一体；且要存感谢的心。Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for to this you were called as members of one body. And be thankful.

¹⁶当用各样的智慧，把基督的道理丰丰富富地存在心里（或译：当把基督的道理丰丰富富地存在心里，以各样的智慧），用诗章、颂词、灵歌，彼此教导，互相劝戒，心被恩感，歌颂　神。Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

¹⁷无论做什么，或说话或行事，都要奉主耶稣的名，借着他感谢父　神。And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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家庭与主仆关系中的新人

¹⁸你们作妻子的，当顺服自己的丈夫，这在主里面是相宜的。Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

¹⁹你们作丈夫的，要爱你们的妻子，不可苦待她们。Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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²⁰你们作儿女的，要凡事听从父母，因为这是主所喜悦的。Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

²¹你们作父亲的，不要惹儿女的气，恐怕他们失了志气。Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

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²²你们作仆人的，要凡事听从你们肉身的主人，不要只在眼前事奉，像是讨人喜欢的，总要存心诚实敬畏主。Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

²³无论做什么，都要从心里做，像是给主做的，不是给人做的，Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,

²⁴因你们知道从主那里必得着基业为赏赐；你们所事奉的乃是主基督。because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

²⁵那行不义的必受不义的报应；主并不偏待人。Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

¹你们作主人的，要公公平平地待仆人，因为知道你们也有一位主在天上。Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

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祷告与说话

²你们要恒切祷告，在此警醒感恩。Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

³也要为我们祷告，求　神给我们开传道的门，能以讲基督的奥秘（我为此被捆锁），as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

⁴叫我按着所该说的话将这奥秘发明出来。Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should.

⁵你们要爱惜光阴，用智慧与外人交往。Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

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⁶你们的言语要常常带着和气，好像用盐调和，就可知道该怎样回答各人。Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.