今日读经

重修荒场，作耶和华的祭司

⁴他们必修造已久的荒场，建立先前凄凉之处，重修历代荒凉之城。They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

⁵那时，外人必起来牧放你们的羊群；外邦人必作你们耕种田地的，修理葡萄园的。Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

⁶你们倒要称为耶和华的祭司；人必称你们为我们　神的仆役。你们必吃用列国的财物，因得他们的荣耀自夸。But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

⁷你们必得加倍的好处，代替所受的羞辱；分中所得的喜乐，必代替所受的凌辱。在境内必得加倍的产业；永远之乐必归与你们（原文是他们）。Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

神要与百姓立永约

⁸因为我—耶和华喜爱公平，恨恶抢夺和罪孽；我要凭诚实施行报应，并要与我的百姓立永约。For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹他们的后裔必在列国中被人认识；他们的子孙在众民中也是如此。凡看见他们的必认他们是耶和华赐福的后裔。Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

披上公义的袍

¹⁰我因耶和华大大欢喜；我的心靠　神快乐。因他以拯救为衣给我穿上，以公义为袍给我披上，好像新郎戴上华冠，又像新妇佩戴妆饰。I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

¹¹田地怎样使百谷发芽，园子怎样使所种的发生，主耶和华必照样使公义和赞美在万民中发出。For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

为锡安必不静默

¹我因锡安必不静默，为耶路撒冷必不息声，直到他的公义如光辉发出，他的救恩如明灯发亮。For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

²列国必见你的公义；列王必见你的荣耀。你必得新名的称呼，是耶和华亲口所起的。Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

³你在耶和华的手中要作为华冠，在你　神的掌上必作为冕旒。You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

你必称为“我所喜悦的”

⁴你必不再称为“撇弃的”；你的地也不再称为“荒凉的”。你却要称为“我所喜悦的”；你的地也必称为“有夫之妇”。因为耶和华喜悦你，你的地也必归他。No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

⁵少年人怎样娶处女，你的众民（民：原文是子）也要照样娶你；新郎怎样喜悦新妇，你的　神也要照样喜悦你。For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

城上的守望者

⁶耶路撒冷啊，我在你城上设立守望的，他们昼夜必不静默。呼吁耶和华的，你们不要歇息，On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,

⁷也不要使他歇息，直等他建立耶路撒冷，使耶路撒冷在地上成为可赞美的。nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

⁸耶和华指着自己的右手和大能的膀臂起誓说：我必不再将你的五谷给你仇敌作食物；外邦人也不再喝你劳碌得来的新酒。The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

⁹惟有那收割的要吃，并赞美耶和华；那聚敛的要在我圣所的院内喝。For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”

预备百姓的路

¹⁰你们当从门经过经过，预备百姓的路；修筑修筑大道，捡去石头，为万民竖立大旗，Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

¹¹看哪，耶和华曾宣告到地极，对锡安的居民（原文是女子）说：你的拯救者来到。他的赏赐在他那里；他的报应在他面前。Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”

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¹²人必称他们为“圣民”，为“耶和华的赎民”；你也必称为“被眷顾、不撇弃的城”。And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

从以东来的战士

¹这从以东的波斯拉来，穿红衣服，装扮华美，能力广大，大步行走的是谁呢？就是我，是凭公义说话，以大能施行拯救。Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

²你的装扮为何有红色？你的衣服为何像踹酒榨的呢？Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

³我独自踹酒榨；众民中无一人与我同在。我发怒将他们踹下，发烈怒将他们践踏。他们的血溅在我衣服上，并且污染了我一切的衣裳。“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

⁴因为，报仇之日在我心中；救赎我民之年已经来到。For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.

⁵我仰望，见无人帮助；我诧异，没有人扶持。所以，我自己的膀臂为我施行拯救；我的烈怒将我扶持。I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

⁶我发怒，踹下众民；发烈怒，使他们沉醉，又将他们的血倒在地上。I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

追想神古时的慈爱

⁷我要照耶和华一切所赐给我们的，提起他的慈爱和美德，并他向以色列家所施的大恩；这恩是照他的怜恤和丰盛的慈爱赐给他们的。I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

⁸他说：他们诚然是我的百姓，不行虚假的子民；这样，他就作了他们的救主。For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

⁹他们在一切苦难中，他也同受苦难；并且他面前的使者拯救他们；他以慈爱和怜悯救赎他们；在古时的日子常保抱他们，怀搋他们。In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰他们竟悖逆，使主的圣灵担忧。他就转作他们的仇敌，亲自攻击他们。But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

带领他们过海的在哪里

¹¹那时，他们（原文是他）想起古时的日子—摩西和他百姓，说：将百姓和牧养他全群的人从海里领上来的在哪里呢？将他的圣灵降在他们中间的在哪里呢？Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

¹²使他荣耀的膀臂在摩西的右手边行动，在他们前面将水分开，要建立自己永远的名，who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

¹³带领他们经过深处，如马行走旷野，使他们不致绊跌的在哪里呢？who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

¹⁴耶和华的灵使他们得安息，仿佛牲畜下到山谷；照样，你也引导你的百姓，要建立自己荣耀的名。Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

求你从天上垂顾

¹⁵求你从天上垂顾，从你圣洁荣耀的居所观看。你的热心和你大能的作为在哪里呢？你爱慕的心肠和怜悯向我们止住了。Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

¹⁶亚伯拉罕虽然不认识我们，以色列也不承认我们，你却是我们的父。耶和华啊，你是我们的父；从万古以来，你名称为“我们的救赎主”。Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

¹⁷耶和华啊，你为何使我们走差离开你的道，使我们心里刚硬、不敬畏你呢？求你为你仆人，为你产业支派的缘故，转回来。Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

¹⁸你的圣民不过暂时得这产业；我们的敌人已经践踏你的圣所。For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

¹⁹我们好像你未曾治理的人，又像未曾得称你名下的人。We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

讨神喜悦的生活

¹弟兄们，我还有话说：我们靠着主耶稣求你们，劝你们，你们既然受了我们的教训，知道该怎样行可以讨　神的喜悦，就要照你们现在所行的更加勉励。Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

²你们原晓得，我们凭主耶稣传给你们什么命令。For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

成为圣洁，远避淫行

³神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁，远避淫行；For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

⁴要你们各人晓得怎样用圣洁、尊贵守着自己的身体，each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

⁵不放纵私欲的邪情，像那不认识　神的外邦人。not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

⁶不要一个人在这事上越分，欺负他的弟兄；因为这一类的事，主必报应，正如我预先对你们说过、又切切嘱咐你们的。and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

⁷神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

⁸所以，那弃绝的，不是弃绝人，乃是弃绝那赐圣灵给你们的　神。Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

彼此相爱，安静做工

⁹论到弟兄们相爱，不用人写信给你们；因为你们自己蒙了　神的教训，叫你们彼此相爱。Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

¹⁰你们向马其顿全地的众弟兄固然是这样行，但我劝弟兄们要更加勉励。And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

¹¹又要立志作安静人，办自己的事，亲手做工，正如我们从前所吩咐你们的，and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

¹²叫你们可以向外人行事端正，自己也就没有什么缺乏了。Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

论到睡了的人

¹³论到睡了的人，我们不愿意弟兄们不知道，恐怕你们忧伤，像那些没有指望的人一样。Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

¹⁴我们若信耶稣死而复活了，那已经在耶稣里睡了的人，　神也必将他们与耶稣一同带来。For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

¹⁵我们现在照主的话告诉你们一件事：我们这活着还存留到主降临的人，断不能在那已经睡了的人之先。By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

主必亲自从天降临

¹⁶因为主必亲自从天降临，有呼叫的声音和天使长的声音，又有　神的号吹响；那在基督里死了的人必先复活。For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

¹⁷以后我们这活着还存留的人必和他们一同被提到云里，在空中与主相遇。这样，我们就要和主永远同在。After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

¹⁸所以，你们当用这些话彼此劝慰。Therefore encourage one another with these words.