今日读经

我的眼为泪的泉源

¹但愿我的头为水，我的眼为泪的泉源，我好为我百姓（原文是民女；七节同）中被杀的人昼夜哭泣。Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

²惟愿我在旷野有行路人住宿之处，使我可以离开我的民出去；因他们都是行奸淫的，是行诡诈的一党。If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

舌头像弓一样说谎

³他们弯起舌头像弓一样，为要说谎话。他们在国中增长势力，不是为行诚实，乃是恶上加恶，并不认识我。这是耶和华说的。“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

⁴你们各人当谨防邻舍，不可信靠弟兄；因为弟兄尽行欺骗，邻舍都往来谗谤人。“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

⁵他们各人欺哄邻舍，不说真话；他们教舌头学习说谎，劳劳碌碌地作孽。Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

⁶你的住处在诡诈的人中；他们因行诡诈，不肯认识我。这是耶和华说的。You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

我要镕化熬炼他们

⁷所以万军之耶和华如此说：看哪，我要将他们熔化熬炼；不然，我因我百姓的罪该怎样行呢？Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

⁸他们的舌头是毒箭，说话诡诈；人与邻舍口说和平话，心却谋害他。Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

⁹耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨他们的罪呢？岂不报复这样的国民呢？Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

耶路撒冷要变为乱堆

¹⁰我要为山岭哭泣悲哀，为旷野的草场扬声哀号；因为都已干焦，甚至无人经过。人也听不见牲畜鸣叫，空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽都已逃去。I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

¹¹我必使耶路撒冷变为乱堆，为野狗的住处，也必使犹大的城邑变为荒场，无人居住。“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

遍地为何灭亡

¹²谁是智慧人，可以明白这事？耶和华的口向谁说过，使他可以传说？遍地为何灭亡，干焦好像旷野，甚至无人经过呢？Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

¹³耶和华说：“因为这百姓离弃我，在他们面前所设立的律法没有遵行，也没有听从我的话；And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

¹⁴只随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的随从众巴力。”Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

¹⁵所以万军之耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：“看哪，我必将茵蔯给这百姓吃，又将苦胆水给他们喝。Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

¹⁶我要把他们散在列邦中，就是他们和他们列祖素不认识的列邦。我也要使刀剑追杀他们，直到将他们灭尽。”I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

召善哭的妇女来

¹⁷万军之耶和华如此说：你们应当思想，将善唱哀歌的妇女召来，又打发人召善哭的妇女来，This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

¹⁸叫她们速速为我们举哀，使我们眼泪汪汪，使我们的眼皮涌出水来。Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

¹⁹因为听见哀声出于锡安，说：我们怎样败落了！我们大大地惭愧！我们撇下地土；人也拆毁了我们的房屋。For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

²⁰妇女们哪，你们当听耶和华的话，领受他口中的言语；又当教导你们的儿女举哀，各人教导邻舍唱哀歌。Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

²¹因为死亡上来，进了我们的窗户，入了我们的宫殿；要从外边剪除孩童，从街上剪除少年人。For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

²²你当说，耶和华如此说：人的尸首必倒在田野像粪土，又像收割的人遗落的一把禾稼，无人收取。Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

要因认识神夸口

²³耶和华如此说：“智慧人不要因他的智慧夸口，勇士不要因他的勇力夸口，财主不要因他的财物夸口。This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

²⁴夸口的却因他有聪明，认识我是耶和华，又知道我喜悦在世上施行慈爱、公平，和公义，以此夸口。这是耶和华说的。”But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

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心未受割礼的必受刑罚

²⁵耶和华说：“看哪，日子将到，我要刑罚一切受过割礼、心却未受割礼的，“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

²⁶就是埃及、犹大、以东、亚扪人、摩押人，和一切住在旷野剃周围头发的；因为列国人都没有受割礼，以色列人心中也没有受割礼。”Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

不要效法列国，偶像不能说话

¹以色列家啊，要听耶和华对你们所说的话。Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

²耶和华如此说：你们不要效法列国的行为，也不要为天象惊惶，因列国为此事惊惶。This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

³众民的风俗是虚空的；他们在树林中用斧子砍伐一棵树，匠人用手工造成偶像。For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

⁴他们用金银妆饰它，用钉子和锤子钉稳，使它不动摇。They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

⁵它好像棕树，是旋成的，不能说话，不能行走，必须有人抬着。你们不要怕它；它不能降祸，也无力降福。Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”

没有能比你的

⁶耶和华啊，没有能比你的！你本为大，有大能大力的名。There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

⁷万国的王啊，谁不敬畏你？敬畏你本是合宜的；因为在列国的智慧人中，虽有政权的尊荣，也不能比你。Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

⁸他们尽都是畜类，是愚昧的。偶像的训诲算什么呢？偶像不过是木头。But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

⁹有银子打成片，是从他施带来的，并有从乌法来的金子，都是匠人和银匠的手工，又有蓝色紫色料的衣服，都是巧匠的工作。Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

¹⁰惟耶和华是真　神，是活　神，是永远的王。他一发怒，大地震动；他一恼恨，列国都担当不起。But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

¹¹（你们要对他们如此说：不是那创造天地的神，必从地上从天下被除灭！）Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

用智慧建立世界的神

¹²耶和华用能力创造大地，用智慧建立世界，用聪明铺张穹苍。The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

¹³他一发声，空中便有多水激动；他使云雾从地极上腾；他造电随雨而闪，从他府库中带出风来。When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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¹⁴各人都成了畜类，毫无知识；各银匠都因他雕刻的偶像羞愧。他所铸的偶像本是虚假的，其中并无气息，Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁵都是虚无的，是迷惑人的工作；到追讨的时候必被除灭。They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

¹⁶雅各的分不像这些，因他是造作万有的主。以色列也是他产业的支派，万军之耶和华是他的名。The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

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收拾财物，准备被掳

¹⁷受围困的人哪，当收拾你的财物，从国中带出去。Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

¹⁸因为耶和华如此说：这时候，我必将此地的居民，好像用机弦甩出去，又必加害在他们身上，使他们觉悟。For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

¹⁹民说：祸哉！我受损伤；我的伤痕极其重大。我却说：这真是我的痛苦，必须忍受。Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

²⁰我的帐棚毁坏；我的绳索折断。我的儿女离我出去，没有了。无人再支搭我的帐棚，挂起我的幔子。My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

²¹因为牧人都成为畜类，没有求问耶和华，所以不得顺利；他们的羊群也都分散。For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

²²有风声！看哪，敌人来了！有大扰乱从北方出来，要使犹大城邑变为荒凉，成为野狗的住处。Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

求你从宽惩治我

²³耶和华啊，我晓得人的道路不由自己，行路的人也不能定自己的脚步。I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

²⁴耶和华啊，求你从宽惩治我，不要在你的怒中惩治我，恐怕使我归于无有。Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

²⁵愿你将忿怒倾在不认识你的列国中，和不求告你名的各族上；因为他们吞了雅各，不但吞了，而且灭绝，把他的住处变为荒场。Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

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问安

¹奉我们救主　神和我们的盼望基督耶稣之命，作基督耶稣使徒的保罗，Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

²写信给那因信主作我真儿子的提摩太。愿恩惠、怜悯、平安从父　神和我们主基督耶稣归与你！To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

制止传异教的人

³我往马其顿去的时候，曾劝你仍住在以弗所，好嘱咐那几个人不可传异教，As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines

⁴也不可听从荒渺无凭的话语和无穷的家谱；这等事只生辩论，并不发明　神在信上所立的章程。or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.

⁵但命令的总归就是爱；这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心，无伪的信心生出来的。The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

⁶有人偏离这些，反去讲虚浮的话，Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

⁷想要作教法师，却不明白自己所讲说的所论定的。They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

律法原是好的

⁸我们知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

⁹因为律法不是为义人设立的，乃是为不法和不服的，不虔诚和犯罪的，不圣洁和恋世俗的，弑父母和杀人的，We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

¹⁰行淫和亲男色的，抢人口和说谎话的，并起假誓的，或是为别样敌正道的事设立的。for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

¹¹这是照着可称颂之　神交托我荣耀福音说的。that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

保罗蒙了怜悯

¹²我感谢那给我力量的我们主基督耶稣，因他以我有忠心，派我服事他。I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, that He considered me faithful and appointed me to service.

¹³我从前是亵渎　神的，逼迫人的，侮慢人的；然而我还蒙了怜悯，因我是不信不明白的时候而做的。I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

¹⁴并且我主的恩是格外丰盛，使我在基督耶稣里有信心和爱心。And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

基督耶稣降世拯救罪人

¹⁵“基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。”这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

¹⁶然而，我蒙了怜悯，是因耶稣基督要在我这罪魁身上显明他一切的忍耐，给后来信他得永生的人作榜样。But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

颂赞独一的神

¹⁷但愿尊贵、荣耀归与那不能朽坏、不能看见、永世的君王、独一的　神，直到永永远远。阿们！Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

打那美好的仗

¹⁸我儿提摩太啊，我照从前指着你的预言，将这命令交托你，叫你因此可以打那美好的仗。Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

¹⁹常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

²⁰其中有许米乃和亚历山大；我已经把他们交给撒但，使他们受责罚就不再谤渎了。Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.