今日读经

不听从这约的必受咒诅

¹耶和华的话临到耶利米说：This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

²“当听这约的话，告诉犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民，“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

³对他们说，耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：不听从这约之话的人必受咒诅。You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

⁴这约是我将你们列祖从埃及地领出来、脱离铁炉的那日所吩咐他们的，说：‘你们要听从我的话，照我一切所吩咐的去行。’这样，你们就作我的子民，我也作你们的　神；which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’

⁵我好坚定向你们列祖所起的誓，给他们流奶与蜜之地，正如今日一样。”我就回答说：“耶和华啊，阿们！”This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

⁶耶和华对我说：“你要在犹大城邑中和耶路撒冷街市上，宣告这一切话说：你们当听从遵行这约的话。Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

⁷因为我将你们列祖从埃及地领出来的那日，直到今日，都是从早起来，切切告诫他们说：‘你们当听从我的话。’For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’

⁸他们却不听从，不侧耳而听，竟随从自己顽梗的恶心去行。所以我使这约中一切咒诅的话临到他们身上；这约是我吩咐他们行的，他们却不去行。”Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

犹大背约拜别神

⁹耶和华对我说：“在犹大人和耶路撒冷居民中有同谋背叛的事。And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

¹⁰他们转去效法他们的先祖，不肯听我的话，犯罪作孽，又随从别神，事奉它。以色列家和犹大家背了我与他们列祖所立的约。”They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

¹¹所以耶和华如此说：“我必使灾祸临到他们，是他们不能逃脱的。他们必向我哀求，我却不听。Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

¹²那时，犹大城邑的人和耶路撒冷的居民要去哀求他们烧香所供奉的神；只是遭难的时候，这些神毫不拯救他们。Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.

¹³犹大啊，你神的数目与你城的数目相等；你为那可耻的巴力所筑烧香的坛也与耶路撒冷街道的数目相等。Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

不要为这百姓祈祷

¹⁴“所以你不要为这百姓祈祷，不要为他们呼求祷告；因为他们遭难向我哀求的时候，我必不应允。As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.

¹⁵我所亲爱的，既行许多淫乱，圣肉也离了你，你在我殿中做什么呢？你作恶就喜乐。What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.

¹⁶从前耶和华给你起名叫青橄榄树，又华美又结好果子；如今他用哄嚷之声，点火在其上，枝子也被折断。The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.

¹⁷原来栽培你的万军之耶和华已经说，要降祸攻击你，是因以色列家和犹大家行恶，向巴力烧香，惹我发怒，是自作自受。”The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

亚拿突人谋害耶利米

¹⁸耶和华指示我，我就知道；你将他们所行的给我指明。And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

¹⁹我却像柔顺的羊羔被牵到宰杀之地；我并不知道他们设计谋害我，说：我们把树连果子都灭了吧！将他从活人之地剪除，使他的名不再被纪念。For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

²⁰按公义判断、察验人肺腑心肠的万军之耶和华啊，我却要见你在他们身上报仇，因我将我的案件向你禀明了。O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

²¹所以，耶和华论到寻索你命的亚拿突人如此说：“他们说：你不要奉耶和华的名说预言，免得你死在我们手中。Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”

²²所以万军之耶和华如此说：看哪，我必刑罚他们；他们的少年人必被刀剑杀死，他们的儿女必因饥荒灭亡，So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

²³并且没有余剩的人留给他们；因为在追讨之年，我必使灾祸临到亚拿突人。”There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

恶人的道路为何亨通

¹耶和华啊，我与你争辩的时候，你显为义；但有一件，我还要与你理论：恶人的道路为何亨通呢？大行诡诈的为何得安逸呢？Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

²你栽培了他们，他们也扎了根，长大，而且结果。他们的口是与你相近，心却与你远离。You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

³耶和华啊，你晓得我，看见我，察验我向你是怎样的心。求你将他们拉出来，好像将宰的羊，叫他们等候杀戮的日子。But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

⁴这地悲哀，通国的青草枯干，要到几时呢？因其上居民的恶行，牲畜和飞鸟都灭绝了。他们曾说：他看不见我们的结局。How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

怎能与马赛跑呢

⁵耶和华说：你若与步行的人同跑，尚且觉累，怎能与马赛跑呢？你在平安之地，虽然安稳，在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

⁶因为连你弟兄和你父家都用奸诈待你。他们也在你后边大声喊叫，虽向你说好话，你也不要信他们。Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

神撇弃自己的产业

⁷我离了我的殿宇，撇弃我的产业，将我心里所亲爱的交在她仇敌的手中。I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.

⁸我的产业向我如林中的狮子，她发声攻击我，因此我恨恶她。My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

⁹我的产业向我岂如斑点的鸷鸟呢？鸷鸟岂在她四围攻击她呢？你们要去聚集田野的百兽，带来吞吃吧！Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

¹⁰许多牧人毁坏我的葡萄园，践踏我的分，使我美好的分变为荒凉的旷野。Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

¹¹他们使地荒凉；地既荒凉，便向我悲哀。全地荒凉，因无人介意。They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

¹²灭命的都来到旷野中一切净光的高处；耶和华的刀从地这边直到地那边尽行杀灭。凡有血气的都不得平安。Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

¹³他们种的是麦子，收的是荆棘；劳劳苦苦却毫无益处。因耶和华的烈怒，你们必为自己的土产羞愧。They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

给恶邻的应许与警告

¹⁴耶和华如此说：“一切恶邻，就是占据我使百姓以色列所承受产业的，我要将他们拔出本地，又要将犹大家从他们中间拔出来。This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

¹⁵我拔出他们以后，我必转过来怜悯他们，把他们再带回来，各归本业，各归故土。But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

¹⁶他们若殷勤学习我百姓的道，指着我的名起誓说：‘我指着永生的耶和华起誓’，正如他们从前教我百姓指着巴力起誓，他们就必建立在我百姓中间。And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

¹⁷他们若是不听，我必拔出那国，拔出而且毁灭。这是耶和华说的。”But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

埋坏的麻布腰带

¹耶和华对我如此说：“你去买一根麻布带子束腰，不可放在水中。”This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

²我就照着耶和华的话，买了一根带子束腰。So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.

³耶和华的话第二次临到我说：Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

⁴“要拿着你所买的腰带，就是你腰上的带子，起来往幼发拉底河去，将腰带藏在那里的磐石穴中。”“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

⁵我就去，照着耶和华所吩咐我的，将腰带藏在幼发拉底河边。So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

⁶过了多日，耶和华对我说：“你起来往幼发拉底河去，将我吩咐你藏在那里的腰带取出来。”Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

⁷我就往幼发拉底河去，将腰带从我所藏的地方刨出来，见腰带已经变坏，毫无用了。So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

⁸耶和华的话临到我说：Then the word of the LORD came to me:

⁹“耶和华如此说：我必照样败坏犹大的骄傲和耶路撒冷的大骄傲。“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

¹⁰这恶民不肯听我的话，按自己顽梗的心而行，随从别神，事奉敬拜，他们也必像这腰带变为无用。”These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

¹¹耶和华说：“腰带怎样紧贴人腰，照样，我也使以色列全家和犹大全家紧贴我，好叫他们属我为子民，使我得名声，得颂赞，得荣耀；他们却不肯听。”For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

各坛都要盛满了酒

¹²“所以你要对他们说：‘耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：各坛都要盛满了酒。’他们必对你说：‘我们岂不确知各坛都要盛满了酒呢？’Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’

¹³你就要对他们说：‘耶和华如此说：我必使这地的一切居民，就是坐大卫宝座的君王和祭司，与先知，并耶路撒冷的一切居民，都酩酊大醉。’”then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.

¹⁴耶和华说：“我要使他们彼此相碰，就是父与子彼此相碰；我必不可怜，不顾惜，不怜悯，以致灭绝他们。”I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

不要骄傲，当将荣耀归给神

¹⁵你们当听，当侧耳而听。不要骄傲，因为耶和华已经说了。Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.

¹⁶耶和华—你们的　神未使黑暗来到，你们的脚未在昏暗山上绊跌之先，当将荣耀归给他；免得你们盼望光明，他使光明变为死荫，成为幽暗。Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

¹⁷你们若不听这话，我必因你们的骄傲在暗地哭泣；我眼必痛哭流泪，因为耶和华的群众被掳去了。But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

君王和太后的华冠脱落

¹⁸你要对君王和太后说：你们当自卑，坐在下边；因你们的头巾，就是你们的华冠，已经脱落了。Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

¹⁹南方的城尽都关闭，无人开放；犹大全被掳掠，且掳掠净尽。The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

豹岂能改变斑点

²⁰你们要举目观看从北方来的人。先前赐给你的群众，就是你佳美的群众，如今在哪里呢？Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

²¹耶和华立你自己所交的朋友为首，辖制你，那时你还有什么话说呢？痛苦岂不将你抓住像产难的妇人吗？What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

²²你若心里说：这一切事为何临到我呢？你的衣襟揭起，你的脚跟受伤，是因你的罪孽甚多。And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

²³古实人岂能改变皮肤呢？豹岂能改变斑点呢？若能，你们这习惯行恶的便能行善了。Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

²⁴所以我必用旷野的风吹散他们，像吹过的碎秸一样。“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

²⁵耶和华说：这是你所当得的，是我量给你的分；因为你忘记我，倚靠虚假（或译：偶像）。This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

²⁶所以我要揭起你的衣襟，蒙在你脸上，显出你的丑陋。So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

²⁷你那些可憎恶之事—就是在田野的山上行奸淫，发嘶声，做淫乱的事—我都看见了。耶路撒冷啊，你有祸了！你不肯洁净，还要到几时呢？Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

为万人祷告

¹我劝你，第一要为万人恳求、祷告、代求、祝谢；First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyone—

²为君王和一切在位的，也该如此，使我们可以敬虔、端正、平安无事地度日。for kings and all those in authority—so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity.

³这是好的，在　神我们救主面前可蒙悦纳。This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

⁴他愿意万人得救，明白真道。who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

只有一位中保

⁵因为只有一位　神，在　神和人中间，只有一位中保，乃是降世为人的基督耶稣；For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶他舍自己作万人的赎价，到了时候，这事必证明出来。who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

⁷我为此奉派作传道的，作使徒，作外邦人的师傅，教导他们相信，学习真道。我说的是真话，并不是谎言。For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.

男人举起圣洁的手祷告

⁸我愿男人无忿怒，无争论（或译：疑惑），举起圣洁的手，随处祷告；Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

女人以善行为妆饰

⁹又愿女人廉耻、自守，以正派衣裳为妆饰，不以编发、黄金、珍珠，和贵价的衣裳为妆饰，Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

¹⁰只要有善行，这才与自称是敬　神的女人相宜。but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

女人要沉静学道

¹¹女人要沉静学道，一味地顺服。A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

¹²我不许女人讲道，也不许她辖管男人，只要沉静。I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

¹³因为先造的是亚当，后造的是夏娃，For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.

¹⁴且不是亚当被引诱，乃是女人被引诱，陷在罪里。And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

¹⁵然而，女人若常存信心、爱心，又圣洁自守，就必在生产上得救。Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.