今日读经

干旱之灾

¹耶和华论到干旱之灾的话临到耶利米：This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

²犹大悲哀，城门衰败。众人披上黑衣坐在地上；耶路撒冷的哀声上达。“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

³他们的贵胄打发家僮打水；他们来到水池，见没有水，就拿着空器皿，蒙羞惭愧，抱头而回。The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

⁴耕地的也蒙羞抱头；因为无雨降在地上，地都干裂。The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

⁵田野的母鹿生下小鹿，就撇弃，因为无草。Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

⁶野驴站在净光的高处，喘气好像野狗；因为无草，眼目失明。Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

求你为你名的缘故行事

⁷耶和华啊，我们的罪孽虽然作见证告我们，还求你为你名的缘故行事。我们本是多次背道，得罪了你。Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.

⁸以色列所盼望、在患难时作他救主的啊，你为何在这地像寄居的，又像行路的只住一宵呢？O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

⁹你为何像受惊的人，像不能救人的勇士呢？耶和华啊，你仍在我们中间；我们也称为你名下的人，求你不要离开我们。Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!

神不悦纳这百姓

¹⁰耶和华对这百姓如此说：这百姓喜爱妄行（原文是飘流），不禁止脚步，所以耶和华不悦纳他们。现今要记念他们的罪孽，追讨他们的罪恶。This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”

¹¹耶和华又对我说：“不要为这百姓祈祷求好处。Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.

¹²他们禁食的时候，我不听他们的呼求；他们献燔祭和素祭，我也不悦纳；我却要用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫灭绝他们。”Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”

揭穿假先知

¹³我就说：“唉！主耶和华啊，那些先知常对他们说：‘你们必不看见刀剑，也不遭遇饥荒；耶和华要在这地方赐你们长久的平安。’”“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

¹⁴耶和华对我说：“那些先知托我的名说假预言，我并没有打发他们，没有吩咐他们，也没有对他们说话；他们向你们预言的，乃是虚假的异象和占卜，并虚无的事，以及本心的诡诈。“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

¹⁵所以耶和华如此说：论到托我名说预言的那些先知，我并没有打发他们；他们还说这地不能有刀剑饥荒，其实那些先知必被刀剑饥荒灭绝。Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!

¹⁶听他们说预言的百姓必因饥荒刀剑抛在耶路撒冷的街道上，无人葬埋。他们连妻子带儿女，都是如此。我必将他们的恶倒在他们身上（或译：我必使他们罪恶的报应临到他们身上）。”And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

愿我眼泪汪汪

¹⁷你要将这话对他们说：愿我眼泪汪汪，昼夜不息，因为我百姓（原文是民的处女）受了裂口破坏的大伤。You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

¹⁸我若出往田间，就见有被刀杀的；我若进入城内，就见有因饥荒患病的；连先知带祭司在国中往来，也是毫无知识（或译：不知怎样才好）。If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

你全然弃掉犹大吗

¹⁹你全然弃掉犹大吗？你心厌恶锡安吗？为何击打我们，以致无法医治呢？我们指望平安，却得不着好处；指望痊愈，不料，受了惊惶。Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

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²⁰耶和华啊，我们承认自己的罪恶，和我们列祖的罪孽，因我们得罪了你。We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

²¹求你为你名的缘故，不厌恶我们，不辱没你荣耀的宝座。求你追念，不要背了与我们所立的约。For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

²²外邦人虚无的神中有能降雨的吗？天能自降甘霖吗？耶和华—我们的　神啊，能如此的不是你吗？所以，我们仍要等候你，因为这一切都是你所造的。Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

就是摩西和撒母耳代求

¹耶和华对我说：“虽有摩西和撒母耳站在我面前代求，我的心也不顾惜这百姓。你将他们从我眼前赶出，叫他们去吧！Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

²他们问你说：‘我们往哪里去呢？’你便告诉他们，耶和华如此说：定为死亡的，必致死亡；定为刀杀的，必交刀杀；定为饥荒的，必遭饥荒；定为掳掠的，必被掳掠。”If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

³耶和华说：“我命定四样害他们，就是刀剑杀戮、狗类撕裂、空中的飞鸟，和地上的野兽吞吃毁灭；I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

⁴又必使他们在天下万国中抛来抛去，都因犹大王希西家的儿子玛拿西在耶路撒冷所行的事。”I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

谁可怜耶路撒冷

⁵耶路撒冷啊，谁可怜你呢？谁为你悲伤呢？谁转身问你的安呢？Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

⁶耶和华说：你弃绝了我，转身退后；因此我伸手攻击你，毁坏你。我后悔甚不耐烦。You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

⁷我在境内各城门口（或译：我在这地边界的关口），用簸箕簸了我的百姓，使他们丧掉儿女。我毁灭他们，他们仍不转离所行的道。I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

⁸他们的寡妇在我面前比海沙更多；我使灭命的午间来，攻击少年人的母亲，使痛苦惊吓忽然临到她身上。I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

⁹生过七子的妇人力衰气绝；尚在白昼，日头忽落；她抱愧蒙羞。其余的人，我必在他们敌人跟前，交与刀剑。这是耶和华说的。The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.

耶利米的哀叹

¹⁰我的母亲哪，我有祸了！因你生我作为遍地相争相竞的人。我素来没有借贷与人，人也没有借贷与我，人人却都咒骂我。Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

¹¹耶和华说：“我必要坚固你，使你得好处。灾祸苦难临到的时候，我必要使仇敌央求你。The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

¹²（人岂能将铜与铁，就是北方的铁折断呢？）Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?

¹³“我必因你在四境之内所犯的一切罪，把你的货物财宝当掠物，白白地交给仇敌。Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

¹⁴我也必使仇敌带这掠物到你所不认识的地去，因我怒中起的火要将你们焚烧。”Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

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得着你的言语就当食物吃

¹⁵耶和华啊，你是知道的；求你记念我，眷顾我，向逼迫我的人为我报仇；不要向他们忍怒取我的命，要知道我为你的缘故受了凌辱。You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

¹⁶耶和华—万军之　神啊，我得着你的言语就当食物吃了；你的言语是我心中的欢喜快乐，因我是称为你名下的人。Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

¹⁷我没有坐在宴乐人的会中，也没有欢乐；我因你的感动（原文是手）独自静坐，因你使我满心愤恨。I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

¹⁸我的痛苦为何长久不止呢？我的伤痕为何无法医治、不能痊愈呢？难道你待我有诡诈，像流干的河道吗？Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

你若归回，可以当作我的口

¹⁹耶和华如此说：你若归回，我就将你再带来，使你站在我面前；你若将宝贵的和下贱的分别出来，你就可以当作我的口。他们必归向你，你却不可归向他们。Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

²⁰我必使你向这百姓成为坚固的铜墙；他们必攻击你，却不能胜你；因我与你同在，要拯救你，搭救你。这是耶和华说的。Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

²¹我必搭救你脱离恶人的手，救赎你脱离强暴人的手。I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

监督的资格

¹“人若想要得监督的职分，就是羡慕善工。”这话是可信的。This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

²作监督的，必须无可指责，只作一个妇人的丈夫，有节制，自守，端正，乐意接待远人，善于教导；An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

³不因酒滋事，不打人，只要温和，不争竞，不贪财；not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

好好管理自己的家

⁴好好管理自己的家，使儿女凡事端庄顺服（或译：端端庄庄地使儿女顺服）。An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

⁵人若不知道管理自己的家，焉能照管　神的教会呢？For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

⁶初入教的不可作监督，恐怕他自高自大，就落在魔鬼所受的刑罚里。He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

⁷监督也必须在教外有好名声，恐怕被人毁谤，落在魔鬼的网罗里。Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

执事的资格

⁸作执事的，也是如此：必须端庄，不一口两舌，不好喝酒，不贪不义之财；Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

⁹要存清洁的良心，固守真道的奥秘。They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

¹⁰这等人也要先受试验，若没有可责之处，然后叫他们作执事。Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

女执事也是如此

¹¹女执事（原文是女人）也是如此：必须端庄，不说谗言，有节制，凡事忠心。In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

¹²执事只要作一个妇人的丈夫，好好管理儿女和自己的家。A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

¹³因为善作执事的，自己就得到美好的地步，并且在基督耶稣里的真道上大有胆量。For those who have served well as deacons acquire for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

在神的家中当怎样行

¹⁴我指望快到你那里去，所以先将这些事写给你。Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these things

¹⁵倘若我耽延日久，你也可以知道在　神的家中当怎样行。这家就是永生　神的教会，真理的柱石和根基。in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

大哉，敬虔的奥秘

¹⁶大哉，敬虔的奥秘，无人不以为然！就是　神在肉身显现，被圣灵称义（或译：在灵性称义），被天使看见，被传于外邦，被世人信服，被接在荣耀里。By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.