今日读经

在窑匠的家里

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

²“你起来，下到窑匠的家里去，我在那里要使你听我的话。”“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”

³我就下到窑匠的家里去，正遇他转轮做器皿。So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

⁴窑匠用泥做的器皿，在他手中做坏了，他又用这泥另做别的器皿；窑匠看怎样好，就怎样做。But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

⁵耶和华的话就临到我说：Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁶耶和华说：“以色列家啊，我待你们，岂不能照这窑匠弄泥吗？以色列家啊，泥在窑匠的手中怎样，你们在我的手中也怎样。“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

国若回头，神就后悔

⁷我何时论到一邦或一国说，要拔出、拆毁、毁坏；At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

⁸我所说的那一邦，若是转意离开他们的恶，我就必后悔，不将我想要施行的灾祸降与他们。But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

⁹我何时论到一邦或一国说，要建立、栽植；And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

¹⁰他们若行我眼中看为恶的事，不听从我的话，我就必后悔，不将我所说的福气赐给他们。and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

百姓说：这是枉然

¹¹现在你要对犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民说：‘耶和华如此说：我造出灾祸攻击你们，定意刑罚你们。你们各人当回头离开所行的恶道，改正你们的行动作为。’Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

¹²“他们却说：‘这是枉然。我们要照自己的计谋去行。’各人随自己顽梗的恶心做事。”But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

百姓竟忘记神

¹³所以，耶和华如此说：你们且往各国访问，有谁听见这样的事？以色列民（原文是处女）行了一件极可憎恶的事。Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

¹⁴黎巴嫩的雪从田野的磐石上岂能断绝呢？从远处流下的凉水岂能干涸呢？Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

¹⁵我的百姓竟忘记我，向假神烧香，使他们在所行的路上，在古道上绊跌，使他们行没有修筑的斜路，Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

¹⁶以致他们的地令人惊骇，常常嗤笑；凡经过这地的必惊骇摇头。They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

¹⁷我必在仇敌面前分散他们，好像用东风吹散一样。遭难的日子，我必以背向他们，不以面向他们。I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

设计谋害耶利米

¹⁸他们就说：“来吧！我们可以设计谋害耶利米；因为我们有祭司讲律法，智慧人设谋略，先知说预言，都不能断绝。来吧！我们可以用舌头击打他，不要理会他的一切话。”Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

耶利米求神伸冤

¹⁹耶和华啊，求你理会我，且听那些与我争竞之人的话。Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

²⁰岂可以恶报善呢？他们竟挖坑要害我的性命！求你记念我怎样站在你面前为他们代求，要使你的忿怒向他们转消。Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

²¹故此，愿你将他们的儿女交与饥荒和刀剑；愿他们的妻无子，且作寡妇；又愿他们的男人被死亡所灭，他们的少年人在阵上被刀击杀。Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

²²你使敌军忽然临到他们的时候，愿人听见哀声从他们的屋内发出；因他们挖坑要捉拿我，暗设网罗要绊我的脚。Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

²³耶和华啊，他们要杀我的那一切计谋，你都知道。不要赦免他们的罪孽，也不要从你面前涂抹他们的罪恶，要叫他们在你面前跌倒；愿你发怒的时候罚办他们。But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

带着瓦瓶到欣嫩子谷

¹耶和华如此说：“你去买窑匠的瓦瓶，又带百姓中的长老和祭司中的长老，This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

²出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西（就是瓦片的意思）的门口那里，宣告我所吩咐你的话，and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

³说：‘犹大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪，当听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：我必使灾祸临到这地方，凡听见的人都必耳鸣；saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

⁴因为他们和他们列祖，并犹大君王离弃我，将这地方看为平常，在这里向素不认识的别神烧香，又使这地方满了无辜人的血，because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

⁵又建筑巴力的邱坛，好在火中焚烧自己的儿子，作为燔祭献给巴力。这不是我所吩咐的，不是我所提说的，也不是我心所起的意。They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

⁶耶和华说：因此，日子将到，这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒称为杀戮谷。So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

⁷我必在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋落空，也必使他们在仇敌面前倒于刀下，并寻索其命的人手下。他们的尸首，我必给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物。And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

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⁸我必使这城令人惊骇嗤笑；凡经过的人，必因这城所遭的灾惊骇嗤笑。I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

⁹我必使他们在围困窘迫之中，就是仇敌和寻索其命的人窘迫他们的时候，各人吃自己儿女的肉和朋友的肉。’I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

打碎瓦瓶

¹⁰“你要在同去的人眼前打碎那瓶，Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

¹¹对他们说：‘万军之耶和华如此说：我要照样打碎这民和这城，正如人打碎窑匠的瓦器，以致不能再囫囵。并且人要在陀斐特葬埋尸首，甚至无处可葬。and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

¹²耶和华说：我必向这地方和其中的居民如此行，使这城与陀斐特一样。This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

¹³耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大君王的宫殿是已经被玷污的，就是他们在其上向天上的万象烧香、向别神浇奠祭的宫殿房屋，都必与陀斐特一样。’”The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

在圣殿院中宣告

¹⁴耶利米从陀斐特—就是耶和华差他去说预言的地方—回来，站在耶和华殿的院中，对众人说：Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

¹⁵“万军之耶和华—以色列的　神如此说：我必使我所说的一切灾祸临到这城和属城的一切城邑，因为他们硬着颈项不听我的话。”“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

巴施户珥把耶利米上枷

¹祭司音麦的儿子巴施户珥作耶和华殿的总管，听见耶利米预言这些事，When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

²他就打先知耶利米，用耶和华殿里便雅悯高门内的枷，将他枷在那里。he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

³次日，巴施户珥将耶利米开枷释放。于是耶利米对他说：“耶和华不是叫你的名为巴施户珥，乃是叫你玛歌珥·米撒毕（就是四面惊吓的意思），The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

⁴因耶和华如此说：‘我必使你自觉惊吓，你也必使众朋友惊吓；他们必倒在仇敌的刀下，你也必亲眼看见；我必将犹大人全交在巴比伦王的手中，他要将他们掳到巴比伦去，也要用刀将他们杀戮。For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

⁵并且我要将这城中的一切货财和劳碌得来的，并一切珍宝，以及犹大君王所有的宝物，都交在他们仇敌的手中；仇敌要当作掠物带到巴比伦去。I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

⁶你这巴施户珥和一切住在你家中的人都必被掳去；你和你的众朋友，就是你向他们说假预言的，都必到巴比伦去，要死在那里，葬在那里。’”And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”

烧着的火闭塞在骨中

⁷耶和华啊，你曾劝导我，我也听了你的劝导。你比我有力量，且胜了我。我终日成为笑话，人人都戏弄我。You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

⁸我每逢讲论的时候，就发出哀声，我喊叫说：有强暴和毁灭！因为耶和华的话终日成了我的凌辱、讥刺。For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

⁹我若说：我不再提耶和华，也不再奉他的名讲论，我便心里觉得似乎有烧着的火闭塞在我骨中，我就含忍不住，不能自禁。If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

¹⁰我听见了许多人的谗谤，四围都是惊吓；就是我知己的朋友也都窥探我，愿我跌倒，说：告他吧，我们也要告他！或者他被引诱，我们就能胜他，在他身上报仇。For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

耶和华像甚可怕的勇士

¹¹然而，耶和华与我同在，好像甚可怕的勇士。因此，逼迫我的必都绊跌，不能得胜；他们必大大蒙羞，就是受永不忘记的羞辱，因为他们行事没有智慧。But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

¹²试验义人、察看人肺腑心肠的万军之耶和华啊，求你容我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 examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

¹³你们要向耶和华唱歌；赞美耶和华！因他救了穷人的性命脱离恶人的手。Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

愿我生的那日受咒诅

¹⁴愿我生的那日受咒诅；愿我母亲产我的那日不蒙福！Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

¹⁵给我父亲报信说“你得了儿子”，使我父亲甚欢喜的，愿那人受咒诅。Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

¹⁶愿那人像耶和华所倾覆而不后悔的城邑；愿他早晨听见哀声，晌午听见呐喊；May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

¹⁷因他在我未出胎的时候不杀我，使我母亲成了我的坟墓，胎就时常重大。because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

¹⁸我为何出胎见劳碌愁苦，使我的年日因羞愧消灭呢？Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

待人如待家人

¹不可严责老年人，只要劝他如同父亲；劝少年人如同弟兄；Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

²劝老年妇女如同母亲；劝少年妇女如同姊妹；总要清清洁洁的。older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

尊敬真为寡妇的

³要尊敬那真为寡妇的。Honor the widows who are truly widows.

⁴若寡妇有儿女，或有孙子孙女，便叫他们先在自己家中学着行孝，报答亲恩，因为这在　神面前是可悦纳的。But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

⁵那独居无靠、真为寡妇的，是仰赖　神，昼夜不住地祈求祷告。The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.

⁶但那好宴乐的寡妇正活着的时候也是死的。But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

⁷这些事你要嘱咐她们，叫她们无可指责。Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.

⁸人若不看顾亲属，就是背了真道，比不信的人还不好，不看顾自己家里的人，更是如此。If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

记在册子上的寡妇

⁹寡妇记在册子上，必须年纪到六十岁，从来只作一个丈夫的妻子，A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband,

¹⁰又有行善的名声，就如养育儿女，接待远人，洗圣徒的脚，救济遭难的人，竭力行各样善事。and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.

年轻的寡妇

¹¹至于年轻的寡妇，就可以辞她；因为她们的情欲发动，违背基督的时候就想要嫁人。But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

¹²她们被定罪，是因废弃了当初所许的愿；and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.

¹³并且她们又习惯懒惰，挨家闲游；不但是懒惰，又说长道短，好管闲事，说些不当说的话。At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

¹⁴所以我愿意年轻的寡妇嫁人，生养儿女，治理家务，不给敌人辱骂的把柄。So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

¹⁵因为已经有转去随从撒但的。For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

¹⁶信主的妇女，若家中有寡妇，自己就当救济她们，不可累着教会，好使教会能救济那真无倚靠的寡妇。If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.

敬重善于管理的长老

¹⁷那善于管理教会的长老，当以为配受加倍的敬奉；那劳苦传道教导人的，更当如此。Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

¹⁸因为经上说：“牛在场上踹谷的时候，不可笼住它的嘴”；又说：“工人得工价是应当的。”For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

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控告长老要有见证

¹⁹控告长老的呈子，非有两三个见证就不要收。Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁰犯罪的人，当在众人面前责备他，叫其余的人也可以惧怕。But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

不可存成见

²¹我在　神和基督耶稣并蒙拣选的天使面前嘱咐你：要遵守这些话，不可存成见，行事也不可有偏心。I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.

²²给人行按手的礼，不可急促；不要在别人的罪上有分，要保守自己清洁。Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

稍微用点酒

²³因你胃口不清，屡次患病，再不要照常喝水，可以稍微用点酒。Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

罪与善行终必显明

²⁴有些人的罪是明显的，如同先到审判案前；有些人的罪是随后跟了去的。The sins of some men are obvious, going ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others do not surface until later.

²⁵这样，善行也有明显的，那不明显的也不能隐藏。In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even the ones that are inconspicuous cannot remain hidden.