今日读经

用一块砖演出围城

¹“人子啊，你要拿一块砖，摆在你面前，将一座耶路撒冷城画在其上，“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

²又围困这城，造台筑垒，安营攻击，在四围安设撞锤攻城，Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

³又要拿个铁鏊，放在你和城的中间，作为铁墙。你要对面攻击这城，使城被困；这样，好作以色列家的预兆。Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

侧卧担当百姓的罪孽

⁴你要向左侧卧，承当以色列家的罪孽；要按你向左侧卧的日数，担当他们的罪孽。Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

⁵因为我已将他们作孽的年数定为你向左侧卧的日数，就是三百九十日，你要这样担当以色列家的罪孽。For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶再者，你满了这些日子，还要向右侧卧，担当犹大家的罪孽。我给你定规侧卧四十日，一日顶一年。When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

⁷你要露出膀臂，面向被困的耶路撒冷，说预言攻击这城。You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

⁸我用绳索捆绑你，使你不能辗转，直等你满了困城的日子。Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

按分两吃饼喝水

⁹你要取小麦、大麦、豆子、红豆、小米、粗麦，装在一个器皿中，用以为自己做饼；要按你侧卧的三百九十日吃这饼。But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

¹⁰你所吃的要按分两吃，每日二十舍客勒，按时而吃。You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

¹¹你喝水也要按制子，每日喝一欣六分之一，按时而喝。You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

¹²你吃这饼像吃大麦饼一样，要用人粪在众人眼前烧烤。”And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

¹³耶和华说：“以色列人在我所赶他们到的各国中，也必这样吃不洁净的食物。”Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

¹⁴我说：“哎！主耶和华啊，我素来未曾被玷污，从幼年到如今没有吃过自死的，或被野兽撕裂的，那可憎的肉也未曾入我的口。”“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

¹⁵于是他对我说：“看哪，我给你牛粪代替人粪，你要将你的饼烤在其上。”“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

¹⁶他又对我说：“人子啊，我必在耶路撒冷折断他们的杖，就是断绝他们的粮。他们吃饼要按分两，忧虑而吃；喝水也要按制子，惊惶而喝；Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

¹⁷使他们缺粮缺水，彼此惊惶，因自己的罪孽消灭。”So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

剃下须发分成三分

¹“人子啊，你要拿一把快刀，当作剃头刀，用这刀剃你的头发和你的胡须，用天平将须发平分。“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

²围困城的日子满了，你要将三分之一在城中用火焚烧，将三分之一在城的四围用刀砍碎，将三分之一任风吹散；我也要拔刀追赶。When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

³你要从其中取几根包在衣襟里，But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

⁴再从这几根中取些扔在火中焚烧，从里面必有火出来烧入以色列全家。Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

这就是耶路撒冷

⁵主耶和华如此说：这就是耶路撒冷。我曾将她安置在列邦之中；列国都在她的四围。This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

⁶她行恶，违背我的典章，过于列国；干犯我的律例，过于四围的列邦，因为她弃掉我的典章。至于我的律例，她并没有遵行。But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

⁷所以主耶和华如此说：因为你们纷争过于四围的列国，也不遵行我的律例，不谨守我的典章，并以遵从四围列国的恶规尚不满意，Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

⁸所以主耶和华如此说：看哪，我与你反对，必在列国的眼前，在你中间，施行审判；Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

⁹并且因你一切可憎的事，我要在你中间行我所未曾行的，以后我也不再照着行。Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

¹⁰在你中间父亲要吃儿子，儿子要吃父亲。我必向你施行审判，我必将你所剩下的分散四方（方：原文是风）。”As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

¹¹主耶和华说：“我指着我的永生起誓，因你用一切可憎的物、可厌的事玷污了我的圣所，故此，我定要使你人数减少，我眼必不顾惜你，也不可怜你。Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

¹²你的民三分之一必遭瘟疫而死，在你中间必因饥荒消灭；三分之一必在你四围倒在刀下；我必将三分之一分散四方（方：原文是风），并要拔刀追赶他们。A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

¹³“我要这样成就怒中所定的；我向他们发的忿怒止息了，自己就得着安慰。我在他们身上成就怒中所定的那时，他们就知道我—耶和华所说的是出于热心；And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

¹⁴并且我必使你在四围的列国中，在经过的众人眼前，成了荒凉和羞辱。I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

¹⁵这样，我必以怒气和忿怒，并烈怒的责备，向你施行审判。那时，你就在四围的列国中成为羞辱、讥刺、警戒、惊骇。这是我—耶和华说的。So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

¹⁶那时，我要将灭人、使人饥荒的恶箭，就是射去灭人的，射在你们身上，并要加增你们的饥荒，断绝你们所倚靠的粮食；When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

¹⁷又要使饥荒和恶兽到你那里，叫你丧子，瘟疫和流血的事也必盛行在你那里；我也要使刀剑临到你。这是我—耶和华说的。”I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

向以色列的众山说预言

¹耶和华的话临到我说：And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“人子啊，你要面向以色列的众山说预言，“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

³说：以色列的众山哪，要听主耶和华的话。主耶和华对大山、小冈、水沟、山谷如此说：我必使刀剑临到你们，也必毁灭你们的邱坛。You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

⁴你们的祭坛必然荒凉，你们的日像必被打碎。我要使你们被杀的人倒在你们的偶像面前；Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

⁵我也要将以色列人的尸首放在他们的偶像面前，将你们的骸骨抛散在你们祭坛的四围。I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

⁶在你们一切的住处，城邑要变为荒场，邱坛必然凄凉，使你们的祭坛荒废，将你们的偶像打碎。你们的日像被砍倒，你们的工作被毁灭。Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

⁷被杀的人必倒在你们中间，你们就知道我是耶和华。The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

剩下的人必记念神

⁸你们分散在各国的时候，我必在列邦中使你们有剩下脱离刀剑的人。Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

⁹那脱离刀剑的人必在所掳到的各国中记念我，为他们心中何等伤破，是因他们起淫心，远离我，眼对偶像行邪淫。他们因行一切可憎的恶事，必厌恶自己。Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

¹⁰他们必知道我是耶和华；我说要使这灾祸临到他们身上，并非空话。And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

拍手顿足说：哀哉

¹¹“主耶和华如此说：你当拍手顿足，说：哀哉！以色列家行这一切可憎的恶事，他们必倒在刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫之下。This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

¹²在远处的，必遭瘟疫而死；在近处的，必倒在刀剑之下；那存留被围困的，必因饥荒而死；我必这样在他们身上成就我怒中所定的。He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

¹³他们被杀的人倒在他们祭坛四围的偶像中，就是各高冈、各山顶、各青翠树下、各茂密的橡树下，乃是他们献馨香的祭牲给一切偶像的地方。那时，他们就知道我是耶和华。Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

¹⁴我必伸手攻击他们，使他们的地从旷野到第伯拉他一切住处极其荒凉，他们就知道我是耶和华。”I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

结局到了

¹耶和华的话又临到我说：And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“人子啊，主耶和华对以色列地如此说：结局到了，结局到了地的四境！“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³现在你的结局已经临到，我必使我的怒气归与你，也必按你的行为审判你，照你一切可憎的事刑罚你。The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

⁴我眼必不顾惜你，也不可怜你，却要按你所行的报应你，照你中间可憎的事刑罚你。你就知道我是耶和华。I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

⁵“主耶和华如此说：有一灾，独有一灾；看哪，临近了！This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!

⁶结局来了，结局来了，向你兴起。看哪，来到了！The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

⁷境内的居民哪，所定的灾临到你，时候到了，日子近了，乃是哄嚷并非在山上欢呼的日子。Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

⁸我快要将我的忿怒倾在你身上，向你成就我怒中所定的，按你的行为审判你，照你一切可憎的事刑罚你。Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

⁹我眼必不顾惜你，也不可怜你，必按你所行的报应你，照你中间可憎的事刑罚你。你就知道击打你的是我耶和华。I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

杖已经开花

¹⁰“看哪，看哪，日子快到了，所定的灾已经发出。杖已经开花，骄傲已经发芽。Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

¹¹强暴兴起，成了罚恶的杖。以色列人，或是他们的群众，或是他们的财宝，无一存留，他们中间也没有得尊荣的。Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

¹²时候到了，日子近了，买主不可欢喜，卖主不可愁烦，因为烈怒已经临到他们众人身上。The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

¹³卖主虽然存活，却不能归回再得所卖的，因为这异象关乎他们众人。谁都不得归回，也没有人在他的罪孽中坚立自己。”The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

吹角却无人出战

¹⁴“他们已经吹角，预备齐全，却无一人出战，因为我的烈怒临到他们众人身上。They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

¹⁵在外有刀剑，在内有瘟疫、饥荒；在田野的，必遭刀剑而死；在城中的，必有饥荒、瘟疫吞灭他。The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

¹⁶其中所逃脱的就必逃脱，各人因自己的罪孽在山上发出悲声，好像谷中的鸽子哀鸣。The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

¹⁷手都发软，膝弱如水。Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

¹⁸要用麻布束腰，被战兢所盖；各人脸上羞愧，头上光秃。They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

金银不能救他们

¹⁹他们要将银子抛在街上，金子看如污秽之物。当耶和华发怒的日子，他们的金银不能救他们，不能使心里知足，也不能使肚腹饱满，因为这金银作了他们罪孽的绊脚石。They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

²⁰论到耶和华妆饰华美的殿，他建立得威严，他们却在其中制造可憎可厌的偶像，所以这殿我使他们看如污秽之物。His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

²¹我必将这殿交付外邦人为掠物，交付地上的恶人为掳物；他们也必亵渎这殿。And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

²²我必转脸不顾以色列人，他们亵渎我隐密之所，强盗也必进去亵渎。I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

要制造锁链

²³“要制造锁链；因为这地遍满流血的罪，城邑充满强暴的事，Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

²⁴所以我必使列国中最恶的人来占据他们的房屋；我必使强暴人的骄傲止息，他们的圣所都要被亵渎。So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

²⁵毁灭临近了，他们要求平安，却无平安可得。Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

²⁶灾害加上灾害，风声接连风声；他们必向先知求异象，但祭司讲的律法、长老设的谋略都必断绝。Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

²⁷君要悲哀，王要披凄凉为衣，国民的手都发颤。我必照他们的行为待他们，按他们应得的审判他们，他们就知道我是耶和华。”The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

问安

¹作　神和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各请散住十二个支派之人的安。James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.

在试炼中要喜乐

²我的弟兄们，你们落在百般试炼中，都要以为大喜乐；Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

³因为知道你们的信心经过试验，就生忍耐。because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

⁴但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全、完备，毫无缺欠。Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

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缺少智慧就当求

⁵你们中间若有缺少智慧的，应当求那厚赐与众人、也不斥责人的　神，主就必赐给他。Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

⁶只要凭着信心求，一点不疑惑；因为那疑惑的人，就像海中的波浪，被风吹动翻腾。But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

⁷这样的人不要想从主那里得什么。That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

⁸心怀二意的人，在他一切所行的路上都没有定见。He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

贫富都如草上的花

⁹卑微的弟兄升高，就该喜乐；The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.

¹⁰富足的降卑，也该如此；因为他必要过去，如同草上的花一样。But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

¹¹太阳出来，热风刮起，草就枯干，花也凋谢，美容就消没了；那富足的人，在他所行的事上也要这样衰残。For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

忍受试探的人有福

¹²忍受试探的人是有福的，因为他经过试验以后，必得生命的冠冕；这是主应许给那些爱他之人的。Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.