今日读经

一母所生的两个女子

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

²“人子啊，有两个女子，是一母所生，“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

³她们在埃及行邪淫，在幼年时行邪淫。她们在那里作处女的时候，有人拥抱她们的怀，抚摸她们的乳。and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

⁴她们的名字，姊姊名叫阿荷拉，妹妹名叫阿荷利巴。她们都归于我，生了儿女。论到她们的名字，阿荷拉就是撒马利亚，阿荷利巴就是耶路撒冷。The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

阿荷拉恋慕亚述

⁵“阿荷拉归我之后行邪淫，贪恋所爱的人，就是她的邻邦亚述人。Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

⁶这些人都穿蓝衣，作省长、副省长，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

⁷阿荷拉就与亚述人中最美的男子放纵淫行，她因所恋爱之人的一切偶像，玷污自己。She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

⁸自从在埃及的时候，她就没有离开淫乱，因为她年幼作处女的时候，埃及人与她行淫，抚摸她的乳，纵欲与她行淫。She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

⁹因此，我将她交在她所爱的人手中，就是她所恋爱的亚述人手中。Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

¹⁰他们就露了她的下体，掳掠她的儿女，用刀杀了她，使她在妇女中留下臭名，因他们向她施行审判。They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

阿荷利巴更加败坏

¹¹她妹妹阿荷利巴虽然看见了，却还贪恋，比她姊姊更丑；行淫乱比她姊姊更多。Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

¹²她贪恋邻邦的亚述人，就是穿极华美的衣服，骑着马的省长、副省长，都是可爱的少年人。She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

¹³我看见她被玷污了，她姊妹二人同行一路。And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

¹⁴阿荷利巴又加增淫行，因她看见人像画在墙上，就是用丹色所画迦勒底人的像，But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

¹⁵腰间系着带子，头上有下垂的裹头巾，都是军长的形状，仿照巴比伦人的形象；他们的故土就是迦勒底。wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

¹⁶阿荷利巴一看见就贪恋他们，打发使者往迦勒底去见他们。At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷巴比伦人就来登她爱情的床，与她行淫玷污她。她被玷污，随后心里与他们生疏。Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

¹⁸这样，她显露淫行，又显露下体；我心就与她生疏，像先前与她姊姊生疏一样。When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

¹⁹她还加增她的淫行，追念她幼年在埃及地行邪淫的日子，Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

²⁰贪恋情人身壮精足，如驴如马。and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

²¹这样，你就想起你幼年的淫行。那时，埃及人拥抱你的怀，抚摸你的乳。So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

她所爱的人要来攻击她

²²阿荷利巴啊，主耶和华如此说：“我必激动你先爱而后生疏的人来攻击你。我必使他们来，在你四围攻击你。Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—

²³所来的就是巴比伦人、迦勒底的众人、比割人、书亚人、哥亚人，同着他们的还有亚述众人，乃是作省长、副省长、作军长有名声的，都骑着马，是可爱的少年人。the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.

²⁴他们必带兵器、战车、辎重车，率领大众来攻击你。他们要拿大小盾牌，顶盔摆阵，在你四围攻击你。我要将审判的事交给他们，他们必按着自己的条例审判你。They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.

²⁵我必以忌恨攻击你；他们必以忿怒办你。他们必割去你的鼻子和耳朵；你遗留（或译：余剩；下同）的人必倒在刀下。他们必掳去你的儿女；你所遗留的必被火焚烧。And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.

²⁶他们必剥去你的衣服，夺取你华美的宝器。They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

²⁷这样，我必使你的淫行和你从埃及地染来的淫乱止息了，使你不再仰望亚述，也不再追念埃及。So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

²⁸主耶和华如此说：我必将你交在你所恨恶的人手中，就是你心与他生疏的人手中。For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

²⁹他们必以恨恶办你，夺取你一切劳碌得来的，留下你赤身露体。你淫乱的下体，连你的淫行，带你的淫乱，都被显露。They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

³⁰人必向你行这些事；因为你随从外邦人行邪淫，被他们的偶像玷污了。have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

喝姊姊所喝的杯

³¹你走了你姊姊所走的路，所以我必将她的杯交在你手中。”Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’

³²主耶和华如此说：你必喝你姊姊所喝的杯；那杯又深又广，盛得甚多，使你被人嗤笑讥刺。This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

³³你必酩酊大醉，满有愁苦，喝干你姊姊撒马利亚的杯，就是令人惊骇凄凉的杯。You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

³⁴你必喝这杯，以致喝尽。杯破又啃杯片，撕裂自己的乳；因为这事我曾说过。这是主耶和华说的。You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.

³⁵主耶和华如此说：“因你忘记我，将我丢在背后，所以你要担当你淫行和淫乱的报应。”Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”

审问两个姊妹

³⁶耶和华又对我说：“人子啊，你要审问阿荷拉与阿荷利巴吗？当指出她们所行可憎的事。Then the LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

³⁷她们行淫，手中有杀人的血，又与偶像行淫，并使她们为我所生的儿女经火烧给偶像。For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

³⁸此外，她们还有向我所行的，就是同日玷污我的圣所，干犯我的安息日。They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

³⁹她们杀了儿女献与偶像，当天又入我的圣所，将圣所亵渎了。她们在我殿中所行的乃是如此。On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.

⁴⁰“况且你们二妇打发使者去请远方人。使者到他们那里，他们就来了。你们为他们沐浴己身，粉饰眼目，佩戴妆饰，Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.

⁴¹坐在华美的床上，前面摆设桌案，将我的香料膏油摆在其上。You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

⁴²在那里有群众安逸欢乐的声音，并有粗俗的人和酒徒从旷野同来，把镯子戴在二妇的手上，把华冠戴在她们的头上。accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.

⁴³“我论这行淫衰老的妇人说：现在人还要与她行淫，她也要与人行淫。Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’

⁴⁴人与阿荷拉，并阿荷利巴二淫妇苟合，好像与妓女苟合。And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

⁴⁵必有义人，照审判淫妇和流人血的妇人之例，审判她们；因为她们是淫妇，手中有杀人的血。”But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

⁴⁶主耶和华如此说：“我必使多人来攻击她们，使她们抛来抛去，被人抢夺。This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.

⁴⁷这些人必用石头打死她们，用刀剑杀害她们，又杀戮她们的儿女，用火焚烧她们的房屋。The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

⁴⁸这样，我必使淫行从境内止息，好叫一切妇人都受警戒，不效法你们的淫行。So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

⁴⁹人必照着你们的淫行报应你们；你们要担当拜偶像的罪，就知道我是主耶和华。”They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”

围城的日子

¹第九年十月初十日，耶和华的话又临到我说：In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²“人子啊，今日正是巴比伦王就近耶路撒冷的日子，你要将这日记下，“Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.

长锈的锅

³要向这悖逆之家设比喻说，主耶和华如此说：将锅放在火上，放好了，就倒水在其中；Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.

⁴将肉块，就是一切肥美的肉块、腿，和肩都聚在其中，拿美好的骨头把锅装满；Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.

⁵取羊群中最好的，将柴堆在锅下，使锅开滚，好把骨头煮在其中。Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’

⁶“主耶和华如此说：祸哉！这流人血的城，就是长锈的锅。其中的锈未曾除掉，须要将肉块从其中一一取出来，不必为它拈阄。Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.

⁷城中所流的血倒在净光的磐石上，不倒在地上，用土掩盖。For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

⁸这城中所流的血倒在净光的磐石上，不得掩盖，乃是出于我，为要发忿怒施行报应。In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’

⁹所以主耶和华如此说：祸哉！这流人血的城，我也必大堆火柴，Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.

¹⁰添上木柴，使火着旺，将肉煮烂，把汤熬浓，使骨头烤焦；Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.

¹¹把锅倒空坐在炭火上，使锅烧热，使铜烧红，熔化其中的污秽，除净其上的锈。Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

¹²这锅劳碌疲乏，所长的大锈仍未除掉；这锈就是用火也不能除掉。It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

¹³在你污秽中有淫行，我洁净你，你却不洁净。你的污秽再不能洁净，直等我向你发的忿怒止息。Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

¹⁴我—耶和华说过的必定成就，必照话而行，必不返回，必不顾惜，也不后悔。人必照你的举动行为审判你。这是主耶和华说的。”I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

以西结的妻子死了

¹⁵耶和华的话又临到我说：Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

¹⁶“人子啊，我要将你眼目所喜爱的忽然取去，你却不可悲哀哭泣，也不可流泪，“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

¹⁷只可叹息，不可出声，不可办理丧事；头上仍勒裹头巾，脚上仍穿鞋，不可蒙着嘴唇，也不可吃吊丧的食物。”Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”

¹⁸于是我将这事早晨告诉百姓，晚上我的妻就死了。次日早晨我便遵命而行。So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.

¹⁹百姓问我说：“你这样行与我们有什么关系，你不告诉我们么？”Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”

²⁰我回答他们：“耶和华的话临到我说：So I answered them, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

²¹‘你告诉以色列家，主耶和华如此说：我必使我的圣所，就是你们势力所夸耀、眼里所喜爱、心中所爱惜的被亵渎，并且你们所遗留的儿女必倒在刀下。Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’

²²那时，你们必行我仆人所行的，不蒙着嘴唇，也不吃吊丧的食物。Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

²³你们仍要头上勒裹头巾，脚上穿鞋；不可悲哀哭泣。你们必因自己的罪孽相对叹息，渐渐消灭。Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

²⁴以西结必这样为你们作预兆；凡他所行的，你们也必照样行。那事来到，你们就知道我是主耶和华。‘Thus Ezekiel will be a sign for you; you will do everything that he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

逃脱的人来报信

²⁵“人子啊，我除掉他们所倚靠、所欢喜的荣耀，并眼中所喜爱、心里所重看的儿女。And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

²⁶那日逃脱的人岂不来到你这里，使你耳闻这事吗？on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.

²⁷你必向逃脱的人开口说话，不再哑口。你必这样为他们作预兆，他们就知道我是耶和华。”On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

问安

¹耶稣基督的使徒彼得写信给那分散在本都、加拉太、加帕多家、亚细亚、庇推尼寄居的，Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

²就是照父　神的先见被拣选，借着圣灵得成圣洁，以致顺服耶稣基督，又蒙他血所洒的人。愿恩惠、平安多多地加给你们。according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

重生得活泼的盼望

³愿颂赞归与我们主耶稣基督的父　神！他曾照自己的大怜悯，借耶稣基督从死里复活，重生了我们，叫我们有活泼的盼望，Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴可以得着不能朽坏、不能玷污、不能衰残、为你们存留在天上的基业。and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

⁵你们这因信蒙　神能力保守的人，必能得着所预备、到末世要显现的救恩。who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

信心经过火的试验

⁶因此，你们是大有喜乐；但如今，在百般的试炼中暂时忧愁，In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

⁷叫你们的信心既被试验，就比那被火试验仍然能坏的金子更显宝贵，可以在耶稣基督显现的时候得着称赞、荣耀、尊贵。so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁸你们虽然没有见过他，却是爱他；如今虽不得看见，却因信他就有说不出来、满有荣光的大喜乐；Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

⁹并且得着你们信心的果效，就是灵魂的救恩。now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

众先知考察的救恩

¹⁰论到这救恩，那预先说你们要得恩典的众先知早已详细地寻求考察，Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,

¹¹就是考察在他们心里基督的灵，预先证明基督受苦难，后来得荣耀，是指着什么时候，并怎样的时候。trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

¹²他们得了启示，知道他们所传讲（原文是服事）的一切事，不是为自己，乃是为你们。那靠着从天上差来的圣灵传福音给你们的人，现在将这些事报给你们；天使也愿意详细察看这些事。It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.