今日读经

向玛各地的歌革发预言

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

²“人子啊，你要面向玛各地的歌革，就是罗施、米设、土巴的王发预言攻击他，“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him

³说主耶和华如此说：罗施、米设、土巴的王歌革啊，我与你为敌。and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

⁴我必用钩子钩住你的腮颊，调转你，将你和你的军兵、马匹、马兵带出来，都披挂整齐，成了大队，有大小盾牌，各拿刀剑。I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.

⁵波斯人、古实人，和弗人（又作利比亚人），各拿盾牌，头上戴盔；Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets,

⁶歌篾人和他的军队，北方极处的陀迦玛族和他的军队，这许多国的民都同着你。as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

末后之年歌革必被差派

⁷“那聚集到你这里的各队都当准备；你自己也要准备，作他们的大帅。Get ready; prepare yourself, you and all your company gathered around you; you will be their guard.

⁸过了多日，你必被差派。到末后之年，你必来到脱离刀剑从列国收回之地，到以色列常久荒凉的山上；但那从列国中招聚出来的必在其上安然居住。After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.

⁹你和你的军队，并同着你许多国的民，必如暴风上来，如密云遮盖地面。”You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

歌革图谋恶计要抢掠

¹⁰主耶和华如此说：“到那时，你心必起意念，图谋恶计，This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

¹¹说：‘我要上那无城墙的乡村，我要到那安静的民那里，他们都没有城墙，无门、无闩，安然居住。You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

¹²我去要抢财为掳物，夺货为掠物，反手攻击那从前荒凉、现在有人居住之地，又攻击那住世界中间、从列国招聚、得了牲畜财货的民。’in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’

¹³示巴人、底但人、他施的客商，和其间的少壮狮子都必问你说：‘你来要抢财为掳物吗？你聚集军队要夺货为掠物吗？要夺取金银，掳去牲畜、财货吗？要抢夺许多财宝为掳物吗？’Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’

神要藉歌革显为圣

¹⁴“人子啊，你要因此发预言，对歌革说，主耶和华如此说：到我民以色列安然居住之日，你岂不知道吗？Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?

¹⁵你必从本地，从北方的极处率领许多国的民来，都骑着马，乃一大队极多的军兵。And you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.

¹⁶歌革啊，你必上来攻击我的民以色列，如密云遮盖地面。末后的日子，我必带你来攻击我的地，到我在外邦人眼前，在你身上显为圣的时候，好叫他们认识我。You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.

¹⁷主耶和华如此说：我在古时借我的仆人以色列的先知所说的，就是你吗？当日他们多年预言我必带你来攻击以色列人。”This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

神的怒气与大震动

¹⁸主耶和华说：“歌革上来攻击以色列地的时候，我的怒气要从鼻孔里发出。Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.

¹⁹我发愤恨和烈怒如火说：那日在以色列地必有大震动，In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

²⁰甚至海中的鱼、天空的鸟、田野的兽，并地上的一切昆虫，和其上的众人，因见我的面就都震动；山岭必崩裂，陡岩必塌陷，墙垣都必坍倒。”The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.

²¹主耶和华说：“我必命我的诸山发刀剑来攻击歌革；人都要用刀剑杀害弟兄。And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.

²²我必用瘟疫和流血的事刑罚他。我也必将暴雨、大雹与火，并硫磺降与他和他的军队，并他所率领的众民。I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

²³我必显为大，显为圣，在多国人的眼前显现；他们就知道我是耶和华。”I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and I will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

歌革倒在以色列的山上

¹“人子啊，你要向歌革发预言攻击他，说主耶和华如此说：罗施、米设、土巴的王歌革啊，我与你为敌。“As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

²我必调转你，领你前往，使你从北方的极处上来，带你到以色列的山上。I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.

³我必从你左手打落你的弓，从你右手打掉你的箭。Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.

⁴你和你的军队，并同着你的列国人，都必倒在以色列的山上。我必将你给各类的鸷鸟和田野的走兽作食物。On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

⁵你必倒在田野，因为我曾说过。这是主耶和华说的。You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

⁶我要降火在玛各和海岛安然居住的人身上，他们就知道我是耶和华。I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.

⁷“我要在我民以色列中显出我的圣名，也不容我的圣名再被亵渎，列国人就知道我是耶和华—以色列中的圣者。So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

⁸主耶和华说：这日事情临近，也必成就，乃是我所说的日子。Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken.

用器械烧火七年

⁹“住以色列城邑的人必出去捡器械，就是大小盾牌、弓箭、梃杖、枪矛，都当柴烧火，直烧七年，Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

¹⁰甚至他们不必从田野捡柴，也不必从树林伐木；因为他们要用器械烧火，并且抢夺那抢夺他们的人，掳掠那掳掠他们的人。这是主耶和华说的。”They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.

哈们‧歌革谷

¹¹“当那日，我必将以色列地的谷，就是海东人所经过的谷，赐给歌革为坟地，使经过的人到此停步。在那里人必葬埋歌革和他的群众，就称那地为哈们·歌革谷。And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

¹²以色列家的人必用七个月葬埋他们，为要洁净全地。For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

¹³全地的居民都必葬埋他们。当我得荣耀的日子，这事必叫他们得名声。这是主耶和华说的。All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.

¹⁴他们必分派人时常巡查遍地，与过路的人一同葬埋那剩在地面上的尸首，好洁净全地。过了七个月，他们还要巡查。And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.

¹⁵巡查遍地的人要经过全地，见有人的骸骨，就在旁边立一标记，等葬埋的人来将骸骨葬在哈们·歌革谷。As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

¹⁶他们必这样洁净那地，并有一城名叫哈摩那。(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.

召飞鸟走兽来赴大祭

¹⁷“人子啊，主耶和华如此说：你要对各类的飞鸟和田野的走兽说：你们聚集来吧，要从四方聚到我为你们献祭之地，就是在以色列山上献大祭之地，好叫你们吃肉、喝血。And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

¹⁸你们必吃勇士的肉，喝地上首领的血，就如吃公绵羊、羊羔、公山羊、公牛，都是巴珊的肥畜。You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.

¹⁹你们吃我为你们所献的祭，必吃饱了脂油，喝醉了血。At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.

²⁰你们必在我席上饱吃马匹和坐车的人，并勇士和一切的战士。这是主耶和华说的。”And at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord GOD.

列国要明白以色列被掳的缘故

²¹“我必显我的荣耀在列国中；万民就必看见我所行的审判与我在他们身上所加的手。I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.

²²这样，从那日以后，以色列家必知道我是耶和华—他们的　神。From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.

²³列国人也必知道以色列家被掳掠是因他们的罪孽。他们得罪我，我就掩面不顾，将他们交在敌人手中，他们便都倒在刀下。And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

²⁴我是照他们的污秽和罪过待他们，并且我掩面不顾他们。”I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.

神要使被掳的归回

²⁵主耶和华如此说：“我要使雅各被掳的人归回，要怜悯以色列全家，又为我的圣名发热心。Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.

^26–27他们在本地安然居住，无人惊吓，是我将他们从万民中领回，从仇敌之地召来。我在许多国的民眼前，在他们身上显为圣的时候，他们要担当自己的羞辱和干犯我的一切罪。They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them. When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.

²⁸因我使他们被掳到外邦人中，后又聚集他们归回本地，他们就知道我是耶和华—他们的　神；我必不再留他们一人在外邦。Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.

²⁹我也不再掩面不顾他们，因我已将我的灵浇灌以色列家。这是主耶和华说的。”And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”

问安

¹作耶稣基督仆人和使徒的西门·彼得写信给那因我们的　神和（有古卷没有和字）救主耶稣基督之义、与我们同得一样宝贵信心的人。Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

²愿恩惠、平安，因你们认识　神和我们主耶稣，多多地加给你们。Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

神已赐下一切关乎生命和虔敬的事

³神的神能已将一切关乎生命和虔敬的事赐给我们，皆因我们认识那用自己荣耀和美德召我们的主。His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

⁴因此，他已将又宝贵又极大的应许赐给我们，叫我们既脱离世上从情欲来的败坏，就得与　神的性情有分。Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

在信心上加上德行

⁵正因这缘故，你们要分外地殷勤；有了信心，又要加上德行；有了德行，又要加上知识；For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

⁶有了知识，又要加上节制；有了节制，又要加上忍耐；有了忍耐，又要加上虔敬；and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

⁷有了虔敬，又要加上爱弟兄的心；有了爱弟兄的心，又要加上爱众人的心。and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

不至于闲懒不结果子

⁸你们若充充足足地有这几样，就必使你们在认识我们的主耶稣基督上不至于闲懒不结果子了。For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹人若没有这几样，就是眼瞎，只看见近处的，忘了他旧日的罪已经得了洁净。But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

使恩召和拣选坚定不移

¹⁰所以弟兄们，应当更加殷勤，使你们所蒙的恩召和拣选坚定不移。你们若行这几样，就永不失脚；Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,

¹¹这样，必叫你们丰丰富富地得以进入我们主—救主耶稣基督永远的国。and you will receive a lavish reception into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.