今日读经

约拿逃往他施

¹耶和华的话临到亚米太的儿子约拿，说：Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,

²“你起来往尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民呼喊，因为他们的恶达到我面前。”“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

³约拿却起来，逃往他施去躲避耶和华；下到约帕，遇见一只船，要往他施去。他就给了船价，上了船，要与船上的人同往他施去躲避耶和华。Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

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海中起大风

⁴然而耶和华使海中起大风，海就狂风大作，甚至船几乎破坏。Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

⁵水手便惧怕，各人哀求自己的神。他们将船上的货物抛在海中，为要使船轻些。约拿已下到底舱，躺卧沉睡。The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

⁶船主到他那里对他说：“你这沉睡的人哪，为何这样呢？起来，求告你的神，或者神顾念我们，使我们不致灭亡。”The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

掣签掣出约拿

⁷船上的人彼此说：“来吧，我们掣签，看看这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故。”于是他们掣签，掣出约拿来。“Come!” said the sailors to one another. “Let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

⁸众人对他说：“请你告诉我们，这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故？你以何事为业？你从哪里来？你是哪一国？属哪一族的人？”“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”

⁹他说：“我是希伯来人。我敬畏耶和华—那创造沧海旱地之天上的　神。”“I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

¹⁰他们就大大惧怕，对他说：“你做的是什么事呢？”他们已经知道他躲避耶和华，因为他告诉了他们。Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

约拿被抛在海中

¹¹他们问他说：“我们当向你怎样行，使海浪平静呢？”这话是因海浪越发翻腾。Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”

¹²他对他们说：“你们将我抬起来，抛在海中，海就平静了；我知道你们遭这大风是因我的缘故。”“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”

¹³然而那些人竭力荡桨，要把船拢岸，却是不能，因为海浪越发向他们翻腾。Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

¹⁴他们便求告耶和华说：“耶和华啊，我们恳求你，不要因这人的性命使我们死亡，不要使流无辜血的罪归与我们；因为你—耶和华是随自己的意旨行事。”So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

¹⁵他们遂将约拿抬起，抛在海中，海的狂浪就平息了。Then they picked up Jonah and cast him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.

¹⁶那些人便大大敬畏耶和华，向耶和华献祭，并且许愿。Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.

大鱼吞了约拿

¹⁷耶和华安排一条大鱼吞了约拿，他在鱼腹中三日三夜。Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

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约拿在鱼腹中祷告

¹约拿在鱼腹中祷告耶和华—他的　神，From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

²说：我遭遇患难求告耶和华，你就应允我；从阴间的深处呼求，你就俯听我的声音。saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

³你将我投下深渊，就是海的深处；大水环绕我，你的波浪洪涛都漫过我身。For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

⁴我说：我从你眼前虽被驱逐，我仍要仰望你的圣殿。At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

⁵诸水环绕我，几乎淹没我；深渊围住我；海草缠绕我的头。The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

⁶我下到山根，地的门将我永远关住。耶和华—我的　神啊，你却将我的性命从坑中救出来。To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

⁷我心在我里面发昏的时候，我就想念耶和华。我的祷告进入你的圣殿，达到你的面前。As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

⁸那信奉虚无之神的人，离弃怜爱他们的主；Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

⁹但我必用感谢的声音献祭与你。我所许的愿，我必偿还。救恩出于耶和华。But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

鱼把约拿吐在旱地上

¹⁰耶和华吩咐鱼，鱼就把约拿吐在旱地上。And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

再次奉差往尼尼微

¹耶和华的话二次临到约拿说：Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

²“你起来！往尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民宣告我所吩咐你的话。”“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

³约拿便照耶和华的话起来，往尼尼微去。这尼尼微是极大的城，有三日的路程。This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

⁴约拿进城走了一日，宣告说：“再等四十日，尼尼微必倾覆了！”On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

尼尼微人信服悔改

⁵尼尼微人信服　神，便宣告禁食，从最大的到至小的都穿麻衣（或译：披上麻布）。And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

⁶这信息传到尼尼微王的耳中，他就下了宝座，脱下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

⁷他又使人遍告尼尼微通城，说：“王和大臣有令，人不可尝什么，牲畜、牛羊不可吃草，也不可喝水。Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.

⁸人与牲畜都当披上麻布；人要切切求告　神。各人回头离开所行的恶道，丢弃手中的强暴。Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

⁹或者　神转意后悔，不发烈怒，使我们不致灭亡，也未可知。”Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

神不降所说的灾

¹⁰于是　神察看他们的行为，见他们离开恶道，他就后悔，不把所说的灾祸降与他们了。When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

约拿大大发怒

¹这事约拿大大不悦，且甚发怒，Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

²就祷告耶和华说：“耶和华啊，我在本国的时候岂不是这样说吗？我知道你是有恩典、有怜悯的　神，不轻易发怒，有丰盛的慈爱，并且后悔不降所说的灾，所以我急速逃往他施去。So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

³耶和华啊，现在求你取我的命吧！因为我死了比活着还好。”And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁴耶和华说：“你这样发怒合乎理吗？”But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

蓖麻和虫子

⁵于是约拿出城，坐在城的东边，在那里为自己搭了一座棚，坐在棚的荫下，要看看那城究竟如何。Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

⁶耶和华　神安排一棵蓖麻，使其发生高过约拿，影儿遮盖他的头，救他脱离苦楚；约拿因这棵蓖麻大大喜乐。So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

⁷次日黎明，　神却安排一条虫子咬这蓖麻，以致枯槁。When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

⁸日头出来的时候，　神安排炎热的东风，日头曝晒约拿的头，使他发昏，他就为自己求死，说：“我死了比活着还好！”As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

⁹神对约拿说：“你因这棵蓖麻发怒合乎理吗？”他说：“我发怒以至于死，都合乎理！”Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

我岂能不爱惜呢

¹⁰耶和华说：“这蓖麻不是你栽种的，也不是你培养的；一夜发生，一夜干死，你尚且爱惜；But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

¹¹何况这尼尼微大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人，并有许多牲畜，我岂能不爱惜呢？”So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

量神的殿

¹有一根苇子赐给我，当作量度的杖；且有话说：“起来！将　神的殿和祭坛，并在殿中礼拜的人都量一量。Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.

²只是殿外的院子要留下不用量，因为这是给了外邦人的；他们要践踏圣城四十二个月。But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

两个见证人

³我要使我那两个见证人，穿着毛衣，传道一千二百六十天。”And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴他们就是那两棵橄榄树，两个灯台，立在世界之主面前的。These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁵若有人想要害他们，就有火从他们口中出来，烧灭仇敌。凡想要害他们的都必这样被杀。If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.

⁶这二人有权柄，在他们传道的日子叫天闭塞不下雨；又有权柄叫水变为血，并且能随时随意用各样的灾殃攻击世界。These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

见证人被兽杀害

⁷他们作完见证的时候，那从无底坑里上来的兽必与他们交战，并且得胜，把他们杀了。When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

⁸他们的尸首就倒在大城里的街上；这城按着灵意叫所多玛，又叫埃及，就是他们的主钉十字架之处。Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.

⁹从各民、各族、各方、各国中，有人观看他们的尸首三天半，又不许把尸首放在坟墓里。For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

¹⁰住在地上的人就为他们欢喜快乐，互相馈送礼物，因这两位先知曾叫住在地上的人受痛苦。And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

三天半后复活升天

¹¹过了这三天半，有生气从　神那里进入他们里面，他们就站起来；看见他们的人甚是害怕。But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.

¹²两位先知听见有大声音从天上来，对他们说：“上到这里来。”他们就驾着云上了天，他们的仇敌也看见了。And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

大地震，归荣耀给神

¹³正在那时候，地大震动，城就倒塌了十分之一，因地震而死的有七千人；其余的都恐惧，归荣耀给天上的　神。And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴第二样灾祸过去，第三样灾祸快到了。The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.

第七号：世上的国成了主的国

¹⁵第七位天使吹号，天上就有大声音说：世上的国成了我主和主基督的国；他要作王，直到永永远远。Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

二十四位长老的敬拜

¹⁶在　神面前，坐在自己位上的二十四位长老，就面伏于地，敬拜　神，And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

¹⁷说：昔在、今在的主　神—全能者啊，我们感谢你！因你执掌大权作王了。saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

¹⁸外邦发怒，你的忿怒也临到了；审判死人的时候也到了。你的仆人众先知和众圣徒，凡敬畏你名的人，连大带小得赏赐的时候也到了。你败坏那些败坏世界之人的时候也就到了。The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

天上的殿开了

¹⁹当时，　神天上的殿开了，在他殿中现出他的约柜。随后有闪电、声音、雷轰、地震、大雹。Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

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