今日读经

以利米勒一家往摩押

¹当士师秉政的时候，国中遭遇饥荒。在犹大的伯利恒，有一个人带着妻子和两个儿子往摩押地去寄居。In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

²这人名叫以利米勒，他的妻名叫拿俄米；他两个儿子，一个名叫玛伦，一个名叫基连，都是犹大伯利恒的以法他人。他们到了摩押地，就住在那里。The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

³后来拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了，剩下妇人和她两个儿子。Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

⁴这两个儿子娶了摩押女子为妻，一个名叫俄珥巴，一个名叫路得，在那里住了约有十年。who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,

⁵玛伦和基连二人也死了，剩下拿俄米，没有丈夫，也没有儿子。both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

拿俄米决定归回

⁶她就与两个儿妇起身，要从摩押地归回；因为她在摩押地听见耶和华眷顾自己的百姓，赐粮食与他们。When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.

⁷于是她和两个儿妇起行离开所住的地方，要回犹大地去。Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

劝两个儿妇回娘家

⁸拿俄米对两个儿妇说：“你们各人回娘家去吧。愿耶和华恩待你们，像你们恩待已死的人与我一样！Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

⁹愿耶和华使你们各在新夫家中得平安！”于是拿俄米与她们亲嘴。她们就放声而哭，May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

¹⁰说：“不然，我们必与你一同回你本国去。”and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”

¹¹拿俄米说：“我女儿们哪，回去吧！为何要跟我去呢？我还能生子作你们的丈夫吗？But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

¹²我女儿们哪，回去吧！我年纪老迈，不能再有丈夫；即或说，我还有指望，今夜有丈夫可以生子，Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

¹³你们岂能等着他们长大呢？你们岂能等着他们不嫁别人呢？我女儿们哪，不要这样。我为你们的缘故甚是愁苦，因为耶和华伸手攻击我。”would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

¹⁴两个儿妇又放声而哭，俄珥巴与婆婆亲嘴而别，只是路得舍不得拿俄米。Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

¹⁵拿俄米说：“看哪，你嫂子已经回她本国和她所拜的神那里去了，你也跟着你嫂子回去吧！”“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

路得坚持跟随

¹⁶路得说：“不要催我回去不跟随你。你往哪里去，我也往那里去；你在哪里住宿，我也在那里住宿；你的国就是我的国，你的　神就是我的　神。But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

¹⁷你在哪里死，我也在那里死，也葬在那里。除非死能使你我相离！不然，愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。”Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

¹⁸拿俄米见路得定意要跟随自己去，就不再劝她了。When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

回到伯利恒：不要叫我拿俄米

¹⁹于是二人同行，来到伯利恒。她们到了伯利恒，合城的人就都惊讶。妇女们说：“这是拿俄米吗？”So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

²⁰拿俄米对他们说：“不要叫我拿俄米（就是甜的意思），要叫我玛拉（就是苦的意思），因为全能者使我受了大苦。“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

²¹我满满地出去，耶和华使我空空地回来。耶和华降祸与我；全能者使我受苦。既是这样，你们为何还叫我拿俄米呢？”I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

²²拿俄米和她儿妇摩押女子路得，从摩押地回来到伯利恒，正是动手割大麦的时候。So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

路得到波阿斯的田里拾麦穗

¹拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的亲族中，有一个人名叫波阿斯，是个大财主。Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

²摩押女子路得对拿俄米说：“容我往田间去，我蒙谁的恩，就在谁的身后拾取麦穗。”拿俄米说：“女儿啊，你只管去。”And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

³路得就去了，来到田间，在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那块田里。So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

⁴波阿斯正从伯利恒来，对收割的人说：“愿耶和华与你们同在！”他们回答说：“愿耶和华赐福与你！”Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

⁵波阿斯问监管收割的仆人说：“那是谁家的女子？”And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

⁶监管收割的仆人回答说：“是那摩押女子，跟随拿俄米从摩押地回来的。The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

⁷她说：‘请你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麦穗。’她从早晨直到如今，除了在屋子里坐一会儿，常在这里。”She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

波阿斯恩待路得

⁸波阿斯对路得说：“女儿啊，听我说，不要往别人田里拾取麦穗，也不要离开这里，要常与我使女们在一处。Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

⁹我的仆人在那块田收割，你就跟着他们去。我已经吩咐仆人不可欺负你；你若渴了，就可以到器皿那里喝仆人打来的水。”Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

¹⁰路得就俯伏在地叩拜，对他说：“我既是外邦人，怎么蒙你的恩，这样顾恤我呢？”At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

¹¹波阿斯回答说：“自从你丈夫死后，凡你向婆婆所行的，并你离开父母和本地，到素不认识的民中，这些事人全都告诉我了。Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

¹²愿耶和华照你所行的赏赐你。你来投靠耶和华—以色列　神的翅膀下，愿你满得他的赏赐。”May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

¹³路得说：“我主啊，愿在你眼前蒙恩。我虽然不及你的一个使女，你还用慈爱的话安慰我的心。”“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

¹⁴到了吃饭的时候，波阿斯对路得说：“你到这里来吃饼，将饼蘸在醋里。”路得就在收割的人旁边坐下；他们把烘了的穗子递给她。她吃饱了，还有余剩的。At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

¹⁵她起来又拾取麦穗，波阿斯吩咐仆人说：“她就是在捆中拾取麦穗，也可以容她，不可羞辱她；When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.

¹⁶并要从捆里抽出些来，留在地下任她拾取，不可叱吓她。”Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

拿俄米得知恩人是波阿斯

¹⁷这样，路得在田间拾取麦穗，直到晚上，将所拾取的打了，约有一伊法大麦。So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁸她就把所拾取的带进城去给婆婆看，又把她吃饱了所剩的给了婆婆。She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

¹⁹婆婆问她说：“你今日在哪里拾取麦穗，在哪里做工呢？愿那顾恤你的得福。”路得就告诉婆婆说：“我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里做工。”Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

²⁰拿俄米对儿妇说：“愿那人蒙耶和华赐福，因为他不断地恩待活人死人。”拿俄米又说：“那是我们本族的人，是一个至近的亲属。”Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

²¹摩押女子路得说：“他对我说：‘你要紧随我的仆人拾取麦穗，直等他们收完了我的庄稼。’”Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”

²²拿俄米对儿妇路得说：“女儿啊，你跟着他的使女出去，不叫人遇见你在别人田间，这才为好。”And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

²³于是路得与波阿斯的使女常在一处拾取麦穗，直到收完了大麦和小麦。路得仍与婆婆同住。So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

税吏和罪人挨近耶稣

¹众税吏和罪人都挨近耶稣，要听他讲道。Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.

²法利赛人和文士私下议论说：“这个人接待罪人，又同他们吃饭。”So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

失羊的比喻

³耶稣就用比喻说：Then Jesus told them this parable:

⁴“你们中间谁有一百只羊失去一只，不把这九十九只撇在旷野、去找那失去的羊，直到找着呢？“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

⁵找着了，就欢欢喜喜地扛在肩上，回到家里，And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,

⁶就请朋友邻舍来，对他们说：‘我失去的羊已经找着了，你们和我一同欢喜吧！’comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’

⁷我告诉你们，一个罪人悔改，在天上也要这样为他欢喜，较比为九十九个不用悔改的义人欢喜更大。”I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.

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失钱的比喻

⁸“或是一个妇人有十块钱，若失落一块，岂不点上灯，打扫屋子，细细地找，直到找着吗？Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?

⁹找着了，就请朋友邻舍来，对他们说：‘我失落的那块钱已经找着了，你们和我一同欢喜吧！’And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost coin.’

¹⁰我告诉你们，一个罪人悔改，在　神的使者面前也是这样为他欢喜。”In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

浪子的比喻

¹¹耶稣又说：“一个人有两个儿子。Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons.

¹²小儿子对父亲说：‘父亲，请你把我应得的家业分给我。’他父亲就把产业分给他们。The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

¹³过了不多几日，小儿子就把他一切所有的都收拾起来，往远方去了。在那里任意放荡，浪费资财。After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

¹⁴既耗尽了一切所有的，又遇着那地方大遭饥荒，就穷苦起来。After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

¹⁵于是去投靠那地方的一个人；那人打发他到田里去放猪。So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

¹⁶他恨不得拿猪所吃的豆荚充饥，也没有人给他。He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

浪子醒悟回家

¹⁷他醒悟过来，就说：‘我父亲有多少的雇工，口粮有余，我倒在这里饿死吗？Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!

¹⁸我要起来，到我父亲那里去，向他说：父亲！我得罪了天，又得罪了你；I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

¹⁹从今以后，我不配称为你的儿子，把我当作一个雇工吧！’I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

²⁰于是起来，往他父亲那里去。相离还远，他父亲看见，就动了慈心，跑去抱着他的颈项，连连与他亲嘴。So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

²¹儿子说：‘父亲！我得罪了天，又得罪了你；从今以后，我不配称为你的儿子。’The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

²²父亲却吩咐仆人说：‘把那上好的袍子快拿出来给他穿；把戒指戴在他指头上；把鞋穿在他脚上；But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

²³把那肥牛犊牵来宰了，我们可以吃喝快乐；Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

²⁴因为我这个儿子是死而复活，失而又得的。’他们就快乐起来。For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

大儿子生气

²⁵那时，大儿子正在田里。他回来，离家不远，听见作乐跳舞的声音，Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁶便叫过一个仆人来，问是什么事。So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.

²⁷仆人说：‘你兄弟来了；你父亲因为得他无灾无病地回来，把肥牛犊宰了。’‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’

²⁸大儿子却生气，不肯进去；他父亲就出来劝他。The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

²⁹他对父亲说：‘我服事你这多年，从来没有违背过你的命，你并没有给我一只山羊羔，叫我和朋友一同快乐。But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

³⁰但你这个儿子和娼妓吞尽了你的产业，他一来了，你倒为他宰了肥牛犊。’But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

³¹父亲对他说：‘儿啊！你常和我同在，我一切所有的都是你的；‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.

³²只是你这个兄弟是死而复活、失而又得的，所以我们理当欢喜快乐。’”But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”