今日读经

论巴比伦的默示

¹亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论巴比伦。This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

²应当在净光的山竖立大旗，向群众扬声招手，使他们进入贵胄的门。Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

³我吩咐我所挑出来的人；我招呼我的勇士—就是那矜夸高傲之辈，为要成就我怒中所定的。I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

⁴山间有多人的声音，好像是大国人民。有许多国的民聚集哄嚷的声音；这是万军之耶和华点齐军队，预备打仗。Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

⁵他们从远方来，从天边来，就是耶和华并他恼恨的兵器要毁灭这全地。They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

耶和华的日子临近

⁶你们要哀号，因为耶和华的日子临近了！这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷所以，人手都必软弱；人心都必消化。Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

⁸他们必惊惶悲痛；愁苦必将他们抓住。他们疼痛，好像产难的妇人一样，彼此惊奇相看，脸如火焰。Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

⁹耶和华的日子临到，必有残忍、忿恨、烈怒，使这地荒凉，从其中除灭罪人。Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

¹⁰天上的众星群宿都不发光；日头一出就变黑暗；月亮也不放光。For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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¹¹我必因邪恶刑罚世界，因罪孽刑罚恶人，使骄傲人的狂妄止息，制伏强暴人的狂傲。I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

¹²我必使人比精金还少，使人比俄斐纯金更少。I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

¹³我—万军之耶和华在忿恨中发烈怒的日子，必使天震动，使地摇撼，离其本位。Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

¹⁴人必像被追赶的鹿，像无人收聚的羊，各归回本族，各逃到本土。Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

¹⁵凡被仇敌追上的必被刺死；凡被捉住的必被刀杀。Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

¹⁶他们的婴孩必在他们眼前摔碎；他们的房屋必被抢夺；他们的妻子必被玷污。Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

米底亚人攻击巴比伦

¹⁷我必激动米底亚人来攻击他们。米底亚人不注重银子，也不喜爱金子。Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

¹⁸他们必用弓击碎少年人，不怜悯妇人所生的，眼也不顾惜孩子。Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

¹⁹巴比伦素来为列国的荣耀，为迦勒底人所矜夸的华美，必像　神所倾覆的所多玛、蛾摩拉一样。And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰其内必永无人烟，世世代代无人居住。阿拉伯人也不在那里支搭帐棚；牧羊的人也不使羊群卧在那里。She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

²¹只有旷野的走兽卧在那里；咆哮的兽满了房屋。鸵鸟住在那里；野山羊在那里跳舞。But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

²²豺狼必在它宫中呼号；野狗必在它华美殿内吼叫。巴比伦受罚的时候临近；它的日子必不长久。Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

耶和华要怜恤雅各

¹耶和华要怜恤雅各，必再拣选以色列，将他们安置在本地。寄居的必与他们联合，紧贴雅各家。For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

²外邦人必将他们带回本土；以色列家必在耶和华的地上得外邦人为仆婢，也要掳掠先前掳掠他们的，辖制先前欺压他们的。The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

嘲讽巴比伦王的诗歌

³当耶和华使你脱离愁苦、烦恼，并人勉强你做的苦工，得享安息的日子，On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

⁴你必题这诗歌论巴比伦王说：欺压人的何竟息灭？强暴的何竟止息？you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

⁵耶和华折断了恶人的杖，辖制人的圭，The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

⁶就是在忿怒中连连攻击众民的，在怒气中辖制列国，行逼迫无人阻止的。It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

⁷现在全地得安息，享平静；人皆发声欢呼。All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

⁸松树和黎巴嫩的香柏树都因你欢乐，说：自从你仆倒，再无人上来砍伐我们。Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

⁹你下到阴间，阴间就因你震动来迎接你，又因你惊动在世曾为首领的阴魂，并使那曾为列国君王的，都离位站起。Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

¹⁰他们都要发言对你说：你也变为软弱像我们一样吗？你也成了我们的样子吗？They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

¹¹你的威势和你琴瑟的声音都下到阴间。你下铺的是虫，上盖的是蛆。Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

明亮之星何竟从天坠落

¹²明亮之星，早晨之子啊，你何竟从天坠落？你这攻败列国的何竟被砍倒在地上？How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

¹³你心里曾说：我要升到天上；我要高举我的宝座在　神众星以上；我要坐在聚会的山上，在北方的极处。You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

¹⁴我要升到高云之上；我要与至上者同等。I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

¹⁵然而，你必坠落阴间，到坑中极深之处。But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶凡看见你的都要定睛看你，留意看你，说：使大地战抖，使列国震动，Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

¹⁷使世界如同荒野，使城邑倾覆，不释放被掳的人归家，是这个人吗？who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

¹⁸列国的君王俱各在自己阴宅的荣耀中安睡。All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

¹⁹惟独你被抛弃，不得入你的坟墓，好像可憎的枝子，以被杀的人为衣，就是被刀刺透，坠落坑中石头那里的；你又像被践踏的尸首一样。But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

²⁰你不得与君王同葬；因为你败坏你的国，杀戮你的民。恶人后裔的名，必永不提说。You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

²¹先人既有罪孽，就要预备杀戮他的子孙，免得他们兴起来，得了遍地，在世上修满城邑。Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

²²万军之耶和华说：我必兴起攻击他们，将巴比伦的名号和所余剩的人，连子带孙一并剪除。这是耶和华说的。“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

²³我必使巴比伦为箭猪所得，又变为水池；我要用灭亡的扫帚扫净它。这是万军之耶和华说的。“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

神必打折亚述

²⁴万军之耶和华起誓说：我怎样思想，必照样成就；我怎样定意，必照样成立，The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

²⁵就是在我地上打折亚述人，在我山上将他践踏。他加的轭必离开以色列人；他加的重担必离开他们的肩头。I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

²⁶这是向全地所定的旨意；这是向万国所伸出的手。This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

²⁷万军之耶和华既然定意，谁能废弃呢？他的手已经伸出，谁能转回呢？The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

论非利士

²⁸亚哈斯王崩的那年，就有以下的默示：In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

²⁹非利士全地啊，不要因击打你的杖折断就喜乐。因为从蛇的根必生出毒蛇；它所生的是火焰的飞龙。Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

³⁰贫寒人的长子必有所食；穷乏人必安然躺卧。我必以饥荒治死你的根；你所余剩的人必被杀戮。Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

³¹门哪，应当哀号！城啊，应当呼喊！非利士全地啊，你都消化了！因为有烟从北方出来，他行伍中并无乱队的。Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

³²可怎样回答外邦（或指非利士）的使者呢？必说：耶和华建立了锡安；他百姓中的困苦人必投奔在其中。What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

论摩押的默示

¹论摩押的默示：一夜之间，摩押的亚珥变为荒废，归于无有；一夜之间，摩押的基珥变为荒废，归于无有。This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

²他们上巴益，又往底本，到高处去哭泣。摩押人因尼波和米底巴哀号，各人头上光秃，胡须剃净。Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

³他们在街市上都腰束麻布，在房顶上和宽阔处俱各哀号，眼泪汪汪。In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

⁴希实本和以利亚利悲哀的声音达到雅杂，所以摩押带兵器的高声喊嚷，人心战兢。Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.

⁵我心为摩押悲哀；他的贵胄（或译：逃民）逃到琐珥，到伊基拉·施利施亚。他们上鲁希坡，随走随哭；在何罗念的路上，因毁灭举起哀声。My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

⁶因为宁林的水成为干涸，青草枯干，嫩草灭没，青绿之物，一无所有。The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

⁷因此，摩押人所得的财物和所积蓄的都要运过柳树河。So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

⁸哀声遍闻摩押的四境；哀号的声音达到以基莲；哀号的声音达到比珥·以琳。For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

⁹底们的水充满了血；我还要加增底们的灾难，叫狮子来追上摩押逃脱的民和那地上所余剩的人。The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

摩押逃民向锡安求庇护

¹你们当将羊羔奉给那地掌权的，从西拉往旷野，送到锡安城（原文是女子）的山。Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

²摩押的居民（原文是女子）在亚嫩渡口，必像游飞的鸟，如拆窝的雏。Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

³求你献谋略，行公平，使你的影子在午间如黑夜，隐藏被赶散的人，不可显露逃民。“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

⁴求你容我这被赶散的人和你同居。至于摩押，求你作他的隐密处，脱离灭命者的面。勒索人的归于无有，毁灭的事止息了，欺压人的从国中除灭了，Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

⁵必有宝座因慈爱坚立；必有一位诚诚实实坐在其上，在大卫帐幕中施行审判，寻求公平，速行公义。in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

摩押的骄傲与哀哭

⁶我们听说摩押人骄傲，是极其骄傲；听说他狂妄、骄傲、忿怒；他夸大的话是虚空的。We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

⁷因此，摩押人必为摩押哀号；人人都要哀号。你们摩押人要为吉珥·哈列设的葡萄饼哀叹，极其忧伤。Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.

⁸因为希实本的田地和西比玛的葡萄树都衰残了。列国的君主折断其上美好的枝子；这枝子长到雅谢延到旷野，嫩枝向外探出，直探过盐海。For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

⁹因此，我要为西比玛的葡萄树哀哭，与雅谢人哀哭一样。希实本、以利亚利啊，我要以眼泪浇灌你；因为有交战呐喊的声音临到你夏天的果子，并你收割的庄稼。So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

¹⁰从肥美的田中夺去了欢喜快乐；在葡萄园里必无歌唱，也无欢呼的声音。踹酒的在酒榨中不得踹出酒来；我使他欢呼的声音止息。Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.

¹¹因此，我心腹为摩押哀鸣如琴；我心肠为吉珥·哈列设也是如此。Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.

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¹²摩押人朝见的时候，在高处疲乏，又到他圣所祈祷，也不蒙应允。When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

三年之内必被藐视

¹³这是耶和华从前论摩押的话。This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

¹⁴但现在耶和华说：“三年之内，照雇工的年数，摩押的荣耀与他的群众必被藐视，余剩的人甚少无几。”And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

不要再像外邦人

¹⁷所以我说，且在主里确实地说，你们行事不要再像外邦人存虚妄的心行事。So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

¹⁸他们心地昏昧，与　神所赐的生命隔绝了，都因自己无知，心里刚硬；They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

¹⁹良心既然丧尽，就放纵私欲，贪行种种的污秽。Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

²⁰你们学了基督，却不是这样。But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

²¹如果你们听过他的道，领了他的教，学了他的真理，Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

脱去旧人，穿上新人

²²就要脱去你们从前行为上的旧人，这旧人是因私欲的迷惑渐渐变坏的；to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

²³又要将你们的心志改换一新，to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

²⁴并且穿上新人；这新人是照着　神的形象造的，有真理的仁义和圣洁。and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

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新人的言语和行为

²⁵所以，你们要弃绝谎言，各人与邻舍说实话，因为我们是互相为肢体。Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

²⁶生气却不要犯罪；不可含怒到日落，“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

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²⁷也不可给魔鬼留地步。and do not give the devil a foothold.

²⁸从前偷窃的，不要再偷；总要劳力，亲手做正经事，就可有余分给那缺少的人。He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

²⁹污秽的言语一句不可出口，只要随事说造就人的好话，叫听见的人得益处。Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

³⁰不要叫　神的圣灵担忧；你们原是受了他的印记，等候得赎的日子来到。And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹一切苦毒、恼恨、忿怒、嚷闹、毁谤，并一切的恶毒（或译：阴毒），都当从你们中间除掉；Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

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³²并要以恩慈相待，存怜悯的心，彼此饶恕，正如　神在基督里饶恕了你们一样。Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

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效法神，凭爱心行事

¹所以，你们该效法　神，好像蒙慈爱的儿女一样。Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

²也要凭爱心行事，正如基督爱我们，为我们舍了自己，当作馨香的供物和祭物，献与　神。and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

连提都不可的事

³至于淫乱并一切污秽，或是贪婪，在你们中间连提都不可，方合圣徒的体统。But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

⁴淫词、妄语，和戏笑的话都不相宜；总要说感谢的话。Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

⁵因为你们确实地知道，无论是淫乱的，是污秽的，是有贪心的，在基督和　神的国里都是无分的。有贪心的，就与拜偶像的一样。For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶不要被人虚浮的话欺哄；因这些事，　神的忿怒必临到那悖逆之子。Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁷所以，你们不要与他们同伙。Therefore do not be partakers with them.

行事像光明的子女

⁸从前你们是暗昧的，但如今在主里面是光明的，行事为人就当像光明的子女。For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹光明所结的果子就是一切良善、公义、诚实。for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹⁰总要察验何为主所喜悦的事。Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹¹那暗昧无益的事，不要与人同行，倒要责备行这事的人；Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹²因为他们暗中所行的，就是提起来也是可耻的。For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

¹³凡事受了责备，就被光显明出来，因为一切能显明的就是光。But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

¹⁴所以主说：你这睡着的人当醒过来，从死里复活！基督就要光照你了。So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

要爱惜光阴

¹⁵你们要谨慎行事，不要像愚昧人，当像智慧人。Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶要爱惜光阴，因为现今的世代邪恶。redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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¹⁷不要作糊涂人，要明白主的旨意如何。Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

要被圣灵充满

¹⁸不要醉酒，酒能使人放荡；乃要被圣灵充满。Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹当用诗章、颂词、灵歌彼此对说，口唱心和地赞美主。Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰凡事要奉我们主耶稣基督的名常常感谢父　神。always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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²¹又当存敬畏基督的心，彼此顺服。Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.