今日读经

悖逆的儿女下埃及

¹耶和华说：祸哉！这悖逆的儿女。他们同谋，却不由于我，结盟，却不由于我的灵，以致罪上加罪；“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

²起身下埃及去，并没有求问我；要靠法老的力量加添自己的力量，并投在埃及的荫下。They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

³所以，法老的力量必作你们的羞辱；投在埃及的荫下，要为你们的惭愧。But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

⁴他们的首领已在琐安；他们的使臣到了哈内斯。For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

⁵他们必因那不利于他们的民蒙羞。那民并非帮助，也非利益，只作羞耻凌辱。everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

论南方牲畜的默示

⁶论南方牲畜的默示：他们把财物驮在驴驹的脊背上，将宝物驮在骆驼的肉鞍上，经过艰难困苦之地，就是公狮、母狮、蝮蛇、火焰的飞龙之地，往那不利于他们的民那里去。This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

⁷埃及的帮助是徒然无益的；所以我称她为“坐而不动的拉哈伯”。Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

刻在版上，传留后世

⁸现今你去，在他们面前将这话刻在版上，写在书上，以便传留后世，直到永永远远。Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

⁹因为他们是悖逆的百姓、说谎的儿女，不肯听从耶和华训诲的儿女。These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

¹⁰他们对先见说：不要望见不吉利的事，对先知说：不要向我们讲正直的话；要向我们说柔和的话，言虚幻的事。They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

¹¹你们要离弃正道，偏离直路，不要在我们面前再提说以色列的圣者。Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

高墙顷刻坍塌

¹²所以，以色列的圣者如此说：因为你们藐视这训诲的话，倚赖欺压和乖僻，以此为可靠的，Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

¹³故此，这罪孽在你们身上，好像将要破裂凸出来的高墙，顷刻之间忽然坍塌；this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

¹⁴要被打碎，好像把窑匠的瓦器打碎，毫不顾惜，甚至碎块中找不到一片可用以从炉内取火，从池中舀水。It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

得救在乎归回安息

¹⁵主耶和华—以色列的圣者曾如此说：你们得救在乎归回安息；你们得力在乎平静安稳；你们竟自不肯。For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”

¹⁶你们却说：不然，我们要骑马奔走。所以你们必然奔走；又说：我们要骑飞快的牲口。所以追赶你们的，也必飞快。“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

¹⁷一人叱喝，必令千人逃跑；五人叱喝，你们都必逃跑；以致剩下的，好像山顶的旗杆，冈上的大旗。A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

耶和华等候要施恩

¹⁸耶和华必然等候，要施恩给你们；必然兴起，好怜悯你们。因为耶和华是公平的　神；凡等候他的都是有福的！Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

¹⁹百姓必在锡安、在耶路撒冷居住；你不再哭泣。主必因你哀求的声音施恩给你；他听见的时候就必应允你。O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

²⁰主虽然以艰难给你当饼，以困苦给你当水，你的教师却不再隐藏；你眼必看见你的教师。The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

²¹你或向左或向右，你必听见后边有声音说：“这是正路，要行在其间。”And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

²²你雕刻偶像所包的银子和铸造偶像所镀的金子，你要玷污，要抛弃，好像污秽之物，对偶像说：“去吧！”So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

地的出产肥美丰盛

²³你将种子撒在地里，主必降雨在其上，并使地所出的粮肥美丰盛。到那时，你的牲畜必在宽阔的草场吃草。Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

²⁴耕地的牛和驴驹必吃加盐的料；这料是用木杴和杈子扬净的。The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

²⁵在大行杀戮的日子，高台倒塌的时候，各高山冈陵必有川流河涌。And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁶当耶和华缠裹他百姓的损处，医治他民鞭伤的日子，月光必像日光，日光必加七倍，像七日的光一样。The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.

耶和华的名从远方来

²⁷看哪，耶和华的名从远方来，怒气烧起，密烟上腾。他的嘴唇满有忿恨；他的舌头像吞灭的火。Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.

²⁸他的气如涨溢的河水，直涨到颈项，要用毁灭的筛箩筛净列国，并且在众民的口中必有使人错行的嚼环。His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

²⁹你们必唱歌，像守圣节的夜间一样，并且心中喜乐，像人吹笛，上耶和华的山，到以色列的磐石那里。You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

³⁰耶和华必使人听他威严的声音，又显他降罚的膀臂和他怒中的忿恨，并吞灭的火焰与霹雷、暴风、冰雹。And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

³¹亚述人必因耶和华的声音惊惶；耶和华必用杖击打他。For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.

³²耶和华必将命定的杖加在他身上；每打一下，人必击鼓弹琴。打仗的时候，耶和华必抡起手来，与他交战。And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.

³³原来陀斐特又深又宽，早已为王预备好了；其中堆的是火与许多木柴。耶和华的气如一股硫磺火使他着起来。For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

祸哉，下埃及求帮助的

¹祸哉！那些下埃及求帮助的，是因仗赖马匹，倚靠甚多的车辆，并倚靠强壮的马兵，却不仰望以色列的圣者，也不求问耶和华。Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

²其实，耶和华有智慧；他必降灾祸，并不反悔自己的话，却要兴起攻击那作恶之家，又攻击那作孽帮助人的。Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

³埃及人不过是人，并不是　神；他们的马不过是血肉，并不是灵。耶和华一伸手，那帮助人的必绊跌，那受帮助的也必跌倒，都一同灭亡。But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

耶和华保护耶路撒冷

⁴耶和华对我如此说：狮子和少壮狮子护食咆哮，就是喊许多牧人来攻击它，它总不因他们的声音惊惶，也不因他们的喧哗缩伏。如此，万军之耶和华也必降临在锡安山冈上争战。For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

⁵雀鸟怎样搧翅覆雏，万军之耶和华也要照样保护耶路撒冷。他必保护拯救，要越门保守。Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

现今要归向耶和华

⁶以色列人哪，你们深深地悖逆耶和华，现今要归向他。Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

⁷到那日，各人必将他金偶像银偶像，就是亲手所造、陷自己在罪中的，都抛弃了。For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

⁸亚述人必倒在刀下，并非人的刀；有刀要将他吞灭，并非人的刀。他必逃避这刀；他的少年人必成为服苦的。“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

⁹他的磐石必因惊吓挪去；他的首领必因大旗惊惶。这是那有火在锡安、有炉在耶路撒冷的耶和华说的。Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

要靠主喜乐

¹弟兄们，我还有话说，你们要靠主喜乐。我把这话再写给你们，于我并不为难，于你们却是妥当。Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

防备妄自行割的

²应当防备犬类，防备作恶的，防备妄自行割的。Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

³因为真受割礼的，乃是我们这以　神的灵敬拜、在基督耶稣里夸口、不靠着肉体的。For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

保罗从前引以为傲的

⁴其实，我也可以靠肉体；若是别人想他可以靠肉体，我更可以靠着了。though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

⁵我第八天受割礼；我是以色列族、便雅悯支派的人，是希伯来人所生的希伯来人。就律法说，我是法利赛人；circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

⁶就热心说，我是逼迫教会的；就律法上的义说，我是无可指摘的。as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

以认识基督为至宝

⁷只是我先前以为与我有益的，我现在因基督都当作有损的。But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

⁸不但如此，我也将万事当作有损的，因我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。我为他已经丢弃万事，看作粪土，为要得着基督；More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

⁹并且得以在他里面，不是有自己因律法而得的义，乃是有信基督的义，就是因信　神而来的义，and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

¹⁰使我认识基督，晓得他复活的大能，并且晓得和他一同受苦，效法他的死，I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

¹¹或者我也得以从死里复活。and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

向着标竿直跑

¹²这不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的（所以得着我的：或译所要我得的）。Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

¹³弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了；我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的，Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

¹⁴向着标竿直跑，要得　神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵所以我们中间，凡是完全人总要存这样的心；若在什么事上存别样的心，　神也必以此指示你们。All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.

¹⁶然而，我们到了什么地步，就当照着什么地步行。Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.

要效法我

¹⁷弟兄们，你们要一同效法我，也当留意看那些照我们榜样行的人。Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.

¹⁸因为有许多人行事是基督十字架的仇敌。我屡次告诉你们，现在又流泪地告诉你们：For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

¹⁹他们的结局就是沉沦；他们的神就是自己的肚腹。他们以自己的羞辱为荣耀，专以地上的事为念。Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

我们是天上的国民

²⁰我们却是天上的国民，并且等候救主，就是主耶稣基督从天上降临。But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹他要按着那能叫万有归服自己的大能，将我们这卑贱的身体改变形状，和他自己荣耀的身体相似。who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.