今日读经

神召列国上法庭

¹众海岛啊，当在我面前静默；众民当重新得力，都要近前来才可以说话，我们可以彼此辩论。“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.

²谁从东方兴起一人，凭公义召他来到脚前呢？耶和华将列国交给他，使他管辖君王，把他们如灰尘交与他的刀，如风吹的碎秸交与他的弓。Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

³他追赶他们，走他所未走的道，坦然前行。He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

⁴谁行做成就这事，从起初宣召历代呢？就是我—耶和华！我是首先的，也与末后的同在。Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

列国慌忙造偶像

⁵海岛看见就都害怕；地极也都战兢，就近前来。The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

⁶他们各人帮助邻舍，各人对弟兄说：壮胆吧！Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

⁷木匠勉励银匠，用锤打光的勉励打砧的，论焊工说，焊得好；又用钉子钉稳，免得偶像动摇。The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

以色列是神拣选的仆人

⁸惟你以色列—我的仆人，雅各—我所拣选的，我朋友亚伯拉罕的后裔，“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

⁹你是我从地极所领（原文是抓）来的，从地角所召来的，且对你说：你是我的仆人；我拣选你，并不弃绝你。I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.

¹⁰你不要害怕，因为我与你同在；不要惊惶，因为我是你的　神。我必坚固你，我必帮助你；我必用我公义的右手扶持你。Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

¹¹凡向你发怒的必都抱愧蒙羞；与你相争的必如无有，并要灭亡。Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

¹²与你争竞的，你要找他们也找不着；与你争战的必如无有，成为虚无。You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.

¹³因为我耶和华—你的　神必搀扶你的右手，对你说：不要害怕！我必帮助你。For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

你这虫雅各，不要害怕

¹⁴你这虫雅各和你们以色列人，不要害怕！耶和华说：我必帮助你。你的救赎主就是以色列的圣者。Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵看哪，我已使你成为有快齿打粮的新器具；你要把山岭打得粉碎，使冈陵如同糠秕。Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

¹⁶你要把它簸扬，风要吹去；旋风要把它刮散。你倒要以耶和华为喜乐，以以色列的圣者为夸耀。You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

神使干地变为涌泉

¹⁷困苦穷乏人寻求水却没有；他们因口渴，舌头干燥。我—耶和华必应允他们；我—以色列的　神必不离弃他们。The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

¹⁸我要在净光的高处开江河，在谷中开泉源；我要使沙漠变为水池，使干地变为涌泉。I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

¹⁹我要在旷野种上香柏树、皂荚树、番石榴树，和野橄榄树。我在沙漠要把松树、杉树，并黄杨树一同栽植；I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

²⁰好叫人看见、知道、思想、明白；这是耶和华的手所做的，是以色列的圣者所造的。so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

偶像说不出将来的事

²¹耶和华对假神说：你们要呈上你们的案件；雅各的君说：你们要声明你们确实的理由。“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.

²²可以声明，指示我们将来必遇的事，说明先前的是什么事，好叫我们思索，得知事的结局，或者把将来的事指示我们。“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

²³要说明后来的事，好叫我们知道你们是　神。你们或降福，或降祸，使我们惊奇，一同观看。Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

²⁴看哪，你们属乎虚无；你们的作为也属乎虚空。那选择你们的是可憎恶的。Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

唯有神预先说明

²⁵我从北方兴起一人；他是求告我名的，从日出之地而来。他必临到掌权的，好像临到灰泥，仿佛窑匠踹泥一样。I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

²⁶谁从起初指明这事，使我们知道呢？谁从先前说明，使我们说他不错呢？谁也没有指明；谁也没有说明；谁也没有听见你们的话。Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.

²⁷我首先对锡安说：看哪，我要将一位报好信息的赐给耶路撒冷。I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

²⁸我看的时候并没有人；我问的时候，他们中间也没有谋士可以回答一句。When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

²⁹看哪，他们和他们的工作都是虚空，且是虚无。他们所铸的偶像都是风，都是虚的。See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

神所喜悦的仆人

¹看哪，我的仆人—我所扶持所拣选、心里所喜悦的！我已将我的灵赐给他；他必将公理传给外邦。“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

²他不喧嚷，不扬声，也不使街上听见他的声音。He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

³压伤的芦苇，他不折断；将残的灯火，他不吹灭。他凭真实将公理传开。A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

⁴他不灰心，也不丧胆，直到他在地上设立公理；海岛都等候他的训诲。He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

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作外邦人的光

⁵创造诸天，铺张穹苍，将地和地所出的一并铺开，赐气息给地上的众人，又赐灵性给行在其上之人的　神耶和华，他如此说：This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

⁶我—耶和华凭公义召你，必搀扶你的手，保守你，使你作众民的中保（中保：原文是约），作外邦人的光，“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

⁷开瞎子的眼，领被囚的出牢狱，领坐黑暗的出监牢。to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

⁸我是耶和华，这是我的名；我必不将我的荣耀归给假神，也不将我的称赞归给雕刻的偶像。I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.

⁹看哪，先前的事已经成就，现在我将新事说明，这事未发以先，我就说给你们听。Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

向耶和华唱新歌

¹⁰航海的和海中所有的，海岛和其上的居民，都当向耶和华唱新歌，从地极赞美他。Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

¹¹旷野和其中的城邑，并基达人居住的村庄都当扬声；西拉的居民当欢呼，在山顶上呐喊。Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

¹²他们当将荣耀归给耶和华，在海岛中传扬他的颂赞。Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.

神像勇士出去

¹³耶和华必像勇士出去，必像战士激动热心，要喊叫，大声呐喊，要用大力攻击仇敌。The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

¹⁴我许久闭口不言，静默不语；现在我要喊叫，像产难的妇人；我要急气而喘哮。“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

¹⁵我要使大山小冈变为荒场，使其上的花草都枯干；我要使江河变为洲岛，使水池都干涸。I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

¹⁶我要引瞎子行不认识的道，领他们走不知道的路；在他们面前使黑暗变为光明，使弯曲变为平直。这些事我都要行，并不离弃他们。I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

¹⁷倚靠雕刻的偶像，对铸造的偶像说：你是我们的神；这等人要退后，全然蒙羞。But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

眼瞎耳聋的仆人

¹⁸你们这耳聋的，听吧！你们这眼瞎的，看吧！使你们能看见。Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

¹⁹谁比我的仆人眼瞎呢？谁比我差遣的使者耳聋呢？谁瞎眼像那与我和好的？谁瞎眼像耶和华的仆人呢？Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

²⁰你看见许多事却不领会，耳朵开通却不听见。Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

²¹耶和华因自己公义的缘故，喜欢使律法（或译：训诲）为大，为尊。The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

²²但这百姓是被抢被夺的，都牢笼在坑中，隐藏在狱里；他们作掠物，无人拯救，作掳物，无人说交还。But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

²³你们中间谁肯侧耳听此，谁肯留心而听，以防将来呢？Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

²⁴谁将雅各交出当作掳物，将以色列交给抢夺的呢？岂不是耶和华吗？就是我们所得罪的那位。他们不肯遵行他的道，也不听从他的训诲。Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

²⁵所以，他将猛烈的怒气和争战的勇力倾倒在以色列的身上。在他四围如火着起，他还不知道，烧着他，他也不介意。So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

保罗为他们尽心竭力

¹我愿意你们晓得，我为你们和老底嘉人，并一切没有与我亲自见面的人，是何等地尽心竭力；For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

²要叫他们的心得安慰，因爱心互相联络，以致丰丰足足在悟性中有充足的信心，使他们真知　神的奥秘，就是基督；that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

³所积蓄的一切智慧知识，都在他里面藏着。in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴我说这话，免得有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

⁵我身子虽与你们相离，心却与你们同在，见你们循规蹈矩，信基督的心也坚固，我就欢喜了。For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

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在基督里生根建造

⁶你们既然接受了主基督耶稣，就当遵他而行，Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

⁷在他里面生根建造，信心坚固，正如你们所领的教训，感谢的心也更增长了。rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

不要被虚空的妄言掳去

⁸你们要谨慎，恐怕有人用他的理学和虚空的妄言，不照着基督，乃照人间的遗传和世上的小学就把你们掳去。See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

在基督里得了丰盛

⁹因为　神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体地居住在基督里面，For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

¹⁰你们在他里面也得了丰盛。他是各样执政掌权者的元首。And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

¹¹你们在他里面也受了不是人手所行的割礼，乃是基督使你们脱去肉体情欲的割礼。In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

¹²你们既受洗与他一同埋葬，也就在此与他一同复活，都因信那叫他从死里复活　神的功用。And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

与基督一同活过来，字据被撤去

¹³你们从前在过犯和未受割礼的肉体中死了，　神赦免了你们（或译：我们）一切过犯，便叫你们与基督一同活过来；When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

¹⁴又涂抹了在律例上所写、攻击我们、有碍于我们的字据，把它撤去，钉在十字架上。having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

¹⁵既将一切执政的、掌权的掳来，明显给众人看，就仗着十字架夸胜。And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

规条只是影儿

¹⁶所以，不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日都不可让人论断你们。Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

¹⁷这些原是后事的影儿；那形体却是基督。These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

¹⁸不可让人因着故意谦虚和敬拜天使，就夺去你们的奖赏。这等人拘泥在所见过的（有古卷：这等人窥察所没有见过的），随着自己的欲心，无故地自高自大，Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

¹⁹不持定元首。全身既然靠着他，筋节得以相助联络，就因　神大得长进。He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

何必再服从人的规条

^20–21你们若是与基督同死，脱离了世上的小学，为什么仍像在世俗中活着、服从那“不可拿、不可尝、不可摸”等类的规条呢？If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

²²这都是照人所吩咐、所教导的。说到这一切，正用的时候就都败坏了。These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

²³这些规条使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表谦卑，苦待己身，其实在克制肉体的情欲上是毫无功效。Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.