今日读经

独坐的城像寡妇

¹先前满有人民的城，现在何竟独坐！先前在列国中为大的，现在竟如寡妇；先前在诸省中为王后的，现在成为进贡的。How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

²她夜间痛哭，泪流满腮；在一切所亲爱的中间没有一个安慰她的。她的朋友都以诡诈待她，成为她的仇敌。She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

³犹大因遭遇苦难，又因多服劳苦就迁到外邦。她住在列国中，寻不着安息；追逼她的都在狭窄之地将她追上。Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

锡安的路径悲伤

⁴锡安的路径因无人来守圣节就悲伤；她的城门凄凉；她的祭司叹息；她的处女受艰难，自己也愁苦。The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

⁵她的敌人为首；她的仇敌亨通；因耶和华为她许多的罪过使她受苦；她的孩童被敌人掳去。Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

⁶锡安城（原文是女子；下同）的威荣全都失去。她的首领像找不着草场的鹿；在追赶的人前无力行走。All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

⁷耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之时，就追想古时一切的乐境。她百姓落在敌人手中，无人救济；敌人看见，就因她的荒凉嗤笑。In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

耶路撒冷大大犯罪

⁸耶路撒冷大大犯罪，所以成为不洁之物；素来尊敬她的，见她赤露就都藐视她；她自己也叹息退后。Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

⁹她的污秽是在衣襟上；她不思想自己的结局，所以非常地败落，无人安慰她。她说：耶和华啊，求你看我的苦难，因为仇敌夸大。Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

¹⁰敌人伸手，夺取她的美物；她眼见外邦人进入她的圣所—论这外邦人，你曾吩咐不可入你的会中。The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

¹¹她的民都叹息，寻求食物；他们用美物换粮食，要救性命。他们说：耶和华啊，求你观看，因为我甚是卑贱。All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

有像这样的痛苦没有

¹²你们一切过路的人哪，这事你们不介意吗？你们要观看：有像这临到我的痛苦没有—就是耶和华在他发烈怒的日子使我所受的苦？Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

¹³他从高天使火进入我的骨头，克制了我；他铺下网罗，绊我的脚，使我转回；他使我终日凄凉发昏。He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

¹⁴我罪过的轭是他手所绑的，犹如轭绳缚在我颈项上；他使我的力量衰败。主将我交在我所不能敌挡的人手中。My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

¹⁵主轻弃我中间的一切勇士，招聚多人（原文是大会）攻击我，要压碎我的少年人。主将犹大居民踹下，像在酒榨中一样。The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

¹⁶我因这些事哭泣；我眼泪汪汪；因为那当安慰我、救我性命的，离我甚远。我的儿女孤苦，因为仇敌得了胜。For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

¹⁷锡安举手，无人安慰。耶和华论雅各已经出令，使四围的人作他仇敌；耶路撒冷在他们中间像不洁之物。Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

耶和华是公义的

¹⁸耶和华是公义的！他这样待我，是因我违背他的命令。众民哪，请听我的话，看我的痛苦；我的处女和少年人都被掳去。The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

¹⁹我招呼我所亲爱的，他们却愚弄我。我的祭司和长老正寻求食物、救性命的时候，就在城中绝气。I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

²⁰耶和华啊，求你观看，因为我在急难中。我心肠扰乱；我心在我里面翻转，因我大大悖逆。在外，刀剑使人丧子；在家，犹如死亡。See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

²¹听见我叹息的有人；安慰我的却无人！我的仇敌都听见我所遭的患难；因你做这事，他们都喜乐。你必使你报告的日子来到，他们就像我一样。People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

²²愿他们的恶行都呈在你面前；你怎样因我的一切罪过待我，求你照样待他们；因我叹息甚多，心中发昏。Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

主发怒倾覆锡安

¹主何竟发怒，使黑云遮蔽锡安城！他将以色列的华美从天扔在地上；在他发怒的日子并不记念自己的脚凳。How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

²主吞灭雅各一切的住处，并不顾惜。他发怒倾覆犹大民的保障，使这保障坍倒在地；他辱没这国和其中的首领。Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

³他发烈怒，把以色列的角全然砍断，在仇敌面前收回右手。他像火焰四围吞灭，将雅各烧毁。In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

⁴他张弓好像仇敌；他站着举起右手，如同敌人将悦人眼目的，尽行杀戮。在锡安百姓的帐棚上倒出他的忿怒，像火一样。He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

⁵主如仇敌吞灭以色列和锡安的一切宫殿，拆毁百姓的保障；在犹大民中加增悲伤哭号。The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

丢弃祭坛，憎恶圣所

⁶他强取自己的帐幕，好像是园中的窝棚，毁坏他的聚会之处。耶和华使圣节和安息日在锡安都被忘记，又在怒气的愤恨中藐视君王和祭司。He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

⁷耶和华丢弃自己的祭坛，憎恶自己的圣所，将宫殿的墙垣交付仇敌。他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷，像在圣会之日一样。The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

⁸耶和华定意拆毁锡安的城墙；他拉了准绳，不将手收回，定要毁灭。他使外郭和城墙都悲哀，一同衰败。The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

⁹锡安的门都陷入地内；主将她的门闩毁坏，折断。她的君王和首领落在没有律法的列国中；她的先知不得见耶和华的异象。Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

长老坐在地上默默无声

¹⁰锡安城的长老坐在地上默默无声；他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的处女垂头至地。The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

孩童在街上发昏

¹¹我眼中流泪，以致失明；我的心肠扰乱，肝胆涂地，都因我众民遭毁灭，又因孩童和吃奶的在城内街上发昏。My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

¹²那时，他们在城内街上发昏，好像受伤的，在母亲的怀里，将要丧命；对母亲说：谷、酒在哪里呢？They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

你的裂口大如海

¹³耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用什么向你证明呢？我可用什么与你相比呢？锡安的民哪，我可拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢？因为你的裂口大如海，谁能医治你呢？What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

¹⁴你的先知为你见虚假和愚昧的异象，并没有显露你的罪孽，使你被掳的归回；却为你见虚假的默示和使你被赶出本境的缘故。The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

¹⁵凡过路的都向你拍掌。他们向耶路撒冷城嗤笑，摇头，说：难道人所称为全美的，称为全地所喜悦的，就是这城吗？All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

¹⁶你的仇敌都向你大大张口；他们嗤笑，又切齿说：我们吞灭她。这真是我们所盼望的日子临到了！我们亲眼看见了！All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

¹⁷耶和华成就了他所定的，应验了他古时所命定的。他倾覆了，并不顾惜，使你的仇敌向你夸耀；使你敌人的角也被高举。The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

昼夜流泪求主

¹⁸锡安民的心哀求主。锡安的城墙啊，愿你流泪如河，昼夜不息；愿你眼中的瞳人泪流不止。The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

¹⁹夜间，每逢交更的时候要起来呼喊，在主面前倾心如水。你的孩童在各市口上受饿发昏；你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

耶和华啊，求你观看

²⁰耶和华啊，求你观看！见你向谁这样行？妇人岂可吃自己所生育手里所摇弄的婴孩吗？祭司和先知岂可在主的圣所中被杀戮吗？Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹少年人和老年人都在街上躺卧；我的处女和壮丁都倒在刀下；你发怒的日子杀死他们。你杀了，并不顾惜。Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

²²你招聚四围惊吓我的，像在大会的日子招聚人一样。耶和华发怒的日子，无人逃脱，无人存留。我所摇弄所养育的婴孩，仇敌都杀净了。You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

一条又新又活的路

¹⁹弟兄们，我们既因耶稣的血得以坦然进入至圣所，Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰是借着他给我们开了一条又新又活的路，从幔子经过，这幔子就是他的身体。by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

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²¹又有一位大祭司治理　神的家，and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

²²并我们心中天良的亏欠已经洒去，身体用清水洗净了，就当存着诚心和充足的信心来到　神面前；let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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坚守指望，不可停止聚会

²³也要坚守我们所承认的指望，不至摇动，因为那应许我们的是信实的。Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

²⁴又要彼此相顾，激发爱心，勉励行善。And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

²⁵你们不可停止聚会，好像那些停止惯了的人，倒要彼此劝勉，既知道（原文是看见）那日子临近，就更当如此。Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

故意犯罪的警告

²⁶因为我们得知真道以后，若故意犯罪，赎罪的祭就再没有了；If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

²⁷惟有战惧等候审判和那烧灭众敌人的烈火。but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

²⁸人干犯摩西的律法，凭两三个见证人，尚且不得怜恤而死，Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹何况人践踏　神的儿子，将那使他成圣之约的血当作平常，又亵慢施恩的圣灵，你们想，他要受的刑罚该怎样加重呢！How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰因为我们知道谁说：“伸冤在我，我必报应”；又说：“主要审判他的百姓。”For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

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³¹落在永生　神的手里，真是可怕的！It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

追念往日的苦难

³²你们要追念往日，蒙了光照以后所忍受大争战的各样苦难：Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.

³³一面被毁谤，遭患难，成了戏景，叫众人观看；一面陪伴那些受这样苦难的人。Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.

³⁴因为你们体恤了那些被捆锁的人，并且你们的家业被人抢去，也甘心忍受，知道自己有更美长存的家业。You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

不可丢弃勇敢的心

³⁵所以，你们不可丢弃勇敢的心；存这样的心必得大赏赐。So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

³⁶你们必须忍耐，使你们行完了　神的旨意，就可以得着所应许的。You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

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³⁷因为还有一点点时候，那要来的就来，并不迟延；For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.

³⁸只是义人（有古卷：我的义人）必因信得生。他若退后，我心里就不喜欢他。But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

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³⁹我们却不是退后入沉沦的那等人，乃是有信心以致灵魂得救的人。But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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