今日读经

黄金何其失光

¹黄金何其失光！纯金何其变色！圣所的石头倒在各市口上。How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

²锡安宝贵的众子好比精金，现在何竟算为窑匠手所做的瓦瓶？How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

围城中的饥荒

³野狗尚且把奶乳哺其子，我民的妇人倒成为残忍，好像旷野的鸵鸟一般。Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

⁴吃奶孩子的舌头因干渴贴住上膛；孩童求饼，无人擘给他们。The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

⁵素来吃美好食物的，现今在街上变为孤寒；素来卧朱红褥子的，现今躺卧粪堆。Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

⁶都因我众民的罪孽比所多玛的罪还大；所多玛虽然无人加手于她，还是转眼之间被倾覆。The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

⁷锡安的贵胄素来比雪纯净，比奶更白；他们的身体比红宝玉（或译：珊瑚）更红，像光润的蓝宝石一样。Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

⁸现在他们的面貌比煤炭更黑，以致在街上无人认识；他们的皮肤紧贴骨头，枯干如同槁木。But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

⁹饿死的不如被刀杀的，因为这是缺了田间的土产，就身体衰弱，渐渐消灭。Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

¹⁰慈心的妇人，当我众民被毁灭的时候，亲手煮自己的儿女作为食物。The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

锡安的根基被烧毁

¹¹耶和华发怒成就他所定的，倒出他的烈怒；在锡安使火着起，烧毁锡安的根基。The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

¹²地上的君王和世上的居民都不信敌人和仇敌能进耶路撒冷的城门。The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

先知和祭司的罪

¹³这都因她先知的罪恶和祭司的罪孽；他们在城中流了义人的血。But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

¹⁴他们在街上如瞎子乱走，又被血玷污，以致人不能摸他们的衣服。They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

¹⁵人向他们喊着说：不洁净的，躲开，躲开！不要挨近我！他们逃走飘流的时候，列国中有人说：他们不可仍在这里寄居。“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”

¹⁶耶和华发怒，将他们分散，不再眷顾他们；人不重看祭司，也不厚待长老。The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

仰望人来帮助终归枉然

¹⁷我们仰望人来帮助，以致眼目失明，还是枉然；我们所盼望的，竟盼望一个不能救人的国！All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

¹⁸仇敌追赶我们的脚步像打猎的，以致我们不敢在自己的街上行走。我们的结局临近；我们的日子满足；我们的结局来到了。They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

¹⁹追赶我们的比空中的鹰更快；他们在山上追逼我们，在旷野埋伏，等候我们。Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

²⁰耶和华的受膏者好比我们鼻中的气，在他们的坑中被捉住；我们曾论到他说：我们必在他荫下，在列国中存活。The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

以东也必喝苦杯

²¹住乌斯地的以东民哪，只管欢喜快乐；苦杯也必传到你那里；你必喝醉，以致露体。So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

²²锡安的民哪，你罪孽的刑罚受足了，耶和华必不使你再被掳去。以东的民哪，他必追讨你的罪孽，显露你的罪恶。O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

求你记念我们的凌辱

¹耶和华啊，求你记念我们所遭遇的事，观看我们所受的凌辱。Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

²我们的产业归与外邦人；我们的房屋归与外路人。Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

³我们是无父的孤儿；我们的母亲好像寡妇。We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

⁴我们出钱才得水喝；我们的柴是人卖给我们的。We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

⁵追赶我们的，到了我们的颈项上；我们疲乏不得歇息。We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

⁶我们投降埃及人和亚述人，为要得粮吃饱。We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

我们担当列祖的罪孽

⁷我们列祖犯罪，而今不在了；我们担当他们的罪孽。Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

⁸奴仆辖制我们，无人救我们脱离他们的手。Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

⁹因为旷野的刀剑，我们冒着险才得粮食。We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

¹⁰因饥饿燥热，我们的皮肤就黑如炉。Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

¹¹敌人在锡安玷污妇人，在犹大的城邑玷污处女。Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²他们吊起首领的手，也不尊敬老人的面。Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

¹³少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴，都绊跌了。Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

¹⁴老年人在城门口断绝；少年人不再作乐。The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

跳舞变为悲哀

¹⁵我们心中的快乐止息，跳舞变为悲哀。Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

¹⁶冠冕从我们的头上落下；我们犯罪了，我们有祸了！The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷这些事我们心里发昏，我们的眼睛昏花。Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

¹⁸锡安山荒凉，野狗（或译：狐狸）行在其上。because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

求你使我们回转

¹⁹耶和华啊，你存到永远；你的宝座存到万代。You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

²⁰你为何永远忘记我们？为何许久离弃我们？Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

²¹耶和华啊，求你使我们向你回转，我们便得回转。求你复新我们的日子，像古时一样。Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

²²你竟全然弃绝我们，向我们大发烈怒？unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

存心忍耐，仰望耶稣

¹我们既有这许多的见证人，如同云彩围着我们，就当放下各样的重担，脱去容易缠累我们的罪，存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程，Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

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²仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣（或译：仰望那将真道创始成终的耶稣）。他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在　神宝座的右边。Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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³那忍受罪人这样顶撞的，你们要思想，免得疲倦灰心。Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

主所爱的，他必管教

⁴你们与罪恶相争，还没有抵挡到流血的地步。In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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⁵你们又忘了那劝你们如同劝儿子的话，说：我儿，你不可轻看主的管教，被他责备的时候也不可灰心；And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

⁶因为主所爱的，他必管教，又鞭打凡所收纳的儿子。For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

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⁷你们所忍受的，是　神管教你们，待你们如同待儿子。焉有儿子不被父亲管教的呢？Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

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⁸管教原是众子所共受的。你们若不受管教，就是私子，不是儿子了。If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

⁹再者，我们曾有生身的父管教我们，我们尚且敬重他，何况万灵的父，我们岂不更当顺服他得生吗？Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

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¹⁰生身的父都是暂随己意管教我们；惟有万灵的父管教我们，是要我们得益处，使我们在他的圣洁上有分。Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

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¹¹凡管教的事，当时不觉得快乐，反觉得愁苦；后来却为那经练过的人结出平安的果子，就是义。No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

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挺起下垂的手

¹²所以，你们要把下垂的手、发酸的腿挺起来；Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹³也要为自己的脚，把道路修直了，使瘸子不致歪脚（或译：差路），反得痊愈。Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

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追求和睦与圣洁

¹⁴你们要追求与众人和睦，并要追求圣洁；非圣洁没有人能见主。Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

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¹⁵又要谨慎，恐怕有人失了　神的恩；恐怕有毒根生出来扰乱你们，因此叫众人沾染污秽；See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

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¹⁶恐怕有淫乱的，有贪恋世俗如以扫的，他因一点食物把自己长子的名分卖了。See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

¹⁷后来想要承受父所祝的福，竟被弃绝，虽然号哭切求，却得不着门路使他父亲的心意回转。这是你们知道的。For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

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不是来到西乃山

¹⁸你们原不是来到那能摸的山；此山有火焰、密云、黑暗、暴风、For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

¹⁹角声与说话的声音。那些听见这声音的，都求不要再向他们说话；to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.

²⁰因为他们当不起所命他们的话，说：“靠近这山的，即便是走兽，也要用石头打死。”For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

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²¹所见的极其可怕，甚至摩西说：“我甚是恐惧战兢。”The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

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乃是来到锡安山

²²你们乃是来到锡安山，永生　神的城邑，就是天上的耶路撒冷。那里有千万的天使，Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

²³有名录在天上诸长子之会所共聚的总会，有审判众人的　神和被成全之义人的灵魂，in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

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²⁴并新约的中保耶稣，以及所洒的血；这血所说的比亚伯的血所说的更美。to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

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不可弃绝那说话的

²⁵你们总要谨慎，不可弃绝那向你们说话的。因为，那些弃绝在地上警戒他们的尚且不能逃罪，何况我们违背那从天上警戒我们的呢？See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

²⁶当时他的声音震动了地，但如今他应许说：“再一次我不单要震动地，还要震动天。”At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”

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²⁷这再一次的话，是指明被震动的，就是受造之物都要挪去，使那不被震动的常存。The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.

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不能震动的国

²⁸所以我们既得了不能震动的国，就当感恩，照　神所喜悦的，用虔诚、敬畏的心事奉　神。Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

²⁹因为我们的　神乃是烈火。“For our God is a consuming fire.”

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