耶利米哀歌 4-5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
沦陷的耶路撒冷
4 黄金竟失去光泽，
纯金竟变色，
宝石竟被弃之街头。
2 锡安的宝贝子民本来贵如黄金，
现在竟被视为陶匠制作的瓦器！
3 豺狼尚且哺养自己的幼儿，
我的子民却像荒野的鸵鸟一样残忍无情。
4 婴儿干渴难忍，舌头紧贴上膛；
孩童乞求食物，却无人给予。
5 昔日锦衣玉食、生活奢侈的，
如今却流落街头，
躺卧在粪堆中。
6 虽然无人攻击，所多玛却在顷刻之间倾覆。
我子民比所多玛受到的惩罚更重。
7 锡安的首领曾比雪纯净，
比奶更白，
身体比红宝石更红润，
相貌美如蓝宝石。
8 现在，他们的面目比煤炭还黑，
走在街上无人认得。
他们骨瘦如柴，干如枯木。
9 死于刀下的胜过死于饥饿的，
后者因田间缺粮而活活饿死。
10 我的百姓遭毁灭时，
慈母亲手煮自己的儿女充饥。
11 耶和华大发烈怒，
倾倒祂的怒气，
在锡安燃起大火，
焚毁城的根基。
12 世上的君王和居民都不相信敌人能闯进耶路撒冷的城门。
13 这都是因为她的先知和祭司的罪行。
他们在城中杀害义人。
14 他们如盲人在街上游荡，
沾满血污，
无人敢碰他们的衣服。
15 人们向他们喊道：
“走开！你们是不洁的！
走开！走开！不要靠近我们。”
于是他们逃亡、流荡，
列国的人说：
“他们不可住在我们这里。”
16 耶和华亲自驱散他们，
不再眷顾他们；
人们不再尊重祭司，
也不再敬重长老。
17 我们望眼欲穿，
盼望援军的到来，
盼来的国家却无力拯救我们。
18 敌人步步紧逼，
使我们不敢上自己的街。
我们的结局近了，
我们的日子到头了，
我们的末日来了！
19 追赶我们的人比飞鹰更快，
他们在山上追捕我们，
在旷野伏击我们。
20 耶和华膏立的王——我们的生命之气落入他们的陷阱。
我们原希望借他的荫庇立足于列国中。
21 乌斯地区的以东人啊，
只管欢喜作乐吧！
因为盛满耶和华愤怒的杯也要传到你们那里。
你们必喝醉，以致赤身露体。
22 锡安城啊！你已经受到了应得的刑罚，
耶和华必不再使你流亡。
以东啊，耶和华要惩罚你，
揭露你的罪恶！
求耶和华怜悯
5 耶和华啊，求你顾念我们的遭遇，
看看我们所受的耻辱！
2 我们的土地被陌生人侵占，
我们的房屋落入外族人手中。
3 我们成了丧父的孤儿，
我们的母亲成了寡妇。
4 我们喝水要付钱，
烧的柴要用钱买。
5 敌人紧追不舍，
我们疲惫不堪，不得安歇。
6 为了得到食物，
我们向埃及、亚述卑躬屈膝。
7 我们的祖先犯了罪，
已经逝去，
我们却要承担他们的罪责。
8 奴仆做了我们的主人，
无人从他们手中解救我们。
9 旷野中杀机四伏，
我们冒着生命危险才得到粮食。
10 我们因饥饿而发热，
皮肤热如烤炉。
11 妇女在锡安遭强暴，
少女在犹大被奸污。
12 首领双手被吊起来，
老人得不到尊敬。
13 青年被迫推磨，
孩童肩背柴捆，步履蹒跚。
14 老人不再坐在城门口，
青年不再弹琴奏乐。
15 我们心中的快乐消失，
我们的舞蹈变成了哀哭。
16 荣耀的冠冕从我们头上落下。
我们犯了罪，我们有祸了！
17 此情此景使我们黯然神伤，
泪眼模糊。
18 锡安山一片荒凉，
豺狼四处游荡。
19 耶和华啊，你永远掌权，
你的宝座世代长存。
20 你为何永远忘记我们？
为何如此长久地弃绝我们？
21 耶和华啊，求你使我们回到你身边，
让我们归向你，
恢复我们昔日的繁荣！
22 难道你完全弃绝了我们，
仍然向我们大发烈怒吗？
Lamentations 4-5
New King James Version
The Degradation of Zion
4 How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are [a]scattered
At the head of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion,
[b]Valuable as fine gold,
How they are [c]regarded (A)as clay pots,
The work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(B)Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(C)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
(D)Embrace ash heaps.
6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the (E)sin of Sodom,
Which was (F)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!
7 Her [d]Nazirites were [e]brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their [f]appearance.
8 Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(G)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.
9 Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (H)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (I)field.
10 The hands of the (J)compassionate women
Have [g]cooked their (K)own children;
They became (L)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
(M)He has poured out His fierce anger.
(N)He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.
12 The kings of the earth,
And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed
That the adversary and the enemy
Could (O)enter the gates of Jerusalem—
13 (P)Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
(Q)Who shed in her midst
The blood of the just.
14 They wandered blind in the streets;
(R)They have defiled themselves with blood,
(S)So that no one would touch their garments.
15 They cried out to them,
“Go away, (T)unclean!
Go away, go away,
Do not touch us!”
When they fled and wandered,
Those among the nations said,
“They shall no longer dwell here.”
16 The [h]face of the Lord scattered them;
He no longer regards them.
(U)The people do not respect the priests
Nor show favor to the elders.
17 Still (V)our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.
18 (W)They [i]tracked our steps
So that we could not walk in our streets.
(X)Our end was near;
Our days were over,
For our end had come.
19 Our pursuers were (Y)swifter
Than the eagles of the heavens.
They pursued us on the mountains
And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The (Z)breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord,
(AA)Was caught in their pits,
Of whom we said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of (AB)Edom,
You who dwell in the land of Uz!
(AC)The cup shall also pass over to you
And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.
22 (AD)The punishment of your iniquity [j]is accomplished,
O daughter of Zion;
He will no longer send you into captivity.
(AE)He will punish your iniquity,
O daughter of Edom;
He will uncover your sins!
Prayer for Restoration
5 Remember, (AF)O Lord, what has come upon us;
Look, and behold (AG)our reproach!
2 (AH)Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans and waifs,
Our mothers are like (AI)widows.
4 We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.
5 (AJ)They pursue at our [k]heels;
We labor and have no rest.
6 (AK)We have given our hand (AL)to the Egyptians
And the (AM)Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 (AN)Our fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.
11 They (AO)ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.
13 Young men (AP)ground at the millstones;
Boys staggered under loads of wood.
14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their (AQ)music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into (AR)mourning.
16 (AS)The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this our heart is faint;
(AT)Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
18 Because of Mount Zion which is (AU)desolate,
With foxes walking about on it.
19 You, O Lord, (AV)remain forever;
(AW)Your throne from generation to generation.
20 (AX)Why do You forget us forever,
And forsake us for so long a time?
21 (AY)Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be [l]restored;
Renew our days as of old,
22 Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:1 Lit. poured out
- Lamentations 4:2 Lit. Weighed against
- Lamentations 4:2 reckoned
- Lamentations 4:7 Or nobles
- Lamentations 4:7 Or purer
- Lamentations 4:7 Lit. polishing
- Lamentations 4:10 boiled
- Lamentations 4:16 Tg. anger
- Lamentations 4:18 Lit. hunted
- Lamentations 4:22 has been completed
- Lamentations 5:5 Lit. necks
- Lamentations 5:21 returned
罗马书 11
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
上帝不放弃以色列人
11 这样，难道上帝放弃了祂的子民吗？当然没有！因我自己也是以色列人，是亚伯拉罕的后裔，属于便雅悯支派。 2 上帝并没有放弃祂预先拣选的子民。你们不知道圣经上有关以利亚先知的记载吗？他在上帝面前控告以色列人，说： 3 “主啊！他们残杀你的先知，拆毁你的祭坛，只剩下我一个人，他们还要杀我。” 4 上帝怎样回答呢？祂说：“我为自己留下七千人，他们未曾跪拜巴力。”
5 现在的情况也是一样，上帝按照拣选的恩典留下了少数人。 6 既然说是出于恩典，就不再基于行为，不然恩典就不再是恩典了。 7 这该怎么说呢？以色列人努力追求，却一无所得，只有蒙拣选的人得到了，其他的人都变得顽固不化。 8 正如圣经上说：
“上帝使他们至今心智昏迷，
眼睛看不见，耳朵听不到。”
9 大卫也说：
“愿他们的宴席成为网罗、
陷阱、绊脚石，
给他们带来报应；
10 愿他们眼目昏暗，
无法看见，
永远弯腰驼背。”
11 那么，以色列人一失足就再也爬不起来了吗？当然不是！恰好相反，因他们的过犯，救恩临到了外族人，使他们心生嫉妒。 12 如果他们的过犯给世界带来了富足，他们的失败给外族人带来了富足，那么，他们发愤回头的时候岂不要带来更大的祝福吗？
外族人得救
13 我有话要对你们外族人说，因为我是外族人的使徒，我尊重自己的职分， 14 希望使我的骨肉同胞心生嫉妒，好使他们当中的一些人得救。 15 如果他们被抛弃，人类便有机会与上帝和好，那么，当他们被接纳的时候，又将怎样呢？岂不是要死而复生吗？ 16 献祭时所献的那部分面团如果圣洁，整团面也圣洁；树根如果圣洁，树枝也圣洁。
17 如果橄榄树上有几条枝子被折了下来，你这野橄榄枝被接了上去，得以汲取橄榄树根供应的汁浆，你就不可向折下来的枝子夸口。 18 你怎能夸口呢？要知道：不是你托住树根，而是树根托住你。 19 你也许会说：“原来的枝子被折下来，是为了把我接上去。” 20 不错，他们因为不信被折了下来，而你因为信被接了上去，然而不要自高，要敬畏上帝。 21 上帝既然没有留下原来的枝子，也可以不留下你。 22 可见，上帝既慈爱又严厉。祂对堕落的人是严厉的，对你却是慈爱的。你要常常活在祂的爱中，不然你也会被砍下来。 23 当然，如果以色列人不再顽固不信，必会重新被接上去，因为上帝能把他们重新接上。 24 你这从野生的橄榄树上砍下来的枝子，尚且可以违反自然，被接到好橄榄树上，何况原来的枝子被接回到原来的树上呢？
全以色列都要得救
25 弟兄姊妹，我不愿意你们对以下这奥秘一无所知，还自以为聪明。这奥秘就是：虽然有些以色列人的心刚硬，但等到外族人得救的数目满了以后， 26 全以色列都要得救。正如圣经上说：“救主必从锡安出来，祂将除去雅各子孙的罪恶。 27 那时我要除去他们的罪，这是我与他们所立的约。”
28 就福音而论，他们成为上帝的仇敌是为了使你们得到福音；就上帝的拣选而论，因为他们祖先的缘故，他们仍是上帝所爱的。 29 因为上帝绝不会收回祂的恩赐和呼召。 30 你们从前不顺服上帝，然而因为他们的不顺服，你们现在反蒙了怜悯。 31 同样，他们现在不顺服是为了使你们蒙怜悯，好使他们也蒙怜悯。 32 因为上帝把世人都归在不顺服之列，是为了要怜悯世人。
颂赞上帝
33 啊，上帝的智慧和知识多么博大精深！
祂的判断多么难测！
祂的踪迹多么难寻！
34 谁曾知道主的心意？
谁曾做过祂的谋士？
35 谁曾给过祂，
等祂偿还呢？
36 因为万物都源于祂，
倚靠祂，归于祂。
愿荣耀归给祂，
直到永远。阿们！
Romans 11
New King James Version
Israel’s Rejection Not Total
11 I say then, (A)has God cast away His people? (B)Certainly not! For (C)I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom (D)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 (E)“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 But what does the divine response say to him? (F)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 (G)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And (H)if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. [a]But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? (I)Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were (J)blinded. 8 Just as it is written:
(K)“God has given them a spirit of stupor,
(L)Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”
9 And David says:
(M)“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”
Israel’s Rejection Not Final
11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But (N)through their [b]fall, to provoke them to (O)jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their [c]fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as (P)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and (Q)save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be (R)but life from the dead?
16 For if (S)the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if (T)some of the branches were broken off, (U)and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and [d]fatness of the olive tree, 18 (V)do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of (W)unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, [e]goodness, (X)if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise (Y)you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, (Z)if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be (AA)wise in your own [f]opinion, that (AB)blindness in part has happened to Israel (AC)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be [g]saved, as it is written:
(AD)“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For (AE)this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are (AF)beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are (AG)irrevocable. 30 For as you (AH)were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has [h]committed them (AI)all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the (AJ)mind of the Lord?
Or (AK)who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or(AL) who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For (AM)of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, (AN)to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Footnotes
- Romans 11:6 NU omits the rest of v. 6.
- Romans 11:11 trespass
- Romans 11:12 trespass
- Romans 11:17 richness
- Romans 11:22 NU adds of God
- Romans 11:25 estimation
- Romans 11:26 Or delivered
- Romans 11:32 shut them all up in
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