麥克謙一年通讀

Bear One Another's Burdens and Do Good

¹Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

²Bear ye one another’s burdens; and so you shall fulfill the law of Christ.

³For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

⁴But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another.

⁵For every one shall bear his own burden.

⁶And let him that is instructed in the word, communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

⁷Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

⁸For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

⁹And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

¹⁰Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Boasting Only in the Cross of Christ

¹¹See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

¹²For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

¹³For neither they themselves who are circumcised, keep the law; but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

¹⁴But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

¹⁶And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

¹⁷From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me; for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body.

¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

The Duty and Calling of the Watchman

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

²Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them:

³And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

⁴Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.

⁵He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save his life.

⁶And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.

⁷So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

⁸When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

⁹But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way: he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.

The Justice That Judges Each According to His Ways

¹⁰Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we live?

¹¹Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹²Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin.

¹³Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.

¹⁴And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,

¹⁵And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

¹⁶None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live.

¹⁷And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.

¹⁸For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.

¹⁹And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice: be shall live in them.

²⁰And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.

News of Jerusalem's Fall and the People's Hypocrisy

²¹And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.

²²And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.

²³And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

²⁴Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us in possession.

²⁵Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God, You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

²⁶You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbour’s wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance?

²⁷Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live, they that dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the sword: and he that is in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be devoured: and they that are in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence.

²⁸And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them.

²⁹And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made their land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they have committed.

³⁰And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that talk of thee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another each men to his neighbour, saying: Come, and let us hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.

³¹And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

³²And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with a sweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and do them not.

³³And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, (for behold it is coming,) then shall they know that a prophet bath been among them.

A Voice Urging Obedience at the Feast

¹A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

²How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

A Rebuke Against Unjust Judges

¹A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

²O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

³For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

⁵They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

⁶For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,

⁷The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

⁸Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

¹⁰Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

¹¹Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

¹²Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

¹³Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

¹⁴O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

¹⁵As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

¹⁶So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

¹⁹And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.