路得的故事

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2023年12月14日 星期四 祝福早安 天气多云 气温3℃ 《路得的故事》 我们以为自己一生无风无浪，然后有一天发现自己原来是颠沛流离。我们都会遇到“改变”，我们都是拿俄米，像她一样走出死亡之墓；我们都是俄珥巴，像她一样步向安全；我们都是路得，像她一样迈向陌生的明天。——《路得的故事》 以利米勒全家迁往摩押 【得 1:1】 当士师秉政的时候，国中遭遇饥荒。在犹大伯利恒，有一个人带着妻子和两个儿子往摩押地去寄居。 【Rut 1:1】 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. 【得 1:2】 这人名叫以利米勒，他的妻名叫拿俄米。他两个儿子，一个名叫玛伦，一个名叫基连，都是犹大伯利恒的以法他人。他们到了摩押地，就住在那里。 【Rut 1:2】 The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. 【得 1:3】 后来拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了，剩下妇人和她两个儿子。 【Rut 1:3】 Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 【得 1:4】 这两个儿子娶了摩押女子为妻，一个名叫俄珥巴，一个名叫路得，在那里住了约有十年。 【Rut 1:4】 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, 【得 1:5】 玛伦和基连二人也死了，剩下拿俄米没有丈夫，也没有儿子。 【Rut 1:5】 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 拿俄米和路得回伯利恒 【得 1:6】 她就与两个儿妇起身要从摩押地归回，因为她在摩押地听见耶和华眷顾自己的百姓，赐粮食与他们。 【Rut 1:6】 When she heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 【得 1:7】 于是她和两个儿妇起行离开所住的地方，要回犹大地去。 【Rut 1:7】 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. 【得 1:8】 拿俄米对两个儿妇说：“你们各人回娘家去吧！愿耶和华恩待你们，像你们恩待已死的人与我一样。 【Rut 1:8】 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 【得 1:9】 愿耶和华使你们各在新夫家中得平安！”于是，拿俄米与她们亲嘴。她们就放声而哭， 【Rut 1:9】 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them and they wept aloud 【得 1:10】 说：“不然，我们必与你一同回你本国去。” 【Rut 1:10】 and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people." 【得 1:11】 拿俄米说：“我女儿们哪，回去吧！为何要跟我去呢？我还能生子作你们的丈夫吗？ 【Rut 1:11】 But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 【得 1:12】 我女儿们哪，回去吧！我年纪老迈，不能再有丈夫；即或说，我还有指望，今夜有丈夫可以生子， 【Rut 1:12】 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me--even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons-- 【得 1:13】 你们岂能等着他们长大呢？你们岂能等着他们不嫁别人呢？我女儿们哪，不要这样！我为你们的缘故甚是愁苦，因为耶和华伸手攻击我。” 【Rut 1:13】 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD'S hand has gone out against me!" 【得 1:14】 两个儿妇又放声而哭，俄珥巴与婆婆亲嘴而别，只是路得舍不得拿俄米。 【Rut 1:14】 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her. 【得 1:15】 拿俄米说：“看哪，你嫂子已经回她本国和她所拜的神那里去了，你也跟着你嫂子回去吧。” 【Rut 1:15】 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her." 【得 1:16】 路得说：“不要催我回去不跟随你。你往哪里去，我也往那里去；你在哪里住宿，我也在那里住宿；你的国就是我的国，你的 神就是我的 神。 【Rut 1:16】 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 【得 1:17】 你在哪里死，我也在那里死，也葬在那里。除非死能使你我相离，不然，愿耶和华重重地降罚与我。” 【Rut 1:17】 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." 【得 1:18】 拿俄米见路得定意要跟随自己去，就不再劝她了。 【Rut 1:18】 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. 【得 1:19】 于是二人同行，来到伯利恒。她们到了伯利恒，合城的人就都惊讶。妇女们说：“这是拿俄米吗？” 【Rut 1:19】 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?" 【得 1:20】 拿俄米对他们说：“不要叫我拿俄米（“拿俄米”就是“甜”的意思），要叫我玛拉（“玛拉”就是“苦”的意思），因为全能者使我受了大苦。 【Rut 1:20】 "Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 【得 1:21】 我满满地出去，耶和华使我空空地回来。耶和华降祸与我，全能者使我受苦。既是这样，你们为何还叫我拿俄米呢？” 【Rut 1:21】 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me." 【得 1:22】 拿俄米和她儿妇摩押女子路得，从摩押地回来到伯利恒，正是动手割大麦的时候。 【Rut 1:22】 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning. 路得在波阿斯田里拾麦穗 【得 2:1】 拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的亲族中，有一个人名叫波阿斯，是个大财主。 【Rut 2:1】 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, from the clan of Elimelech, a man of standing, whose name was Boaz. 【得 2:2】 摩押女子路得对拿俄米说：“容我往田间去，我蒙谁的恩，就在谁的身后拾取麦穗。”拿俄米说：“女儿啊，你只管去。” 【Rut 2:2】 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." 【得 2:3】 路得就去了，来到田间，在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那块田里。 【Rut 2:3】 So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. 【得 2:4】 波阿斯正从伯利恒来，对收割的人说：“愿耶和华与你们同在！”他们回答说：“愿耶和华赐福与你！” 【Rut 2:4】 Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!" "The LORD bless you!" they called back. 【得 2:5】 波阿斯问监管收割的仆人说：“那是谁家的女子？” 【Rut 2:5】 Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, "Whose young woman is that?" 【得 2:6】 监管收割的仆人回答说：“是那摩押女子，跟随拿俄米从摩押地回来的。 【Rut 2:6】 The foreman replied, "She is the Moabitess who came back from Moab with Naomi. 【得 2:7】 她说：‘请你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麦穗。’她从早晨直到如今，除了在屋子里坐一会儿，常在这里。” 【Rut 2:7】 She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She went into the field and has worked steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter." 【得 2:8】 波阿斯对路得说：“女儿啊，听我说，不要往别人田里拾取麦穗，也不要离开这里，要常与我使女们在一处。 【Rut 2:8】 So Boaz said to Ruth, "My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. 【得 2:9】 我的仆人在哪块田收割，你就跟着他们去。我已经吩咐仆人不可欺负你。你若渴了，就可以到器皿那里喝仆人打来的水。” 【Rut 2:9】 Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the girls. I have told the men not to touch you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled." 【得 2:10】 路得就俯伏在地叩拜，对他说：“我既是外邦人，怎么蒙你的恩，这样顾恤我呢？” 【Rut 2:10】 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She exclaimed, "Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me--a foreigner?" 【得 2:11】 波阿斯回答说：“自从你丈夫死后，凡你向婆婆所行的，并你离开父母和本地，到素不认识的民中，这些事人全都告诉我了。 【Rut 2:11】 Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 【得 2:12】 愿耶和华照你所行的赏赐你。你来投靠耶和华以色列 神的翅膀下，愿你满得他的赏赐。” 【Rut 2:12】 May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." 【得 2:13】 路得说：“我主啊，愿在你眼前蒙恩！我虽然不及你的一个使女，你还用慈爱的话安慰我的心。” 【Rut 2:13】 "May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord," she said. "You have given me comfort and have spoken kindly to your servant--though I do not have the standing of one of your servant girls." 【得 2:14】 到了吃饭的时候，波阿斯对路得说：“你到这里来吃饼，将饼蘸在醋里。”路得就在收割的人旁边坐下，他们把烘了的穗子递给她，她吃饱了，还有余剩的。 【Rut 2:14】 At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar." When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. 【得 2:15】 她起来又拾取麦穗，波阿斯吩咐仆人说：“她就是在捆中拾取麦穗，也可以容她，不可羞辱她。 【Rut 2:15】 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, "Even if she gathers among the sheaves, don't embarrass her. 【得 2:16】 并要从捆里抽出些来，留在地下任她拾取，不可叱吓她。” 【Rut 2:16】 Rather, pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke her." 【得 2:17】 这样，路得在田间拾取麦穗，直到晚上，将所拾取的打了，约有一伊法大麦。 【Rut 2:17】 So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. 【得 2:18】 她就把所拾取的带进城去给婆婆看，又把她吃饱了所剩的给了婆婆。 【Rut 2:18】 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough. 【得 2:19】 婆婆问她说：“你今日在哪里拾取麦穗，在哪里作工呢？愿那顾恤你的得福。”路得就告诉婆婆说：“我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里作工。” 【Rut 2:19】 Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said. 【得 2:20】 拿俄米对儿妇说：“愿那人蒙耶和华赐福，因为他不断地恩待活人死人。”拿俄米又说：“那是我们本族的人，是一个至近的亲属。” 【Rut 2:20】 "The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers." 【得 2:21】 摩押女子路得说：“他对我说：‘你要紧随我的仆人拾取麦穗，直等他们收完了我的庄稼。’” 【Rut 2:21】 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.'" 【得 2:22】 拿俄米对儿妇路得说：“女儿啊，你跟着他的使女出去，不叫人遇见你在别人田间，这才为好。” 【Rut 2:22】 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone else's field you might be harmed." 【得 2:23】 于是，路得与波阿斯的使女常在一处拾取麦穗，直到收完了大麦和小麦。路得仍与婆婆同住。 【Rut 2:23】 So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

《路得记》实际上是一个关于赎回的故事，但是，它也同样讲述波阿斯和以色列的赎回，关于家庭和文化的赎回，关于男性的下一代和女性的下一代的赎回，关于信仰的义和虔诚得赎的赎回，关于我们的赎回，和这个我们认为是支离破碎却又理所当然地享有的世界的赎回，就好像路得和拿俄米的赎回一样。《路得记》讲述的是女人帮助女人去打破隔阂，使人不再软弱无力，因为隔阂影响着每一个活着的人，包括男人、女人和小孩。 这是一本写在每一个女性和每一个男性的属灵生命上的书。但这本书还没有完结，它要留待每一个女性亲自将余下的部分写出来。

所有的移民都应该读读这卷书，精彩绝伦☺️☺️

有一些比较新的角度切入，会有一些提醒，但更多给人的感觉还是事件的扩写。

耶和华在地上造了一件新事，就是女子护卫男子。无论拿俄米和路得做了什么，都是神的工。