9:19 这样，你必对我说，祂为什么还指责人？有谁抗拒祂的旨意？
You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who withstands His will?
9:20 人哪，你是谁，竟向神顶嘴？被塑造者岂能对塑造他者说，你为什么这样造我？
But rather, O man, who are you who answer back to God? Shall the thing molded say to him who molded it, Why did you make me thus?
9:21 窑匠难道没有权柄，从同一团泥里，拿一块作成贵重的器皿，又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿么？
Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?
9:22 若是神愿意显示祂的忿怒，彰显祂的能力，就多用恒忍宽容那些可怒、预备遭毁灭的器皿，
And what if God, wishing to demonstrate His wrath and make His power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
9:23 且要在那些蒙怜悯、早预备得荣耀的器皿上，彰显祂荣耀的丰富；
In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory,
9:24 这器皿就是我们这蒙祂所召的，不但从犹太人中，也从外邦人中，这有什么不可？
Even us, whom He has also called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?
9:25 就如神在何西阿书上也说，“那本来不是我子民的，我要称为我的子民；本来不是蒙爱的，我要称为蒙爱的；
As He also says in Hosea, "I will call those who were not My people My people, and her who was not beloved beloved;
9:26 从前在什么地方对他们说，你们不是我的子民，将来就在那里称他们为活神的儿子。”
And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.''
9:27 以赛亚指着以色列人喊着：“以色列子孙的数目虽如海沙，得救的不过是剩下的余数；
And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;
9:28 因为主要在地上实行祂的话，要将祂的话完成且截短。”
For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth, accomplishing it and cutting it short.''
9:29 又如以赛亚先前说过，“若不是万军之主给我们存留余种，我们早已成了所多玛，并像蛾摩拉的样子了。”
And as Isaiah has previously said, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.''
9:30 这样，我们可说什么？那未曾追求义的外邦人，反得着了义，就是本于信的义。
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have laid hold of righteousness, but a righteousness which is out of faith;
9:31 但那追求律法之义的以色列人，并未达到那律法。
But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law.
9:32 这是为什么？因为不是本于信，而是本于行。他们正碰跌在那绊脚石上，
Why? Because they pursued it not out of faith, but as it were out of works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
9:33 就如经上所记：“看哪，我在锡安放一块绊脚的石头，并跌人的磐石，信靠祂的，必不至于羞愧。”
As it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, and he who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.''
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