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1:1 以法蓮山地的拉瑪瑣非有一個以法蓮人，名叫以利加拿，是蘇弗的玄孫，託戶的曾孫，以利戶的孫子，耶羅罕的兒子。 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite 1:1 Or ((from Ramathaim Zuphim)) from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1:2 他有兩個妻：一名哈拿，一名毗尼拿。毗尼拿有兒女，哈拿沒有兒女。 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. 1:3 這人每年從本城上到示羅，敬拜祭祀萬軍之耶和華；在那裏有以利的兩個兒子何弗尼、非尼哈當耶和華的祭司。 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. 1:4 以利加拿每逢獻祭的日子，將祭肉分給他的妻毗尼拿和毗尼拿所生的兒女； Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 1:5 給哈拿的卻是雙分，因為他愛哈拿。無奈耶和華不使哈拿生育。 But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb. 1:6 毗尼拿見耶和華不使哈拿生育，就作她的對頭，大大激動她，要使她生氣。 And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. 1:7 每年上到耶和華殿的時候，以利加拿都以雙分給哈拿；毗尼拿仍是激動她，以致她哭泣不吃飯。 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. 1:8 她丈夫以利加拿對她說：「哈拿啊，你為何哭泣，不吃飯，心裏愁悶呢？有我不比十個兒子還好嗎？」 Elkanah her husband would say to her, <<Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?>> 1:9 他們在示羅吃喝完了，哈拿就站起來。祭司以利在耶和華殿的門框旁邊，坐在自己的位上。 Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD's temple. 1:9 That is, tabernacle 1:10 哈拿心裏愁苦，就痛痛哭泣，祈禱耶和華， In bitterness of soul Hannah wept much and prayed to the LORD. 1:11 許願說：「萬軍之耶和華啊，你若垂顧婢女的苦情，眷念不忘婢女，賜我一個兒子，我必使他終身歸與耶和華，不用剃頭刀剃他的頭。」 And she made a vow, saying, <<O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.>> 1:12 哈拿在耶和華面前不住地祈禱，以利定睛看她的嘴。 As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. 1:13 （原來哈拿心中默禱，只動嘴唇，不出聲音，因此以利以為她喝醉了。） Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk 1:14 以利對她說：「你要醉到幾時呢？你不應該喝酒。」 and said to her, <<How long will you keep on getting drunk? Get rid of your wine.>> 1:15 哈拿回答說：「主啊，不是這樣。我是心裏愁苦的婦人，清酒濃酒都沒有喝，但在耶和華面前傾心吐意。 <<Not so, my lord,>> Hannah replied, <<I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD. 1:16 不要將婢女看作不正經的女子。我因被人激動，愁苦太多，所以祈求到如今。」 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.>> 1:17 以利說：「你可以平平安安地回去。願以色列的 神允准你向他所求的！」 Eli answered, <<Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.>> 1:18 哈拿說：「願婢女在你眼前蒙恩。」於是婦人走去吃飯，面上再不帶愁容了。 She said, <<May your servant find favor in your eyes.>> Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. 1:19 次日清早，他們起來，在耶和華面前敬拜，就回拉瑪。到了家裏，以利加拿和妻哈拿同房，耶和華顧念哈拿， Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the LORD and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah lay with Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. 1:20 哈拿就懷孕。日期滿足，生了一個兒子，給他起名叫撒母耳，說：「這是我從耶和華那裏求來的。」 So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, 1:20 ((Samuel)) sounds like the Hebrew for ((heard of God.)) saying, <<Because I asked the LORD for him.>> 1:21 以利加拿和他全家都上示羅去，要向耶和華獻年祭，並還所許的願。 When the man Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow, 1:22 哈拿卻沒有上去，對丈夫說：「等孩子斷了奶，我便帶他上去朝見耶和華，使他永遠住在那裏。」 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, <<After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.>> 1:23 她丈夫以利加拿說：「就隨你的意行吧！可以等兒子斷了奶。但願耶和華應驗他的話。」於是婦人在家裏乳養兒子，直到斷了奶； <<Do what seems best to you,>> Elkanah her husband told her. <<Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his 1:23 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac ((your)) word.>> So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him. 1:24 既斷了奶，就把孩子帶上示羅，到了耶和華的殿；又帶了三隻公牛，一伊法細麵，一皮袋酒。（那時，孩子還小。） After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, 1:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text ((with three bulls)) an ephah 1:24 That is, probably about 3/5 bushel (about 22 liters) of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. 1:25 宰了一隻公牛，就領孩子到以利面前。 When they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli, 1:26 婦人說：「主啊，我敢在你面前起誓，從前在你這裏站著祈求耶和華的那婦人，就是我。 and she said to him, <<As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. 1:27 我祈求為要得這孩子；耶和華已將我所求的賜給我了。 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. 1:28 所以，我將這孩子歸與耶和華，使他終身歸與耶和華。」於是在那裏敬拜耶和華。 So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.>> And he worshiped the LORD there. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（03月11日）
三月十一日 「耶和華的僕人摩西死了以後，耶和華曉諭摩西的幫手嫩的兒子約書亞，說，我的僕人摩西死了；現在你要起來，和眾百姓過這約但河。」約書亞記一章1—2節 當憂愁和損失同時臨到你的時候，你第一個衝動就是想放棄一切，坐在失望中傷心。但是你決不能這樣，須知你是在戰場的前線，正當勝敗關頭。如果你躊躇一刻，同胞就要喪膽，神就要受著虧損。所以你不該稍有耽延，連痛哭一場的時間也不能。 某名將常述說他在戰爭時所遭遇的一段傷心的經歷：將軍的兒子是一個陸軍中尉。一次，父子各率一軍，開拔前線。不久，總攻擊開始，將軍身先士卒，向敵陣衝鋒；在戰場上，他偶然瞥見一個本國的戰死軍官躺在地上。跑近一看，乃是他自己的兒子。他第一個意念就是抱了屍身痛哭一場，但是轉念之間，他想到身負重責，戰爭的勝敗就在這一仗，豈可因個人私事貽誤大事；於是在死者灰白的冷唇上搶了一個熱吻，鼓起勇氣，急忙率領軍兵向前衝去。 如果約書亞在摩西的墓旁一直哀哭，是哭不活摩西的，也哭不出神的祝福來。憂愁無非使傷痕更深、使痛苦擴大。神吩咐約書亞在摩西死後從哀傷中起來背負神的使命前去，約書亞遵行神的旨意，果真面前有亮光、能力和祝稫。坐下來一直悲哀會使我們四圍的環境更黑暗、會使我們的心更痛苦、會使我們的力量更衰弱。只要我們不去理會痛苦，立即負起神的使命來，光明就會隨著來到，我們也會剛強起來了。 ─密勒 輕率的啼哭， 自私的淚珠， 將招來深的罪過。 我們憂慮那微不足道的損失， 您卻給我準備了夢想不到的收穫； 我們若不肯放下自以為珍貴的一切， 結果還是喪失， 何能持到永久？ 但若緊握著您的手， 堅定步伐走在您指示的道路， 前途是浸潤著快樂與豐富， 充滿了幸福和尊榮的寶庫。 ─傑克遜
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月11日）
March 11 "Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now, therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people."(Joshua 1:1, 2.) ＳORROW came to you yesterday, and emptied your home. Your first impulse now is to give up, and sit down in despair amid the wrecks of your hopes. But you dare not do it. You are in the line of battle, and the crisis is at hand. To falter a moment would be to imperil some holy interest. Other lives would be harmed by your pausing, holy interests would suffer, should your hands be folded. You must not linger even to indulge your grief. A distinguished general related this pathetic incident of his own experience in time of war. The general's son was a lieutenant of battery. An assault was in progress. The father was leading his division in a charge; as he pressed on in the field, suddenly his eye was caught by the sight of a dead battery-officer lying just before him. One glance showed him it was his own son. His fatherly impulse was to stop beside the was his own son. His fatherly impulse was to stop beside the loved form and give vent to his grief, but the duty of the moment demanded that he should press on in the charge; so, quickly snatching one hot kiss from the dead lips, he hastened away, leading his command in the assault. Weeping inconsolably beside a grave can never give back love's banished treasure, nor can any blessing come out of such sadness. Sorrow makes deep scars; it writes its record ineffaceably on the heart which suffers. We really never get over our great griefs; we are never altogether the same after we have passed through them as we were before. Yet there is a humanizing and fertilizing influence in sorrow which has been rightly accepted and cheerfully borne. Indeed, they are poor who have never suffered, and have none of sorrow's marks upon them. The joy set before us should shine upon our grief as the sun shines through the clouds, glorifying them. God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger. ─J. R. Miller. Thou knowest that through our tears, Of hasty, selfish weeping Comes surer sin, and for our petty fears Of loss thou hast in keeping A greater gain than all of which we dreamed; Thou knowest that in grasping The bright possessions which so precious seemed, We lose them; but if, clasping Thy faithful hand, we tread with steadfast feet, The path of thy appointing, There waits for us a treasury of sweet, Delight, royal anointing With oil of gladness and of strength. ─Helen Hunt Jackson.
■ 永活之泉（03月11日）
三月十一日 基督是我們代禱的榜樣 「……他與強盛的均分擄物，因……他擔當多人的罪，又為罪犯代求。」以賽亞書五十三章12節 「他為罪犯代求。」這對主來說是何所指呢？試想祂為了那個有功效的禱告出了何等大的代價。祂需要將魂傾倒成為贖罪祭，在客西馬尼向神呼求：「父啊，願您的旨意成全。」 試想是甚麼感動了祂，使祂將自己獻到至極！乃是祂對父的愛——使祂的聖潔得以顯出，以及祂對人的愛——使他們與祂一同成聖。 試想祂得著的是何等的得勝，祂勝過了眾仇敵，就坐在神的右邊，以無限的能力代禱。祂將要看到祂的後裔，與祂同有一個意念，祂能訓練他們有份於祂偉大的代禱工作。 當我們真實地為罪人求神時，這對我們又有甚麼意義呢？我們也是一樣，將自己完全獻於父的榮耀、聖潔及祂的愛，我們也向父說：願您的旨意成全，我們願出任何代價，甚至將魂傾於父的榮耀，聖潔及祂的愛，我們也向父說：願您的旨意成全，我們願出任何代價，甚至將魂傾倒以至於死。 主耶穌已將我們一同帶到天上有份於祂自己，使我們在代禱的偉大工作上與祂同工。祂在天上，我們在地上卻同有一個心志，一個目標——由於對父神及對那迷失人的愛，將自己獻上，藉著代禱帶下神的祝福。使那燃燒在父與子裡面，為要拯救罪人的熱火，也燒在我們心裡。 何等榮耀！何等福氣！因為祂長遠活著，那在聖靈所澆灌在我們心裡的愛，使我們得著何等力量來（為罪犯）代禱！ 禱告： 永活的神，開我們的眼睛，看見您兒子榮耀的異象，就是祂永遠活著為人代禱。並使我們看見您恩典的榮耀，使我們得與祂相似，並能為罪人代求。父啊，奉主耶穌的名。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月11日）
三月十一日 靈悟 「我沒有違背那從天上來的異象。」使徒行傳廿六章19節 如果我們失掉異象，其責只有我們自己擔負；而我們失掉異象的原因是由於靈性的遺漏。如果我們不把信靠神施之於實際，那神所賜予的異象，全都消逝。不違背那從天上來的異象的唯一方法，是盡力完成神的最高理想，還要時時決心回憶那異象才能成功。這是一秒一分不能間斷的工作，不僅是祈禱或靈修時的工作。 「雖然異象遲延，耐心等著」。我們不能強取甚麼異象，必要生活在異象的靈感中，讓其自己完成。我們忙於工作，就忘記所見的異象。在開始時，我們是看異象可以得著，但沒有等待異象；便忙於實際的工作，當異象完成的時候，我們反而不見。等候遲延的異象，是我們對神忠實的測驗。我們忙於實際工作，不見異象之完成，是將我們靈性的幸福置於危險了。 留心神的颶風。神播種聖徒唯一的方法，是藉著祂的旋風，你要證實你是一個空莢麼？是要看你是否照著所見的去生活。讓神擲你出去，不到神擲你出去，切不可出去。如果你選擇自己的地方，你就要成為一個空莢。如果神播種你，你就要結出果子來。 隨著異象之光，練習你的腳步，才是最根本的辦法。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月11日）
三月十一日 「惟有你們是被揀選的族類，……是屬神的子民……」彼得前書二章9節 你可曾想過，神從祂所選出的人中再揀選出一些人，是否有些奇怪？「教會」這個名詞，原意是「選召」的意思，但是神仍然在教會中揀選祂特殊的工人。 我們可以從基甸的故事中看到這樣的例子。當他第一次吹角時，有超過三萬以上的亞比以謝人來跟隨他，但是神要他把人數減少。第一次考驗之後，懼怕膽怯的都離開了，只剩下一萬人。然而神需要再從這一萬人中挑選出更精銳的，這次考驗後，聰明、謹慎和心志專一的人被留了下來，可是數目只有三百人。 藉著這雖小但神所揀選的一群，基甸得以提高攻打米甸人士兵的素質。靠著神的能力，他光榮地贏得勝利。今天神仍在挑選合用的三百人，並要用他們使祂贏得世界。讓我們確定，我們是屬於揀選中再揀選出來的。
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