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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12日）
三月十二日 「那一晝一夜，耶和華使東風颳在埃及地上，到了早晨，東風把蝗蟲颳了來。……於是法老急忙召了摩西、亞倫來，耶和華轉了極大的西風，把蝗蟲颳起，吹入紅海，在埃及的四境連一個也沒有留下。」出埃及記十章13、16、19節 我們看神怎樣利用暴風拯救以色列人脫離殘酷的法老；還有神在表顯祂最大的神權時─神最後一次對付埃及的軍隊─也利用大東風（十四章21節）。當時以色列人都以為他們的處境太危急，太殘酷了─—前面是紅海，後面是追兵，兩旁都是高聳的山巖，斷絕了一切逃生的希望。以色列人在這時候只能彀仰望耶和華的拯救了。可是祂的拯救是大東風。這真出他們意外。可怕的風加增他們的驚慌，四周的寒冷凍得他們戰慄。他們怨神的拯救無非催逼他們死得快一點。恐怕那時他們全營的呼聲是：「我們死啦！埃及人追及我們了。」 正在絕望的時候，榮耀的勝利來了。吼聲可怕的東風把浪擊退，把海吹乾，以色列人向前走去，進入神的保護和慈愛中。兩旁是水晶的牆，前面是耶和華的榮光。終夜都是這樣；到了天一亮，最後一個以色列人也上了岸，大東風的使命便完成了。 於是以色列人向耶和華唱歌說：「成就他命的狂風……都當讚美耶和華。」（詩一四八8、12） 「仇敵說我要追趕，我要追上，我要分擄物…您叫風一吹，海就把他們淹沒，他們如鉛沉在大水之中。」（出十五9、10） 到有一天，我們要站在玻璃海上，拿著神的琴；與眾聖徒一同唱神僕人摩西的歌和羔羊的歌說：「眾聖之王阿，您的方法義哉，誠哉」（啟十五3，直譯） 如今你只覺得這大風暴的不可思議；將來你必看見威脅你的敵人，在戰慄恐怖的夜裏，殲滅淨盡。 如今你只注意到損失；將來你必見到祂為何打擊那已開始桎梧你的罪惡。 如今你因風嘯雷鳴而畏縮；將來你必知道祂如何擊退那滅絕生命的洪水，為你們開闢道路，通往那應許的福地。 ─皮爾斯 風雖猖狂奔放， 我的信心仍在歌唱。 我知道這不會傷害我， 神附在它的翅膀之上
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月12日）
March 12 "The Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts....Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste....And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt." (Exod. 10:13, 19.) ＳEE how in the olden times, when the Lord fought for Israel against the cruel Pharaoh, the stormy winds wrought out their deliverance; and yet again, in that grandest display of power─the last blow that God struck at the proud defiance of Egypt. A strange, almost cruel thing it must have seemed to Israel to be hemmed in by such a host of dangers─in front the wild sea defying them, on either hand the rocky heights cutting off all hope of escape, the night of hurricane gathering over them. It was as if that first deliverance had come only to hand them over to more certain death. Completing the terror there rang out the cry: "The Egyptians are upon us!" When it seemed they were trapped for the foe, then came the glorious triumph. Forth swept the stormy wind and beat back the waves, and the hosts of Israel marched forward, down into the path of the great deep─a way arched over with God's protecting love. On either hand were the crystal walls glowing in the light of the glory of the Lord; and high above them swept the thunder of the storm. So on through all that night; and when, at dawn of the next day, the last of Israel's host set foot upon the other shore, the work of the stormy wind was done. Then sang Israel unto the Lord the song of the "stormy wind fulfilling his word." "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil....Thou didst blow with the wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters." One day, by God's great mercy, we, too, shall stand upon the sea of glass, having the harps of God. then we shall sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints." We shall know then how the stormy winds have wrought out our deliverance. Now you see only the mystery of this great sorrow; then you shall see how the threatening enemy was swept away in the wild night of fear and grief. Now you look only at the loss; then you shall see how it struck at the evil that had begun to rivet its fetters upon you. Now you shrink from the howling winds and muttering thunders; then you shall see how they beat back the waters of destruction, and opened up your way to the goodly land of promise. ─Mark Guy Pearse. "Though winds are wild, And the gale unleashed, My trusting heart still sings: I know that they mean No harm to me, He rideth on their wings."
■ 永活之泉（03月12日）
三月十二日 神的旨意和我們的意念 「願您的旨意成全。」馬太福音廿六章42節 神的最大特權乃是天上地上一切事物，都將照祂的旨意成全。當神按著祂自己的形像造人時，首要地，神要使祂所造的人與祂有完全同一的願望。能與神相似乃人最大的榮耀——思想意念都與神相同。人成了神在肉體的具體顯出，並使神的願望能以成就。 當神造人時，給人意志並能來揀選他所該作的，祂將自己限制於祂的旨意中。當人墮落之後，落到神仇敵的掌握中；神無限的愛又開始一件偉大的工作，要將人從仇敵手中奪回來，成就祂自己的旨意。意念在神的裡面，也在人裡面，成了一個推動的力量。正如人落在追求屬世事物的慾望生活中，神必須救贖他、教育他，使他能過著與神相合的生活，神的目的乃是要人心中的意念與祂的意念完全相合。 神在這方面的最大救法，乃是差遣祂的兒子到世上來，在祂的人性裡面再一次顯出神的性情、神一切的旨意。祂在禱告中甘願獻上自己，來成全神一切的旨意，在肉身中的神子在極大痛苦中禱告：「願您的意旨成全。」祂甚至於在被神離棄時仍順服到底，如此才能使一直欺騙著人的權勢被征服，使人得蒙拯救。由於父與子之間這種奇妙完全的和諧，當神的兒子禱告「願父的旨意成就」時，神偉大的救贖才得完成。 如今正是特別蒙拯救的日子，信徒必須首先為自己，然後為別人代禱時向神說：「願您的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。」當我們這樣為教會——包括神家中所有的牧師、傳道人、剛強的及得救的信徒——為著那未蒙恩的，不論是掛名的基督徒或是異教徒呼籲的時候，我們有特權知道我們乃是為著神的旨意禱告，並且藉著禱告使神的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月12日）
三月十二日 撇下所有的 「彼得就對祂說，看哪！我們已經撇下所有的跟從您了。」馬可福音十章28節 總而言之，我們的主所說的撇棄，是祂自己的撇棄，不是門徒有所為而為的撇棄。當心撇棄裡含有商業的氣味──「我委身於神，是因為我要脫離罪惡，因為要成聖。」這是我們與神有正式關係的結果，但是不一定是基督教根本的性質。撇棄是無所為而為的。我們已經是商業化了，來到神面前為的有所得，而不是為神。這好像說：「主啊！我所要的不是你，是我自己；我要自己潔淨，要充滿聖靈；要被放在你的陳列室中，使我得以說：「這是神為我所行的。」如果我們以一點點給神，換更多回來，在我們的撇棄裡就全無聖靈；這是卑陋自私的商業興趣。我們抓著了天，我們脫離了罪，我們生來有用於神──這些事在真正的撇棄裡不能有所考慮；因為撇棄是出於我們完全自願的去為耶穌基督。 當我們遇著實際關係的時候，把耶穌基督置於何地呢？我們多數是離棄祂──「是的，主啊！我聽見了您的呼召；但是我的母親妻子和我自己的利益阻擋了我，叫我不能再進一步了。」於是耶穌回答說：「你不配作我的門徒。」 撇棄的試驗是要超過愛人的頸項。走過吧！為神的撇棄必要補償你由撇棄所受的損失。當心我們對於神之半撇棄半不撇棄。僅僅知道在理想中撇棄，這是我們之中大多數人的毛病。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月12日）
三月十二日 「他們在曠野荒地漂流……」詩篇一百零七篇4節 所有為神爭戰的人，都應該不再在乎人好聽的意見和諂媚的讚美。即使好聽的意見是從神的子民而來，我們也不能破例。因為那狡猾的惡者能很容易地使這樣的話語滿足我們肉體的驕傲。 雖然神能藉同工使我們肯定所做的，但是我們絕不能把得到認同視為行事的動機。因為這種動機是毒藥，會剝奪我們能力。我們應該歸榮耀給神的能力。但是有時我們必須以在曠野荒地單獨漂流為滿足。 屬神的人必須單獨地與神同行，他必須以瞭解神是無所不知的為滿足。雖然我們的老我能從他人的臉色、看法和同情得到慰藉。雖然、將別人的幫助視為是「弟兄的愛」來欺騙自己；但是事實上，靠人的同情不僅是屬地的，而且是不可靠的。
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