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1:1 猶大王約雅敬在位第三年，巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒來到耶路撒冷，將城圍困。 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
1:2 主將猶大王約雅敬，並 神殿中器皿的幾分交付他手。他就把這器皿帶到示拿地，收入他神的廟裏，放在他神的庫中。 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia 1:2 Hebrew ((Shinar)) and put in the treasure house of his god. 1:3 王吩咐太監長亞施毗拿，從以色列人的宗室和貴冑中帶進幾個人來， Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility-- 1:4 就是年少沒有殘疾、相貌俊美、通達各樣學問、知識聰明俱備、足能侍立在王宮裏的，要教他們迦勒底的文字言語。 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. 1:4 Or ((Chaldeans)) 1:5 王派定將自己所用的膳和所飲的酒，每日賜他們一分，養他們三年。滿了三年，好叫他們在王面前侍立。 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service. 1:6 他們中間有猶大族的人：但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亞撒利雅。 Among these were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 1:7 太監長給他們起名：稱但以理為伯提沙撒，稱哈拿尼雅為沙得拉，稱米沙利為米煞，稱亞撒利雅為亞伯尼歌。 The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego. 1:8 但以理卻立志不以王的膳和王所飲的酒玷污自己，所以求太監長容他不玷污自己。 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. 1:9 神使但以理在太監長眼前蒙恩惠，受憐憫。 Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, 1:10 太監長對但以理說：「我懼怕我主我王，他已經派定你們的飲食；倘若他見你們的面貌比你們同歲的少年人肌瘦，怎麼好呢？這樣，你們就使我的頭在王那裏難保。」 but the official told Daniel, <<I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your 1:10 The Hebrew for ((your)) and ((you)) in this verse is plural. food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.>> 1:11 但以理對太監長所派管理但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亞撒利雅的委辦說： Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 1:12 「求你試試僕人們十天，給我們素菜吃，白水喝， <<Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 1:13 然後看看我們的面貌和用王膳那少年人的面貌，就照你所看的待僕人吧！」 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.>> 1:14 委辦便允准他們這件事，試看他們十天。 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. 1:15 過了十天，見他們的面貌比用王膳的一切少年人更加俊美肥胖。 At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 1:16 於是委辦撤去派他們用的膳，飲的酒，給他們素菜吃。 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. 1:17 這四個少年人， 神在各樣文字學問〔學問：原文是智慧〕上賜給他們聰明知識；但以理又明白各樣的異象和夢兆。 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. 1:18 尼布甲尼撒王預定帶進少年人來的日期滿了，太監長就把他們帶到王面前。 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. 1:19 王與他們談論，見少年人中無一人能比但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亞撒利雅，所以留他們在王面前侍立。 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's service. 1:20 王考問他們一切事，就見他們的智慧聰明比通國的術士和用法術的勝過十倍。 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. 1:21 到塞魯士王元年，但以理還在。 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus. 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（01月30日）
一月卅日 「我必向以色列如甘露。」何西阿書十四章5節 露是代表新鮮，朝氣，活潑。神降露原是為著更新大地，滋潤花草。聖經中也常說起露，用來表明屬靈的更新。神常藉聖靈更新祂的子民，猶如用露更新大地一般。在提多三章5節所說的「聖靈的更新」，就是講聖靈有露珠一般的執事。 許多神的僕人不懂得屬靈的露珠在他們生命中的重要。結果，他們沒有活潑，缺乏朝氣。他們的靈性下沈（甚至枯萎），就是因為沒有靈露的更新。 親愛的同工，你想一個工人能不喫東西，而整天作工麼？你想一個神的工人能不喫屬靈的嗎哪，而專一事奉麼？不，絕對不能。偶然喫一次也是不彀的。你必須每天接受聖靈的更新當作你靈性的滋養。怎樣去接受神的靈露呢？安靜，吸收。到了深夜寂靜時，花草葉子的氣孔都張開了，這時候正是他們受露珠的時候；屬靈的露珠也是這樣，當我們在神前安靜等待的時候，我們就會得到更新和滋潤。急躁不會叫你得到甚麼。安靜等待，直到你沈浸在主的同在裡；然後帶著基督的新鮮和活潑到工場裡去。 ─巴亭登 有風或是有熱的時候，露珠凝結不起來。風必須平靜，熱度必須下降，大氣必須到又靜又冷的一點，露珠纔能凝結在葉子或花瓣上。照樣，神更新的恩典，也是如此；必須等到你的火氣退去、你靈安靜，然後神纔降甘露滋潤你。 ─選 滴下您安靜的露珠， 讓我們也一切寧靜， 卸卻靈魂的緊張與重負， 在生活中反映出您的美麗和平意境。 為人慾而奔騰的脈搏， 需要一劑鎮定與清涼， 不必再狂跳和慌張， 風火地震的大變動中， 依舊寧靜安詳。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月30日）
January 30 "I will be as the dew unto Israel." (Hosea 14:5.) ＴHE dew is a source of freshness. It is nature's provision for renewing the face of the earth. It falls at night, and without it the vegetation would die. It is this great value of the dew which is so often recognized in the Scriptures. It is used as the symbol of spiritual refreshing. Just as nature is bathed in dew, so the Lord renews His people. In Titus 3:5 the same thought of spiritual refreshing is connected with the ministry of the Holy Ghost─"renewing of the Holy Ghost." Many Christian workers do not recognize the importance of the heavenly dew in their lives, and as a result they lack freshness and vigor. Their spirits are drooping for lack of dew. Beloved fellow-worker, you recognize the folly of a laboring man attempting to do his day's work without eating. Do you recognize the folly of a servant of God attempting to minister without eating of the heavenly manna? Nor will it suffice to have spiritual nourishment occasionally. Every day you must receive the renewing of the Holy Ghost. You know when your whole being is pulsating with the vigor and freshness of Divine life and when you feel jaded and worn. Quietness and absorption bring the dew. At night when the leaf and blade are still, the vegetable pores are open to receive the refreshing and invigorating bath; so spiritual dew comes from quiet lingering in the Master's presence. Get still before Him. Haste will prevent your receiving the dew. Wait before God until you feel saturated with His presence; then go forth to your next duty with the conscious freshness and vigor of Christ. ─Dr. Pardington. Dew will never gather while there is either heat or wind. The temperature must fall, and the wind cease, and the air come to a point of coolness and rest─absolute rest, so to speak─before it can yield up its invisible particles of moisture to bedew either herb or flower. So the grace of God does not come forth to rest the soul of man until the still point is fairly and fully reached. "Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. "Breathe through the pulses of desire Thy coolness and Thy balm; let sense be dumb, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!"
■ 永活之泉（01月30日）
一月卅日 基督在我裡面 「豈不知……就有耶穌基督在你們心裡麼？」哥林多後書十三章5節 使徒的意思，是要每一個基督徒都能活在這樣完全確實的信心中，就是「基督在我裡面」。若是每天早晨，我們都有一段時間，被「基督在我裡面」這個思想所充滿，我們的生活就要有何等的不同呢！我在基督裡是如何確定，照樣，基督在我裡面也是同樣的確定。 在最後一個晚上，基督很清楚地告訴門徒，聖靈要來教導他們一件事，就是「到那日，你們就知道我在父裡面，你們在我裡面，我也在你們裡面。」首先，是你們在我裡面。藉著神的能力，我們所有相信的人，都已經與基督一同釘死，又與祂一同復活，結果就是基督在我們裡面。但是這件事是不容易認識的。基督徒需要用信心接受神的話語，這樣，聖靈就要引導我們進入一切的真理。請今天就花時間在禱告裡認識這個福分，也支取這個福分。 保羅在以弗所書三章十六節的禱告中是何等清楚的表示這個思想：「求他按著他榮耀的豐富賞給你們……（英譯）」請注意，保羅所求的並不是普通恩典的賜給，乃是在祂的愛和能力之豐富裡的一個特別啟示。就是祂應許你，藉著祂的靈，用能力叫你到裡面的人裡剛強起來，好使基督因著信，住在你們心裡。你已經抓住了這個應許麼？基督徒的確能經歷被神一切的豐滿所充滿。 親愛的弟兄們！保羅曾說：「我在父面前屈膝。」這就是得著這個福分唯一的路。請在內室裡花時間來認識：「基督住在我裡面。」我在已往對這個經歷得太少了，但是我要呼求神，仰望祂在我裡面作成祂的工作。即使在日常的工作中，我也要把我的心當作神兒子的居所，並且說：「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」（加二20）惟有這樣，基督所說「住在我裡面」「我也住在你們裡面」的話，纔能成為我們每日的經歷。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月30日）
一月卅日 順服的進退兩難 「撒母耳……不敢將默示告訴以利。」撒母耳記上三章15節 神少用驚愕的方式向我們說話，卻用容易引起誤會的方式，叫我們捉摸不定──「那是神的聲音麼？」以賽亞說，耶和華「嚴厲地」向他說，那就是用環境的壓迫來向他說。凡與我們所接觸的事，沒有一樣不是神所說的話，我們是在這環境中察覺祂的作為呢？還是察覺那些事變呢？ 能養成說「主啊，請說」的習慣，人生將要成為一種活潑自由。每當環境壓迫，說：「主啊，請說」；便當安排一段時間來靜聽神的聲音。譴責不僅是一種訓練，而且是使我達到說「主啊，請說」這句話的地步。你回憶神對你說話的時候，記不起祂對你所說的麼？是不是路加福音十一章13節或帖撒羅尼迦前書五章23節的話呢？我們越聽，我們的耳朵越敏銳，將如耶穌一樣能隨時聽見神的聲音。 我將神啟示我的，告訴我的以利麼？那便臨到服從的進退兩難。我不把神啟示我的，告訴我的以利嗎？他是我所敬重的人；告訴我的以利嗎？便是先去探詢人的意見，而違反了神。神沒有吩咐撒母耳去告訴以利；這是神要他自己所決定的。神向你的呼召也許有傷於你的以利；但是如果你想維護別人生命的痛苦，你的靈和神的靈會發生阻隔。你不砍去右手或剜出眼睛，這是你自己的危險。 神要你自己所決定的事，不要請求別人的指示。如果你請求別人的指示，差不多是走近了撒但。「我就不與屬血氣商量了」。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月30日）
一月三十日 「打倒了，卻不至死亡。」哥林多後書四章9節 神如何使紅海分開的奇蹟發生？乃是藉著使祂的子民走頭無路，只有依靠神的拯救。埃及人在他們後面，紅海在他們前面，高山在他們兩邊，他們除了從上而來的奇蹟，真是別無逃脫之法。 有人曾說撒但能用牆四面包圍我們，但牠無法把房頂蓋死，因為我們總是能從天上得到幫助。我們的難題其實是神給的挑戰，很多時候祂使困難變得很難，難得讓我們不是得勝，就是慘敗。 神如此行，乃為幫助我們培養最高的信心，使我們在急難中成為神最美好的兒女。 親愛的朋友，這是神的時刻。如果你勇敢面對一切，你必會得著祂，永遠不再陷入困境中，卻能四處逢源。正如雅各在毘努伊勒與神面對面一樣，你也不再叫雅各，而要被稱為以色列。讓我們把需要帶到祂座前，藉著祂的供給證實祂的信實。
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