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1:1 當三十年四月初五日，以西結〔原文是我〕在迦巴魯河邊被擄的人中，天就開了，得見 神的異象。 In the 1:1 Or (((my))) thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
1:2 正是約雅斤王被擄去第五年四月初五日， On the fifth of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin-- 1:3 在迦勒底人之地、迦巴魯河邊，耶和華的話特特臨到布西的兒子祭司以西結；耶和華的靈〔原文是手〕降在他身上。 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, 1:3 Or ((Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest)) by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. 1:3 Or ((Chaldeans)) There the hand of the LORD was upon him. 1:4 我觀看，見狂風從北方颳來，隨著有一朵包括閃爍火的大雲，周圍有光輝；從其中的火內發出好像光耀的精金； I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 1:5 又從其中顯出四個活物的形像來。他們的形狀是這樣：有人的形像， and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, 1:6 各有四個臉面，四個翅膀。 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 1:7 他們的腿是直的，腳掌好像牛犢之蹄，都燦爛如光明的銅。 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 1:8 在四面的翅膀以下有人的手。這四個活物的臉和翅膀乃是這樣： Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, 1:9 翅膀彼此相接，行走並不轉身，俱各直往前行。 and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 1:10 至於臉的形像：前面各有人的臉，右面各有獅子的臉，左面各有牛的臉，後面各有鷹的臉。 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 1:11 各展開上邊的兩個翅膀相接，各以下邊的兩個翅膀遮體。 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. 1:12 他們俱各直往前行。靈往哪裏去，他們就往那裏去，行走並不轉身。 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 1:13 至於四活物的形像，就如燒著火炭的形狀，又如火把的形狀。火在四活物中間上去下來，這火有光輝，從火中發出閃電。 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 1:14 這活物往來奔走，好像電光一閃。 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. 1:15 我正觀看活物的時候，見活物的臉旁各有一輪在地上。 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 1:16 輪的形狀和顏色〔原文是作法〕好像水蒼玉。四輪都是一個樣式，形狀和作法好像輪中套輪。 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 1:17 輪行走的時候，向四方都能直行，並不掉轉。 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about 1:17 Or ((aside)) as the creatures went. 1:18 至於輪輞，高而可畏；四個輪輞周圍滿有眼睛。 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. 1:19 活物行走，輪也在旁邊行走；活物從地上升，輪也都上升。 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. 1:20 靈往哪裏去，活物就往那裏去；活物上升，輪也在活物旁邊上升，因為活物的靈在輪中。 Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 1:21 那些行走，這些也行走；那些站住，這些也站住；那些從地上升，輪也在旁邊上升，因為活物的靈在輪中。 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 1:22 活物的頭以上有穹蒼的形像，看著像可畏的水晶，鋪張在活物的頭以上。 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome. 1:23 穹蒼以下，活物的翅膀直張，彼此相對；每活物有兩個翅膀遮體。 Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. 1:24 活物行走的時候，我聽見翅膀的響聲，像大水的聲音，像全能者的聲音，也像軍隊鬨嚷的聲音。活物站住的時候，便將翅膀垂下。 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, 1:24 Hebrew ((Shaddai)) like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. 1:25 在他們頭以上的穹蒼之上有聲音。他們站住的時候，便將翅膀垂下。 Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. 1:26 在他們頭以上的穹蒼之上有寶座的形像，彷彿藍寶石；在寶座形像以上有彷彿人的形狀。 Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, 1:26 Or ((lapis lazuli)) and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 1:27 我見從他腰以上有彷彿光耀的精金，周圍都有火的形狀，又見從他腰以下有彷彿火的形狀，周圍也有光輝。 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. 1:28 下雨的日子，雲中虹的形狀怎樣，周圍光輝的形狀也是怎樣。這就是耶和華榮耀的形像。我一看見就俯伏在地，又聽見一位說話的聲音。 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. 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22日）
一月廿二日 「退到野地裡去。」馬太福音十四章13節 在音樂譜中有一種符號，叫做休止符。當音樂奏到休止符時，聲音完全停止；這常是音樂最精彩之處。我們的一生，也如音樂一般時時有休止符，可是我們頂愚昧，以為這些休止符是我們的末路和盡頭，一生就完畢於此。神常叫我們失敗、病痛、挫折、失業，我們就非常悲哀，以為我們的人生音樂從此不能再達到造物者的耳中了。可是讓我們看，音樂家如何對付這休止符呢？他照常擊拍，在休止符之後，重奏音樂，一若中間並無甚麼間斷。 神編我們一生的音樂，並非沒有計劃的。我們只管按譜奏樂，不必怕遇見休止符。它們是不能刪去的，因為一刪去就會破壞音樂的精彩。如果我們仰望我們音樂的導師——神——祂自己正在為我們擊拍，我們的本分只是按照祂的指導奏樂；奏到休止符的時候，雖然音樂停止了，可是請記得：這是音樂的精彩處。過了一拍子之久，樂音就要從新奏起。讓我們學習這功課。 ─羅斯金 招呼你─離開忙碌緊張的生活， 離開你不斷攪擾的塵世煩膩， 天國的嚮導招呼你暫到一旁， 在寧靜的蔭蔽中作片刻休憩。 招呼你——雖是一所杳無人跡的荒園 但你並不孤獨， 因為祂與你同在， 祂以最柔美的聲調向你問道： 「孩子：你豈不願意與我共此安靜一刻？」 招呼你——去和主耶穌同步幽深， 溯源一嚐甘泉的清澄， 你和祂影形不離， 相攜漫遊， 已經接近了天國的家庭。 招呼你——和祂單獨相處， 增進了淵博智慧， 祂的摯愛常在幽秘中顯明表徵， 在許多寂寞悽涼的夜晚， 你將得到 出自祂深情的珍貴良葴。 招呼你——我們感謝主所賜的寧靜和蔭蔽， 我們感謝主， 您以愛所關出的蹊徑， 因此我們雖流著淚而注視您， 感謝主， 您為了我們黑暗的客西馬尼。 招呼你——想到祂完成了一切， 我們就獲得平安， 和基督單獨相處， 幸福美好無比， 我們躲在您十字架的蔭影下， 主啊， 感謝您招呼我們在您一邊。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月22日）
January 22 "Into a desert place apart.1" (Matt. 14:13.) ＴHERE is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests, " and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the "rest"? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a `rest,' " let us not forget "there is the making of music in it. "The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long he waits for us to learn the lesson! ─Ruskin. "Called aside─ From the glad working of thy busy life, From the world's ceaseless stir of care and strife, Into the shade and stillness by thy Heavenly Guide For a brief space thou hast been called aside. "Called aside─ Perhaps into a desert garden dim; And yet not alone, when thou hast been with Him, And heard His voice in sweetest accents say: `Child, wilt thou not with Me this still hour stay?' "Called aside─ In hidden paths with Christ thy Lord to tread, Deeper to drink at the sweet Fountainhead, Closer in fellowship with Him to roam, Nearer, perchance, to feel thy Heavenly Home. "Called aside─ Oh, knowledge deeper grows with Him alone; In secret oft His deeper love is shown, And learnt in many an hour of dark distress Some rare, sweet lesson of His tenderness. "Called aside─ We thank thee for the stillness and the shade; We thank Thee for the hidden paths thy love hath made, And, so that we have wept and watched with Thee, We thank Thee for our dark Gethsemane. "Called aside─ Oh, restful thought─He doeth all things well; Oh, blessed sense, with Christ alone to dwell; So in the shadow of Thy cross to hide, We thank Thee, Lord, to have been called aside."
■ 永活之泉（01月22日）
一月廿二日 禱告的靈 「聖靈照著神的旨意，替聖徒祈求。」羅馬書八章27節 禱告不是我的工作，乃是神的工作，是神在我們裡面藉著祂的大能大力，所作的工作。當我們想到了這一點，我們會有一個安靜等候的態度；因為在我們禱告的時候，聖靈會幫助我們的軟弱，也會用說不出來的歎息，在我們裡面禱告。 這是一個何等奇妙的思想！當我覺得自己的禱告是那樣不完全，自己又毫無能力的時候，我可以在安靜中俯伏在神面前，確信祂的聖靈要教導我禱告。聖靈乃是禱告的靈。禱告不是我的工作，乃是神在我裡面的工作。我的願望就是神要聽我禱告的兆頭。當神要答應我們祈求的時候，首先祂在我們心裡造出一個願望來，然後聖靈就完成這個工作；即使在我們軟弱的時候，也是這樣。在雅各的事蹟中，我們也看見這一點。那位與他摔跤，並似乎要扣住祝福不給他的，實際上卻是一直加力給他，使他不斷的禱告，並在禱告上得勝的一位。這是一個何等奇妙的思想！禱告乃是三位一體的神共同的工作：父——將願望提醒我們，也要賜給我們一切所需要的；子——藉著祂的代禱，教導我們如何奉著祂的名禱告；而聖靈——乃是在隱密處，剛強我們軟弱的願望。 我們已經說過真理的靈，祂要在我們裡面榮耀基督；也說過愛的靈，祂要把這愛澆灌在我們心裡；現在我們再說到禱告的靈，藉著祂，我們的生活才會成為一個恆切禱告的生活。感謝神，聖靈已經從天上賜下來，祂住在我們心裡，並教導我們禱告。 基督徒啊！要聽從聖靈的引導，要在凡事上順從祂的聲音。祂要使你成為一個禱告的人。那時你就會真認識神呼召你作一個代禱者，為著那些在你四周的人、為著教會，並為著整個不信的世界，向神祈求重大的事，是何等的榮耀！
■ 中文屬天日子（01月22日）
一月廿二日 我仰望甚麼呢？ 「仰望我，就必得救。」以賽亞書四五章22節 我們盼望神來祝福我們，拯救我們麼？祂說：「仰望我，就必得救。」最大的困難，是不能集中精神於神，這種困難也許是祂的恩典所造成的。患難有時促醒我們仰望神；恩典反使我們仰望別的地方。山上的寶訓，其要義無非是要我們縮小興趣的範圍，直到心思，情感，身體的態度集中在耶穌基督的身上。 我們之中有許多人，有一種關於基督徒是甚麼的概念，而聖者的生平反而是我們集中精神於神的一種障礙。救贖不在這條路，也不這麼簡單。「仰望我，」不是說：「你將得救，」卻是說：「你已得救。」我們所尋求的事，如果聚精會神在祂身上，就必得著。神也常常說：「仰望我，就必得救。」而我們常有成見，常存抱怨神的心。為要應付當前的困難，我們的心不是計劃夏天做甚麼，便是計劃明天做甚麼，殊不知這些困難只在仰望神的時候，才能全部消滅。 激動你自己，仰望神。要因祂而有盼望。無論有多少事緊逼你，你決意把那些事置之度外，仰望神吧！「仰望我，」仰望祂，就必得救。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月22日）
一月廿二日 「新婦也自己預備好了」啟示錄十九章7節 即使我們在準備主的來臨時，心態上都會有不健康的危險。我記得有一回我決心花一個月的時間，全心單獨地等候接受聖靈的洗。但在一個月結束之前，主喚醒了我，要我停止單獨地等待，並且催促我到外面去傳揚祂的信息。當我照著祂的意思去作，就在事奉的同時，祂使我受聖靈的洗。 有一種追求祝福的方法，既老舊，而且又像極了苦行僧。另一種方法則非但健康，更因為有主的同在，使我們成為聖潔。這第二種情況讓我們無論在禱告的密室裡、禱告山上，或是在稅吏、罪人中，或是履行日常責任時，總是有主的同行。 準備主再來最實際的方法，首先必須與主有親密的交通。不僅讓祂洗淨我們，並求聖靈更深地在我們心中動工，使我們變得完全。再者，為了別人的益處、為了預備世人迎接主再來，我們必須走出自我、為他人而活。
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