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1:1 當烏西雅、約坦、亞哈斯、希西家作猶大王的時候，亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論到猶大和耶路撒冷。 The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 天哪，要聽！地啊，側耳而聽！因為耶和華說：我養育兒女，將他們養大，他們竟悖逆我。 Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: <<I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. 1:3 牛認識主人，驢認識主人的槽，以色列卻不認識；我的民卻不留意。 The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.>> 1:4 嗐！犯罪的國民，擔著罪孽的百姓；行惡的種類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，與他生疏，往後退步。 Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. 1:5 你們為甚麼屢次悖逆，還要受責打嗎？你們已經滿頭疼痛，全心發昏。 Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. 1:6 從腳掌到頭頂，沒有一處完全的，盡是傷口、青腫，與新打的傷痕，都沒有收口，沒有纏裹，也沒有用膏滋潤。 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness-- only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil. 1:7 你們的地土已經荒涼；你們的城邑被火焚毀。你們的田地在你們眼前為外邦人所侵吞，既被外邦人傾覆就成為荒涼。 Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. 1:8 僅存錫安城〔原文是女子〕，好像葡萄園的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被圍困的城邑。 The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege. 1:9 若不是萬軍之耶和華給我們稍留餘種，我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. 1:10 你們這所多瑪的官長啊，要聽耶和華的話！你們這蛾摩拉的百姓啊，要側耳聽我們 神的訓誨！ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 1:11 耶和華說：你們所獻的許多祭物與我何益呢？公綿羊的燔祭和肥畜的脂油，我已經夠了；公牛的血，羊羔的血，公山羊的血，我都不喜悅。 <<The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me?>> says the LORD. <<I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. 1:12 你們來朝見我，誰向你們討這些，使你們踐踏我的院宇呢？ When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? 1:13 你們不要再獻虛浮的供物。香品是我所憎惡的；月朔和安息日，並宣召的大會，也是我所憎惡的；作罪孽，又守嚴肅會，我也不能容忍。 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your evil assemblies. 1:14 你們的月朔和節期，我心裏恨惡，我都以為麻煩；我擔當，便不耐煩。 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 1:15 你們舉手禱告，我必遮眼不看；就是你們多多地祈禱，我也不聽。你們的手都滿了殺人的血。 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; 1:16 你們要洗濯、自潔，從我眼前除掉你們的惡行，要止住作惡， wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, 1:17 學習行善，尋求公平，解救受欺壓的；給孤兒伸冤，為寡婦辨屈。 learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. 1:17 Or ((/ rebuke the oppressor)) Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. 1:18 耶和華說：你們來，我們彼此辯論。你們的罪雖像硃紅，必變成雪白；雖紅如丹顏，必白如羊毛。 <<Come now, let us reason together,>> says the LORD. <<Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. 1:19 你們若甘心聽從，必吃地上的美物， If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; 1:20 若不聽從，反倒悖逆，必被刀劍吞滅。這是耶和華親口說的。 but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.>> r For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 1:21 可歎，忠信的城變為妓女！從前充滿了公平，公義居在其中，現今卻有兇手居住。 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her-- but now murderers! 1:22 你的銀子變為渣滓；你的酒用水攙對。 Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. 1:23 你的官長居心悖逆，與盜賊作伴，各都喜愛賄賂，追求贓私。他們不為孤兒伸冤；寡婦的案件也不得呈到他們面前。 Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. 1:24 因此，主─萬軍之耶和華、以色列的大能者說：哎！我要向我的對頭雪恨，向我的敵人報仇。 Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: <<Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. 1:25 我必反手加在你身上，煉盡你的渣滓，除淨你的雜質。 I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. 1:26 我也必復還你的審判官，像起初一樣，復還你的謀士，像起先一般。然後，你必稱為公義之城，忠信之邑。 I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.>> 1:27 錫安必因公平得蒙救贖；其中歸正的人必因公義得蒙救贖。 Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. 1:28 但悖逆的和犯罪的必一同敗亡；離棄耶和華的必致消滅。 But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish. 1:29 那等人必因你們所喜愛的橡樹抱愧；你們必因所選擇的園子蒙羞。 <<You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. 1:30 因為，你們必如葉子枯乾的橡樹，好像無水澆灌的園子。 You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. 1:31 有權勢的必如麻瓤；他的工作好像火星，都要一同焚毀，無人撲滅。 The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.>> 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（02月04日）
二月四日 「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處。」以賽亞書五八章14節 熟習航空的人告訴我們：他們初習的時候，常是逆風駕駛。逆風會把飛機抬得高些。這個祕訣，他們是從甚麼地方學來的呢？他們從鳥類那裏學來的。如果一隻鳥兒正飛著玩，牠就隨風而飛。如果遇見了危險，牠就立刻轉過身來，面向風飛；這樣，牠可以飛得高些。 人生的逆境，是神給你的逆風，它們能抬你到最高級的一屬天的生活去。這就是「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處」的方法。讓我們作一個帶響弦的風箏，在神的風中越飄越高，同時發出最好聽的音樂——讚美——來以悅神耳。 你有沒有經歷過：夏日空氣熱悶的時候，有時竟連氣也會透不過來。但在西方的天邊，出現了一朵雲，接踵而至。暴風雨掩蓋了這世界給這世界帶來了無窮的舒適，空氣也澄清了，氣象為之一新，世界是改觀了。 人生也完全一樣的道理。當暴風雨來臨的時候，環境可能起了惡劣的變化，但它能發生澄清的作用，充滿了新的氣象，好像天堂的一角也被帶到地上來了。 ─選 障礙應該使我們歡唱。風之能發生曼妙的聲響，並不在海洋上暢行無阻的時候，而是在艱難地吹過層層枝葉交織的松樹林間，或是吹到「愛奧良」琴的弦上，起了阻抗作用的時候。在上面這些場合，風才發出有力和美麗的音韻。釋放你的靈魂，讓它橫掃生命的障礙，穿過痛苦的可佈森林，小至微細的磨折和煩惱，那麼你的靈魂，也會唱出它的歌聲了。 ─選 像一隻停飛的小鳥， 棲息在細細的樹梢， 歌唱時抖抖下垂， 我有翅膀，不必煩惱。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月04日）
February 4 "I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth." (Isa. 58:14.) ＴHOSE who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away towards the very sun. Sufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens. You have seen in the summer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed. Human life is worked out according to exactly the same principle. When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. ─Selected. Obstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when rushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice. ─Selected. "Be like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight. And feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings."
■ 永活之泉（02月04日）
二月四日 愛慕神 「夜間，我心中羨慕您。」以賽亞書廿六章9節 甚麼人是人在地上所能看見、能尋得、最重要、最偉大、最榮耀的東西呢？只有神自己。甚麼是人每天所需要而能作到的，又最重要、最美好、最榮耀的事呢？除了尋求、認識、愛慕，並讚美這位榮耀的神之外，再也沒有別的了。神是那麼的榮耀，但那些將自己獻給神、為神而活、讓祂的榮耀在心裡工作，而成為他的生命的人，也是極其榮耀的。 弟兄們！你有沒有學習每天去作那第一的、最偉大的事呢？沒有一件事比尋求這位神，並學習碰見祂、敬拜祂，為祂和祂的榮耀而活著，是更偉大的。每一個基督徒，真的看見了這一個，當藉著交通降服跟從神，並且以神為他生活的主要目的，在那時候，也就是他在基督徒生命的道路上更長進了。 請花時間來尋求這究竟是不是一個真理，是不是一個最高的智慧，是基督徒應該為著神而活的。─在生活中對神有正確的認識並用全心來愛祂。相信這不僅是非常的實在，而且神自己也極盼望，你能這樣與祂同活，祂願意答應你的禱告，使你能經歷這一個。 請自今天起從聖經中拿出一些話，用安靜的心，來對神說：「神阿，您是我的神，我要切切地尋求您，我渴想您；我的心切慕您。我要緊緊跟隨您。」（詩六十三1）「我一心尋您。」（詩一一2） 以極深的崇敬和像小孩一樣的盼望，重複這些話，直到這些話的精意和能力，進入你的心；並且等候神，直到你嘗著了與祂這樣相交的福份。當你這樣保持下去的時候，你就要學習存敬畏的心活在神面前，並盼望整天都繼續在這種情形裡。 「我曾耐性等候耶和華，他垂聽我的呼求。」（詩四十1）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月04日）
二月四日 人格支配力量的尊嚴 「原來基督的愛激勵我們。」哥林多後書五章14節 保羅說，他被基督的愛操縱著，箝制著，好像被箝在老虎箝裡一般。我們中沒有多的人知道被神的愛握住；都是被我們的經驗握住了。有一件事握住了保羅，直到他的眼界見不著別的東西，那就是神的愛。「基督的愛激勵我們」──當你聽見某男某女心中有這樣的音調，你絕不能錯認的，你準知道神的靈在那人裡面是進行裕如，毫無阻窒的。 當我們重生於神的靈，神就在我們裡面作見證，那見證的音調，理當是這樣。但是聖靈的洗禮，卻能永遠把這忘卻了，而我們會開始覺得耶穌說「你們可以給我作見證。」這句話的意思，不是見證耶穌所作的──那是一種初步的見證──卻是「給我作見證。」我們給祂作見證，就是把一切發生在我們身上的事情，當作發生在祂的身上。無論是稱讚或譴責，是逼迫，或欽仰，沒有人像這樣替耶穌基督忍受這些事，除非他受過耶穌基督人格的激勵。這是該當留意的，也是基督徒工人最難明白的。保羅說他被基督的愛握住；那是因為他行其所行的緣故。無論人批評他放蕩或拘謹，他卻不介意；他只為一件事活著，那就是勸人注意神的審判和基督的愛。像這樣徜徉於基督的愛中是生活成功的祕訣，將永留神的權能和聖潔的印象，不計自身的聖潔與否。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月04日）
二月四日 「我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。」馬太福音廿八章20節 主基督不是仍然釘在十字架上的主，祂乃是我們又真又活的神。 有一天，在派斯頓潘靠近愛丁堡的地方，我舉目往這曾為戰場的地方看了很久。有一回當戰事正危險之即，一方的首領因受傷而倒了下來。當他的部下看到他不支倒地，他們幾乎立刻夾腿逃離戰場。他們握著手榴彈的手雖然強壯，但卻不停地抖，突然之間，他們竟寸步難行。還好這個年老的首領強打精神，用他的手肘把自己撐起來說：「我沒死，我的孩子們，我在觀看我的同胞盡他們的責任。」 同樣情況，我們的救主在復活之後，也這麼對我們說。儘管我們無法看到祂，但是祂曾說：「我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。」注意，祂用「常」這個字來強調祂的同在，是不斷且恆常的。祂沒有用「將會與你們同在」，卻保證我們與祂的同在是繼續、永恆的。 不多時，我們將勝過一切衝突； 不多時，我們將贏得所有戰鬥； 然後，我們要揮舞我們勝利的雙手， 高唱不朽的詩歌， 我們歡樂之歌的歌詞將是── 靠著您，我已戰勝了一切。
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