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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23日）
二月廿三日 「有時來了獅子。」撒母耳記上十七章34節 讀到年輕的大衛怎樣信靠神，真能使我們得到鼓勵和力量。藉著信心，他勝過獅子和熊，後來勝過大力的歌利亞。當獅子來攫奪羊羔的時候，他看為一個非常的機會。若是他失敗，或者驚恐，逃跑了，他就失去了神所給他的機會，恐怕以後也會失去作神所揀選的以色列王的資格。 「有時來了獅子」。人從來不想獅子是從神那裏來的一個特別的祝福；人總是把牠看為一件不幸的受驚嚇的事情。豈知這是神化裝的祝福。每一次臨到我們的苦難和試煉，若是我們用正當的方法去接受，都是神給我們的機會和祝福。 當獅子來的時候，不管牠外表如何可怕，你該認作這是神給你的機會。神的會幕，外面是用公羊皮和海狗皮作頂蓋的；人從來不想那裏有神的榮耀。豈知耶和華的榮耀就在其中。但願神開啟我們的眼睛，叫我們無論在患難中，試煉中，危險中，不幸中，都能彀看見神。 ─C.H.P.
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月23日）
February 23 "And there came a lion." (1 Sam. 17:34.) ＩT is a source of inspiration and strength to come in touch with the youthful David, trusting God. Through faith in God he conquered a lion and a bear, and afterwards overthrew the mighty Goliath. When that lion came to despoil that flock, it came as a wondrous opportunity to David. If he hand failed or faltered he would have missed God's opportunity for him and probably would never have come to be God's chosen king of Israel. "And there came a lion." One would not think that a lion was a special blessing from God; one would think that only an occasion of alarm. The lion was God's opportunity in disquise. Every difficulty that presents itself to us, if we receive it in the right way, is God's opportunity. Every tempatation that comes is God's opportunity. When the "lion" comes, recognize it as God's opportunity no matter how rough the exterior. The very tabernacle of God was covered with badgers' skins and goats' hair; one would not think there would be any glory there. The Shekinah of God was manifest under that kind of covering. May God open our eyes to see Him, whether in temptations, trials, dangers, or misfortunes. ─C. H. P.
■ 永活之泉（02月23日）
二月廿三日 罪 「罪魁」「並且我主的恩是格外豐盛，使我在基督耶穌裡有信心和愛心。」提摩太前書一章14、15節 「罪」使神的聖潔成為可怕；然而「罪」使神的聖潔顯出榮耀。因為祂說：「你們要自潔成聖，因為我是耶和華——你們的神，……我是叫你們成聖的耶和華。」（利廿7、8） 「罪」顯明神奇妙的愛，不吝嗇祂獨生的兒子。「罪」將耶穌釘在十字架上，因此顯出祂的愛是何等的深、何等的強。在永世的榮耀裡，就是我們這些蒙救贖的罪人，要發出我們的讚美。 千萬別忘記，就是因為罪，才使你和基督耶穌中間發生了一個重大的關係。神所以要你每天與祂相交，目的就是要拯救、保守你，並脫離罪的權勢；且帶領你進入祂的形像，並進入祂無限的慈愛裡。 就是因為想到罪，才使你低聲俯伏在祂腳前，深深地降服敬拜祂。就是因為想到罪常常圍繞你，常來試探你，因此你的禱告就能懇切；你的信心，就是隱藏在基督裡的信心，才能堅強。 就是因為想到罪，才使基督顯得不可言喻的寶貴，使你每時每刻依靠祂的恩典，並且叫你靠著那愛我們的主，作得勝有餘的人。就是因為想到罪，才使我們存破碎痛悔的心來感謝神；這破碎痛悔的心，神必不輕看，祂要在我們裡面作工，並喜悅住在痛悔謙卑的靈裡。 惟有在內室親近父的時候，我們便能勝過罪，基督的聖潔才賜給我們，聖潔的靈也充滿我們的生命。只有在內室裡，我們才能學習認識，並完全經歷這寶貴話語的應許有何等神聖的能力。 「祂兒子耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。」「住在祂裡面的，就不犯罪。」（約壹一7，三6）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月23日）
二月廿三日 決志服役 「人子來，不是要受人的服事，乃是要服事人。」馬太福音廿章28節 保羅服役的觀念是與我們主服役的觀念相同：「我在你們中間如同服事人的；」「並且自己因耶穌作你們的僕人。」我們以為蒙召作傳道的人，是蒙召去作與旁人不同的人物。據耶穌基督看來，人蒙召是召去作別人的「門墊蓆」；作他們靈性的領袖，絕不是作他們的支配者。保羅說：「我知道怎樣處卑賤。」保羅服役的觀念是「我連自己的性命也願意給你們；無論是譽是毀，我都不介意。只要有人不認識耶穌基督，我對於他的服務，好像是欠債一樣，直到他認識耶穌基督為止。」保羅服務的動機，不是出於愛人，卻是出於愛耶穌基督。如果我們因人類的緣故而獻身服務人，我們就要失望，就要心傷，因為有時人比狗還要忘恩負義些；但是若是我們的動機是愛神，則忘恩負義的事情，不能阻止我們不服事我們的同胞。 保羅認知耶穌基督怎樣待他，也就把它當為服事別人的祕訣：「我從前是一個妄證者，是一個褻瀆者，是一個害人者」──無論人怎樣待我，不必關心，他們絕不至於把我對耶穌基督的仇視和憎惡拿來待我。當我們感覺耶穌基督曾於我們卑污之極，自私之極，犯罪之極服事我們，我們因祂之故，服事別人的時候，就不致灰心失望了。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月23日）
二月廿三日 「因我活著就是基督，我死了就有益處。」腓立比書一章21節 有健康身體的秘訣在於有個健康的心。聖靈為我們的禱告是：「我願你凡事興盛，身體健壯，正如你的靈魂興盛一樣。」(約參2) 我們發現保羅在給腓立比眾信徒的書信中，對死既有崇高又有漠不關心的聖潔感覺。事實上，他處在一個兩難之間的情況，因為他雖情願離世與基督同在，卻又覺得在肉身活著，為腓立比聖徒更是要緊(腓一23—24)。 儘管他比較喜歡與基督同在，但活著卻能快樂地事奉。他願意活著的惟一目的，乃是要成為別人的祝福。 他有這樣的心境時，便快快地站立起來，求神給他能得著完全的能力和健康的信心。因為他若在肉身活著，對那些人更有益處，他說：「我既然這樣深信，就知道仍要住在世間，且與你們眾人同住，使你們在所信的道上，又長進又喜樂。」(腓一25) 主啊！求您使我今天「不以性命為念，……只要行完我的路程，成就我主耶穌所領受的職事。」(徒廿24)
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