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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（01月21日）
一月廿一日 「有捆鎖與患難等待我。我卻不以……為念。」使徒行傳廿章23—24節 我們在撒母耳記裡面看見：當大衛在希伯崙受膏作王的時候，「非利士眾人就上來尋索大衛。」（撒下五17）照樣，我們在神前受寵蒙愛的時候，仇敵撒但頂不甘心，就上來尋索我們，前來攔阻我們，和我們搗亂。 仇敵的攻擊、破壞和攔阻，我應當看為神施行拯救的記號；這時候，就是我們向神支取加倍的祝福、勝利和能力的機會。能力常是從攔阻中產生的。電力的產生，就是由於發電機的機輪互相磨擦（攔阻）。將來有一天我們會明白撒但也是被神利用的。 ─譯自屬天的日子 甘脂不是英雄的糧食 他以悲哀枇充填心胸； 監獄是偉人的第宅， 頂帆最適宜於擋逆風。 ─愛默生 患難是勝利的捷徑。山路之後，就是大路。一切偉大的事業上面，都有患難的印跡的。發光的金鍊，必須經過爐火的燒、錘。沒有一個人配算為得勝者，除非他歷盡苦楚。額上有刺痕的憂患之子，說：「在世上你們有苦難」——可是在這傷心的一句之後，就來了一句應許：「但你們可以放心，我已經勝了世界。」（約十六33）主在世上留下的腳蹤，原是叫我們跟隨祂的。那帶血的腳步，是引領我們上寶座的。傷斑是鐵杖的代價，我們的冠冕必須花力氣爭奪的。這些都是公開的祕密。 造化的標準， 以耐苦為度量。 確定人格高低。 最美的聲樂， 出於歌者的。 迴腸蕩氣， 哀惋悲悽。 先聖都曾經過許多患難─保羅、馬丁路得、撒房那羅拉、拿克司、衛斯理以及一切大能的先鋒。他們都從患難進入掌權的地位。將來有一班環繞在寶座前唱讚美的人，他們都是「從大患難中出來的。」（啟七14） 每一本偉大的著作都是作者的結晶。誰是希臘的大詩人？鴻謨。他是一個盲子。誰是寫那部不朽之作「天路歷程」的？是一個穿紫袍、享安樂的王子嗎？不是！乃是培德福牢獄中的一個囚犯本仁約翰。 偉大的戰士， 矯健如游龍。 意外地受了創傷， 混身血汗， 屏息再向敵人進攻， 到力竭倒地， 還不肯收斂的刀鋒， 偉大， 偉大， 浩氣貫蒼穹。 ─選
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月21日）
January 21 "None of these things move me." (Acts 20:24.) ＷE read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, "All the Philistines came up to seek David." And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes to seek us. When the enemy meets us at the threshold of any great work for God, let us accept it as "a token of salvation," and claim double blessing, victory, and power. Power is developed by resistance. The cannon carries twice as far because the exploding power has to find its way through resistance. The way electricity is produced in the powerhouse yonder is by the sharp friction of the revolving wheels. And so we shall find some day that even Satan has been one of God's agencies of blessing. －Days of Heaven upon Earth. A hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head winds right for royal sails. ─Emerson. Tribulation is the way to triumph. The valley-way opens into the highway. Tribulation's imprint is on all great things. Crowns are cast in crucibles. Chains of character that wind about the feet of God are forged in earthly flames. No man is greatest victor till he has trodden the winepress of woe. With seams of anguish deep in His brow, the "Man of Sorrows" said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation"─but after this sob comes the psalm of promise, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." The footprints are traceable everywhere. Bloodmarks stain the steps that lead to thrones. Scars are the price of scepters. Our crowns will be wrested from the giants we conquer. Grief has always been the lot of greatness, It is an open secret. "The mark of rank in nature, Is capacity for pain; And the anguish of the singer, Makes the sweetest of the strain." Tribulation has always marked the trail of the true reformer. It is the story of Paul, Luther, Savonarola, Knox, Wesley, and all the rest of the mighty army. They came through great tribulation to their place of power. Every great book has been written with the author's blood. "These are they that have come out of great tribulation." Who was the peerless poet of the Greeks? Homer. But that illustrious singer was blind. Who wrote the fadeless dream of "Pilgrim's progress"? A prince in royal purple upon a couch of ease? Nay! The trailing splendor of that vision gilded the dingy walls of old Bedford jail while John Bunyan, a princely prisoner, a glorious genius, made a faithful transcript of the scene. Great is the facile conqueror; Yet haply, he, who, wounded sore, Bredathless, all covered o'er with blood and sweat, Sinks fainting, but fighting evermore Is greater yet. ─Selected.
■ 永活之泉（01月21日）
一月廿一日 禱告與禁食 「耶穌說：『是因你們的信心小；……至於這一類的鬼，若不禱告、禁食，牠就不出來』。」馬太福音十七章20—21節 在這裡，我們的主教導我們信心的生活，不僅需要禱告，也需要禁食。禱告是在於帶下天上的能力，禁食是在於鬆開屬地享樂的捆綁。 主耶穌自己也禁食，為要得著力量來抵擋魔鬼。祂教導祂的門徒們，禁食也如同禱告和施捨一樣，必須行在暗中，這樣天父就要在明處報答他們。無論是完全禁食，或節制飲食，都會使人更有能力與神有交通。 讓我們來學習這個重大的功課：就是禁食、節食和物質上的捨己，都是有助於屬靈的生活。當人享用了一餐豐盛的飲食之後，他就不大願意禱告了。甘心犧牲我們自己的快樂，或身體的享受，並制服肉體的情慾、眼目的情慾，都會使我們的心更注意屬天的事。這個為勝過肉體慾望所需要的努力，會給我們力量，使我們在禱告中抓住神。 這個重大的功課乃是這樣：我們在禱告中的沈悶，乃是從屬肉體的享受和安逸的慾望來的。然而「凡屬在基督耶穌的人，是已經把肉體連肉體的邪情私慾，同釘在十字架上了。」（加五24）禱告並不是一件輕易的工作，因為禱告很容易變成徒具形式；要真實操練禱告，並且抓住神與祂有交通，就必須捨棄一切肉體喜悅的東西，並將它們交於死地。 親愛的基督徒啊！請你們相信：為著能遇見聖潔的神，並從祂領受屬天的福氣，就是天天經歷艱難來否認自己，也是值得的。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月21日）
一月廿一日 回憶神所不能忘的事 「你幼年的恩愛，……我都記得。」耶利米書二章2節 我愛神的天真，如往昔一樣麼？或是我只盼望神愛我呢？我叫祂感覺愉快的事多麼？抑或我因事情之不順而嗚咽啜泣呢？遺忘神所珍貴的心靈，是沒有快樂的。值得記慮的一件事是耶穌基督需要我──「請給我水喝」。過去的一禮拜我曾向祂表示多少恩愛呢？我曾在我的生命中顧惜祂的名譽麼？ 神對祂的百姓說：「你現在不愛我，但是我記得你往日愛我，你婚姻的愛情我也記得。」我對於耶穌基督，滿有豐富的愛，像我開始的時候一樣麼？就是我改頭換面，向祂證實虔誠的時候。祂感覺我在回憶那專愛祂，而不愛任何事的時期麼？我現在是那樣呢？還是別有所愛呢？我是愛祂甚至愛到不管我的將來怎樣呢？抑或我在衡量自己的利益和名譽，作為我服務多少的標準呢？ 如果我回憶神心裡的我，不像往日那麼愛祂，這是應當慚愧和羞恥的！因為那種慚愧和羞恥會生出真正的憂傷，結成懺悔之果的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月21日）
一月廿一日 「不住地禱告」帖撒羅尼迦前書五章17節 在我們禱告操練的生活中，有一件事對我們是很重要的幫助，那就是「凡事交託給主，而且順著事情的發生，隨時仰望祂。」凡事禱告可以成為一個習慣，就像任何習慣的養成，必須經過很多次的重複，以及不斷的注意，直到起初意志的行為，最後變成一個自然的第二天性。 如果我們仔細觀察我們的生活，我們會發現凡我們在禱告交託祂的事，祂總是賜給我們特別的祝福。祂總是允許最好的事情變得沒有效率，主要因為祂要提醒我們完全仰望祂。神很溫柔地迫使我們記得祂，祂真是既有恩惠又能體諒我們的上帝。祂總是百般疼惜地將我們褓抱在祂強壯的膀臂中，使我們一刻也不能離開祂。腓立比書四章6節說：「只要凡事藉著禱告、祈求和感謝，將你們所要的告訴神。」所以── 讓我們把最小的事， 甚至像微塵一樣小的事， 全然帶到主寶座前。 耶穌願意為我們承擔， 所有的憂慮、患難及大小事。
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