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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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