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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23日）
一月廿三日 「耶和華阿，您為甚麼站在遠處？」詩篇十篇1節 神確然我們「在患難中隨時的幫助。」（詩四六1）但是祂常常一面許可患難追逼我們，一面又自己站在遠處隱藏起來好似不關心我們的樣子，這樣好叫我們自己的幫助告一結束，而看見從患難中能得到無限的教訓和益處。讓我們深信那許可患難臨我們的神，是和我們一同在患難中。也許要等到試煉過去的時候，我們纔能看見祂；可是我們敢相信祂從來沒有離開過我們。我們的眼睛迷糊了；我們不能看見祂。在黑暗中我們的眼睛似乎是瞎了，不能看見我們大祭司的影蹤；但是祂終究和我們同在，和我們深深地接觸著。讓我們不依靠感覺，不憑眼見，惟獨根據於神是信實的；雖然我們看不見祂，讓我們和祂說話。我們一開始和祂說話，深信祂的同在，雖然祂的同在我們看不見，我們也會得到祂答應的聲音，這就證明祂在黑暗中始終眷顧我們。我們無論在黑暗的通道中，無論在光明的天路中，我們的父是一樣偎近我們的。 ─譯自日誠報 即使途徑陌生， 這有何妨？ 即使道路艱難， 又有何妨？ 我並非在黑暗中獨自徬徨， 因為您的腳步就在近邊。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月23日）
January 23 "Why standest thou afar off, o Lord?"(Psalm 10:1.) ＧOD is "a very present help in trouble." But He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to the end of ourselves, and led to discouver the treasure of darkness, the unmeasurable gains of tribulation. We may be sure that He who permits the suffering is with us in it, It may be that we shall see Him only when the trial is passing; but we must dare to believe that He never leaves the crucible. Our eyes are holden; and we cannot behold Him whom our loveth. It is dark─the bandages blind us so that we cannot see the form of our High Priest; but He is there, deeply touched. Let us not rely on feeling, but on faith in His unswerving fidelity; and though we see Him not, let us talk to Him. Directly we begin to speak to Jesus, as being literally present, though His presence is veiled, there comes an answering voice which shows that he is in the shadow, keeping watch upon His own. Your Father is as near when you journey through the dark tunnel as when under the open heaven! ─Daily Devotional Commentary. "What though the path be all unknown? What though the way be drear? Its shades I traverse not alone When steps of Thine are near."
■ 永活之泉（01月23日）
一月廿三日 完全為基督 「一人既替眾人死，……叫那些活著的人，不再為自己活，乃為替他們死而復活的主活。」哥林多後書五章14—15節 在這裡說到三種不同的生活：第一是說到那些憑著舊天性而活的基督徒的生活，他們是單單為著自己活；第二是說到那些真實基督徒的生活，他們是完全為基督而活；第三是說到在天上基督的生活，祂是完全為我們活。 許多基督徒都需要看見，只為著自己而活是何等的愚昧。當他們悔改的時候，他們只想到自己得救的問題，很少想到神的榮耀，和基督在他身上該享的權利；這權利乃是因著基督曾用祂的寶血救贖我們而有的。許多基督徒只為著自己而活，他們稍微為主作一點事，就覺得滿意了。如果一個信徒真正認識這個崇高的呼召，也認識因他一生奉獻給主而得的特權和祝福，他的生活就要何等的喜樂！ 最攔阻我們得著這種喜樂生活的，就是不信的噁心，以為這種生活是不可能的。但是當我們看見這個真理的時候，就是基督在天上是完全為我活著，並且把祂的生命分賜給我，使我也能完全為祂活著，我們就能歡樂著說：「親愛的主耶穌，但願從這個時候起，我每天的禱告，都是完全為基督、完全為基督！」 親愛的弟兄！但願你熱切的願望，你的禱告和你堅定的盼望，不是別的，都是表明說基督不僅為我死了，並且在天上活著，為要保守我，使我成聖，因我乃是祂所買的產業。請你默念這個奇妙的思想：就是基督必保守作祂身體上的一個肢體，好使你為祂作工、為祂活著。所以當求神施恩，使你在尋找靈魂和服事神兒女的事上，能完全為神而活。要天天花時間在裡面的人與基督有聯合，使你能用你的全心來說，祂既將自己完全給了我，並且現在天上又完全為我而活，所以我也完全為祂而活。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月23日）
一月廿三日 因明察而變化 「我們眾人既然敞著臉，得以看見主的榮光，好像從鏡子裡返照，就變成主的形狀。」哥林多後書三章18節 基督徒顯著的特性是在神之前天真坦白，能有如此的生活，才能成為別人的借鏡。我們因聖靈之充滿而變化，因仰望神而把神反映出來。你會識別一個見過主的榮光的人，你在你內心中感覺他是主自己本性的反映。次好是最好的大敵，你得留心，莫讓次好的事昏晦了你裡面的鏡子。 你我生活的箴規，是聚精會神地握住那向神敞開的生命。除了這件事以外，其他如工作、衣飾、食物以及人間的任何事情，讓其一一的流走。忙於他事，常是阻窒向神集中的精神。我們要把自己安放在「看見主」的地位。使生活徹頭徹尾的靈性化，讓其餘的事，自由的來去，讓別人自由的評論，不與計較；絕不可讓甚麼事妨礙那因基督蘊藏於神中的生命。絕不可趕忙的從那與神同住的關係中出來。就是這一件事容易流動，不穩定；但是不應該流動，不應該不穩定。基督徒生活的嚴格訓練，就是怎樣保持「得以看見主的榮光，好像在鏡子裡返照的」。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月23日）
一月廿三日 「我認得一個在基督裡的人」哥林多後書十二章2節 忘卻自我是極大的釋放，因為沒有任何擔子會比強烈的自我中心還重。變成內向、躲在自己「屬靈」的象牙塔中，是件很容易的事。事實上，沒有比攢進自己痛苦中更容易的事，而苦難又是最容易使人變得過份注意自己的原因。更糟的是，這樣的循環會成為惡習，使我們緊抓住自己的重擔、不斷祈求神，直到我們的禱告都充滿了苦水。 因此，我們應該求神給我們忘我的能力，使我們住在祂的愛中，並知道我們已得釋放。如此，我們才可能進一步地思想祂更高的意念及旨意，並且將祂的愛向世人表露出來，愛人如己。 願意忘我，可以使我們進入更高的境界，讓我們從痛苦中走出來。為他人代求，特別是為世人禱告的習慣，往往帶給我們莫大的祝福。隨代禱而來的祝福，正像埃及尼羅河在到達目的地之前，不斷地留下肥沃的沈澱物一樣。
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