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1:1 耶和華的話臨到毗土珥的兒子約珥。 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
1:2 老年人哪,當聽我的話;國中的居民哪,都要側耳而聽。在你們的日子,或你們列祖的日子,曾有這樣的事嗎? Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers? 1:3 你們要將這事傳與子,子傳與孫,孫傳與後代。 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. 1:4 剪蟲剩下的,蝗蟲來吃;蝗蟲剩下的,蝻子來吃;蝻子剩下的,螞蚱來吃。 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts \f 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.\F have eaten. 1:5 酒醉的人哪,要清醒哭泣;好酒的人哪,都要為甜酒哀號,因為從你們的口中斷絕了。 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. 1:6 有一隊蝗蟲〔原文是民〕又強盛又無數,侵犯我的地;牠的牙齒如獅子的牙齒,大牙如母獅的大牙。 A nation has invaded my land, powerful and without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness. 1:7 牠毀壞我的葡萄樹,剝了我無花果樹的皮,剝盡而丟棄,使枝條露白。 It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white. 1:8 我的民哪,你當哀號,像處女腰束麻布,為幼年的丈夫哀號。 Mourn like a virgin \f 1:8 Or ((young woman))\F in sackcloth grieving for the husband \f 1:8 Or ((betrothed))\F of her youth. 1:9 素祭和奠祭從耶和華的殿中斷絕;事奉耶和華的祭司都悲哀。 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. 1:10 田荒涼,地悲哀;因為五穀毀壞,新酒乾竭,油也缺乏。 The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; \f 1:10 Or ((ground mourns))\F the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails. 1:11 農夫啊,你們要慚愧;修理葡萄園的啊,你們要哀號;因為大麥小麥與田間的莊稼都滅絕了。 Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed. 1:12 葡萄樹枯乾;無花果樹衰殘。石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹,連田野一切的樹木也都枯乾;眾人的喜樂盡都消滅。 The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree-- all the trees of the field--are dried up. Surely the joy of mankind is withered away. 1:13 祭司啊,你們當腰束麻布痛哭;伺候祭壇的啊,你們要哀號;事奉我 神的啊,你們要來披上麻布過夜,因為素祭和奠祭從你們 神的殿中斷絕了。 Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. 1:14 你們要分定禁食的日子,宣告嚴肅會,招聚長老和國中的一切居民到耶和華─你們 神的殿,向耶和華哀求。 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. 1:15 哀哉!耶和華的日子臨近了。這日來到,好像毀滅從全能者來到。 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. \f 1:15 Hebrew ((Shaddai))\F 1:16 糧食不是在我們眼前斷絕了嗎?歡喜快樂不是從我們 神的殿中止息了嗎? Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes-- joy and gladness from the house of our God? 1:17 穀種在土塊下朽爛;倉也荒涼,廩也破壞;因為五穀枯乾了。 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. \f 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.\F The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up. 1:18 牲畜哀鳴;牛群混亂,因為無草;羊群也受了困苦。 How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering. 1:19 耶和華啊,我向你求告,因為火燒滅曠野的草場;火焰燒盡田野的樹木。 To you, O LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field. 1:20 田野的走獸向你發喘;因為溪水乾涸,火也燒滅曠野的草場。 Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始。多次經本人修改,2025年11月由AI協助更改加入朗讀功能,2026年加入搜尋「中、英」字皆可,顯示「黃底紅字」歡迎大家使用!! 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉(01月05日)
一月五日 「耶和華阿,惟有您能幫助……」歷代志下十四章11節 讓我們提醒神,叫祂負完全的責任。「惟有您能幫助……」。攻擊亞撒的有士兵百萬、戰車三百。亞撒和猶太人要抵擋古實王的大軍似乎是不可能的一回事。沒有聯盟軍隊去援助他;所以,他惟一的盼望是神。或許你也有這般可怕的難處逼你放棄你平時所有的依據,而專一投靠全能的神。 亞撒的信心看見耶和華站在那耀武揚威的謝拉和毫無力量的自己中間。他並沒有錯誤。我們看見古實人果然敗在耶和華和他軍隊面前,所以猶太人只要跟在後面收集掠物就是了。我們的神是萬軍之耶和華,祂能隨時召集援軍來拯救祂的子民。相信祂站在你和你的難處中間,無論甚麼困難都會在祂面前逃跑,如雲在疾風面前被吹散一般。 ─梅爾 富堡壘碎成瓦礫, 正是你無所依恃 除了神以外,一無可靠, 這正是信主之時。 在你我所行這條路口, 信心比眼見更可依仗, 雖然茫茫夜色黑暗, 信是信心能放光亮。 亞伯拉罕信神,對眼見說:「退去!」對自然的定律說:「不要作聲!」對疑懼的心說:「閉口,你這謊言的誘惑者!」他信神。 ─派克約瑟
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(01月05日)
January 5 "Lord, there is none beside thee to help."(2 Chron. 14:11, R. V.) REMIND God of His entire responsibility. "There is none beside thee to help." The odds against Asa were enormous. There was a million of men in arms against him, besides three hundred chariots. It seemed impossible to hold his own against that vast multitude. There were no allies who would come to his help; his only hope, therefore, was in God. It may be that your difficulties have been allowed to come to so alarming a pitch that you may be compelled to renounce all creature aid, to which in lesser trials you have had recourse, and cast yourself back on your Almighty Friend. Put God between yourself and the foe. To Asa's faith, Jehovah seemed to stand between the might of Zerah and himself, as one who had no strength. Nor was he mistaken. We are told that the Ethiopians were destroyed before the Lord and before His host, as though celestial combatants flung themselves against the foe in Israel's behalf, and put the large host to rout, so that Israel had only to follow up and gather the spoil. Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale. ─F. B. Meyer. "When nothing whereon to lean remains, When strongholds crumble to dust; When nothing is sure but that God still reigns, That is just the time to trust. "Tis better to walk by faith than sight, In this path of yours and mine; And the pitch-black night, when there's no outer light Is the time for faith to shine." Abraham believed God, and said to sight, "Stand back!" and to the laws of nature, "Hold your peace!" and to a misgiving heart, "Silence, thou lying tempter!" He believed God. ─Joseph Parker.
■ 永活之泉(01月05日)
一月五日 信心 「只要信。」馬可福音五章36節 這裡有一個極重要的功課,就是當我們單獨在內室裡獻上我們祈求的時候,我們必須全然信靠神的愛和主耶穌的權能。請先問問你自己:對於神的愛,你的心是否滿了極大而又牢靠的信心?如果不是這樣的話,請不要立刻開始禱告。信心是不會自己來的,要安靜的思想:神是真實的。祂在無限量的愛裡已經預備好了,要來給你祝福。請讀一些關於啟示神的能力、信實,和愛心的聖經章節。把這些話引到你自己身上,並且說:「主阿!是的,我要在您和您的大愛裡,用堅固的信心來禱告。」 把「信心」這一個詞句只限制在赦罪和蒙悅納作神的兒女上面,乃是一件錯誤的事。信心所包含的遠超過這些。對於一切神所要為我們作的事上,我們都必須有信心。我們必須相信祂要照著我們每天的需要供給我們。神的偉大和能力是無限量的;基督的恩典也足彀應付我們每天新的需要,所以我們也應當照著每天的需要運用活的信心。 當你進入內室開始禱告之前,請問一問你自己:「我真是相信神是在這裡與我同在麼?也相信主耶穌要幫助我禱告麼?也相信我能夠在這蒙福的時間來和我的神有交通麼?」 主耶穌常常教導祂的門徒,如果要有真實的禱告,信心是絕對不可缺少的!所以祂照樣也要教導我們學這個功課。你要停留在祂的交通中,求祂用祂超然的能力,剛強你的信心。基督要對你我說當初祂對馬大所說過的話:「我不是對你說過,你若信,就必看見神的榮耀麼?」
■ 中文屬天日子(01月05日)
一月五日 有力量的生命的果效 「我所去的地方,你現在不能跟我去;後來卻要跟我去。」約翰福音十三章36節 說了這話,就對他說:「你跟從我吧。」「跟從我」一語,是三年前耶穌對彼得說的。彼得也很爽快地跟從了祂;那時,因為他的身上還有耶穌的吸力,不需要聖靈的幫助,就可以這麼做。及至否認耶穌的場合,他的心深深地創痛。及至獲得聖靈以後,耶穌又向他說:「跟從我。」這時不像從前那麼關切耶穌的危險。第一次「跟從」,並沒有甚麼神秘,不過是一種表面的追隨;可是此時的追隨,卻是一種內心的追隨,甚至願以身殉。(參約廿一18) 在彼得發誓與否認耶穌兩個時期之間,直到後來,他才不知有己,滿懷謙虛,覺得自己毫不足恃;就在這種絕望之中,他才從復活的主領受賜與。主「向他們吹一口氣,說:『你們受聖靈。』」(約廿21)切莫關心神怎樣改變你們,也莫依賴那些改變,只要仰仗主耶穌基督和祂賜與聖靈,去建立、去創造,就可以了。 我們一切的誓詞和決志,終結是無用的,因為我們沒有力量去實行。只有在我們真真束手無策的時候,才能接受聖靈。「你們受聖靈」,這種接受是被動的。此後在你們的生命中,還有一顆唯一的星光──主耶穌基督。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(01月05日)
一月五日 「我眷顧他,為要叫他遵守我的道」創世記十八章19節 神需要一些值得祂信賴的人,祂提到亞伯拉罕時,能說:「我眷顧他,使我所應許亞伯拉罕的話都成就了。」雖然神是可交託的,但祂要我們有決心、信靠且穩定。這也是有信心的真正意思。神一直在找一些人,一些能讓祂全心付出祂所有的愛,給予能力以及託付應許的對象。當神找到這樣的一個人時,祂會為這個人做任何一件事。神的力量強烈到能拉動任何的重擔,為要我們與祂緊緊地繫在一起。然而可惜的是,將我們與神繫在一起的繩索,往往弱得連我們禱告的重量都支持不了。所以神不時地訓練、管教和磨練我們,為得是要使我們在信心的生活中有定力及確據。讓我們來學習這些課程,並且堅定地站穩腳步。 對那些極少數敢於接受考驗的人, 神為他們預備了最好的一切。 為那些得不到最高祝福的人, 神也賜給他們次好的選擇。 然而神啊,求您賜我最高的祝福。 儘管他人可以得到其餘的一切, 那些好處卻對我毫無吸引力, 因為我已得到您至上的祝福。
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