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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. 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(03月15日)
三月十五日 「你這蟲雅各……不要害怕……我要使你成為有快齒打糧的新器具。」以賽亞書四一章14、15節(直譯) 蟲與快齒的器具怎樣可以相比呢?蟲是多麼軟弱,給我們石頭或車輪一壓,就會壓得稀爛;快齒的器具是多麼堅強;甚至能「把山嶺打得粉碎,使岡陵如同糠秕。」(賽四一15)但是全能的神能使蟲成為有快齒的器具。神能使個人或民族,藉著祂的靈,從蟲的軟弱到快齒器具的剛強,在歷史上留著很深的痕跡。 所以我們這些蟲不要喪膽。全能的神能使我們在四圍患難的環境中變成剛強。靠著祂的力量,我們能叫我們的環境向我們屈服,向我們進貢。我們甚至能隨便抓住一個黑色的失望,把牠劈開來,從其中抽出恩典的寶石來。神也能給我們像鐵那般的意志,所有的難處都能迎刃而解,猶如堅土遇到鐵犁那樣鬆散。神既說:「我要使你……」祂豈會不如此行呢? ─喬懷德 基督建造祂的國度,都是用地上破碎的東西建造的。人們所要的是強健的、成功的、勝利的、不碎的;但是神所要的乃是在地上不成功的、失敗的、傷心的、軟弱的。天上充滿著地上破碎的生命,沒有一根壓傷的蘆葦是基督所不能恢復的。祂能使一個被痛苦、憂愁所壓傷的生命,變成一架彈出讚美的音樂來的古琴。祂能把地上的失敗變成天上的榮耀。 ─密勒 跟從我,我要範鑄你們, 有力地傳佈我的福音, 成為流出慈恩的溝洫, 使你們成為有用之人。 跟從我, 我要範鑄你們, 脫胎換骨, 重新做人, 有信, 有愛, 忠實虔誠, 不愧為神的子民。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月15日)
March 15 "Fear not, thou worm Jacob....I will make thee a threshing instrument with teeth." (Isa. 41:14, 15.) COULD any two things be in greater contrast than a worm and an instrument with teeth? The worm is delicate, bruised by a stone, crushed beneath the passing wheel; an instrument with teeth can break and not be broken; it can grave its mark upon the rock. And the mighty God can convert the one into the other. He can take a man or a nation, who has all the impotence of the worm, and by the invigoration of His own Spirit, He can endow with strength by which a noble mark is left upon the history of the time. And so the "worm" may take heart. The mighty God can make us stronger than our circumstances. He can bend them all to our good. In God's strengthwe can make them all pay tribute to our souls. We can even take hold of a black disappointment, break it open, and extract some jewel of grace. When God gives us wills like iron, we can drive through difficulties as the iron share cuts through the toughest soil. "I will make thee," and shall He not do it? ─Dr. Jowett. Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. he can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory. ─J. R. Miller. "Follow Me, and I will make you".... Make you speak My words with power, Make you channels of My mercy, Make you helpful every hour. "Follow Me, and I will make you".... Make you what you cannot be─ Make you loving, trustful, godly, Make you even like to me. ─L. S. P.
■ 永活之泉(03月15日)
三月十五日 保羅為代禱者 「我在父面前屈膝,……藉著祂的靈,叫你們心裡的力量剛強起來。」以弗所書三章14—16節 我們每逢想到保羅,就說他是偉大的傳道人、佈道家、大作家,及「格外勞苦」的大使徒;然而,我們卻不夠認識他是一位代禱者。他藉著祈求、尋求,並得著生活的能力,且能為他所服事的教會代求,帶下祝福。 我們看他上面寫給以弗所人的話,再想想他寫給帖撒羅尼迦人的話:「我們晝夜切切地祈求,以……補滿你們信心的不足;好使你們……心裡堅固,成為聖潔,無可責備。」(帖三10—13)在他寫給羅馬人書中說:「我怎樣不住的題到你們,在禱告之間。」(羅一9)寫給腓立比人書中說:「每逢為你們眾人祈求的時候,常是歡歡喜喜的祈求。」還有他寫給歌羅西人說:「我們為你們不住的禱告、祈求……」「我願意你們曉得,我為你們是何等盡心竭力。」(西一9;二1)保羅晝夜在神面前為他們呼籲,求聖靈的光與能力進入他們心內。他深信他的代求是大有功效的,照樣地,他也相信他們的代求會帶給他祝福。「我勸你們與我一同竭力,為我祈求神。」(羅十五30)「神現在仍要救我們……你們以祈禱幫助我們。」(林後一10—11)「也為我祈求,使我能放膽開口……」(弗六18—19;西四3;帖後三1)「藉著你們的禱告,終必叫我得救。」(腓一19) 神的僕人與百姓間的關係,完全基於同心合意恆切地禱告。他們之間的關係完全是屬天的、屬靈的、神聖的,只有靠恆切的禱告來維持。唯有當神的僕人與百姓能醒悟過來,知道聖靈的權能與祝福有賴於他們同心合意恆切的禱告時,教會才能真實地明白,甚麼是五旬節使徒時期的教會。 禱告: 永遠可稱頌的父啊,我們俯伏懇求您施恩,恢復教會懇求與代禱的靈——奉主的名。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月15日)
三月十五日 膽怯的訓練 「跟從的人也害怕。」馬可福音十章32節 先時,我們雖然知道一些關於耶穌基督的事,樂於變賣一切所有,出於愛的去撇棄自己;但是現在卻有些恍惚。耶穌在前面,看來有些異樣。「耶穌在前頭走,門徒就希奇。」 耶穌的態度使門徒心冷,使全部靈性生活喘息不寧。祂的面容帶著鐵石的表情;而祂勇往直前的決心,尤令我感覺恐怖。祂不是導師,也不是同志;祂別有見解,我絕然不知道,徒增我的感慨與驚訝。先時我自信瞭解了祂,但是現在卻有不少的疑慮。我開始感覺耶穌基督和我之間有了阻隔,不像先前那麼熟識。祂在我前頭走,也不回頭;不知道往那裡去,祂奔赴的目標更是遙遠難知。 耶穌要探知人類所能經驗的一切罪惡與憂愁,那就是祂奇特的所在。當我們看見祂在這種情形中,不認知祂,也未瞭解祂生命的特點,更不知怎樣的追隨祂。祂在前面,像是一位奇特的領袖,與我們沒有同志的關係。 膽怯的訓練,在作門徒的訓練中,有根本的必要。最危險的是轉身依靠我們自己的小火(參賽五十10─11)。當喪膽的黑暗臨到時,耐心等待其過去,因為經過以後,我們就會覺 得追隨耶穌,有說不出的快樂。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月15日)
三月十五日 「……你們要常在我的愛裡。」約翰福音十五章9節 我們能生活在很多不同的氣氛之下,有些人終日若有所思,他們的臉像個哲學家,他們也很有智慧。這些人生活在自己的感覺當中;他們對真理有主見、更有欣賞能力和審美觀念。有些人則活得像禽獸,他們生活在肉慾、眼睛的情慾之中;他們處在粗俗、下流、感官享受的氣氛之下。還有些人則生活在盡責任的壓力下,終日受良心斥責,使他們總是在恐懼的陰影之下,剝奪他們生命中的自由和生活裡的樂趣。不可否認的,這最後一種人的目的仍是誠實、正直、嚴謹的,他們的行為既不可忽視更不容置疑。 然而主基督要我們生活在愛的氣氛中。祂曾說:我愛你們,正如父愛我一樣,你們也要常在我的愛裡。在原文的版本中,祂的意思是要我們住或是生活在祂的愛裡。換言之,祂要我們永遠地活在祂的愛中,相信祂會一直愛我們,並且捉住祂的應許、享受祂的關心。這才真正是愛的生活。
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