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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16日)
三月十六日 「生身的父都是暫隨己意管教我們,惟有萬靈的父管教我們,是要我們得益處,使我們在祂的聖潔上有分。」希伯來書十二章10節 康諾氏所寫的書中,說有一個山野少女葛文的故事。葛文頑皮任性,她在某一日不幸遇到意外,成了殘廢。臥病在床第中,性情更加暴躁,當她在怨天尤人的時候,「天的嚮導」來看她,所謂「天的嚮導」,是山中居民對傳教士的尊敬稱呼。 傳教士給她講了一個谷的寓言,他說:地球最初的時候,只有一望無際的原野,並沒有峽谷。原野的主人,有一天出外散步,看見大地上只長著青草,就問原野道:「你的花在那裏」?原野回答說:「主人,我沒有種子。」 於是主人吩咐禽鳥把各類花的種子帶來,四處播種。不久原野上就開出了番紅玫瑰,水荳花,毛莨花,向日葵,紅鈐蘭,以及一些耐熱的夏季花卉。主人看了很高興,但他找不到他最心愛的幾種花,於是他對原野說「還有鐵線蓮,縷斗菜,紫羅蘭,白頭翁,各種鳳尾草和開花的灌木在那裏呢?」 他又吩咐禽鳥把所有種子帶來,四處播種。但主人再來的時候,還是找不到他最心愛的花,於是他說:「那些最可愛的花在那裏」? 原野悲哀地說:「主人,我無法保存這些花,因為狂風拚命的吹颳,烈陽炙烤著我的胸膛,這些花忍不住原野的氣候,它們都零落凋萎了。」 於是主人吩咐閃電劈開原野的胸懷。原野在劇痛中顫抖哀號,為那黝黑而凹凸不平的裂口,悲痛呻吟了許多日子。 由於河水湧進了裂口,把深黑色的泥土帶了進來,禽鳥再把種子帶來,在那峽谷中播種。過了很長一段時間之後,粗糙的岩石上,舖滿了柔軟的青苔和綿延的籐蔓,各處角落,都垂掛著鐵線蓮和縷斗菜,碩壯的榆樹,仰起粗大枝幹,升向高空的陽光,樹根附近盤屈著矮杉和鳳仙花,到處都有紫羅蘭,白頭翁和孔雀草在生長開花,峽谷終於成了主人所尋求的安息,平安和快樂的心愛之地了。 傳教士講完了教事之後,就對她說:「聖靈所結的果子,也可以稱之謂聖靈之花,包括愛,喜愛,平安,堅忍,溫柔等等,其中有些只能在峽谷中生長」。 「只能在峽谷裏生長的是什麼花呢?」葛文輕聲問。傳教士答道:「溫和,謙卑,忍耐,其他如愛,喜樂,和平安,雖能在原野開放,但若生長在峽谷裏,它們將更美麗,更芬芳」。 葛文默默地躺了好一會,然後嘴唇顫抖地自言自語道:「在我的峽谷裏沒有花,只有粗陋的岩石」。 「親愛的葛文,總有一天它們會開出花來,主會發現,我們也會看到」。 親愛的,當你淪入你的峽谷時,請記著這句話!
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月16日)
March 16 "For our profit." (Heb. 12:10.) IN one of Ralph Connor's books he tells a story of Gwen. Gwen was a wild, wilful lassie and one who had always been accustomed to having her own way. then one day she met with a terrible accident which crippled her for life. She became very rebellious and in the murmuring state she was visited by the Sky Pilot, as the missionary among the mountaineers was termed. He told her the parable of the canyon. "At first there were no canyons, but only the broad, open prairie. One day the Master of the Prairie, walking over his great lawns, where were only grasses, asked the Prairie, `Where are your flowers?' and the prairie said, `Master I have no seeds.' "Then he spoke to the birds, and they carried seeds of every kind of flower and strewed them far and wide, and soon the prairie bloomed with crocuses and roses and buffalo beans and the yellow crowfoot and the wild sunflowers and the red lilies all summer long. Then the Master came and was well pleased; but he missed the flowers he loved best of all, and he said to the Prairie: `Where are the clematis and the columbine, the sweet violets and wind-flowers, and all the ferns and flowering shrubs?' "And again he spoke to the birds, and again they carried all the seeds and scattered them far and wide. But, again, when the Master came he could not find the flowers he loved best of all, and he said: "`Where are those my sweetest flowers?' and the prairie cried sorrowfully: "`Oh, Master, I cannot keep the flowers, for the winds sweep fiercely, and the sun beats upon my breast, and they wither up and fly away.' "Then the Master spoke to the Lightning, and with one swift blow the Lightning cleft the prairie to the heart. And the Prairie rocked and groaned in agony, and for many a day moaned bitterly over the black, jagged, gaping wound. "But the river poured its waters through the cleft, and carried down deep black mould, and once more the birds carried seeds and strewed them in the canyon. And after a long time the rough rocks were decked out with soft mosses and trailing vines, and all the nooks were hung with clematis and columbine, and great elms lifted their huge tops high up into the sunlight, and down about their feet clustered the low cedars and balsams, and everywhere the violets and wind-flower and naiden-hair grew and bloomed, till the canyon became the Master's favorit place for rest and peace and joy." Then the Sky Pilot read to her: "The fruit─I'll read `flowers'─of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness─and some of these grow only in the canyon." "Which are the canyon flowers?" asked Gwen softly, and the Pilot answered: " Gentleness, meekness, longsuffering; but though the others, love, joy, peace, bloom in the open, yet never with so rich a bloom and so sweet a perfume as in the canyon." For a long time Gwen lay quite still, and then said wistfully, who her lips trembled: "There are no flowers in my canyon, but only ragged rocks." "Some day they will bloom, Gwen dear; the Master will find them, and we, to shall see them." Beloved, when you come to your canyon, remember!
■ 永活之泉(03月16日)
三月十六日 為著工人的代禱 「要收的莊稼多,作工的人少,所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收他的莊稼。」馬太福音九章37—38節 門徒們對於以上這些話並不明白。基督所給他們的乃是一個撒種的思想,存放在他們心中待日後使用。五旬節時,當我們怎樣看到那麼多剛悔改得救的人,靠著聖靈的能力準備見證基督,他們一定也感覺到十天同心合意的禱告才帶下此祝福,就是聖靈大能所結的果子。 基督教訓我們無論莊稼有何等多,而工人又是何等少,祈求乃是最好、最有把握,也是唯一的路,為著我們的需要懇求。我們所需要知道的,不僅在我們有需要時向神禱告,而是整個的工作都是在禱告的靈中進行,所以為工人們代求乃是我們整個生活、工作最完善的配合。 在中國的內地會中,當傳道人的數字增至二百時,在中國舉行的某次會議中,他們深深地覺得需要更多的工人到偏遠地區作工;經過了多次禱告之後,他們感覺可以向神禱告在一年內,再賜給他們一百個傳道人及一萬英磅,以應付費用。他們就天天不停地禱告達一年之久。到了一年終了的時候,神賜給他們連男帶女一百位適當的工人,並且賜給他們一萬一千英磅。 為了應付當今世界的需要,為了廣大的工場,及待拯救的靈魂,許多教會都抱怨工人及金錢不夠。基督不是召我們也像起初使徒們同心恆切地禱告嗎?神是信實的,藉著聖靈的大能要供應我們每一個需要。願教會顯出合一的禱告與祈求,因神是聽禱告的神。 禱告: 可稱頌的主耶穌,求您教導您的教會知道為您活著、為您勞苦的意義何在。在恆切禱告的靈裡,使我們確信您會在每件事上,超過人所求地來供應這個即將滅亡世界的呼求。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月16日)
三月十六日 主來審判 「因為我們眾人,必要在基督臺前顯露出來。」哥林多後書五章10節 保羅說我們眾人,無論是傳道的和聽道的,都「要在基督臺前顯露出來。」如果你在基督的光榮中過慣了生活,末後的審判將使你因神的工作而快樂。你會把臉向著基督的審判臺,走在你所認知的至聖者的光中。對於別人一種錯誤的態度,終必終止在魔鬼的靈裡,與你的聖潔無關。一種私心的判斷,其結果是地獄在你裡面。趕快將這顯出來,而且要說:「我的神啊!我在那裡犯罪了」。如果你不如此,你的心就漸漸硬了。罪的懲罰使罪成為習慣。不但神要懲罰罪,罪也要在罪人裡面建立自己,償還整個代價。無論如何掙扎或祈禱,不能使你不做某種事情。罪的懲罰,就是使你逐漸成為習慣,不知道是罪。除了聖靈進入心中以外,沒有別的力量能改變罪的連屬結果。 「我們若在光明中行,如同神在光明中。」(約壹一7)光明中行,按照許多人看便是給別人一個標準。現代法利賽人的精神,最壞的不是假冒為善,卻是不覺得自己不真實。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月16日)
三月十六日 「因為耶和華……要賜下恩惠和榮耀。」詩篇八十四篇11節 「榮耀」這個詞很難翻譯、下定義或是解釋。但在靈裡敏感、儆醒的基督生命中,我們能找到「恩惠」的解釋。「榮耀」是滿溢的恩典、是生命中的甘露,是先嘗天堂的權利;更是從神寶座來的希望,由神心中所發出的啟示。我們不僅能擁有這樣的榮耀,並且能生活在其中。主耶穌曾為我們禱告,求神把賜給祂的榮耀,也賜給我們(約十七22)。 讓我們珍惜這樣的榮耀,生活在其中。大衛曾說:「我的靈啊,(原文作榮耀),你當醒起。」(詩五十七8)所以我們也可以求神使我們的榮耀奮起,加添我們能力,讓我們能如鷹展翅上騰,高高地與基督一同坐在屬天的位子上。 我們在等候主之後興起, 從新得力、生命更新, 像鷹一樣展翅上騰, 我們在靈裡必然登峰造極。 當我們健步如飛地再回到事奉中, 走許多聖徒所行過的道路, 我們必然奔跑卻不睏倦, 行走卻不疲乏。
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