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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(02月11日)
二月十一日 「等到……祭司把腳站在……水裏,……水……必然斷絕。」(約書亞記三章13節) 百姓必須憑信向前進,並不能在營中坐待外面的路開通了之後方纔起行。他們必須拔營開步、整裝束荷、排齊隊伍、直達河邊,雖然河水還沒有起變化。 到了河邊,若是他們想停在那裏,等河水分開了,然後伸足下水,他們定規空等,定規到今天還在河東。他們在水斷絕之前,必須先舉足涉水。 讓我們也學習怎樣用信心抓住神的話前進,不看前面的道路能否通行。我們常受攔阻和難處的挫折,都是因為我們想等神先替我們開路,挪去了一切的攔阻和難處,然後再試著前行。這是何等的錯誤。若是神要我們向前衝,我們就憑著信心抓住祂的話語向前衝,好像一無攔阻一般,路自然會為我們一步步地敞開。 ─譯自晚思 他背後躺著灰色的亞速爾島, 已經遠離了直布羅陀海峽, 前面看不見海岸的影子; 茫茫大海, 白浪滔天。 船上的大副說: 「我們必須禱告, 看哪!星星都已隱湮。 勇敢的船長, 我該怎麼下令?」 你說: 「駛向前去!向前!向前!」 「我的船員一天比一天更想叛變, 他們形容憔悴, 衰弱可憐,」 大副這樣報告, 心中思念家鄉。 鹹澀的浪花濺上他黝黑的臉。 「我該怎樣下令, 英勇的船長, 假若明早仍只見海水無邊?」 「哦,破曉的時候你該說, 駛向前去!向前!向前」 他們繼續航行, 大副說道: 「今夜狂暴的海洋露出了獠牙, 掀開了唇, 張開了大嘴, 好像要吞滅我們, 咬死我們! 英勇的船長, 只求你說一句話; 希望已渺, 無法持守!」 但船長的話如利刃出鞘說: 「駛向前去!向前!向前」 他精疲力竭, 苦守甲板, 從黑暗中遠遠眺望, 有一夜, 忽然遙見一點微光, 光明!光明!光明已在望! 它的發展, 就是日後的旗旌, 時代的黎明, 展開在黑暗之間, 他達到了那新世界, 並且給那世界一個最偉大的啟示, 「駛向前去!向前!」 ─密勒 憑著信心前進,即是勝利。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月11日)
February 11 "As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests....shall rest in the waters....the waters shall be cut off."(Joshua 3:13.) THE people were not to wait in their camps until the way was opened, they were to walk by faith. They were to break camp, pack up their goods, form in line to march, and move down to the very banks before the river would be opened. If they had come down to the edge of the river and then had stopped for the stream to divide before they stepped into it, they would have waited in vain. They must take one step into the water before the river would be cut off. We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them. If we would move straight on in faith, the path would be opended for us. We stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles. ─Evening Thoughts. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good Mate said:" Now we must pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?" "Why, say, `Sail on! sail on! and on!" "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak!" The stout Mate thought of home; a spray, of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day, 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!'" They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke the Mate: "This mad sea shows its teeth tonight. He curls his lip, he lies in wait, With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave Admiral, say but one good word; What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah! that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck─ A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world, Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" ─Joaquin Miller. Faith that goes forward triumphs.
■ 永活之泉(02月11日)
二月十一日 父神 「奉父、子、聖靈的名給他們施浸。」馬太福音廿八章19節 我們要記得這聖潔三而一的神的意義,有其敬虔的一方面。我們說到神,我們就想到有一個不能想像的距離;這距離將聖潔的神和罪人分開,使我們只能俯伏在極其懊悔和畏懼之中。當我們說到聖子基督,我們就想到與祂之間的距離是近得無法再近的,祂為女子所生,就是為亞當的女兒所生,並且受了咒詛的死,祂是這樣與我們不能分開的聯合直到永遠!我們再說到聖靈,我們就想起神無限的祝福,有祂的同在在我們裡面,使我們成為祂的家和祂的殿,一直到永遠。 當基督教導我們:「我們在天上的父」的時候,祂立刻接著說:「願人都尊您的名為聖,」因為神是聖潔的,所以我們也要聖潔。除了我們尊那名為聖,並藉著禱告親近祂之外,再沒有成聖的路了。 多少時候,我們說到那名,並沒有覺得是一個不可言喻的特權,說出我們與神之間的關係。如果我們肯花時間與神接觸,在祂的父愛裡敬拜祂,我們的內室就要成為天堂的門了。神的兒女,如果你禱告你在暗中的父,在祂面前深深地俯伏,尋求去敬拜最聖潔的名。請你們記得,這就是禱告最高的祝福。 「禱告你在暗中的父,你父在暗中察看,必然報答你。」(太六6) 在隱密處單獨親近神,並喊說:「我的父!」這是何等不可言諭的權利呢?相信祂在暗中察看我,也要在明處報答我。讓我們來學習,直到你能說:「我面對面見了神,我的性命仍得保全。」(創卅二30)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月11日)
二月十一日 你對神的希望日漸消滅麼? 「堅心倚賴您的,您必保守他十分平安。」以賽亞書廿六章3節 你寄留想像於神呢?或者你的想像消失了呢?想像的消失,在工人的生命中是一個耗盡和毀滅的源頭。如果你從沒有運用你順服神的想像,就從現在開始吧!等候神到來,是無用的;你必丟下對偶像的想像來仰望祂,就必得救。想像是神賜與我們最偉大的恩賜,應該將想像完全供獻給祂。如果你能約束你各種思想,去順服基督,那麼,當試探來到的時候,這便是信心最大的遺產。因為你的信心和神的靈共同工作起來。尊視神的觀念,利用大自然所表現的一切,去組合──日出和日入,太陽和星宿,氣候的變化──則你的想像就不受你衝動的節制,必是去作服務神的事工。 「我們與我們的祖宗一同犯罪……而遺忘了」──於是放一把小劍在你睡覺的地方。「神現在不與我談話,」但是是不應該與我談話的。謹記你是屬誰的,你服事的是誰,用回想來鼓勵你自己,而你對於神的熱愛必增十倍;你的想像必不再消失,會馬上恢復起來,而你的盼望必有不能言喻的光明。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月11日)
二月十一日 「……得以在各樣的力上加力,好叫你們凡事……忍耐寬容」歌羅西書一章11節 保羅為歌羅西的聖徒禱告,他盼望他們能照神榮耀的權能、得以在各樣的力上加力,好叫他們凡事歡歡喜喜的忍耐寬容。能夠忍耐,但是滿臉帶著壓力的表現,似乎每條皺紋都在說:「為什麼沒有任何人同情我?」是一回事。然而能夠因擺在我們前面的喜樂,而能背負十字架、輕視羞辱,則完全是另一回事。 在主的花園中,有些樹「炎熱來到,並不懼怕,葉子仍必青翠,在乾旱之年毫無掛慮,而且結果不止。」(耶十七8)讓我們把臉轉向上升的太陽,且將隨風而來雲朵變成奪目的彩虹。 我們再過不多的時候,就不會再有機會在苦難中喜樂,並且學習忍耐。在天堂不會有任何事能教導我們忍受折磨。所以假使我們現在學不會,就永遠無法得到榮耀的冠冕。甚至將來會渴望時光倒流,回到我們現在極力擺脫的多樣情況中。
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