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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21日)
二月廿一日 「你當默然倚靠耶和華,耐性等候祂。」詩篇卅七章7節 你有沒有禱告了又禱告,等候了又等候,而仍舊沒有效果呢? 你看見沒有效果,覺得厭倦麼?你正想放棄麼?你或許要想你等候錯了。如果你這樣想,就會叫你離開正路——離開神所能遇見你的地方了。 「忍耐等候。」(羅八25)忍耐能挪去愁煩。若是主說祂要來,祂的應許就等於祂的同在。忍耐也能擦去你的眼淚。為甚麼難過沮喪呢?祂比你自己更知道你的需要,祂等候的目的,乃是要使你得到更榮耀、更豐富的祝福。忍耐也能挪去自己的工作。主所要求的工作乃是「信」(約六29),當你相信的時候,你就會知道一切都已經成功了。忍耐也能挪去一切的慾望,你切望得到你所要的慾望,也許遠勝過完成神的旨意。 忍耐也能挪去一切的軟弱。忍耐不是懶惰,也不是虛度光陰。你既知道神在預備更榮耀、更豐富的祝福給你,你自己也必須預備去接受。忍耐也能挪去一切的飄搖無定,「扶我站起來。」(但八18)神的根基是頂穩固的;我們有祂的忍耐在裏面,我們等候的時候也穩固了。忍耐有讚美和快樂。讚美的忍耐——「歡歡喜喜的忍耐」(西一11)——是最美麗的忍耐。「但願忍耐成功。」(雅一4,直譯)叫我們在等候中得到神豐富的恩典。 ─C.H.P 火焰燃燒在你胸中, 正是領受內心教訓的時候, 要把握得住, 不再怔忡, 捨此別無瞻顧, 忍耐必獲成功。 ─L.S.P.
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月21日)
February 21 "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him."(Psalm 37:7.) HAVE you prayed and prayed and waited and waited, and still there is no manifestation? Are you tired of seeing nothing move? Are you just at the point of giving it all up? Perhaps you have not waited in the right way? This would take you out of the right place─the place where he can meet you. "With patience wait" (Rom. 8:25). Patience takes away worry. He said He would come, and His promise is equal to His presence. Patience takes away your weeping. Why feel sad and despondent? He knows your need better than you do, and His purpose in waiting is to bring more glory out of it all. Patience takes away self-works. The work He desires is that you "believe" (John 6:29), and when you believe, you may then know that all is well. Patience takes away all want. Your desire for the thing you wish is perhaps stronger than your desire for the will of God to be fulfilled in its arrival. Patience takes away all weakening. Instead of having the delaying time, a time of letting go, know that God is getting a larger supply ready and must get you ready too. Patience takes away all wobbling. "Make me stand upon my standing" (Daniel 8:18, margin). God's foundations are steady; and when His patience is within, we are steady while we wait. Patience gives worship. A praiseful patience sometimes "long-suffering with joyfulness" (Col. 1:11) is the best part of it all. "Let (all these phases of) patience have her perfect work" (James 1:4), while you wait, and you will find great enrichment. ─C. H. P. Hold steady when the fires burn, When inner lessons come to learn, And from this path there seems no turn─ "Let patience have her perfect work." ─L. S. P.
■ 永活之泉(02月21日)
二月廿一日 神的聖潔(舊約) 「你們要聖潔,因為我是聖潔的,我是叫你們成聖的耶和華。」利未記十一章45節,十九章2節,廿章7—8節,廿一章8、15、23節,廿二章9、16節。 在利未記裡,這些話反覆述說了有九次之多。以色列人學習認識聖潔是神最高最榮耀的性情,所以祂子民也必須有這些特性。凡誠心要正確地認識神,在隱密處與祂相交的人,必須追求聖潔,因為祂是聖潔的。那來到神面前的祭司,必須分別出來,過一個聖潔的生活。 先知以賽亞也說,我看見主坐在高高的寶座上,撒拉弗彼此呼喊說:「聖哉,聖哉,聖哉,萬軍之耶和華。」(賽六3)這是在極深的敬畏中俯伏敬拜的聲音。 那時我說:「禍哉,我滅亡了,因我眼見大君王萬軍之耶和華。」這是一個破碎痛悔的心所發出來的呼聲。然後,有一撒拉弗用從壇上取下來的紅炭,沾他的口,說:「看哪,這炭沾了你的嘴,你的罪孽便除掉,你的罪惡就赦免了。」這是恩典和全備救贖的聲音。 之後,神說:「我可以差遣誰呢?」那樂意的心回答說:「我在這裡,請差遣我!」帶著聖潔的敬畏停在這裡,求神啟示祂自己是聖者。「那至高至上,住在永遠,名為聖潔者的如此說:『我住在至高至聖的所在,也與心靈痛悔謙卑的人同居。』」(賽五十七15)要安靜在神偉大的榮耀和極深的謙卑中,敬拜祂、願意住在我們裡面,與我們同住。 神的兒女,如果你要在隱密處遇見天父,你就要在祂聖潔的榮耀裡,低頭俯伏敬拜祂。給祂時間來向你啟示祂自己。認識神是至聖的,是一個不可言喻的恩典。「你們要聖潔,因為我耶和華你們的神是聖潔的。」「聖哉,聖哉,聖哉,萬軍之耶和華。」「以聖潔為裝飾敬拜耶和華。」「願主,我們神的榮美歸於我們身上。」(詩九十17)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月21日)
二月廿一日 你曾為祂的緣故,不顧一切麼? 「她在我身上作的是一件美事。」馬可福音十四章6節 如果人類的愛不能使一個人超出自己本身,那就不是愛了。如果愛總是慎重,聰慧,總是敏於計算,從不令人驚心動魄,那也不全是愛了。那也許是情感,也許是情熱,但沒有愛的真質在裡面。 我曾不顧一切的去替神作事,不是因為那是我的本分,不是因為那件事有用,也不是因為於我愛祂以外別有所圖麼?我能把神認為有價值的事獻在神之前麼?或是我在祂無量的救贖裡玩忽歲月,而不乘時做一番事業呢?算為奇偉的,不是神聖偉大的事。卻是證明我是屬祂的那些最平凡的事算為奇偉。我曾使主耶穌的心裡發生伯大尼的馬利亞所引起的感想麼? 有時神似乎是等候我們現出怎樣熱烈愛祂的標幟。熱烈的愛神比打算自己的純潔還有價值。自身的純潔是集中目標在我們自己的純潔上;我們極關心我們視聽言動的姿態,唯恐我們觸犯祂。如果我們一旦順服神,獲取了完全的愛,那一切就不算甚麼了。我們應當拋棄這種思想──「我有用處麼?」認定我們是沒有用的,那麼,我們或者近乎真理了。因為這絕不是有用無用的問題,卻是對於神自身價值的問題。我們擺脫一切而順服神,祂就隨時藉著我們工作起來。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月21日)
二月廿一日 「……不要驚惶,因為我是你的神。」以賽亞書四十一章10節 當我們的懼怕時,神的安慰是何等溫柔啊!祂甜美地說:「因為我耶和華──你的神必攙扶你的右手,對你說:不要害怕!我必幫助你。」(賽四一13)祂不只說了一次,並且攙扶我們的右手,重複好幾回這個應許。 神聖的主藉著祂對加利利海邊的門徒所說的:「是我,不要怕。」(約六20)把許多鼓舞的話濃縮成一個永遠能安慰的信息。祂確是懼怕的解藥、苦惱的補救,因為祂乃是救恩的泉源。所以我們應該不再懼怕,定睛在祂的身上,繼續地住在祂裡面,並以祂為滿足。 讓我們緊緊地靠著祂,並且說:「所以,地雖改變,山雖搖動到海心,……我們也不害怕。」(詩四六2—3)
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