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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06日)
三月六日 「我們曾信……」路加福音廿四章21節(直譯) 我常常覺得很是難過:往以馬忤斯去的兩個門徒不對耶穌說:「我們仍信」;卻說:「我們曾信……。」可憐,他們以為事情都完了。 他們若說:「似乎每一件事情都使我們失望;似乎我們的信心落了空,但是我們並不灰心;我們相信我們要再見祂……」豈不好麼?可惜他們並沒有這麼說,他們站在祂旁邊,臉上帶著愁容,以為主已死了三天;難怪主責備他們說:「無知的人哪……你們的心,信得太遲鈍了!」(25節) 親愛的,我們有否相似的情形,受主同樣的責備?我們寧可放棄任何東西,每一件東西,卻不能放棄對主的信心。 讓我們不像這兩個門徒一樣,把我們的信心變成過去式——「我們曾信…。」讓我們永遠堅持現在式的信心—─「我們永信。」 ─碎錦 溫暖的春天已去, 那枝頭開滿如錦鮮花。 玫瑰怒放的季節, 我曾盼望, 現在仍在盼望祂…… 如今玫瑰不開, 花事闌珊, 若畏縮躊躇, 我的信心何顢頇; 尤其風雪欲來的此刻, 若灰心失望, 更是脆弱可歎。 ─風雪中小鳥之歌
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月06日)
March 6 "We trusted." (Luke 24:21.) IHAVE always felt so sorry that in that walk to Emmaus the disciples had not said to Jesus, "We still trust"; instead of "We trusted." That is so sad─something that is all over. If they had only said, "Everything is against our hope; it looks as if our trust was vain, but we do not give up; we believe we shall see Him again." But no, they walked by His side declaring their lost faith, and He had to say to them "O fools, and slow of heart to believe!" Are we not in the same danger of having these words said to us? We can afford to lose anything and everything if we do not lose our faith in the God of truth and love. Let us never put our faith, as these disciples did, in a past tense─"We trusted." But let us ever say, "I am trusting." ─Crumbs. The soft, sweet summer was warm and glowing, Bright were the blossoms on every bough: I trusted Him when the roses were blooming; I trust Him now.... Small were my faith should it weakly falter Now that the roses have ceased to blow; Frail were the trust that now should alter, Doubting His love when storm clouds grow. ─The Song of a Bird in a Winter Storm.
■ 永活之泉(03月06日)
三月六日 基督為代禱者 「凡靠著祂進到神面前的人,祂都能拯救到底;因為祂是長遠活著,替他們祈求。」 當神在以賽亞書裡說過祂找不到一個代禱者,就甚詫異;接著又說:「祂用自己的膀臂施行拯救。必有一位救贖主來到錫安。」(賽五九16、20)神親自預備一位真正的代求者,祂曾論到祂的兒子基督:「……祂卻擔當多人的罪,又為罪犯代求。」(賽五三12) 基督在世上的生活中,已經開始祂代禱的職事。試想主為著祂的門徒及一切信祂名的人那個大祭司的禱告。再想想祂對彼得所說的話:「我已為你禱告,使你不致失去信心。」——這就證明祂的代禱是非常個人的。在十字架上,祂代禱著:「父啊,赦免他們」。 神如今已坐在神的右邊,祂仍為大祭司,繼續不斷地作代禱的工作。所不同者,祂將這個權利賜給祂的門徒,使他們也有份於祂的事工。在祂臨別談話中,七次的保證他們無論向祂求甚麼,祂都為他們成全。 天上的權能已賜給了人。神的恩典與權能等著人向祂祈求。藉著聖靈的引導,人能知道神的旨意。他們學習在信心中奉祂名祈求。祂要將他們的祈求帶到神面前,藉著祂和門徒們同心的代禱,使教會披戴聖靈的權能。 禱告: 可稱頌的救贖主啊:您呼召我們有份於您的代禱,乃是何等奇妙的恩典。我們喚醒您蒙救贖的兒女,使我們得知我們所蒙的呼召是何其榮耀,並得知您的救會在軟弱中,仍能因奉您的名代求而將天上極豐盛的祝福帶下。求您的聖靈在人裡面作工,使您的子民深深懊悔我們限制了禱告,以及懶惰、不信、自私的罪,深信您的愛使您的渴望賜下禱告的靈,以答應我們的祈求——奉您的名。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月06日)
三月六日 一大堆無謂的事 「就如在許多的忍耐、患難、窮乏、困苦……」哥林多後書六章4節 於無異象,無監護者的時候,要對付當前的順從,當前的研究,當前的瀏覽,當前的烹調;非訴之於全能的恩惠不可。你欲完成當前的本分,沒有從神來的異象,沒有勉勵,沒有監護者更是不行。傳福音固然重要,而此時此刻蒙神的恩惠,而與神親近,更為重要。 每個基督徒應具有基督化身成人的本質,要把事物帶到血肉的實際,要胼手胝足地行出來。我們沒有見異象,沒有得援助,即在平常的小事上也會停駐不前的。為神為人作一勞永逸之計,是在隱秘裡工作,要想保全生命,唯一的方法,是瞻仰神。求神打開你的靈眼,定睛仰望升天的基督,苦役絕不能挫折你。常常拋開心裡的瑣事,要達到約翰福音第十三章的程度!
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月06日)
三月六日 「……不可依靠自己的聰明。」箴言三章5節 我們若依靠人的智慧,無論是自己的或是他人的,那麼信心就會受到阻礙。撒但給夏娃的第一個魚餌,就是提供她智慧;為了得著智慧,夏娃把信心賣了。創世記三章5節說:「……你們喫的日子眼睛就亮了,你們便如神能知道善惡。」從那以後,夏娃開始用她的智慧,不再依靠神。 使以色列民族無法如期進入神所應許之地的,乃是那些探子,因為他們在窺探迦南之後,做了一個很嚇人的報告,所以以色列民族變得沒有信心,更使得那一代所有的以色列人都無法進入迦南地。那些探子的名字幾乎都像徵人類的智慧、偉大和名聲,這是很有意義的。 基督在世的時候,猶太人一方面受到祖宗傳統的捆綁,一方面受到議論的影響,使他們不願接受主耶穌。主曾問猶太人:「你們互相受榮耀,卻不求從獨一之神來的榮耀,怎能信我呢?」(約五44) 讓我們專心仰賴耶和華,不可倚靠自己的聰明。
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