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1:1 耶和華的話臨到亞米太的兒子約拿,說: The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
1:2 「你起來往尼尼微大城去,向其中的居民呼喊,因為他們的惡達到我面前。」 <<Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.>> 1:3 約拿卻起來,逃往他施去躲避耶和華;下到約帕,遇見一隻船,要往他施去。他就給了船價,上了船,要與船上的人同往他施去躲避耶和華。 But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD. 1:4 然而耶和華使海中起大風,海就狂風大作,甚至船幾乎破壞。 Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. 1:5 水手便懼怕,各人哀求自己的神。他們將船上的貨物拋在海中,為要使船輕些。約拿已下到底艙,躺臥沉睡。 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. 1:6 船主到他那裏對他說:「你這沉睡的人哪,為何這樣呢?起來,求告你的神,或者神顧念我們,使我們不致滅亡。」 The captain went to him and said, <<How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish.>> 1:7 船上的人彼此說:「來吧,我們掣籤,看看這災臨到我們是因誰的緣故。」於是他們掣籤,掣出約拿來。 Then the sailors said to each other, <<Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.>> They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. 1:8 眾人對他說:「請你告訴我們,這災臨到我們是因誰的緣故?你以何事為業?你從哪裏來?你是哪一國?屬哪一族的人?」 So they asked him, <<Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?>> 1:9 他說:「我是希伯來人。我敬畏耶和華─那創造滄海旱地之天上的 神。」 He answered, <<I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.>> 1:10 他們就大大懼怕,對他說:「你做的是甚麼事呢?」他們已經知道他躲避耶和華,因為他告訴了他們。 This terrified them and they asked, <<What have you done?>> (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.) 1:11 他們問他說:「我們當向你怎樣行,使海浪平靜呢?」這話是因海浪越發翻騰。 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, <<What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?>> 1:12 他對他們說:「你們將我抬起來,拋在海中,海就平靜了;我知道你們遭這大風是因我的緣故。」 <<Pick me up and throw me into the sea,>> he replied, <<and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.>> 1:13 然而那些人竭力盪槳,要把船攏岸,卻是不能,因為海浪越發向他們翻騰。 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. 1:14 他們便求告耶和華說:「耶和華啊,我們懇求你,不要因這人的性命使我們死亡,不要使流無辜血的罪歸與我們;因為你─耶和華是隨自己的意旨行事。」 Then they cried to the LORD, <<O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased.>> 1:15 他們遂將約拿抬起,拋在海中,海的狂浪就平息了。 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. 1:16 那些人便大大敬畏耶和華,向耶和華獻祭,並且許願。 At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him. 1:17 耶和華安排一條大魚吞了約拿,他在魚腹中三日三夜。 But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. 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20日)
二月廿日 「你們沒有一件不能作的事了。」馬太福音十七章20節 有了信心,我們就沒有一件不能的事。只要我們真相信神有保守和得勝的能力,我們就能看見祂所說的話語和應許,都是實在的。 我們能。天天把我們一切的罣慮和重擔卸給神,享受平安和喜樂。 我們能。管轄頭腦中的思想,晝夜繫念神的話語。 我們能。在每一件事情上清楚神的旨意;不是用嘆息,乃是用讚美去接受。 我們能靠神的恩典剛強;我們以前的軟弱,以前叫我們不能忍耐、聖潔、謙卑的罪,今天都能靠著愛我們的主勝過了,使罪完全失去它在我們身上的權勢。 這些都是神恩典中可能的事,如果我們有了這些經歷,就會更願意俯伏在神腳前,也就會更渴慕最高的靈命。 我們如果不能每天、每小時、每分鐘在基督裏,藉著聖靈的能力與神同行,我們就不會得到滿足。 ─慕爾 在基督裏,我們能有神一切的豐富。主已經把神寶庫的鑰匙放在我們手中了,祂吩咐我們去無限制地領取一切我們所要的。若是一個銀行的行長,准許一個窮人到銀行庫中去任意取他所要的;假定那個窮人出來的時候,只帶了一文錢,這是誰的過失呢?基督人能得到神完全的豐富,而仍過著極窮的生活,這是誰的過失呢? ─麥克拉倫
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月20日)
February 20 "Nothing shall be impossible unto you."(Matt. 17:20.) IT is possible, for those who really are willing to reckon on the power of the Lord for keeping and victory, to lead a life in which His promises are taken as they stand and are found to be true. It is possible to cast all our care upon Him daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it. It is possible to have the thoughts and imasinations of our hearts purified, in the deepest meaning of the word. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to receive it, not with sighing, but with singing. It is possible by taking complete refuge in Divine power to become strong through and through; and, where previously our greatest weakness lay, to find that things which formerly upset all our resolves to be patient, or pure, or humble, furnish today an opportunity─through Him who loved us, and works in us an agreement with His will and a blessed sense of His presence and His power─to make sin powerless over us. These things are DIVINE POSSIBLILITIES, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less─each day, each hour, each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit─than to WALK WITH GOD. ─H. C. G. Moule. We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank, and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor? Whose fault is it that Christian people generally have such scanty portions of the free riches of God? ─McLaren.
■ 永活之泉(02月20日)
二月廿日 測不透的神 「神為大,我們不能全知;論到全能者,我們不能測度;祂大有能力。」約伯記卅六章26節,卅七章23節 神是個靈,祂的位格和榮耀,是遠超我們所能領會的;我們實在太渺小了,對於祂的審度,是微乎其微的。在屬靈的生命裡,最要緊的是該有一個深深的感覺,就是神的意念和道路是遠遠地高過我們的意念,像天離地那樣高。我們該用何等謙卑和聖潔的虔誠來仰望神,並帶著像孩子一樣簡單的心,降服於聖靈的教訓呢?「深哉,神豐富的智慧和知識!祂的判斷,何其難測!祂的蹤跡,何其難尋!」(羅十一33) 讓我們的心答應說:「哦,主啊!哦,諸神之神,您的意念何等奇妙;您的謀略何其深奧。」認識神的學習應當充滿在我們裡面,使我們用聖潔的敬畏,並聖潔的盼望,正確地認識並尊敬祂。讓我們思想——祂的偉大、祂的能力、祂的全能、祂的智慧、祂的聖潔、祂的憐憫、祂的慈愛,這些都是我們所無法測度的。 當我們敬拜的時候,讓我們喊說:「我們的神,我們的父,在您的偉大裡,有何等無法測度的榮耀!」願你帶著羞愧的心承認,你沒有好好地追求認識祂,也沒有等候祂來啟示祂自己。然後開始在信心裡超越所有理解的方法,來信靠這位測不透全然榮耀的神,要作工在你的心裡和生命裡,使你越過越正確的認識祂。 「主耶和華啊,我的眼目仰望您;我投靠您。」(詩一四一8)「當休息(或作安靜),要知道我是神。」(詩四十六10)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月20日)
二月廿日 避免夢想 「起來,我們走吧!」約翰福音十四章31節 為的要一件事做得合法,而多想其事,那是對的;但是到了我應該動手的時候,我們還在那裡夢想,那是不對的。我們的主向門徒說了那些奇特的事件以後,我們也許以為祂要對他們說走開去,把它們從頭到尾默想默想;但是我們的主從不許「呆著癡著。」當我們與神接觸時,要察出祂所要的是甚麼,多用想像是對的;但是我們一味的花費我們的時光去夢想神要我們所做的事,那是不對的,而且這也不是神可能祝福的舉動。神總是帶著刺的性質,喚醒這種迷夢;所謂刺便是吩咐我們「走動吧!不要坐著也不要站著。」 如果我們靜候於神之前,祂必說:「你們單獨的來吧,」這個時候便是在神面前默想之時,為的要得知我們所追奔的路線。但是不要在神表示祂的意志以後,還在那裡一味的夢想,應當出去實現其所說的。如果你戀愛一個人,你不會常坐著,夢想你所愛的人,你一定是想去,替他效力;那就是耶穌基督盼望我們作的。在神吩咐以後還是夢想,那是我們不信靠祂的一種表示。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月20日)
二月廿日 「你不要害怕,因為我與你同在……」以賽亞書四十一章10節 撒但不斷地藉著恐懼,使我們的信心變得軟弱。牠是一個了不起的玄學家,並且知道恐懼能使人癱瘓、是信心最大的仇敵。假如牠能使我們害怕,就能叫我們不再靠主,阻止我們得到需要的祝福。約伯曾感到恐懼的危險,他給一個悲哀的見證:「因我所恐懼的臨到我身……。」(伯三25) 懼怕乃從撒但而來。我們若是能花一點時間想想看,就不難發現所有撒但說的都是建築在虛偽的事上。牠是謊言之父,即使是從牠來的懼怕都是假的,我們應該把牠所恐嚇的變成一種鼓勵。 所以,當撒但對你說有些壞事會發生時,你應該靜靜地轉著牠的臉告訴牠,牠是個大騙子。因為神所應許的是,我們一生一世都有恩惠慈愛隨著我們。然後我們可以轉臉對主說:「我懼怕的時候要依靠您。」(詩五六3)懼怕乃因不靠主,仰賴神是懼怕的良藥。
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