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1:1 先前滿有人民的城，現在何竟獨坐！先前在列國中為大的，現在竟如寡婦；先前在諸省中為王后的，現在成為進貢的。 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
1:2 她夜間痛哭，淚流滿；在一切所親愛的中間沒有一個安慰她的。她的朋友都以詭詐待她，成為她的仇敵。 Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. 1:3 猶大因遭遇苦難，又因多服勞苦就遷到外邦。她住在列國中，尋不著安息；追逼她的都在狹窄之地將她追上。 After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. 1:4 錫安的路徑因無人來守聖節就悲傷；她的城門淒涼；她的祭司歎息；她的處女受艱難，自己也愁苦。 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish. 1:5 她的敵人為首；她的仇敵亨通；因耶和華為她許多的罪過使她受苦；她的孩童被敵人擄去。 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe. 1:6 錫安城〔原文是女子；下同〕的威榮全都失去。她的首領像找不著草場的鹿；在追趕的人前無力行走。 All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer. 1:7 耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時，就追想古時一切的樂境。她百姓落在敵人手中，無人救濟；敵人看見，就因她的荒涼嗤笑。 In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction. 1:8 耶路撒冷大大犯罪，所以成為不潔之物；素來尊敬她的，見她赤露就都藐視她；她自己也歎息退後。 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. 1:9 她的污穢是在衣襟上；她不思想自己的結局，所以非常地敗落，無人安慰她。她說：耶和華啊，求你看我的苦難，因為仇敵誇大。 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. <<Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.>> 1:10 敵人伸手，奪取她的美物；她眼見外邦人進入她的聖所─論這外邦人，你曾吩咐不可入你的會中。 The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary-- those you had forbidden to enter your assembly. 1:11 她的民都歎息，尋求食物；他們用美物換糧食，要救性命。他們說：耶和華啊，求你觀看，因為我甚是卑賤。 All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. <<Look, O LORD, and consider, for I am despised.>> 1:12 你們一切過路的人哪，這事你們不介意嗎？你們要觀看：有像這臨到我的痛苦沒有─就是耶和華在他發烈怒的日子使我所受的苦？ <<Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger? 1:13 他從高天使火進入我的骨頭，剋制了我；他鋪下網羅，絆我的腳，使我轉回；他使我終日淒涼發昏。 <<From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. 1:14 我罪過的軛是他手所綁的，猶如軛繩縛在我頸項上；他使我的力量衰敗。主將我交在我所不能敵擋的人手中。 <<My sins have been bound into a yoke; 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; Septuagint ((He kept watch over my sins)) by his hands they were woven together. They have come upon my neck and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand. 1:15 主輕棄我中間的一切勇士，招聚多人〔原文是大會〕攻擊我，要壓碎我的少年人。主將猶大居民踹下，像在酒醡中一樣。 <<The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to 1:15 Or ((has set a time for me / when he will)) crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah. 1:16 我因這些事哭泣；我眼淚汪汪；因為那當安慰我、救我性命的，離我甚遠。我的兒女孤苦，因為仇敵得了勝。 <<This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.>> 1:17 錫安舉手，無人安慰。耶和華論雅各已經出令，使四圍的人作他仇敵；耶路撒冷在他們中間像不潔之物。 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them. 1:18 耶和華是公義的！他這樣待我，是因我違背他的命令。眾民哪，請聽我的話，看我的痛苦；我的處女和少年人都被擄去。 <<The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into exile. 1:19 我招呼我所親愛的，他們卻愚弄我。我的祭司和長老正尋求食物、救性命的時候，就在城中絕氣。 <<I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive. 1:20 耶和華啊，求你觀看，因為我在急難中。我心腸擾亂；我心在我裏面翻轉，因我大大悖逆。在外，刀劍使人喪子；在家，猶如死亡。 <<See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death. 1:21 聽見我歎息的有人；安慰我的卻無人！我的仇敵都聽見我所遭的患難；因你做這事，他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子來到，他們就像我一樣。 <<People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me. 1:22 願他們的惡行都呈在你面前；你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我，求你照樣待他們；因我歎息甚多，心中發昏。 <<Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.>> 2:0 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. 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（01月22日）
一月廿二日 「退到野地裡去。」馬太福音十四章13節 在音樂譜中有一種符號，叫做休止符。當音樂奏到休止符時，聲音完全停止；這常是音樂最精彩之處。我們的一生，也如音樂一般時時有休止符，可是我們頂愚昧，以為這些休止符是我們的末路和盡頭，一生就完畢於此。神常叫我們失敗、病痛、挫折、失業，我們就非常悲哀，以為我們的人生音樂從此不能再達到造物者的耳中了。可是讓我們看，音樂家如何對付這休止符呢？他照常擊拍，在休止符之後，重奏音樂，一若中間並無甚麼間斷。 神編我們一生的音樂，並非沒有計劃的。我們只管按譜奏樂，不必怕遇見休止符。它們是不能刪去的，因為一刪去就會破壞音樂的精彩。如果我們仰望我們音樂的導師——神——祂自己正在為我們擊拍，我們的本分只是按照祂的指導奏樂；奏到休止符的時候，雖然音樂停止了，可是請記得：這是音樂的精彩處。過了一拍子之久，樂音就要從新奏起。讓我們學習這功課。 ─羅斯金 招呼你─離開忙碌緊張的生活， 離開你不斷攪擾的塵世煩膩， 天國的嚮導招呼你暫到一旁， 在寧靜的蔭蔽中作片刻休憩。 招呼你——雖是一所杳無人跡的荒園 但你並不孤獨， 因為祂與你同在， 祂以最柔美的聲調向你問道： 「孩子：你豈不願意與我共此安靜一刻？」 招呼你——去和主耶穌同步幽深， 溯源一嚐甘泉的清澄， 你和祂影形不離， 相攜漫遊， 已經接近了天國的家庭。 招呼你——和祂單獨相處， 增進了淵博智慧， 祂的摯愛常在幽秘中顯明表徵， 在許多寂寞悽涼的夜晚， 你將得到 出自祂深情的珍貴良葴。 招呼你——我們感謝主所賜的寧靜和蔭蔽， 我們感謝主， 您以愛所關出的蹊徑， 因此我們雖流著淚而注視您， 感謝主， 您為了我們黑暗的客西馬尼。 招呼你——想到祂完成了一切， 我們就獲得平安， 和基督單獨相處， 幸福美好無比， 我們躲在您十字架的蔭影下， 主啊， 感謝您招呼我們在您一邊。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月22日）
January 22 "Into a desert place apart.1" (Matt. 14:13.) ＴHERE is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests, " and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the "rest"? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a `rest,' " let us not forget "there is the making of music in it. "The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long he waits for us to learn the lesson! ─Ruskin. "Called aside─ From the glad working of thy busy life, From the world's ceaseless stir of care and strife, Into the shade and stillness by thy Heavenly Guide For a brief space thou hast been called aside. "Called aside─ Perhaps into a desert garden dim; And yet not alone, when thou hast been with Him, And heard His voice in sweetest accents say: `Child, wilt thou not with Me this still hour stay?' "Called aside─ In hidden paths with Christ thy Lord to tread, Deeper to drink at the sweet Fountainhead, Closer in fellowship with Him to roam, Nearer, perchance, to feel thy Heavenly Home. "Called aside─ Oh, knowledge deeper grows with Him alone; In secret oft His deeper love is shown, And learnt in many an hour of dark distress Some rare, sweet lesson of His tenderness. "Called aside─ We thank thee for the stillness and the shade; We thank Thee for the hidden paths thy love hath made, And, so that we have wept and watched with Thee, We thank Thee for our dark Gethsemane. "Called aside─ Oh, restful thought─He doeth all things well; Oh, blessed sense, with Christ alone to dwell; So in the shadow of Thy cross to hide, We thank Thee, Lord, to have been called aside."
■ 永活之泉（01月22日）
一月廿二日 禱告的靈 「聖靈照著神的旨意，替聖徒祈求。」羅馬書八章27節 禱告不是我的工作，乃是神的工作，是神在我們裡面藉著祂的大能大力，所作的工作。當我們想到了這一點，我們會有一個安靜等候的態度；因為在我們禱告的時候，聖靈會幫助我們的軟弱，也會用說不出來的歎息，在我們裡面禱告。 這是一個何等奇妙的思想！當我覺得自己的禱告是那樣不完全，自己又毫無能力的時候，我可以在安靜中俯伏在神面前，確信祂的聖靈要教導我禱告。聖靈乃是禱告的靈。禱告不是我的工作，乃是神在我裡面的工作。我的願望就是神要聽我禱告的兆頭。當神要答應我們祈求的時候，首先祂在我們心裡造出一個願望來，然後聖靈就完成這個工作；即使在我們軟弱的時候，也是這樣。在雅各的事蹟中，我們也看見這一點。那位與他摔跤，並似乎要扣住祝福不給他的，實際上卻是一直加力給他，使他不斷的禱告，並在禱告上得勝的一位。這是一個何等奇妙的思想！禱告乃是三位一體的神共同的工作：父——將願望提醒我們，也要賜給我們一切所需要的；子——藉著祂的代禱，教導我們如何奉著祂的名禱告；而聖靈——乃是在隱密處，剛強我們軟弱的願望。 我們已經說過真理的靈，祂要在我們裡面榮耀基督；也說過愛的靈，祂要把這愛澆灌在我們心裡；現在我們再說到禱告的靈，藉著祂，我們的生活才會成為一個恆切禱告的生活。感謝神，聖靈已經從天上賜下來，祂住在我們心裡，並教導我們禱告。 基督徒啊！要聽從聖靈的引導，要在凡事上順從祂的聲音。祂要使你成為一個禱告的人。那時你就會真認識神呼召你作一個代禱者，為著那些在你四周的人、為著教會，並為著整個不信的世界，向神祈求重大的事，是何等的榮耀！
■ 中文屬天日子（01月22日）
一月廿二日 我仰望甚麼呢？ 「仰望我，就必得救。」以賽亞書四五章22節 我們盼望神來祝福我們，拯救我們麼？祂說：「仰望我，就必得救。」最大的困難，是不能集中精神於神，這種困難也許是祂的恩典所造成的。患難有時促醒我們仰望神；恩典反使我們仰望別的地方。山上的寶訓，其要義無非是要我們縮小興趣的範圍，直到心思，情感，身體的態度集中在耶穌基督的身上。 我們之中有許多人，有一種關於基督徒是甚麼的概念，而聖者的生平反而是我們集中精神於神的一種障礙。救贖不在這條路，也不這麼簡單。「仰望我，」不是說：「你將得救，」卻是說：「你已得救。」我們所尋求的事，如果聚精會神在祂身上，就必得著。神也常常說：「仰望我，就必得救。」而我們常有成見，常存抱怨神的心。為要應付當前的困難，我們的心不是計劃夏天做甚麼，便是計劃明天做甚麼，殊不知這些困難只在仰望神的時候，才能全部消滅。 激動你自己，仰望神。要因祂而有盼望。無論有多少事緊逼你，你決意把那些事置之度外，仰望神吧！「仰望我，」仰望祂，就必得救。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月22日）
一月廿二日 「新婦也自己預備好了」啟示錄十九章7節 即使我們在準備主的來臨時，心態上都會有不健康的危險。我記得有一回我決心花一個月的時間，全心單獨地等候接受聖靈的洗。但在一個月結束之前，主喚醒了我，要我停止單獨地等待，並且催促我到外面去傳揚祂的信息。當我照著祂的意思去作，就在事奉的同時，祂使我受聖靈的洗。 有一種追求祝福的方法，既老舊，而且又像極了苦行僧。另一種方法則非但健康，更因為有主的同在，使我們成為聖潔。這第二種情況讓我們無論在禱告的密室裡、禱告山上，或是在稅吏、罪人中，或是履行日常責任時，總是有主的同行。 準備主再來最實際的方法，首先必須與主有親密的交通。不僅讓祂洗淨我們，並求聖靈更深地在我們心中動工，使我們變得完全。再者，為了別人的益處、為了預備世人迎接主再來，我們必須走出自我、為他人而活。
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