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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（02月10日）
二月十日 「親愛的弟兄，不要自己伸冤。」羅馬書十二章19節 許多時候，靜比動更費力。靜是力的最高效能。對於那些一無根據的最惡最毒的控告，主始終「甚麼都不答……連一句話也不說」，以致審判官甚覺希奇。對於那些無理的侮辱、不堪的虐待和嘲笑，連旁人都會激起忿怒，可是主始終鎮靜。祂大有能力，纔能不動。凡曾受過冤枉、譭謗、虐待的，都知道維持鎮靜，需要何等大的力量。 使徒保羅說：「沒有一件東西可以搖動我。」（徒廿24，直譯） 人們可能誤解你的意圖， 你給不給叫他們該受譴責， 你錯了， 審判之權將在基督， 他的褒貶， 無關你的人格， 僅可安靜， 不介於心， 毋恐無怵， 自強不息。 他不是說「沒有一件東西可以傷害我」。傷害是一件事，搖動又是一件事。使徒保羅的心頂仁慈。我們沒有讀著過有甚麼使徒曾像使徒保羅那樣痛哭過。一個男子漢哭泣是無礙於一個人的強毅。主曾哭過，祂是有史以來最強毅的人，所以並不說沒有一件東西可以傷害我，但保羅立定決心，凡是他所言為正確真實的任何事物都不能搖動他。我們往常所計較的，他並不計較，他不貪求安適，他不以性命為念。他所追求的只有一件事，就是對主忠心至死，要得主的喜悅。保羅比任何人更能認識了，主的讚賞就是他的酬報，主的微笑就是天堂。 ─波登
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月10日）
February 10 "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves."(Rom. 12:19.) ＴHERE are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. To the vilest and most deadly charges Jesus responded with deep, unbroken silence, such as excited the wonder of the judge and the spectators. To the grossest insults, the most violent ill-treatment and mockery that mighyt well bring indignation into the feeblest heart, He responded with voiceless complacent calmness. Those who are unjustly accused, and causelessly ill-treated know what tremendous strength is necessary to keep silence to God. Paul said,"None of these things move me." "Men may misjudge thy aim, Think they have cause to blame, Say, thou art wrong; Keep on thy quiet way, Christ is the Judge, not they, Fear not, be strong." He did not say, none of these things hurt me. It is one thing to be hurt, and quite another to be moved. St. Paul had a very tender heart. We do not read of any apostle who cried as St. Paul did. It takes a strong man to cry. Jesus wept, and He was the manliest Man that ever lived. So it does not say, none of these things hurt me. But the apostle had determined not to move from what he believed was right. He did not count as we are apt to count; he did not care for ease; he did not care for this mortal life. He cared for only one thing, and that was to be loyal to Christ, to have His smile. To St. Paul, more than to any other man, His work was wages, His smile was Heaven. ─Margaret Bottome.
■ 永活之泉（02月10日）
二月十日 認識神 「認識您，……這就是永生。」約翰福音十七章3節 在屬靈的生命裡，認識神是絕對需要的。這就是永生。這認識並不是人告訴我們的，也不是我們自己想出來的，乃是在生活的經歷裡，神將祂自己啟示在我們心裡。這活的神照出祂那賜生命的，聖潔慈愛的光給那些等候祂的人，正像寒冬的日光，使我們的身體溫暖一樣。 為甚麼我們對於真認識神而有的賜生命能力缺少經歷呢？這就是因為我們沒有給神夠多的時間，讓祂來啟示祂自己。當我們禱告的時候，我們總是想著我們已經很知道如何同神說話；然而，我們卻忘了禱告的時候，第一件事就是要安靜在神面前，讓祂來啟示自己。藉著祂隱藏而有大能的力量，顯出祂的同在，住在我們裡面作工。真的，只有在個人的經歷上認識神的同在和祂的慈愛，才是生命。 也許你曾風聞勞倫斯弟兄。他非常盼望要認識神，所以他就到一修道院去。他屬靈的指導者給他一些關乎祈禱的書，可是他卻把這放在一邊；他說：如果我不認識那聽我禱告的神，這些東西對於我的禱告，並不能有多少的幫助。他相信神要啟示祂自己。他來到這位偉大聖潔的神面前，滿心感覺祂的同在，用很長的時間來安靜的敬拜。他繼續這個操練，到後來他就活在一個不斷與神同在裡，經歷了神的親近和保守的能力。每日早晨太陽升起，便擔保整日都有亮光；照樣，當我們每天早晨安靜等候神，降服我們自己，讓祂來光照我們，祂的同在和能力也擔保整天隨著我們。這要看你能不能確定，太陽已經在你裡面升起了。 要學習這一個偉大的功課，就是學習太陽每天所宣告的。在寒冬，太陽怎樣照著我們，使我們溫暖；同樣，我們要相信，那活的神要用祂的愛和大能工作在你裡面。祂要向那些等候祂的人啟示——祂是生命、是亮光、是喜樂和能力。 「耶和華啊，求您仰起臉來，光照我們。」（詩四6） 「你們要休息，要知道我是神。」（詩四十六10）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月10日）
二月十日 你對於神的想像消失了麼？ 「你們向上舉目，看誰創造這萬象。」以賽亞書四十章26節 在以賽亞的時候，神的百姓，因瞻仰偶像的面，消失了他們對於神的想像，而以賽亞叫他們舉目望天；那就是他叫他們開始善用想像的方法。自然對於一個聖者，是屬聖的。如果我們是神的兒女，我們就有無窮的寶藏藏在自然中。如果我們運用我們消失的想像去認識它，則神從吹的風，從日從夜，從天之垂象，從花開花謝各方面的臨到。 想像的專注是靈性集中的準衡。你的想像是瞻仰偶像的面容麼？偶像是你自己麼？是你的工作麼？是你對於工作者應有的概念麼？是你救贖和成聖的經驗麼？那麼，你對於神的想像是消失了，保你沒有力量去抵抗困難，只能在黑暗中忍受著。如果你的想像消失了，不回顧你自己的經驗，需要的就是神。不要靠自己，不要注視你偶像的面容，也不要傾向那消失你想像的任何事物。奮興你自己，接受以賽亞給與百姓的嘲笑，立意把你的想像轉向神。 祈禱價值降低的原因，是沒有想像，沒有力量把自己供獻神，我們必要習知怎麼多在祈禱上，做擘的餅和奠的酒，少在對人的方面去做擘的餅和奠的酒。想像是神給與聖者的能力，將自身置於他從沒有經過的關係中。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月10日）
二月十日 「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的，不再是我……」加拉太書二章20節 基督的生命和我們的天性應該是融合在一起的。有一天，一個很有思想、聰明絕頂的非基督徒女性，帶著追求真理的態度問我：「當基督進入我們心中之後，我們如何能不失去我們的個人特性？因這個經驗不僅會破壞我們的個性，甚至與我們個人的責任相違。」 我的反應是：「沒有基督，我們的個性不會完全。因為基督乃為我們而生，我們也是為基督而活。所以直到我們遇見主，我們並不能得以完全。主需要我們，就像我們需要祂一樣。」 請讓我繼續說明：「假如瓦斯噴出口說：『如果我讓火進來，那麼從我出來的瓦斯就會失去它的特性。』其實不然，因為惟有當火通過瓦斯管時，瓦斯才能真正有存在的價值。如果雪花說：『我若一落到地上，就會失去我的特性，我該怎麼辦呢？』儘管雪花落到地上會被土壤吸收，當春天來臨時，我們可以從櫻草花和小雛菊看到雪花對大地的影響。」 因此，讓我們與基督同死，然後在基督裡得到新的生命。
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