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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18日）
二月十八日 「凡你們禱告祈求的，無論是甚麼，只要信是得著的，就必得著。」馬可福音十一章24節 我有一個十歲的孩子，他的祖母應許給他一本郵票簿。可是過了許久，她並沒有給他，也不再提起。這孩子也並不放在心上；可是，當他的同伴來看他的禮物時，他一件一件把收到的禮物拿出來給他們看了之後，總加上一句：「祖母給我一本郵票簿。」 我聽他說了好幾次，很是希奇，所以我特地叫他到我面前來，問他說：「喬琪，你並沒有從你祖母那裏得到一本郵票簿。你為甚麼常對你的同伴這樣說呢？」 他臉上起了詫異之色，似乎希奇我會發這樣一個問題，他回答說：「媽媽，祖母既應許了，這就等於我已經得著了。」我就不能再說甚麼，免得傷他的信心。 一個月過去了，郵票簿仍是無著落。一天，我要試試他的信心，就對他說: 「喬琪，我想祖母已經忘記了她的應許。」 他很快，很堅持地說：「不，媽媽，她決不會忘記的。」 我望著那親愛的、深信的小臉，看見他現著很正經的樣子，好似要辯服我方纔所說的話一般。過了一回，他臉上現出了喜悅的光彩，說道： 「媽媽你想我好不好現在寫一封信去謝謝她的禮物呢？」 我說：「我不替你規定；可是，你可以試一試。」 （這時候神用光照亮我，給我看見了一段豐富屬靈的真理。）幾分鐘之內，他已把謝信寫好寄出了，回來的時候，嘴裏還唱著歡樂的歌兒，證明他對他祖母的信任。不久，回信來了，裏面寫著： 「我所親愛的喬琪：我並沒有忘記我對你的應許——一本郵票簿。我想照你合意的樣式去買，可是在本城買不到；所以我就到紐約城去函購。寄到了以後，一看，仍舊不對，所以我又到芝加哥去函購了。你所愛的祖母」 他讀完了信，臉上帶著勝利的氣概，對我說：「媽媽，我不是告訴過你麼？祖母既應許了，這就等於我已經得著了。」他的心裏，從來沒有疑惑過，這就是「在無可指望的時候，因信仍有指望。」（羅四18）他深信郵票簿一定會來的。他信他的祖母進行，不久信心就變成了事實。 人們常要在神的應許上先有眼見，但是我們的主對多馬說，也對那些跟從祂而懷疑的人說：「那沒有看見就信的，有福了。」（約廿29） ─朗滋夫人
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月18日）
February 18 "Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer is already granted you, and you will find that it will be." (Mark 11:24.) ＷHEN my little son was about ten years of age, his grandmother promised him a stamp album for Christmas. Christmas came, but no stamp album, and no word from grandmother. The matter, however, was not mentioned; but when his playmates came to see his Christmas presents, I was astonished, after he had named over this and that as gifts received, to hear him add, "And a stamp album from grandmother." I had heard it several times, when I called him to me, and said, "But, Georgie, you did not get an album from your grandmother. Why do you say so?" There was a wondering look on his face, as if he thought it strange that I should ask such a question, and he replied, "Well, mamma, grandma said, so it is the same as." I could not say a word to check his faith. A month went by, and nothing was heard from the album. Finally, one day, I said, to test his faith, and really wondering in my heart why the album had not been sent, "Well, Georgie, I think grandma has forgotten her promise.""Oh, no, mamma," he quickly and firmly said," she hasn't." I watched the dear, trusting face, which, for a while, looked very sober, as if debating the possiblities I had suggested. Finally a bright light passed over it, and he said, "Mamma, do you think it would do any good if I should write to her thanking her for the album?" "I do not know," I said, "but you might try it." A rich spiritual truth began to dawn upon me. In a few minutes a letter was prepared and committed to the mail, and he went off whistling his confidence in his grandma. In just a short time a letter came, saying: "My dear Georgie: I have not forgotten my promise to you, of an album. I tried to get such a book as you desired, but could not get the sort you wanted; so I sent on to New York. It did not get here till after Christmas, and it was still not right, so I sent for another, and as it has not come as yet, I send you three dollars to get one in Chicago. Your loving grandma." "As he read the letter, his face was the face of a victor. "Now, mamma, didn't I tell you?" came from the depths of a heart that never doubted, that, "against hope, believed in hope" that the stamp album would come. While he was trusting, grandma was working, and in due season faith became sight. It is so human to want sight when we step out on the promises of God, but our Savior said to Thomas, and to the long roll of doubters who have ever since followed him: "Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed." ─Mrs. Rounds.
■ 永活之泉（02月18日）
二月十八日 神的全能 「我是全能的神。」創世記十七章1節 亞伯拉罕聽見這話以後，就俯伏在地；神對他說話，使他充滿信心，信神必為他作事。基督徒啊，你有沒有深深謙卑地俯伏在神面前，直到你覺得你已經和那位全能者面對相見，並且滿心相信，神已經在你裡面作工，並要成全這工呢？ 詩篇裡有多處記載，從前有許多信徒如何在神和祂的能力裡榮耀神。「耶和華，我的力量啊，我愛您！」（詩十八1）「耶和華是我性命的保障。」（詩廿七1）「神是我心裡的力量。」（詩七十三26）「使我心裡有能力。」（詩一三八3）再看詩篇十八篇32節，九十六篇1節，六十八篇28節，六十八篇35節，五十九篇17節，八十九篇17節。將這些話引用到自己身上，並且敬拜全能者是你的力量。 基督教訓我們，救恩是神的工作，人是絕對不能作的。門徒們問：「這樣，誰能得救呢？」主的回答是：「在人這是不能的，在神凡事都能。」如果我們堅信這個，我們就能相信，神是按祂所看為好的，作工在我們裡面。 讓我們想一想保羅為以弗所人怎樣禱告，他求神藉著聖靈的光照，使他們認識，「祂向我們這信的人所顯的能力，是何等浩大。」同時，保羅在歌羅西書一章11節又說：「照祂榮耀的權能，得以在各樣的力上加力。」當人完全相信神的大能，是不止息地在他裡面作工的時候，他就能歡樂著說：「神是我生命的力量。」 你希奇有許多的基督徒，常常說到他們的軟弱和失敗。這是因為他們不認識全能的神，必須逐日逐時在他們裡面作工。這一個就是真實信心生活的秘訣。 不要停止追求，直到你能對神說：「你是他們力量的榮耀。」（詩八十九17）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月18日）
二月十八日 避免失望 「起來，我們走吧！」馬太福音廿六章46節 門徒們於當驚醒的時候，反而睡起覺來；當他們覺悟他們所行之錯誤，就失望起來。不可挽救的感覺易於使我們失望，我們心裡似乎說：「現在，一切都完了，再用力，也沒有用了。」如果我們以這種失望視為非常，那就錯了，殊不知這是人類極平常的經驗。無論何時，我們認知我們沒有成功那機會足以促我們成功的事，我們就容易墮入失望之中，可是耶穌就來向我們說：「現在還睡覺，這個機會失了，不能再來，你也不能改造，可是要起來，去對付將要來到的那件事吧！」讓過去的睡眠，睡在基督的胸懷，而你要與基督攜起手來走進那不可避免的將來。 我們定有這種經驗在我們各人的生活中。我們失望，失望是從現實而來，我們也不能把自己從失望中超拔出來。就是耶穌的門徒也陷到這種困境之中，他們去睡覺，不同耶穌儆醒，卻是耶穌來，激起他們靈性的自動，打消他們意志的消沉說：「起來，對付將要來到的事吧！」如果我們為神所激動，那將要來到的事是甚麼呢？就是絕對倚靠祂，藉著祂的救贖去祈求。 千萬不要讓失敗的意識毀壞你的新動作。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月18日）
二月十八日 「……基督在你們心裡……」歌羅西書一章27節 新約與舊約中的救贖相差是何等的大啊！只要能得著基督的生命，任何人即使掙扎一生也是值得。 某位有失明之虞的病人躺在醫院裡，他的眼睛有一小段破碎的針。一次接著一次的手術，不僅更刺激他的眼睛，甚至使那段針進入眼睛更脆弱的部份。 最後，一位年輕但技術高明的醫生想到一個權宜之計。有一天，他既不帶披針也沒帶探針，手裡只拿了一個雖小，但磁度大的磁鐵走近病人，他把磁鐵放在受傷的眼睛上移動，立刻那段針就開始受強大的磁力吸引而移動。很快地，針被磁鐵吸住，使病人不需要再受更多切割之苦，就得到完全的醫治。 這個方法雖然極為簡單，卻是奇妙無比。藉著磁鐵的磁力，這隻眼睛不但完全脫離險境，而且能重見光明。相同的，神也能藉著基督生命及其能力的簡單吸引力，使我們得到救贖。
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