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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31日）
一月卅一日 「祂給人安靜。」約伯記卅四章29節 神能在風浪中給人安靜。今天我們仍舊和祂一同在船中；在深夜離岸甚遠，船到了湖中心的時候，忽然起了暴風，甚至船被波浪掩蓋。這時候似乎世人聯絡一致地逼迫我們，地獄張了口等待吞喫我們，每一個波浪威脅我們。在這樣絕望的光景中，主頂鎮靜地起來，斥責風和浪；在祂一揮手之下，祝福來了，風浪去了，風號浪湃，不能混亂祂的聲音：「住了罷！靜了罷！」（可四39）你聽見祂的聲音麼？ 「祂給人安靜」。這安靜不是普通的安靜，乃是在失去指望和安慰中的安靜。有時候祂故意把指望和安慰從我們收回，因為我們太注重這些了。我們頂容易專看喜樂、奮興、盼望、安慰、經歷、恩賜、異象等等過於看主。所以為了愛的緣故，主把這些暫時收回；好叫我們靠著祂的恩典，分辨主所賜的和主自己。但是當我們以為失去了一切福份的時候，主就來了，叫我們嚐到祂同在的滋味。這時候我們因為有了祂自己，就忘記了祂所收回的，心中只覺得無限的安靜。 「祂使人安靜」 基督流浪的腳步， 曾踏過我們痛苦的荒徑， 祂的雙手擔承過我們悲愁的重負， 祂使人安寧， 喪失之中找到新的生命。 在您一切的賜予和無盡的安慰中， 我只祈求： 在遭遇困難的時際， 聽到您的聲音隱隱穿過一切喧囂， 使我在它安靜的力量下泰然休憩。 只要我靈魂寓於平靜的信仰， 一切憂慮都不能使我心焦， 只要您握著我的手， 我走在您身旁， 一切悲痛都不能使我動搖。 光明的早晨將使黑暗消散， 知道了這一點， 我已心滿意足， 我將靜待黎明時分的狂喜， 誰還能擾亂您所賜的安寧平靜。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月31日）
January 31 "He giveth quietness." (Job 34:29.) ＱUIETNESS amid the dash of the storm. We sail the lake with Him still; and as we reach its middle waters, far from land, under midnight skies, suddenly a great storm sweeps down. Earth and hell seem arrayed against us, and each billow threatens to overwhelm. Then He arises from His sleep, and rebukes the winds and the waves; His hand waves benediction and repose over the rage of the tempestuous elements. His voice is heard above the scream of the wind in the cordage and the conflict of the billows, "Peace, be still!" Can you not hear it? And there is instantly a great calm. "He giveth quietness." Quietness amid the loss of inward consolations. He sometimes withdraws these, because we make too much of them. We are tempted to look at our joy, our ecstasies, our transports, or our visions, with too great complacency. Then love for love's sake, withdraws them. But, by His grace, He leads us to distinguish between them and Himself. He draws nigh, and whispers the assurance of His presence. Thus an infinite calm comes to keep our heart and mind. "He giveth quietness." "He giveth quietness." O Elder Brother, Whose homeless feet have pressed our path of pain, Whose hands have borne the burden of our sorrow, That in our losses we might find our gain. "Of all Thy gifts and infinite consolings, I ask but this: in every troubled hour To hear Thy voice through all the tumults stealing, And rest serene beneath its tranquil power. "Cares cannot fret me if my soul be dwelling In the still air of faith's untroubled day; Grief cannot shake me if I walk beside thee, My hand in Thine along the darkening way. "Content to know there comes a radiant morning When from all shadows I shall find release; Serone to wait the rapture of its dawning─ Who can make trouble when Thou sendest peace?"
■ 永活之泉（01月31日）
一月卅一日 基督是一切 「基督是一切，又住在一切裡面。」歌羅西書三章11節直譯 在神永遠的計劃中，在十字架的救贖裡，在天上和地上的寶座上執掌王權裡，固然基督是一切；就是在罪人蒙恩的事上，在他們的稱義與成聖上，在建立基督的身體上，在對個人的照顧上，（即使是對罪人中的罪魁，）基督是一切這句話，仍是有效的。如果神的兒女在信心裡接受了「基督是一切」這個真理，那麼我們每天每刻，都要從祂得著安慰和能力。 當你讀這本書的時候，你是否在想這裡所說的那些豐滿的救恩，並不是對你說的？你覺得你是何等的軟弱，何等的不配，何等的不可靠！我親愛的讀者！請你相信，只要你用像小孩子一樣的信心接受主耶穌，你就有了一位領導者和管理者，祂必供給你一切的需要。請全心相信我們救主的話：「看哪，我常與你們同在。」這樣，你也要每天經歷祂的同在。無論你的感覺是多冷淡、沈悶；無論你是多麼有罪，請在隱密處去遇見主耶穌，祂必將祂自己啟示給你。告訴祂你是如何的可憐，然後信靠祂會幫助並扶持你。你也要等候在祂面前，一直等到你能因著信而在祂裡面歡樂。請你將這本書再讀一遍，並且帶著「基督的一切」的思想來讀。 雖然有時我會忘記這句話，但願我每天進到隱密處去禱告的時候，都能帶著這個思想：——基督是一切——讓我把這句話當作我的格言。祂要教導我禱告，剛強我的信心，使我確信祂的愛，為我開啟進到父面前的路，並使我在每天的工作上剛強起來！是的，基督，我的基督，乃是我所有的需要！這一個會教導我住在祂的愛裡，這一個會使我確信祂是住在我的心裡，也使我認識那超越知識的愛！願神得著頌讚，直到永永遠遠！基督，我的基督，乃是我一切的一切！
■ 中文屬天日子（01月31日）
一月卅一日 你明白你的選召麼？ 「特派傳神的福音。」羅馬書一章1節 我們的選召，不僅是要做善男信女，卻也是要作神福音的宣傳者。認識神的福音，不是人的善德，不是聖潔，不是天堂，不是地獄，卻是永存的真實，是救贖；是今日基督徒工人的急需。既為工人，我們就當熟知救贖是唯一的真實。個人的聖潔是果，並不是因。如果我們依靠個人的善德（那便是依靠救贖的果），那麼，當試驗來到的時候，我們就要跌倒。 保羅沒有說他分派自己，卻說「隨神分派我。」保羅在自己品性上，並不感覺過分的關心。我們著眼於自己人格潔白無玷一日，便一日不能挨近救贖的真實。為主作工的人的失敗是因為他願望自身的潔白無玷，沒有為神打算。「我不管這腐敗社會的救贖如何如何，也不要管人類的生活怎樣怎樣。只求我在神的眼中看為滿意就得了。」這樣是表示神福音的真實，完全沒有觸及我。更不能說是無條件的歸服了神。當我的興趣專在自己品性之時，神不能拯救我。保羅不知有己，放棄一切，聽神的分派去做那件事──傳神的福音（參羅九3）。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月31日）
一月卅一日 「神又使他成為我們的智慧、公義、聖潔、救贖。」哥林多前書一章30節 我們越來越瞭解對聖潔觀念的認識是非常重要的。聖潔並不單是一種祝福，乃是我 們與救主之間密切的交通，以及聖靈的內住。 成千上萬的人在踏上聖潔之船以後，卻因船擱淺，而發現自己不斷失敗、跌倒，並且覺得吃驚、困惑。他們下結論認為自己追求聖潔的經驗必定錯了，所以他們在同樣的事上重新嘗試，然後再次絆倒。最後他們在精疲力竭的情況下，難免會認為那個經驗是一個妄念，至少不是該他們體驗的。因此他們不僅回到老我時的光景，甚至每況愈下。 人們今天若要滿足他們屬靈的飢渴，得到永恆神聖的經驗，首先他們必須瞭解聖潔並非一種狀態，乃是接受基督、讓等候良久的祂永遠活在我們心中。
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