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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（03月04日）
三月四日 「總要傚法那些憑信心和忍耐承受應許的人。」希伯來書六章12節 信心的英雄今天在榮耀中指示我們：凡他們所成功的，我們亦能。成功的祕訣不只是信心，也在乎忍耐。所以，不讓我們疑惑，焦急。沮喪，以致失去受主出乎愛的鍛鍊的機會。 有一個打鐵的鐵匠說：「只有一件事是我所怕的，就是被神丟到碎鐵堆裏去。當我鍛鍊鋼鐵的時候，我先把它在爐中燒紅，然後用鐵錘錘它，又忽然把它投入一桶冷水中。這樣，不久我便能試驗出來這塊鐵到底經不經得起鍛鍊，會不會裂成碎片。我把它這樣試驗至少二三次，如果它經不起鍛鍊。我就把它甩在碎鐵堆裏；等到收舊貨的來了，我就一分錢一磅賣給他。」 「照樣，我覺得主也用火、用錘、用水試驗我，如果我沒有信心和忍耐，就經不起試驗，以致不能合乎祂的標準，我怕祂也會把我丟到碎鐵堆裏去呢？」 雖然火是頂熱、錘是頂重、水是頂冷，你還該憑信心和忍耐站住，因為祝福就在後面；讓我們和約伯同聲說：「祂試煉我之後，我必如精金。」（伯廿三10） ─選 聖人出於苦難的磨難。要一架鋼琴出聲，須用十一噸壓力。如果你經得起壓力，神就要把你壓出音調來和天上的音樂相和。 ─選 困苦的考驗，疼痛的傷痕， 鍛鍊出十全十美的靈魂。 驚恐，緊張和災難的刺激， 更有益於笑語溫柔。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月04日）
March 4 "Followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." (Heb. 6:12.) ＴHEY (heroes of faith) are calling to us from the heights that they have won, and telling us that what man once did man can do again. Not only do they remind us of the necessity of faith, but also of that patience by which faith has its perfect work. Let us fear to take ourselves out of the hands of our heavenly Guide or to miss a single lesson of His loving discipline by discouragement or doubt. "There is only one thing," said a village blacksmith, "that I fear, and that is to be thrown on the scrap heap. "When I am tempering a piece of steel, I first heat it, hammer it, and then suddenly plunge it into this bucket of cold water. I very soon find whether it will take temper or go to pieces in the process. When I discover after one or two tests that it is not going to allow itself to be tempered, I throw it on the scrap heap and sell it for a cent a pound when the junk man comes around. "So I find the Lord tests me, too, by fire and water and heavy blows of His heavy hammer, and if I am not willing to stand the test, or am not going to prove a fit subject for His tempering process, I am afraid He may throw me on the scrap heap." When the fire is hottest, hold still, for there will be a blessed "after word; and with Job we may be able to say," When he hath tried me I shall come forth as gold." ─Selected. Sainthood springs out of suffering. It takes eleven tons of pressure on a piano to tune it. God will tune you to harmonize with Heaven's key-note if you can stand the strain. "Things that hurt and things that mar Shape the man for perfect praise; Shock and strain and ruin are Friendlier than the smiling days."
■ 永活之泉（03月04日）
三月四日 神救贖計劃中的代禱 「聽禱告的主啊，凡有血氣的都要來就您。」詩篇六十五篇2節 當神把這世界交給照著祂自己的形像所造的人之後，人就應該在神的權下掌管這地。神的計劃乃是要亞當與神同行，凡事藉著神，讓神藉著他完成祂的工。亞當確實成為地的主人及管理者。但當罪進入世界之後，亞當的權柄卻變成很慘的事實；因著他，使整個的地與全人類都被帶到咒詛之下。 當神計劃救贖人類時，神乃是要把人類恢復到墮落之前的光景。神揀選了古時的僕人們，藉著代禱之能將他們所要的告訴神，求神賜給他們。當基督成為人時——一個在地並在天的人——祂可以為人類祈求，在祂離世之前，祂將代禱之能賞賜給祂的門徒，在約翰福音十五章至十七章，主臨別談話之七方面的應許中，主應許祂的門徒不論求甚麼，祂都為他們成全。神迫切希望賜恩的心雖好像多少受到地上代禱的限制，神設法興起人裡面代禱的靈，以便使祂能降臨於人類，神視代禱為祂百姓準備領受，並將自己全然降服於神大能的工作之最高表現。 基督徒必須認清這是他們真正的尊貴與唯一的權柄——呼求神且盼望神聽禱告的權柄，只有當神的兒女開始認識代禱與神國度之關係時，他們才會真正知道他們的責任是何其嚴肅。 每一個相信主的人都會被引導看見神，一直等著他運用他代禱的職份。每個信徒都會真實的領會人最高、最蒙福、最有力的工具，使禱告得蒙垂聽。「在天如此，在地也如此。」乃是人晝夜在地上所興起的代禱，懇求使神將天的能力賜下於人的心中。但願求神把這個意念燃燒在我們心中，全能的代禱乃是照著祂的旨意，並且是絕對有功效的！
■ 中文屬天日子（03月04日）
三月四日 我能達到這個地步麼？ 「我卻不以性命為念，也不看為寶貴。」使徒行傳廿章24節 沒有異象，比較容易服事神，沒有召喚，比較容易替神工作，因為你可以不照神的意思做；以常識作指導，另外罩上基督徒的情緒就得了。如果你從未感覺神的召喚，你會更發達，更成功，更恬逸。但如果你奉到祂的召喚，想到耶穌基督所希冀的事，就要永遠像一種刺激，你也再不能根據常識來替祂工作。 我確實算為寶貴的是甚麼？如果我沒有被耶穌基督握住，我就以服務為寶貴，我就以獻給神的時光為寶貴，我就看我的生命為寶貴。其所以保羅把他的生命看為寶貴，為的是他能用這生命去完成他所領受的職務；因此他拒絕為別的事耗費氣力。在使徒行傳廿章24節述說保羅極力拒絕他人的勸告（顧念自己）。他除了顧念他所領受的職事以外，其他的一切，都不關心。實際工作也許是很容易代替歸向神的阻礙，因為實際工作是以這種理由為根據──「想想你自己在這種工作的價值與貢獻。」那種態度不是以耶穌基督為指導，卻是以我們的判斷來決定我們最大的用處。千萬不要想到你有無用處；卻要想到你不是自己的而是屬祂的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月04日）
三月四日 「他們就都被聖靈充滿……」使徒行傳二章4節 被聖靈充滿乃是靈裡聖潔、得勝、喜樂的秘訣。也是生命有活力、身體得醫治、事奉有能力的關鍵。因為當我們被聖靈充滿，我們就沒有餘地留給老我，或是罪惡、煩惱和憂慮了。 當聖靈充滿我們時，我們能抵抗在空氣中產生疾病的細菌，就像燒紅的鐵能使水無法接近。當我們為聖靈所充滿時，我們隨時都能預備好去事奉。因為當撒但發現聖靈以祂聖潔的火如同衣裳一樣包圍我們時，牠立刻調頭就逃。總之，惟有完全地為聖靈充滿，我們才能得勝、有能力。 這不僅是一種特權，也是一個命令。神既下了這樣的命令，就能幫助實現。但是我們必須帶著一個倒空、真誠、信任的心來到祂面前，並且奉耶穌的名、為神的榮耀而求神給我們這樣的特權。 聖靈，我歡迎您來。 做我聖潔的客人。 彷彿鴿子的聖靈請您， 以我的心為您的家、築您的巢。 帶領我得到完全的您， 引我到您所應許的安息裡。 聖靈，我請您來， 做我聖潔的客人。
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