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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29日）
一月廿九日 「……神在其中，城必不動搖；到天一亮，神必幫助這城。」詩篇四六篇5節 「必不動搖」——這是何等的宣言！像我們這樣最容易給屬地的東西所搖動的人，竟可以到一個地步，沒有一件東西能彀搖動或是顛覆我們麼？是的，這是絕對可能的事；使徒保羅就懂得這一個秘訣。在他到耶路撒冷去的路上，他已經預見前面「有捆鎖與患難等待」（徒廿23），可是他能夠坦然說：「這些東西沒有一件可以搖動我。」（24節直譯）保羅一生中間，凡是可以搖動的東西，都已經搖動掉了；他並不以性命為念，也不以他所有的為寶貴。照樣，我們如果願意讓神按照祂的方法對付我們，如同對付保羅一般，我們也能彀達到同樣的地步：沒有一件瑣碎的事情，也沒有一件重大的試煉，能夠搖動我們離開平安了。這樣的平安，只有完全安息在神裡面的人們纔有份的。 「得勝的，我要叫他在我神殿中作柱子，他也必不再從那裡出去。」（啟三12）在我神殿中作柱子是不能搖動的；這就是歡喜忍受一切環境的震動的結果 ─司密斯 當神在一個城中，祂使那城像錫安山一般堅固，不能移動分毫。當祂在我們裡面，雖然四週有駭浪怒濤、狂風暴雨，可是在我們裡面仍有恆久的平安；這種平安，是世界所不能給我們的，也是世界所不能奪去我們的。在我們裡面是神，在世人裡面是世界；這就是為甚麼我們能有平安，而他們當風浪來的時候，就會像葉子那樣飄搖不定。 ─萊頓 「倚靠耶和華的人，好像錫安山，永不動搖。」（詩一廿五1） 有一首蘇格蘭古詩，能在我們的血液中注入鐵一般的力量： 以堅定的信心依靠神， 像錫安山那樣站穩腳跟， 永遠屹立， 像鋼鐵般的， 不搖撼， 也不移動毫分。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月29日）
January 29 "....God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early."(Psa. 46:5.) ＳHALL not be moved"─what an inspiring declaration! Can it be possible that we, who are so easily moved by the things of earth, can arrive at a place where nothing can upset us or disturb our calm? Yes, it is possible; and the Apostle Paul knew it. When he ws on his way to Jerusalem where he foresaw that "bonds and afflictions" awaited him, he could say triumphantly, "But none of these things move me."Everything in Paul's life and experience that could be shaken had been shaken, and he no longer counted his life, or any of life's possessions, dear to him. And we, if we will but let God have His way with us, may come to the same place, so that neither the fret and tear of little things of life, nor the great and heavy trials, can have power to move us from the peace that passeth understanding, which is declared to be the portion of those who have learned to rest only on God. "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go no more out." To be as immovable as a pillar in the house of our God, is an end for which one would gladly endure all the shakings that may be necessary to bring us there! ─Hannah Whitall Smith. When God is in the midst of a kingdom or city He makes it as firm as Mount Zion, that cannot be removed. When He is in the midst of a soul, though calamities throng about it on all hands, and roar like the billows of the sea, yet there is a constant calm within, such a peace as the world can neither give nor take away. What is it but want of lodging God in the soul, and that in His stead the world is in men's hearts, that makes them shake like leaves at every blast of danger? ─Archbishop Leighton. "They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever." There is a quaint old Scottish version that puts iron into our blood: "Who sticketh to God in stable trust As Zion's mount he stands full just, Which moveth no whit, nor yet doth reel, But standeth forever as stiff as steel!"
■ 永活之泉（01月29日）
一月廿九日 在基督裡 「你們得在基督耶穌裡，是本乎神。」哥林多前書一章30節 在書信裡，常常用「在基督裡」這個辭。除非一個基督徒有夠多的禱告，也用充足的信心，接受「我是在基督耶穌裡」這個真理，他是無法把神的話讀得準確，也不能在他的生活裡經歷神話語的能力。 當主耶穌最後一個晚上與祂的門徒同在的時候，這句話祂不只說了一次：「到那日」——就是聖靈澆灌下來的時候——「你們就知道我在父裡面，你們在我裡面。」接著又說：「住在我裡面，」「住在我裡面的，這人就多結果子，」「你們若住在我裡面，凡你們所願意的，祈求就給你們成就。」但除非基督徒藉著夠多的禱告，先接受「在基督裡」這個真理，他就不能支取這些應許。 保羅在羅馬書裡也表示同樣的思想：「我們……和祂一同埋葬。」（六4）「我們向罪也當自己是死的，向神在基督耶穌裡，卻當看自己是活的。」（六11）「如今，那些在基督耶穌裡的，就不定罪了。」（八1）在以弗所書裡也說：「神在基督裡，曾賜給我們天上各樣屬靈的福氣。」（一3）「在基督裡揀選了我們；」（一4）「在愛子裡，我們蒙悅納；」（一6）「我們也在祂裡面，蒙了救贖。」（一7）在歌羅西書裡說：「一切的豐盛，都……居住在基督裡面。」（一9）我們各人「在基督裡完完全全的。」（一28）「就當行在祂裡面。」（二6）「你們在祂裡面也得了豐盛。」（二10） 但願我們的信心抓住這幾句話：「那在基督裡堅固我們……的，就是神。」（林後一21）「你們得在基督裡，是本乎神。」（林前一30）聖靈會使之成為我們的經歷。要懇切地禱告，並順從聖靈的引導，這些話就要在你裡面生根，你也就要認識那個屬天的能力。但是請記得，「住在基督裡」乃是一件在心裡的事，所以必須培養在愛的靈裡。只有我們天天花時間與基督有交通，「住在基督裡」才會成為一個有福的確據，並且裡面的人也就要一天新似一天。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月29日）
一月廿九日 難於相信一個人這樣糊塗 「主啊！您是誰？」使徒行傳廿六章15節 主這樣嚴厲的向我說。當我們的主說話的時候，那是無法逃避的，因為祂有一種令人非瞭解不可的方式。神的聲音曾直接臨到你麼？如果是有的話，你就不會誤會那裡面的要求；因這是用你所能瞭解的話說的，而且不是經過你的耳，卻是經過你的情景。 神要毀棄我們由成見所決定的信念。當我們覺得應當做甚麼的時候，我們就在決定服事祂的方法上表現了無知，祂便忽然間指示我們是極度的無知。我在遵照耶穌的靈服事耶穌，反而以邪魔的靈去提倡祂的道理；這便是我們在宣傳的方法上傷害了祂。──我們的話說得不錯；但是我們的靈是敵人的靈。「祂責備他們說，你們的心如何，你們並不知道。」我們主的靈，在擁護祂者的裡面，在林前十三章已經說得得清楚。 我曾遵照自己的方法，決定服事祂的方式，危逼過耶穌麼？如果我覺得盡了本分，恐怕這種盡分的感覺危害了祂。我敢保險那不是我的本分，因為那不曾培養柔和謙卑的靈，而是造成自矜的靈。我們常揀選難做的事，或不愉快的事作為盡分的標準，這不像我們主的靈。我們的主是說：「我的神！我歡喜遵行您的旨意」。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月29日）
一月廿九日 「有不能預備的，就分給他。」尼希米記八章10節 先知尼希米提到住棚節的慶祝時，給了我們一幅很清楚的圖畫。他說：「你們去喫肥美的，喝甘甜的，有不能預備的就分給他，……你們不要憂愁、因靠耶和華而得的喜樂是你們的力量。」在我們周圍有許多人沒有能力預備任何東西，讓我們找到一些傷心、貧苦、沒有人關心照顧的人，並且為他們代禱。讓我們像主耶穌一樣，在聖誕節時來到這個不重視祂的世界，即使受排斥、被謀殺也不在意。 儘管我們有時得不到報答，而且被不配得的人糟踏了，讓我們不要怕去愛。因為那才是基督的愛，再說神會補償我們。 雖然基督在面對自私無比的人時非常傷心，但祂還是為他們死了。
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