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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28日）
二月廿八日 「你們應當……常常以頌讚為祭，獻給神。」希伯來書十三章15節 一個傳道人，在鄉村工作；某天晚上，無意之中走進了一所又暗又髒的小屋；他聽見屋隅發出微弱的聲音問說：「是誰？」他點了一根火柴，從火光中看見了地上的缺乏和痛苦，天上的喜樂和平安——一個黑色的老婦人，臥病在床。她患著風濕症，痛苦異常；可是她仍頂平安、頂喜樂。那時正是最冷的二月，她沒有燃料，也沒有糧食；沒有燈光，也沒有侍奉的人。她所有的，只是倚靠神的信心。人生的痛苦，在她身上都齊全了，一點也沒有甚麼可以叫她快樂的了，可是她仍舊能夠發出「哈利路亞」的讚美來，好似一無缺乏和病痛一般。 「無人知道我所經歷的困苦， 無人知道， 除了耶穌； 無人知道我所經歷的困苦—— 哈利路亞， 讚美主！」 「有時我高昇， 有時我下沈， 有時被棄於地， 受屈蒙塵， 有時榮光自四處照臨—— 哈利路亞， 讚美主！」 歌詞接下去：「無人知道我的工作，無人知道我的悲痛，」結尾還是重複那一句，「哈利路亞，讚美主！」 一直到最後二句： 「無人知道我的歡愉， 無人知道，祗有耶穌！」 她真是「四面受敵，卻不被困住；心裏作難，卻不至失望；遭逼迫，卻不被丟棄；打倒了，卻不至死亡。」（林後四8─9） 馬丁路得在他的病榻上頂痛苦的時候，仍不住的讚美和感謝，並傳這段信息：「這些痛苦和困難，很像排字的人所排的鉛版；現在看上去，字是反的，也讀不出甚麼意義來；可是等到鉛版印在紙上，我們就看得頂清楚，而且亦明瞭其中的意義了。今天我們所受的痛苦，果然解釋不通，但是到了那一天，我們就會明白的。」 保羅在狂風大浪的中間，出來站在船板上，安慰害怕的眾人「你們放心。」（徒廿七22） 保羅，馬丁路得和那位黑色的婦人，都是我們的好榜樣。 ─迦內德
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月28日）
February 28 "Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually." (Heb. 13:15.) ＡCITY missionary, stumbling through the dirt of a dark entry, heard a voice say, "Who's there, Honey?" Striking a match, he caught a vision of earthly want and suffering, of saintly trust and peace, "cut in ebony"─calm, appealing eyes set amid the wrinkles of a pinched, black face that lay on a tattered bed. It was a bitter night in February, and she had no fire, no fuel, no light. She had had no supper, no dinner, no breakfast. She seemed to have nothing at all but rheumatism and faith in God. One could not be more completely exiled from all pleasantness of circumstances, yet the favorite song of this old creature ran: "Nobody knows de trouble I see, Nobody knows but Jesus; Nobody knows de trouble I see─ Sing Glory Hallelu! "Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, Sometimes I'm level on the groun' Sometimes the glory shines aroun'─ Sing Glory Hallelu!" And so it went on: "Nobody knows de work I does, Nobody knows de griefs I has," the constant refrain being the "Glory Hallelu!" until the last verse rose: "Nobody knows de joys I has, Nobody knows but Jesus!" "Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." It takes great Bible words to tell the cheer of that old negro auntie. Remember Luther on his sick-bed. Between his groans he managed to preach on his wise: "These pains and trouble here are like the type which the printers set; as they look now, we have to read them backwards, and they seem to have no sense or meaning in them; but up yonder, when the Lord God prints us off in the life to come, we shall find they make brave reading." Only we do not need to wait till then. Remember Paul walking the hurricane deck amid a boiling sea, bidding the frightened crew "Be of good cheer." Luther, the old negro auntie─all of them human sun-flowers. ─Wm. C. Garnett.
■ 永活之泉（02月28日）
二月廿八日 三而一的神 「照父神的先見被揀選，藉著聖靈得成聖潔，以致順服耶穌基督，又蒙祂血所灑的人」彼得前書一章2節 在這裡，我們看見這偉大的三而一之神的真理是我們屬靈生命的根基。這本書特別講到對父神的敬拜，和花時間的需要；每天必須有夠多的時間，在神榮耀的特性裡敬拜祂。但是我們也必須記得，在所有與神的交通裡，聖子和聖靈的同在與能力是絕對需要的。 神在內室中為我們所開啟的，是何等的境界。我們需要花時間來認識，只有主耶穌活潑親密的同在和工作的時候，我們才能與父有交通。也需要花時間來充足的認識，當我每一次親近神的時候，我是何等的需要主耶穌；當祂動工的時候，我當如何相信祂是為我，且在我裡面工作，並且祂的愛是何等地聖潔而親切；在這愛裡，我能與祂同在，並有完全的交通。但是，要學習這功課，是需要花時間的；為著這個，神要大大地祝福報答你！ 藉著聖靈全能的力量作工在我們內心深處，祂能將聖子啟示在我們裡面。惟有藉著祂，使我有能力，知道當禱告甚麼並如何禱告；最要緊的是，怎樣奉主耶穌的名來得著禱告已蒙悅納的確證。 親愛的基督徒啊，你有沒有多次覺得，一個人只用五分鐘的工夫來親近神，便能得著神榮耀的感應是一個笑話？現在你對於藉著聖靈在基督裡真實的敬拜神的觀念，是否比以前覺得更需要多花時間來與神聯合，以致能保守你的心懷意念，一直在祂的平安和同在裡呢？惟獨停留在神面前的隱密處，你才得著恩典，能以住在基督裡，整天都受祂靈的引導。 讓我們停下來思想：「照父神的先見被揀選，藉著聖靈得成聖潔，以致順服耶穌基督，又蒙祂血所灑的人。」這些資料都可以幫助默想和敬拜。「你說：你們當尋求我的面。那時我心向你說：耶和華啊，您的面我正要尋求。」（詩廿七8）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月28日）
二月廿八日 現在你們信麼？ 「因此，我們信……耶穌說，現在你們信麼？」約翰福音十六章30—31節 「現在我們信。」耶穌說：「你們信麼？看哪！時候將到，……留下我獨自一人。」有許多基督的工人，因本分的感覺，或因本性之所好，覺得有參加這種工作的必要，不靠耶穌基督的助力。這種工作的起因，在於我們沒有耶穌復活的生命。仰仗自己宗教的悟性之靈，已是與神斷絕了親密的關係。固然沒有罪，也沒有附帶的懲罰；但是當這個人一旦覺得他怎樣攔阻了瞭解耶穌基督，發生愁苦困難的時候，他會含羞帶愧地回轉頭來。我們必須更深切地倚仗耶穌，在一切的事上求合神的意志；但是我們倒是靠我們的常識去決定一切而求神祝福我們。祂不能，這不在祂的範圍，這是與祂的計劃斷絕了關係。如果我們因本分的感覺做事，我們就樹起與耶穌基督競爭的旗幟來了；我們變為「超人」，而且說，「在這件事上，我們這麼做就這麼做，」這樣，我們就把我們本分的感覺放到王位上去，代替耶穌復活的生命。我們受的教訓，不是行在良心的光中或本分感覺的光中，卻是要在光明中行，如同神在光明中。當我們因本分的感覺而工作，我們能以理論來做後盾；當我們因順從主而工作，那就沒有論辯的可能；那也是一位聖者易於被人認為，不可以常理論的緣故了。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月28日）
二月廿八日 「……你們落在百般試煉中，都要以為大喜樂。」雅各書一章2節 我們不是時時都感到喜樂，但是我們應該「以為大喜樂」。「以為」是聖經中很關鍵的辭。當保羅談到老我的死亡，他要聖徒「當看自己是死的。」(羅六11)雖然我們不覺得自己是死的，而且在我們部份的老我復活時，覺得極為難過；但是我們應該以為自己是死的，既不害怕老我，又不順服它。 換言之，我們應該把試煉看為一種祝福。而且決心喜樂起來，說：「神阿，我心堅定，我心堅定，我要唱詩，我要歌頌。」(詩五七7)這種靠信心而喜樂的情況會很快地變成一種習慣，而且不斷地帶給我們靈裡的歡欣，使我自然流露讚美的話語。 「雖然無花果樹不發旺，葡萄樹不結果，橄欖樹也不效力，田地不出糧食，圈中絕了羊，棚內也沒有牛，然而，我要因耶和華歡欣，因救我的神喜樂。」(哈三17—18) 平安、完全的平安， 即使有苦難如波浪起伏， 在耶穌的懷裡只有寧靜。 平安、完全的平安。即使我們對未來一無所知， 我們認識耶穌，那坐在寶座上的主。
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