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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11日）
二月十一日 「等到……祭司把腳站在……水裏，……水……必然斷絕。」（約書亞記三章13節） 百姓必須憑信向前進，並不能在營中坐待外面的路開通了之後方纔起行。他們必須拔營開步、整裝束荷、排齊隊伍、直達河邊，雖然河水還沒有起變化。 到了河邊，若是他們想停在那裏，等河水分開了，然後伸足下水，他們定規空等，定規到今天還在河東。他們在水斷絕之前，必須先舉足涉水。 讓我們也學習怎樣用信心抓住神的話前進，不看前面的道路能否通行。我們常受攔阻和難處的挫折，都是因為我們想等神先替我們開路，挪去了一切的攔阻和難處，然後再試著前行。這是何等的錯誤。若是神要我們向前衝，我們就憑著信心抓住祂的話語向前衝，好像一無攔阻一般，路自然會為我們一步步地敞開。 ─譯自晚思 他背後躺著灰色的亞速爾島， 已經遠離了直布羅陀海峽， 前面看不見海岸的影子； 茫茫大海， 白浪滔天。 船上的大副說： 「我們必須禱告， 看哪！星星都已隱湮。 勇敢的船長， 我該怎麼下令？」 你說： 「駛向前去！向前！向前！」 「我的船員一天比一天更想叛變， 他們形容憔悴， 衰弱可憐，」 大副這樣報告， 心中思念家鄉。 鹹澀的浪花濺上他黝黑的臉。 「我該怎樣下令， 英勇的船長， 假若明早仍只見海水無邊？」 「哦，破曉的時候你該說， 駛向前去！向前！向前」 他們繼續航行， 大副說道： 「今夜狂暴的海洋露出了獠牙， 掀開了唇， 張開了大嘴， 好像要吞滅我們， 咬死我們！ 英勇的船長， 只求你說一句話； 希望已渺， 無法持守！」 但船長的話如利刃出鞘說： 「駛向前去！向前！向前」 他精疲力竭， 苦守甲板， 從黑暗中遠遠眺望， 有一夜， 忽然遙見一點微光， 光明！光明！光明已在望！ 它的發展， 就是日後的旗旌， 時代的黎明， 展開在黑暗之間， 他達到了那新世界， 並且給那世界一個最偉大的啟示， 「駛向前去！向前！」 ─密勒 憑著信心前進，即是勝利。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月11日）
February 11 "As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests....shall rest in the waters....the waters shall be cut off."(Joshua 3:13.) ＴHE people were not to wait in their camps until the way was opened, they were to walk by faith. They were to break camp, pack up their goods, form in line to march, and move down to the very banks before the river would be opened. If they had come down to the edge of the river and then had stopped for the stream to divide before they stepped into it, they would have waited in vain. They must take one step into the water before the river would be cut off. We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them. If we would move straight on in faith, the path would be opended for us. We stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles. ─Evening Thoughts. Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good Mate said:" Now we must pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?" "Why, say, `Sail on! sail on! and on!" "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak!" The stout Mate thought of home; a spray, of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day, 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!'" They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke the Mate: "This mad sea shows its teeth tonight. He curls his lip, he lies in wait, With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave Admiral, say but one good word; What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah! that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck─ A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world, Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" ─Joaquin Miller. Faith that goes forward triumphs.
■ 永活之泉（02月11日）
二月十一日 父神 「奉父、子、聖靈的名給他們施浸。」馬太福音廿八章19節 我們要記得這聖潔三而一的神的意義，有其敬虔的一方面。我們說到神，我們就想到有一個不能想像的距離；這距離將聖潔的神和罪人分開，使我們只能俯伏在極其懊悔和畏懼之中。當我們說到聖子基督，我們就想到與祂之間的距離是近得無法再近的，祂為女子所生，就是為亞當的女兒所生，並且受了咒詛的死，祂是這樣與我們不能分開的聯合直到永遠！我們再說到聖靈，我們就想起神無限的祝福，有祂的同在在我們裡面，使我們成為祂的家和祂的殿，一直到永遠。 當基督教導我們：「我們在天上的父」的時候，祂立刻接著說：「願人都尊您的名為聖，」因為神是聖潔的，所以我們也要聖潔。除了我們尊那名為聖，並藉著禱告親近祂之外，再沒有成聖的路了。 多少時候，我們說到那名，並沒有覺得是一個不可言喻的特權，說出我們與神之間的關係。如果我們肯花時間與神接觸，在祂的父愛裡敬拜祂，我們的內室就要成為天堂的門了。神的兒女，如果你禱告你在暗中的父，在祂面前深深地俯伏，尋求去敬拜最聖潔的名。請你們記得，這就是禱告最高的祝福。 「禱告你在暗中的父，你父在暗中察看，必然報答你。」（太六6） 在隱密處單獨親近神，並喊說：「我的父！」這是何等不可言諭的權利呢？相信祂在暗中察看我，也要在明處報答我。讓我們來學習，直到你能說：「我面對面見了神，我的性命仍得保全。」（創卅二30）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月11日）
二月十一日 你對神的希望日漸消滅麼？ 「堅心倚賴您的，您必保守他十分平安。」以賽亞書廿六章3節 你寄留想像於神呢？或者你的想像消失了呢？想像的消失，在工人的生命中是一個耗盡和毀滅的源頭。如果你從沒有運用你順服神的想像，就從現在開始吧！等候神到來，是無用的；你必丟下對偶像的想像來仰望祂，就必得救。想像是神賜與我們最偉大的恩賜，應該將想像完全供獻給祂。如果你能約束你各種思想，去順服基督，那麼，當試探來到的時候，這便是信心最大的遺產。因為你的信心和神的靈共同工作起來。尊視神的觀念，利用大自然所表現的一切，去組合──日出和日入，太陽和星宿，氣候的變化──則你的想像就不受你衝動的節制，必是去作服務神的事工。 「我們與我們的祖宗一同犯罪……而遺忘了」──於是放一把小劍在你睡覺的地方。「神現在不與我談話，」但是是不應該與我談話的。謹記你是屬誰的，你服事的是誰，用回想來鼓勵你自己，而你對於神的熱愛必增十倍；你的想像必不再消失，會馬上恢復起來，而你的盼望必有不能言喻的光明。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月11日）
二月十一日 「……得以在各樣的力上加力，好叫你們凡事……忍耐寬容」歌羅西書一章11節 保羅為歌羅西的聖徒禱告，他盼望他們能照神榮耀的權能、得以在各樣的力上加力，好叫他們凡事歡歡喜喜的忍耐寬容。能夠忍耐，但是滿臉帶著壓力的表現，似乎每條皺紋都在說：「為什麼沒有任何人同情我？」是一回事。然而能夠因擺在我們前面的喜樂，而能背負十字架、輕視羞辱，則完全是另一回事。 在主的花園中，有些樹「炎熱來到，並不懼怕，葉子仍必青翠，在乾旱之年毫無掛慮，而且結果不止。」(耶十七8)讓我們把臉轉向上升的太陽，且將隨風而來雲朵變成奪目的彩虹。 我們再過不多的時候，就不會再有機會在苦難中喜樂，並且學習忍耐。在天堂不會有任何事能教導我們忍受折磨。所以假使我們現在學不會，就永遠無法得到榮耀的冠冕。甚至將來會渴望時光倒流，回到我們現在極力擺脫的多樣情況中。
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