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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19日）
二月十九日 「凡結果子的，他就修理乾淨，使枝子結果更多。」約翰福音十五章2節 有一個神的孩子，正希奇像她這樣愛主的信徒，為甚麼神還要使她落在百般的試煉中呢？有一次，她走過一個葡萄園，看見裏邊有許多的葡萄籐，枝子頂多，葉子茂盛，可是再仔細一看，葉子上都是一個個的蛀孔，籐上生了許多的蟲蟻，四周長了無數的雜草，地上堆了許多的枯葉；顯然是一個完全沒有人經管的荒園；當她站著沉思的時候，神就光照她，給她看見一段頂寶貝的信息。 「我所愛的孩子啊，你是不是在希奇你一生的遭遇呢？你看這個葡萄園，從其中學習一個功課吧！園丁不替它修剪不結果的枝子，不摘去不需要的葉子，不除去害蟲和雜草，他隨它去；所以在這成熟的時候，葡萄一顆也沒有。你要不要我停止修理你的生命呢？你要不要我把你放在一邊呢？」她的心受了安慰，大聲說道：「不！不！」 —狄克生 結果子的枝幹， 才會受到剪栽， 為了幫助它的生長， 結出更多果子來。 搖曳生姿的細枝， 含苞欲放的蓓蕾， 青蔥可愛的嫩芽， 一一都會摧殘。 歡樂的生命， 摧殘得黯淡無光， 抱負化為塵土， 磨折得遍體鱗傷。 你一切慾望， 一切希求和幻夢， 都將化為泡影， 你要歡喜，你要慶幸。 那是神執著刀， 細心在給你修剪， 使你結果子的生命， 更為豐富繁衍。 ─富林德
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月19日）
February 19 "And every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." (John 15:2.) Ａ CHILD of God was dazed by the variety of afflictions which seemed to make her their target. Walking past a vineyard in the rich autumnal glow she noticed the untrimmed appearance and the luxuriant wealth of leaves on the vines, that the ground was given over to a tangle of weeds and grass, and that the whole place looked utterly uncared for; and as she pondered, the Heavenly Gardener whispered so precious a message that she would fain pass it on: "My dear child, are you wondering at the sequence of trials in your life? Behold that vineyard and learn of it. The gardener ceases to prune, to trim, to harrow, or to pluck the ripe fruit only when he expects nothing more from the vine during that season. It is left to itself, because the season of gruit is past and further effort for the present would yield no profit. Comparative uselessness is the condition of freedom from suffering. Do you then wish me to cease pruning your life? Shall I leave you alone?" And the comforted heart cried, "No!" Homera Homer-Dixon. It is the branch that bears the fruit, That feels the knife, To prune it for a larger growth, A fuller life. Though every budding twig be lopped, And every grace Of swaying tendril, springing leaf, Be lost a space. O thou whose life of joy seems reft, Of beauty shorn; Whose aspirations lie in dust, All bruised and torn, Rejoice, tho' each desire, each dream, Each hope of thine Shall fall and fade; it is the hand Of Love Divine That holds the knife, that cuts and breaks With tenderest touch, That thou, whose life has borne some fruit May'st now bear much. ─Annie Johnson Flint.
■ 永活之泉（02月19日）
二月十九日 敬畏神 「敬畏耶和華，遵行祂道的人，便為有福。」詩篇一二八篇1節 敬畏神——這句話說出舊約裡宗教生活的特點，也是新約更豐盛生命的根基。神的兒女們該愛慕這敬畏神的恩賜，對神存敬畏的心，是我們生活中主要的部分，為要給環繞我們的世界一個真實的印象。在耶利米書有一個關於新約的大應許：「我要與他們立永遠的約，……使他們有敬畏我的心，不離開我」（耶卅二40） 在使徒行傳裡，我們也看見這兩個完全的聯合（參徒九31）。各處的教會都得平安，被建立「凡事敬畏主，蒙聖靈的安慰，人數增多了。」保羅也多次的將敬畏神看為基督徒生活上重要的一點。「恐懼戰兢作成你們得救的工夫，」「因為神在你們心裡運行。」「敬畏神，得以成聖。」（林後七1） 我們常聽見人說：今天所以不能和清教徒(Puritans)及立約者(Covenanters)的時代相比，就是因為缺乏敬畏神的心。所以，現在的情形有那麼多的軟弱，不能好好地讀神的話，也沒有不住禱告的靈，不像當初的教會那樣剛強。前述各項對於年輕初信的我們，需要好好地說明，要叫他們知道，敬畏神和因敬畏神而有的祝福，便被帶到一個不住的禱告裡，使禱告成為信心生活的一個要素。 讓我們在內室中，好好地培植這恩典。讓我們聽從天上來的呼聲：「主啊，誰敢不敬畏您，不榮耀您的名呢？因為獨有您是神聖的。」讓我們靠著恩典，用尊崇敬畏來事奉神。讓「敬畏主的人是有福的」這話，印進我們的心，並且相信這就是最深蒙福的秘訣。「當存畏懼事奉耶和華，又當存戰兢而快樂。」
■ 中文屬天日子（02月19日）
二月十九日 避免工作之乏味 「興起發光。」以賽亞書六十章1節 我們起先以為神不肯相助，便自己動起來。不過在我們作起來的時候，就會感覺──祂就在那裡。無論何時，神激動我們，必定要我們先有一種道德的自動。我們是應奉行無違，不要呆若木雞一樣。如果我們奮起發光，乏味的工作就會變成神聖的勞作了。 乏味的工作是品性最好的試金石。乏味的工作，與理想相去很遠──指極卑賤的事，當我們與那些事發生接觸的時候，我們就立刻知道我們是否真是屬靈的。試讀約翰十三章；我們就知道神的化身也做了最乏味的工作，洗漁夫的腳，而且說：「我是你們的主，你們的夫子，尚且洗你們的腳，你們也當彼此洗腳。」（約十三14）這是需要神的靈和神的光，才能忍受而不辭的。有人做了某件事，而那件事，因為他的做法和態度從此就成為聖的。也許是極平常的事，但是我們看見他們行了出來，就會生出不同的感覺。當我們的主藉著我們做某種事的時候，祂常是把它的形式變化了。我們的主化身成人，使肉體成為聖潔，所以眾聖徒也當看肉體為聖靈的殿。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月19日）
二月十九日 「所以情願盡我的力量，將福音也傳給你們在羅馬的人。」羅馬書一章15節 要盡力，神所要的乃是全然地盡力、全心地為基督、對十字架的忠心、對我們的主及人類投入整個人。這些不僅是祂死在十字架上所應得的，也是這個世界所需要、這個世代所渴慕的。 在我們周圍的一切都是充滿生命的：生命是嚴肅的，死亡是真實的，罪是存在的，人是重要的，生意是實際的，知識是不偽的，這個世代更是鮮活的。如果我們在這個白熱的危機時刻不盡力，那麼我們真要求神赦免我們了。 所以，為了受火的施洗，為了能使世人的罪得赦免，為了所得著、放棄自我的眾僕人，我們應該抓住神的心意，向著標竿直跑，要得著在基督耶穌裡從上面召我來得的獎賞(腓三14)。 我的禱告是： 願全世界都屬耶穌。 我的警言是： 願耶穌全然屬我。 願全世界都屬耶穌， 主啊！請您快些 帶著您所應許的國度來， 然後接我們回天家。
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