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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21日）
一月廿一日 「有捆鎖與患難等待我。我卻不以……為念。」使徒行傳廿章23—24節 我們在撒母耳記裡面看見：當大衛在希伯崙受膏作王的時候，「非利士眾人就上來尋索大衛。」（撒下五17）照樣，我們在神前受寵蒙愛的時候，仇敵撒但頂不甘心，就上來尋索我們，前來攔阻我們，和我們搗亂。 仇敵的攻擊、破壞和攔阻，我應當看為神施行拯救的記號；這時候，就是我們向神支取加倍的祝福、勝利和能力的機會。能力常是從攔阻中產生的。電力的產生，就是由於發電機的機輪互相磨擦（攔阻）。將來有一天我們會明白撒但也是被神利用的。 ─譯自屬天的日子 甘脂不是英雄的糧食 他以悲哀枇充填心胸； 監獄是偉人的第宅， 頂帆最適宜於擋逆風。 ─愛默生 患難是勝利的捷徑。山路之後，就是大路。一切偉大的事業上面，都有患難的印跡的。發光的金鍊，必須經過爐火的燒、錘。沒有一個人配算為得勝者，除非他歷盡苦楚。額上有刺痕的憂患之子，說：「在世上你們有苦難」——可是在這傷心的一句之後，就來了一句應許：「但你們可以放心，我已經勝了世界。」（約十六33）主在世上留下的腳蹤，原是叫我們跟隨祂的。那帶血的腳步，是引領我們上寶座的。傷斑是鐵杖的代價，我們的冠冕必須花力氣爭奪的。這些都是公開的祕密。 造化的標準， 以耐苦為度量。 確定人格高低。 最美的聲樂， 出於歌者的。 迴腸蕩氣， 哀惋悲悽。 先聖都曾經過許多患難─保羅、馬丁路得、撒房那羅拉、拿克司、衛斯理以及一切大能的先鋒。他們都從患難進入掌權的地位。將來有一班環繞在寶座前唱讚美的人，他們都是「從大患難中出來的。」（啟七14） 每一本偉大的著作都是作者的結晶。誰是希臘的大詩人？鴻謨。他是一個盲子。誰是寫那部不朽之作「天路歷程」的？是一個穿紫袍、享安樂的王子嗎？不是！乃是培德福牢獄中的一個囚犯本仁約翰。 偉大的戰士， 矯健如游龍。 意外地受了創傷， 混身血汗， 屏息再向敵人進攻， 到力竭倒地， 還不肯收斂的刀鋒， 偉大， 偉大， 浩氣貫蒼穹。 ─選
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月21日）
January 21 "None of these things move me." (Acts 20:24.) ＷE read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, "All the Philistines came up to seek David." And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes to seek us. When the enemy meets us at the threshold of any great work for God, let us accept it as "a token of salvation," and claim double blessing, victory, and power. Power is developed by resistance. The cannon carries twice as far because the exploding power has to find its way through resistance. The way electricity is produced in the powerhouse yonder is by the sharp friction of the revolving wheels. And so we shall find some day that even Satan has been one of God's agencies of blessing. －Days of Heaven upon Earth. A hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head winds right for royal sails. ─Emerson. Tribulation is the way to triumph. The valley-way opens into the highway. Tribulation's imprint is on all great things. Crowns are cast in crucibles. Chains of character that wind about the feet of God are forged in earthly flames. No man is greatest victor till he has trodden the winepress of woe. With seams of anguish deep in His brow, the "Man of Sorrows" said, "In the world ye shall have tribulation"─but after this sob comes the psalm of promise, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." The footprints are traceable everywhere. Bloodmarks stain the steps that lead to thrones. Scars are the price of scepters. Our crowns will be wrested from the giants we conquer. Grief has always been the lot of greatness, It is an open secret. "The mark of rank in nature, Is capacity for pain; And the anguish of the singer, Makes the sweetest of the strain." Tribulation has always marked the trail of the true reformer. It is the story of Paul, Luther, Savonarola, Knox, Wesley, and all the rest of the mighty army. They came through great tribulation to their place of power. Every great book has been written with the author's blood. "These are they that have come out of great tribulation." Who was the peerless poet of the Greeks? Homer. But that illustrious singer was blind. Who wrote the fadeless dream of "Pilgrim's progress"? A prince in royal purple upon a couch of ease? Nay! The trailing splendor of that vision gilded the dingy walls of old Bedford jail while John Bunyan, a princely prisoner, a glorious genius, made a faithful transcript of the scene. Great is the facile conqueror; Yet haply, he, who, wounded sore, Bredathless, all covered o'er with blood and sweat, Sinks fainting, but fighting evermore Is greater yet. ─Selected.
■ 永活之泉（01月21日）
一月廿一日 禱告與禁食 「耶穌說：『是因你們的信心小；……至於這一類的鬼，若不禱告、禁食，牠就不出來』。」馬太福音十七章20—21節 在這裡，我們的主教導我們信心的生活，不僅需要禱告，也需要禁食。禱告是在於帶下天上的能力，禁食是在於鬆開屬地享樂的捆綁。 主耶穌自己也禁食，為要得著力量來抵擋魔鬼。祂教導祂的門徒們，禁食也如同禱告和施捨一樣，必須行在暗中，這樣天父就要在明處報答他們。無論是完全禁食，或節制飲食，都會使人更有能力與神有交通。 讓我們來學習這個重大的功課：就是禁食、節食和物質上的捨己，都是有助於屬靈的生活。當人享用了一餐豐盛的飲食之後，他就不大願意禱告了。甘心犧牲我們自己的快樂，或身體的享受，並制服肉體的情慾、眼目的情慾，都會使我們的心更注意屬天的事。這個為勝過肉體慾望所需要的努力，會給我們力量，使我們在禱告中抓住神。 這個重大的功課乃是這樣：我們在禱告中的沈悶，乃是從屬肉體的享受和安逸的慾望來的。然而「凡屬在基督耶穌的人，是已經把肉體連肉體的邪情私慾，同釘在十字架上了。」（加五24）禱告並不是一件輕易的工作，因為禱告很容易變成徒具形式；要真實操練禱告，並且抓住神與祂有交通，就必須捨棄一切肉體喜悅的東西，並將它們交於死地。 親愛的基督徒啊！請你們相信：為著能遇見聖潔的神，並從祂領受屬天的福氣，就是天天經歷艱難來否認自己，也是值得的。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月21日）
一月廿一日 回憶神所不能忘的事 「你幼年的恩愛，……我都記得。」耶利米書二章2節 我愛神的天真，如往昔一樣麼？或是我只盼望神愛我呢？我叫祂感覺愉快的事多麼？抑或我因事情之不順而嗚咽啜泣呢？遺忘神所珍貴的心靈，是沒有快樂的。值得記慮的一件事是耶穌基督需要我──「請給我水喝」。過去的一禮拜我曾向祂表示多少恩愛呢？我曾在我的生命中顧惜祂的名譽麼？ 神對祂的百姓說：「你現在不愛我，但是我記得你往日愛我，你婚姻的愛情我也記得。」我對於耶穌基督，滿有豐富的愛，像我開始的時候一樣麼？就是我改頭換面，向祂證實虔誠的時候。祂感覺我在回憶那專愛祂，而不愛任何事的時期麼？我現在是那樣呢？還是別有所愛呢？我是愛祂甚至愛到不管我的將來怎樣呢？抑或我在衡量自己的利益和名譽，作為我服務多少的標準呢？ 如果我回憶神心裡的我，不像往日那麼愛祂，這是應當慚愧和羞恥的！因為那種慚愧和羞恥會生出真正的憂傷，結成懺悔之果的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月21日）
一月廿一日 「不住地禱告」帖撒羅尼迦前書五章17節 在我們禱告操練的生活中，有一件事對我們是很重要的幫助，那就是「凡事交託給主，而且順著事情的發生，隨時仰望祂。」凡事禱告可以成為一個習慣，就像任何習慣的養成，必須經過很多次的重複，以及不斷的注意，直到起初意志的行為，最後變成一個自然的第二天性。 如果我們仔細觀察我們的生活，我們會發現凡我們在禱告交託祂的事，祂總是賜給我們特別的祝福。祂總是允許最好的事情變得沒有效率，主要因為祂要提醒我們完全仰望祂。神很溫柔地迫使我們記得祂，祂真是既有恩惠又能體諒我們的上帝。祂總是百般疼惜地將我們褓抱在祂強壯的膀臂中，使我們一刻也不能離開祂。腓立比書四章6節說：「只要凡事藉著禱告、祈求和感謝，將你們所要的告訴神。」所以── 讓我們把最小的事， 甚至像微塵一樣小的事， 全然帶到主寶座前。 耶穌願意為我們承擔， 所有的憂慮、患難及大小事。
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