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1:1 俄巴底亞得了耶和華的默示。論以東說：我從耶和華那裏聽見信息，並有使者被差往列國去，說：起來吧，一同起來與以東爭戰！ The vision of Obadiah.This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom-- We have heard a message from the LORD: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, <<Rise, and let us go against her for battle>>--
1:2 我使你─以東在列國中為最小的，被人大大藐視。 <<See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised. 1:3 住在山穴中、居所在高處的啊，你因狂傲自欺，心裏說：誰能將我拉下地去呢？ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks :3 Or ((of Sela)) and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, <Who can bring me down to the ground?> 1:4 你雖如大鷹高飛，在星宿之間搭窩，我必從那裏拉下你來。這是耶和華說的。 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,>> r declares the LORD. 1:5 盜賊若來在你那裏，或強盜夜間而來─你何竟被剪除─豈不偷竊直到夠了呢？摘葡萄的若來到你那裏，豈不剩下些葡萄呢？ <<If thieves came to you, if robbers in the night-- Oh, what a disaster awaits you-- would they not steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes? 1:6 以掃的隱密處何竟被搜尋？他隱藏的寶物何竟被查出？ But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged! 1:7 與你結盟的都送你上路，直到交界；與你和好的欺騙你，且勝過你；與你一同吃飯的設下網羅陷害你；在你心裏毫無聰明。 All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, :7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain. but you will not detect it. 1:8 耶和華說：到那日，我豈不從以東除滅智慧人？從以掃山除滅聰明人？ <<In that day,>> declares the LORD, <<will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, men of understanding in the mountains of Esau? 1:9 提幔哪，你的勇士必驚惶，甚至以掃山的人都被殺戮剪除。 Your warriors, O Teman, will be terrified, and everyone in Esau's mountains will be cut down in the slaughter. 1:10 因你向兄弟雅各行強暴，羞愧必遮蓋你，你也必永遠斷絕。 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever. 1:11 當外人擄掠雅各的財物，外邦人進入他的城門，為耶路撒冷拈鬮的日子，你竟站在一旁，像與他們同夥。 On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. 1:12 你兄弟遭難的日子，你不當瞪眼看著；猶大人被滅的日子，你不當因此歡樂；他們遭難的日子，你不當說狂傲的話。 You should not look down on your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble. 1:13 我民遭災的日子，你不當進他們的城門；他們遭災的日子，你不當瞪眼看著他們受苦；他們遭災的日子，你不當伸手搶他們的財物； You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, nor look down on them in their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster. 1:14 你不當站在岔路口剪除他們中間逃脫的；他們遭難的日子，你不當將他們剩下的人交付仇敵。 You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble. 1:15 耶和華降罰的日子臨近萬國。你怎樣行，他也必照樣向你行；你的報應必歸到你頭上。 <<The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. 1:16 你們猶大人在我聖山怎樣喝了苦杯，萬國也必照樣常常地喝；且喝且咽，他們就歸於無有。 Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been. 1:17 在錫安山必有逃脫的人，那山也必成聖；雅各家必得原有的產業。 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess its inheritance. 1:18 雅各家必成為大火；約瑟家必為火焰；以掃家必如碎秸；火必將他燒著吞滅。以掃家必無餘剩的。這是耶和華說的。 The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the house of Esau.>> r The LORD has spoken. 1:19 南地的人必得以掃山；高原的人必得非利士地，也得以法蓮地和撒馬利亞地；便雅憫人必得基列。 People from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead. 1:20 在迦南人中被擄的以色列眾人必得地直到撒勒法；在西法拉中被擄的耶路撒冷人必得南地的城邑。 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess (((the land))) as far as Zarephath; the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev. 1:21 必有拯救者上到錫安山，審判以掃山；國度就歸耶和華了。 Deliverers will go up on :21 Or ((from)) Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's. 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13日）
二月十三日 「山地也要歸你。」約書亞記十七章18節 山上有寬暢的地盤，平原上住滿了迦南人，他們都有鐵車阻礙你的擴張，所以你該上山去，佔據山上的地業。也許今日你受阻不能為神作工，你該求神興起能作工的。也許你的話語不能感動人，你可以感動天。也許你的工作受經濟、人才、恩賜、以及種種難處的限制，你可以在上面看不見的、永活的神那裏發展。 山上有樹林的攔阻，然而憑著信心可以砍伐。當初以色列各支派雖然明知山上有寬地和寶藏，他們還不敢自信能砍伐叢密的樹林，開路上山。但是神指示他們、提醒他們：他們有足彀的力量可以把樹木砍去。今天許多的攔阻，許多似乎不可能的事情，擺在我們面前，像山上的樹林一般，並不是來嘲笑我們的，乃是來催促我們向神懇求應許和支取力量的。 每一次難處來到，都是暗示我們神怎樣答應我們信心的禱告和工作的。讀者，你覺得平原太窄小麼？上山去罷，住在那裏，在那裏發展罷，在那裏你可以從磐石中得蜜，從地中得寶藏。 ─譯自日誠報 可曾遇到， 被認為跨不過的大江？ 可曾遇到， 被認為鑿不通的山崗？ 別人說不可能做的事， 我們都能， 克復任何不可能， 是我們的專長。 ─巴拿馬運河工人之歌
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月13日）
February 13 "The hill country shall be thine."(Josh.17:18, R. V.) ＴHERE is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those who can. If you cannot move earth by your speech, you may move Heaven. If the development of life on the lower slopes is impossible, through limitations of service, the necessity of maintaining orthers, and such-like restrictions, let it break out toward the unseen, the eternal, the Divine. Faith can fell forests. Even if the tribes had realized what treasures lay above them, they would hardly have dared to suppose it possible to rid the hills of their dense forest-growth. But as God indicated their task, He reminded them that they had power enough. The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us, like these forest-covered steeps, not to mock us, but to incite us to spiritual exploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of His own indwelling. Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works. Are you straitened in the valleys? Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest. ─Daily Devotional Commentary. Got any rivers they say are uncrossable, Got any mountains they say `can't tunnel through'? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing the things they say you can't do. ─Song of the Panama builders.
■ 永活之泉（02月13日）
二月十三日 聖靈 「我們藉著祂被一個聖靈所感，得以進到父面前。」以弗所書二章18節 我們在內室中與神相交的時候，必須防備一個危險，就是在知識和情感的力量裡，去尋求認識神和基督。神將聖靈賜給我們，為要叫我們藉著祂得以在子裡親近父。讓我們儆醒，恐怕因為我們沒有等候聖靈的引導，使我們的工作歸於徒然。 基督在最後一夜，將這一個真理教導祂的門徒。講到訓慰師的來到，祂說：「到那日，你們要奉我的名求父；求就必得著，叫你們的喜樂，可以滿足。」讓我們抓著這個真理，就是神賜給我們聖靈的目的，為要教導我們如何禱告。祂能使我們與父及子的交通，成為一個蒙祝福的實際。你當堅定地相信，祂是秘密地在你裡面工作。當你進入內室的時候，要將你自己完全服在祂的引導之下。祂是引導你禱告和敬拜的導師。 在復活那一天晚上，基督對祂的門徒說：「你們受聖靈。」是為著要堅固他們，在十天的禱告中接受聖靈的豐富。這一個使我們想起在禱告親近神的時候，應當記牢三件事： （一）我們禱告的時候，一定要相信，聖靈是住在我裡面。要心裡安靜，確定地將自己降服在祂的引導之下。為這個要擺上時間。 （二）要相信聖靈「更大的工作」，就是要光照並加強我們屬靈的生命——聖靈的充滿——要相信祂一定按著我們所禱告的賜給我們。 （三）我們要相信，藉著聖靈與神所有的兒女聯合，求聖靈在祂的教會和子民身上，大大的作工。 「信我的人，就如經上所說，從他腹中要流出活水的江河來。」（約七38）你信麼？
■ 中文屬天日子（02月13日）
二月十三日 敬聽之誠 「請說，僕人敬聽。」撒母耳記上三章10節 我是專聽神的某一件事，不是，聽祂說一切的事。我向神表示不愛，和不恭敬的方法，是我的心靈對於祂所說的毫無感覺。如果我愛我的朋友，我便能直覺地窺知他所需要的。而耶穌說：「你們是我的朋友。」我這個禮拜曾違背我主的某條命令麼？如果我察覺是耶穌的命令，我必不故意違背它；但是我們多數人表示輕慢神，甚至連祂所說的，我們都不聽，這便等於祂沒有說一樣。 我靈性生命的鵠的，是與耶穌基督的相同；我時時聽神，我才知道神時時聽我（約十一42）。 如果我與耶穌基督聯合，專心聽祂，才能以專心敬聽之誠而聽神。一朵百合花，或一棵樹，或一個神僕人，也許將神的使命帶給我。我有許多別的事要辦，這就阻攔我聽不見了。並不是我不肯聽神，卻是我沒有敬聽之誠。我專心事物，我專心服務，我專心信念；所以神向我說話，我便聽不見了。小孩的態度總是這樣：「主啊，請說，僕人敬聽。」如果我沒有培養這種聽聞之誠，我只能在某時間聽見神的聲音；在其他的時間，我又為別的事所佔──為我所說的話，我要辦的事佔住了──使我變成聾子聽不見神，這不像小孩子的生活。我今天曾留心聽過神的聲音麼？
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月13日）
二月十三日 「……你的禱告……達到神面前，已蒙記念了。」使徒行傳十章4節 天使對哥尼流所說的是何等美的話語：你的禱告已蒙記念了。這彷彿就像多年來累積在主寶座前的祈求，終於有了答覆。神滿滿地祝福哥尼流，宛如久旱之後的乾地，突然之間得到甘霖。 我們的禱告如同馨香之氣，神把所有的祈求都收集起來。並且把馨香之氣像芬芳的花朵一樣保留在祂的室內，作為不斷的記念。當時候合宜時，神就會回答這些祈求。那時，地面上或許有異象、大光，而且我們會看到神實現祂國度的奇蹟。 我們被稱為「神所記念的人」，並被任命不分晝夜晨昏地向神祈禱。只要時候到了，神就會答覆，並給我們累積已久的祝福。 沒有任何一句禱詞會被神遺忘，我們等得越久，所累積的祝福就越大。
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