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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02日）
二月二日 「祂……將我藏在祂手蔭之下；又使我成為磨亮的箭，將我藏在祂箭袋之中。」以賽亞書四九章2節 「在祂手蔭之下」。我們常有到那裡去的需要。日光太炫耀了；我們的目光會受到損傷，使我們不能分辨相仿的顏色。所以神將我們暫時藏在疾病的蔭中、憂愁的蔭中、窮苦的蔭中，在那裡和日光隔絕。 但是不要怕這神的手蔭祂正在引導。你有許多功課只能彀在那邊學得的。 不要想神已經把你丟在一邊了。你仍舊在祂箭袋之中；祂並沒有把你當作無用之物拋去。 祂現在把你藏起，保守你直到相當的時候，祂要配你在弓弦上，送你出去，使仇敵受虧損，使神得榮耀。哦，在神手蔭之下的信徒啊，戰士如何寶貝他的箭，把牠藏在貼身的箭袋中，神也如此寶貝你愛護你，藏你在祂的蔭庇之下。 ─梅爾 許多時候，黑蔭倒是生長必需的條件。美麗的玉蜀黍在夏夜的蔭下生長得最快。在炎熱的日光下，牠的葉子是鬈著的，到了天上起黑雲的時候，葉子很快地開放了。也有許多美麗的花，日間藏起牠們的美麗來，晚蔭降時方纔開放。多雲多霧和多蔭的地帶，草木也蔥鬱茂盛。花圃裏不但有晨間怒放的花朵，也有「夜來香」，「夜來香」在日正當中時並無光彩，到深夜纔散佈它的芬芳。 假如一生儘是陽光， 我們將會盼望， 清涼的雨滴， 灑到我們臉上。 ─亨利范戴克
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月02日）
February 2 "In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft: in his quiver hath he hid me." (Isa. 49:2.) ＩN the shadow." We must all go there sometimes. The glare of the daylight is too brilliant; our eyes become injured, and unable to discern the delicate shades of color, or appreciate neutral tints─he shadowed chamber of sickness, the shadowed house of mourning, the shadowed life from which the sunlight has gone. But fear not! It is the shadow of God's hand. He is leading thee. There are lessons that can be learned only there. The photograph of His face can only be fixed in the dark chamber. But do not suppose that He has cast thee aside. Thou art still in His quiver; He has not flung thee away as a worthless thing. He is only keeping thee close till the moment comes when He can send thee most swiftly and surely on some errand in which He will be glorified. Oh, shadowed, shadowed, solitary ones, remember how closely the quiver is bound to the warrior, within easy reach of the hand, and guarded jealously. ─Christ in Isaiah, Meyer. In some spheres the shadow condition is the condition of greatest growth. The beautiful Indian corn never grows more rapidly than in the shadow of a warm summer night. The sun curls the leaves in the sultry noon light, but they quickly unfold, if a cloud slips over the sky. There is a service in the shadow that is not in the shine. The world of stellar beauty is never seen at its best till the shadows of night slip over the sky. There are beauties that bloom in the shade that will not bloom in the sun. There is much greenery in lands of fog and clouds and shadow. The florist has "evening glories" now, as well as "morning glories." The "evening glory" will not shine in the noon's splendor, but comes to its best as the shadows of evening deepen. If all of life were sunshine, Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling plash of rain. ─Henry Van Dyke.
■ 永活之泉（02月02日）
二月二日 神是個靈 「神是個靈，所以拜祂的，必須用心靈和誠實拜祂。」約翰福音四章24節 當神創造了人，又吹入一口生命氣息給人的時候，人就變成了一個活的魂。這一個魂是在靈和體的中間，他可以降服給靈被帶到神那裡，也可以降服給肉體和這肉體的情慾。在先祖墮落之後，人拒絕順服靈，成為身體的奴隸，在人裡面的靈，就變成完全黑暗的了。 當人重生的時候，人的靈又活過來，得著從上面來的生命。當人在重生的生命裡，和神有交通的時候，人的靈就降服於神的靈。靈就是人裡面最深的部份。詩篇五十一篇節「您所喜愛的，是內裡誠實，您在我隱密處，必使我得智慧。」耶利米書卅一章中也說：「我要將我的律法放在他們裡面。」以賽亞也說：「夜間我的心渴望您，我裡面的靈切切尋求您。」這一個心必須進到隱密處的靈的深處去，起來尋求神。 神是個靈，極其聖潔，極其榮耀。祂給我們一個靈，為的是要我們與祂相交，緊緊跟隨祂自己。但是這個能力因為罪就漸漸失去了。除了將我們的心在安靜裡獻上給神，讓祂的聖靈在我們裡面工作之外，就沒有別的恢復法子。神願意在我們裡面，我們的靈裡教導我們，用心靈和誠實來敬拜祂，祂的心是超過我們所能思想、所能感覺的。 「父要這樣的人拜祂。」如果我們等候祂，祂就要藉著聖靈來教導我們如何敬拜祂。在這安靜的時候，要肅敬靜默在神面前降服你自己，全心相信接受祂的靈溫柔的工作。對神說出這些話：「我的心哪，你當安靜在神面前。」「夜間我心中羨慕您，我裡面的靈切切尋求您。」「哦！神，我等候您。」
■ 中文屬天日子（02月02日）
二月二日 呼召之勉勵 「若不傳福音，我便有禍了！」哥林多前書九章16節 當心你的耳朵未聽神的召呼，凡得救的，都是召去替這個事實作見證；並不是召去傳道，至多只能作一種傳道上可用的示範。保羅說他必須傳福音，不然便是痛苦。切不要將保羅所說的，是指人的心靈與神接觸而獲救贖的事件。再沒有甚麼比得救還容易些，因為那是神權限內的事──「到我這裡來，我要使你們得救。」我們的主未曾把做門徒的條件，同得救的條件等量齊觀。我們藉著耶穌基督的十字架準定得救，不成問題。至於做門徒則有所選擇──「若有人……」 保羅這話是論到那些將要作耶穌僕人的，既是作了僕人，就沒有理由去問主人做甚麼，或往那裡去。神要照自己的意思，把我們作成擘的餅和奠的酒為祂所用。「特派傳福音」一語，其意是聽聞神的召呼；當某人聽見那種召呼時，就必感覺隱痛。這種隱痛，真真是痛苦。各種野心要除盡，各種慾望要熄滅，各種前程要完全丟開，只有一事，就是「特派傳福音」。當那種召呼臨到某人的時候，他想轉向而逃，準是禍及其心。本校之成立，就是要看這裡有沒有願傳神福音的男女；就是要看神能否握住你。當神握住你的時候，就當留意其他的事把你從神手中奪去。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月02日）
二月二日 「你們中間誰願為大，就必作你們的用人；誰願為首，就必作你們的僕人。」馬太福音廿章26、27節 這裡所提到的用人，是指在任何情況下願服務他人的人。但是「僕人」這兩個字卻表示賣了身的奴隸。而耶穌在此地清楚教導我們，僕人的事奉才是最高層次的事奉。 基督成了所有世人的奴隸，任何願意來到祂面前，與祂親近、同在的人，都必須學習這種事奉的精神──完全捨棄自我的權利，永遠不再為自我爭取什麼。 對我們來說，完完全全地對主耶穌忠實，為主的緣故做奴僕，並願意順服在主裡掌權的人，是極為可能的事。 奴僕的精神不僅是捨棄自我，且是樂意降服在有權柄者之下。雖然對事情沒興趣，但為了主的榮耀，為了弟兄的益處，心甘情願毫不保留地放棄個人的喜好及興趣。 主啊！願您為我們穿上謙卑的衣裳，使我們全然屬您。
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