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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（03月08日）
三月八日 「求您……照您所說的而行。願您的名永遠……被尊為大。」歷代志上十七章23—24節 這是一個真信的禱告的樣本。許多時候，我們所求的，並不是神所應許的。因此我們一時不會明白我們的禱告是否合乎神的旨意。大衛在這裡的禱告，告訴我們，他深信所求應許；在這種時候，我們只須帶著信心，用手指按著那應許，祈求神說：「求您照您所說的而行。」這是最美麗，最有力，最穩妥的禱告。用不著焦急，用不著苦求，用不著掙扎；我們只要拿出支票來兌現就是了——拿出應許來，要求實踐。這樣，會增加我們禱告的興趣。求一件神的應許，遠勝求一百件不清楚神旨的事情。 ─梅爾 聖經中每一個應許，都是神親筆簽字的，我們都可以去要求：「求您照您所說的而行。」創造者決不會欺騙信靠祂的受造者；天上的父決不會對祂自己的孩子失信。 「求您記念向您僕人所應許的那叫我有盼望的話」（詩一一九49，直譯）是一個最有力的禱告。他給神的理由是：這是您的話，您豈不守信麼？如果您不實踐，又何必說呢？您既叫我在您的話上有盼望，難道要使我失去您自己所給我的盼望麼？ ─司布真 「且滿心相信，神所應許的必能作成。」（羅四21） 神的永久信實使聖經中的應許「又寶貴，又極大。」（彼後一4）人的應許常是一無價值的。許多毀約使人心碎。但是神從創世以來，從來沒有向祂的孩子失過一次信。 哦，一個基督人在痛苦之夜站在應許的門口，不敢拿門閂，這是何等可憐呢？他應該放膽進去，猶如一個孩子進父親的家一般。 ─葛納爾 神每一個應許都是建立在四個根基上的；神的公義，神的聖潔，神的恩典，神的真實。神的公義，不讓祂失信；神的聖潔，不讓祂欺騙；神的恩典，不讓祂遺忘；神的真實，不讓祂改變。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月08日）
March 8 "Do as thou hast said, that thy name may be magnified forever." (1 Chron. 17:23, 24.) ＴHIS is a most blessed phase of true prayer. Many a time we ask for things which are not absolutely promised. We are not sure thereforce until we have persevered for some time whether our petitions are in the line of God's purpose or no. There are other occasions, and in the life of David this was one, when we are fully persuaded that When we ask is according to God's will. We feel led to take up and plead some promise from the page of Scripture, under the special impression that it contains a message for us. At such times, in confident faith, we say, "Do as Thou hast said." There is hardly any position more utterly beautiful, strong, or safe, than to put the finger upon some promise of the Divine word, and claim it. There need be no anguish, or struggle, or wrestling; we simply present the check and ask for cash, produce the promise, and claim its fulfillment; nor can there be any doubt as to the issue. It would give much interest to prayer, if we were more definite. It is far better to claim a few things specifically than a score vaguely. ─F. B. Meyer. Every promise of Scripture is a wrinting of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request: "Do as Thou hast said." The Creator will not cheat His creature who depends upon His truth; and far more, the Heavenly Father will not break His word to His own child. "Remember the word unto thy servant, on which thou hast caused me to hope," is most prevalent pleading. It is a double argument: it is Thy Word. Wilt Thou not keep it? Why hast thou spoken of it, if Thou wilt not make it good. Thou hast caused me to hope in it, wilt Thou disappoint the hope which Thou has Thyself begotten in me? ─C. H. Spurgeon. "Being absolutely certain that whatever promise he is bound by, he is able also to make good." (Rom. 4:21, Weymouth's Translation.) It is the everlasting faithfulness of God that makes a Bible promise "exceeding great and precious." Human promises are often worthless. Many a broken promise has left a broken heart. But since the world was made, God has never broken a single promise made to one of His trusting children. Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house. ─Gurnal. Every promise is built upon four pillars: God's justice and holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change, which makes Him able to accomplish. ─Selected.
■ 永活之泉（03月08日）
三月八日 代禱的學校 「基督在肉體的時候，既大聲哀哭，流淚禱告，懇求那能救祂免死的主，就因祂的虔誠，蒙了應允。」希伯來書五章7節 基督為元首，是天上的代禱者，我們乃是祂的身體，在地上與祂同工。我們不要以為基督沒有出任何代價而成為一個代禱者；祂若未出代價就不能成為我們的榜樣。以賽亞書五十三章10—12節曾論到祂說：「耶和華以祂為贖罪祭，祂必看見後裔……祂必看見自己勞苦的功效……我要使祂與位大的同分……因為祂將命傾倒以致於死。」注意，其三度地說到祂將祂的命傾倒。 祂將命傾倒——就是代禱的神聖意義；唯有如此，才能使祂的奉獻及禱告能在神面前有能力。祂經過了生與死，使祂得以拯救將要滅亡的人。祂如此的獻上自己，乃是一種在神面前大有能力之靈的顯出。 如果我們這些與主耶穌同勞苦的，也是祂的助手的人，意欲有份於祂代禱的能力，就必先有份於祂生命的痛苦，為了代禱的至大工作，必先獻上我們的一生及一切的喜好。代禱絕不可是一時的熱心；它必須是一個一直在加重的迫切願望，是我們所期望並生活的目的，超乎一切之上的。只有不顧生命捨己的生活，才能使代禱有能力（徒十五26，廿20；腓二17；啟十二11）。 我們愈思想這個蒙福的事實並為了神的榮耀，及人的救贖而運用代禱的意義，我們就愈深的相信放下一切而有份於基督代禱的工作，是最值得的。 禱告： 可稱頌的主耶穌啊，求您教導我們如何與您聯合，為了您所買回來的人向神呼籲；願您的愛充滿我們及您的聖徒，使我們能學習為著認識您聖靈的大能而懇求。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月08日）
三月八日 放棄的生命 「我已經與基督同釘十字架。」加拉太書二章20節 不但願離棄罪孽，還願放棄他處世接物的整個方法，才能與耶穌基督聯合。從上頭的聖靈而生，意思是說，在開始的階段我們必得先放棄一切的虛偽。我們的主要我們向祂呈獻的，不是善德，不是正直，也不是努力，卻是要我們把罪孽帶到祂的面前。但是，祂拿甚麼來換取我們的罪呢？就是仁義。那麼，我們必要放棄一切自擅的才能，和一切對於神有價值的思想。 此後，神的靈必要指示我們還有甚麼是應當放棄的。那就是要放棄任何屬於自己的權利。我願意放棄一切既得的權利，既得的愛情，而與耶穌基督同死麼？ 在我們實行放棄以前，我們總要經過一種放棄的痛苦。當一個人認識自己，如主認識他一樣，那叫他驚恐的，並不是那震動他肉體的罪，卻是他心裡頑強的自傲。當他因主的光而認識自己的當兒，羞辱驚懼和覺悟都相逼而來。 如果你要解決放棄的問題，走過難關，放棄一切，那麼，神定會使你適於祂的需要。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月08日）
三月八日 「……你們要禱告……」路加福音廿二章40節 禱告是推動宣教事工的力量，所以我們要向收莊稼的主祈禱，求祂打發工人出去、收祂的莊稼。(太九38) 我們每天都要求神感動人心，使他們受聖靈的催逼到國外去傳福音。我們可以求神使他們夜間醒來，心中深信許多他鄉的外邦人正在沈淪之中，而且他們若不傳福音，那些外邦人的血就會落在他們頭上。只要我們禱告，神就會差遣一些人，讓他們覺得「王的事甚急」。(撒上廿一8) 親愛的，我們禱告了還要禱告。當我們所祈求的到達天上時，天上會有片刻的沈默；但是地上的聖徒卻會變得火熱，主的再臨也會因此加快。讓我們不斷祈求收莊稼的主，直到祂差遣許許多多的工人出去。 願神從天降下 屬天的火， 使我們心中充滿強烈的渴慕， 直到我們的禱詞如同香一樣達到祂那裡。
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