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1:1 當士師秉政的時候，國中遭遇饑荒。在猶大、伯利恆，有一個人帶著妻子和兩個兒子往摩押地去寄居。 In the days when the judges ruled, \f 1:1 Traditionally ((judged)) there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
1:2 這人名叫以利米勒，他的妻名叫拿俄米；他兩個兒子，一個名叫瑪倫，一個名叫基連，都是猶大的伯利恆的以法他人。他們到了摩押地，就住在那裏。 The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. 1:3 後來拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了，剩下婦人和她兩個兒子。 Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 1:4 這兩個兒子娶了摩押女子為妻，一個名叫俄珥巴，一個名叫路得，在那裏住了約有十年。 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, 1:5 瑪倫和基連二人也死了，剩下拿俄米，沒有丈夫，也沒有兒子。 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 1:6 她就與兩個兒婦起身，要從摩押地歸回；因為她在摩押地聽見耶和華眷顧自己的百姓，賜糧食與他們。 When she heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 1:7 於是她和兩個兒婦起行離開所住的地方，要回猶大地去。 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. 1:8 拿俄米對兩個兒婦說：「你們各人回娘家去吧。願耶和華恩待你們，像你們恩待已死的人與我一樣！ Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, <<Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 1:9 願耶和華使你們各在新夫家中得平安！」於是拿俄米與她們親嘴。她們就放聲而哭， May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.>>Then she kissed them and they wept aloud 1:10 說：「不然，我們必與你一同回你本國去。」 and said to her, <<We will go back with you to your people.>> 1:11 拿俄米說：「我女兒們哪，回去吧！為何要跟我去呢？我還能生子作你們的丈夫嗎？ But Naomi said, <<Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 1:12 我女兒們哪，回去吧！我年紀老邁，不能再有丈夫；即或說，我還有指望，今夜有丈夫可以生子， Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me--even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons-- 1:13 你們豈能等著他們長大呢？你們豈能等著他們不嫁別人呢？我女兒們哪，不要這樣。我為你們的緣故甚是愁苦，因為耶和華伸手攻擊我。」 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD's hand has gone out against me!>> 1:14 兩個兒婦又放聲而哭，俄珥巴與婆婆親嘴而別，只是路得捨不得拿俄米。 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her. 1:15 拿俄米說：「看哪，你嫂子已經回她本國和她所拜的神那裏去了，你也跟著你嫂子回去吧！」 <<Look,>> said Naomi, <<your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.>> 1:16 路得說：「不要催我回去不跟隨你。你往哪裏去，我也往那裏去；你在哪裏住宿，我也在那裏住宿；你的國就是我的國，你的 神就是我的 神。 But Ruth replied, <<Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 1:17 你在哪裏死，我也在那裏死，也葬在那裏。除非死能使你我相離！不然，願耶和華重重地降罰與我。」 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.>> 1:18 拿俄米見路得定意要跟隨自己去，就不再勸她了。 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. 1:19 於是二人同行，來到伯利恆。她們到了伯利恆，合城的人就都驚訝。婦女們說：「這是拿俄米嗎？」 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, <<Can this be Naomi?>> 1:20 拿俄米對他們說：「不要叫我拿俄米〔就是甜的意思〕，要叫我瑪拉〔就是苦的意思〕，因為全能者使我受了大苦。 <<Don't call me Naomi,>>1:20 ((Naomi)) means ((pleasant)); also in verse 21. she told them. <<Call me Mara,1:20 ((Mara)) means ((bitter.))because the Almighty 1:20 Hebrew ((Shaddai)); also in verse 21 has made my life very bitter. 1:21 我滿滿地出去，耶和華使我空空地回來。耶和華降禍與我，全能者使我受苦。既是這樣，你們為何還叫我拿俄米呢？」 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted 1:21 Or ((has testified against)) me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.>> 1:22 拿俄米和她兒婦摩押女子路得，從摩押地回來到伯利恆，正是動手割大麥的時候。 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning. 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03日）
三月三日 「那鬼喊叫，使孩子大大的抽了一陣瘋，就出來了。」馬可福音九章26節 惡者從來不肯放棄他的地盤，除非先有一陣激烈的戰爭。我們得到屬靈的產業，並不是在宴樂中得到的，乃是在戰場上得到的。這是屬靈的祕密。我們身體的各部亦是如此，要恢復屬靈的自由，必須要有寶血的代價。亞玻倫（啟九11）不是能用情誼、禮貌、要求，請出來的；他在裏面高視闊步；所以我們必須用屬靈的武力，寶血和眼淚驅逐他，他纔會出去。這一點我們必須記得，否則我們生活中會有許多誤解。我們重生，並不是重生在王宮中，乃是重生在曠野；那裏我們喫的奶，就是四周的風波和戰爭。「我們進入神的國，必須經歷許多艱難。」（徒十四22） ─喬懷德 我們祖先的信心， 雖歷經火與劍， 甚之牢獄的迫害， 但仍然不變， 我們聽到了這許多光榮的史蹟， 我們的心啊！ 何等的跳躍歡騰。 我們祖先的信心， 神聖的信心， 我們亦願矢忠矢誠， 至死不易！ 我們的祖先， 被關在黑牢之中， 可是他們心中自由的良知， 誰能索縛？ 倘若後代子孫也能為神殉道， 那是何等美妙何等幸福！
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月03日）
March 3 "And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him." (Mark 9:26.) ＥVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." ─Dr. J.H.Jowett. "Faith of our Fathers! living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword: O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word. Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to Thee till death! "Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and conscience free; How sweet would be their children's fate, If they, like them, could die for Thee!"
■ 永活之泉（03月03日）
三月三日 神計劃中人的地位 「天是耶和華的天、地，祂卻給了世人。」詩篇廿五篇16節 神創造天作為祂自己的居所——完美的、榮耀的、至聖的。祂把地給了人作為人的居所——一切都很美好，只不過在起初的光景，需要人看守、栽培。神的工作已作成而有待人繼續並完成。認想土中所藏的煤礦以及水中之蒸氣，都有待人去發現、使用，正如今日遍地的鐵路網及水面上的船隻。神創造萬有就是如此被人所用，藉著人的智慧與勤勞去發現、使用。今天地上能有那麼多都市、居所、農田、果園等，都當歸功於人。創造之工是由神開始的，神創造、預備了，而是由人實行並達成神的目的。因此大自然就給我們看見這個奇妙的神人合作經營，為達到此目的的神，呼召人與祂同工，使神創造的工作能得以實行並達到神所預定之結果。 這個原則在神恩典的國度中也是一樣。在神偉大的救贖中，神已經把天上的生命及一切屬靈的福氣都向人顯明出來。但神卻把宣揚救恩福氣的工作託給人，使人能得著這些福氣。 世人為了尋求神所隱藏在地裡的財寶，而顯出何等的慇勤！離道神的兒女不該同樣地忠心尋求神所藏在天上的福氣，而將這些祝福帶到地上來嗎？乃是藉著神子民晝夜的呼求不能使祂的國度降臨，使祂的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。 禱告： 永遠可稱頌的主啊，您所賜予人的地位是何等奇妙，祂竟能將您所動的善工託付人繼續下去。我們求您開啟我們的心，使我們知道有藉著傳揚福音及代禱的工作，您的子民才能實行出您的旨意。主啊，開我們的眼睛——奉主耶穌之名。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月03日）
三月三日 愛的真表現 「你餧養我的羊。」約翰福音廿一章17節 這是愛的成就。神的愛不是造的，愛是神的本性。在我們領受聖靈的時候，聖靈使我們與神聯絡，使祂的愛在我們裡面彰顯出來。當我們的靈藉著內在的聖靈而與神結合的時候，那並不是就此了事；是要我們與父合而為一，正如耶穌與父合而為一一樣。耶穌基督與父的合一性如何呢？因為祂與父合一，所以父差祂下來替我們作完全的犧牲，祂也照樣的說：「您怎樣差遣我到世上，我也照樣差他們到世上。」 彼得因主刺激問語的啟示而認知他愛耶穌；然後耶穌就叫他分愛於人。不必表證你怎樣的愛我，不必宣揚你所有的奇妙的啟示，但要「餧養我的羊。」耶穌有些怪異而調皮的羊，有些污濁的羊，有些粗野好鬥的羊，有些走入迷途的羊！神的愛沒有疲竭的可能，如果我們愛是由那個中心的源頭流出，我裡面的愛也沒有疲竭的可能。神的愛不因個性的分別而有差異。如果我愛主，我就不可讓我的性情來指導；只要餧養祂的羊就得了。這是責無旁貸的職務。當心不要以人性的同情來代替神的愛，因為那種愛終結是要褻瀆神之愛的。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月03日）
三月三日 「凡管教的事，當時不覺得快樂，反覺得愁苦；後來卻為那經練過的人，結出平安的果子，就是義。」希伯來書十二章11節 神似乎喜歡用似非而是或似矛盾的方法來成就事情。例如甜頭之前必有酸苦，黎明之前總是黑夜，死亡卻是生命的大門；這彷彿是祂賜恩典的法則。 有許多人想得到權力，但是權力從何而來呢？有一天我經過一個發電場，看到電如何使電車的引擎轉動。我聽到無數輪子的嗡嗡之聲，於是就問我的朋友：「電力是如何產生的？」他說：「是靠那些輪子轉動時所產生的電磁摩擦而生，摩擦產生電流。」 同樣道理，當神要使我們更有能力時，祂也使我們受更多壓力。祂藉著摩擦使我們能有屬靈的力量。有些人不喜歡這個方法，有些人不明白。往往我們會逃避壓力，而不藉這樣的機會得到能力，或是突破痛苦的經歷。 煩惱憂傷的人，你雖在管教之中， 天父正在說：「休息、休息。」 讓我們學習在主前默默無聲。 使神能照著祂的旨意來塑造我們。
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