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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（01月18日）
一月十八日 「感謝神，常帥領我們在基督裡誇勝。」哥林多後書二章14節 在人顯著的失敗中，神得著最完全的勝利。許多時候，仇敵似乎得勝了，神也容讓牠得勝；可是後來神終究剷除牠所有的作為，推翻牠顯著的勝利，一如經上所說：「使惡人的道路顛倒。」（詩一四六9，直譯）如果神不讓仇敵先得勢，神就不能給我們一個更大、更可誇的得勝。 三個希伯來人被擲入火窯的故事，是一個很好的例子。這裡，仇敵顯然勝利了。按事情看來，永活神的僕人將陷於一敗塗地的光景中了。（許多時候，我們也有這樣失敗的光景，同時仇敵真是歡喜。）他們跌在火焰中，他們的仇敵盼望看他們在可怕的火焰中頃刻之間化成飛灰，萬想不到這三個希伯來人竟在火窯中遊行自娛。這真使仇敵喫驚不小。尼布甲尼撒王叫他們從火中出來，甚至一根頭髮也沒有燒焦，一塊布也沒有變色，也沒有一些火燎的氣味，「因為沒有別神能這樣施行拯救。」（但三29） 顯著的失敗的結果，反是希奇的勝利。 假定這三個希伯來人失去了信心和勇氣，在受困之時怨神說：「為甚麼神不救我們脫離火窯呢？」他們定規會被火燒死，神也得不著榮耀了。親愛的，今天在你的生活中若是正有一個極大的試煉，不要氣餒，自認失敗，仍要繼續用信心藉著那能使你得勝有餘的主宣告勝利，榮耀的勝利立刻就要來了。我們應當知道：在一切神應許我們進入的艱難中，神在替我們造成機會，使我們在祂裡面學習信心的功課，藉著主基督誇勝，大大榮耀祂自己的名。 ─譯自讚美的生命 失敗可能與勝利同樣微妙， 受撼的靈魂成就了榮耀， 你看狂風中掙扎的橡樹， 在那擋風的一面， 受壓的樹身， 它的根卻向地下長得更深更穩。 唯有經歷過極大的悲痛， 纔能領會極大的歡欣， 憂患給心靈打開喜悅之門。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月18日）
January 18 "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ."(2Cor. 2:14.) ＧOD gets His greatest victories out of apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a little, and God lets it be so; but then He comes in and upsets all the work of the enemy, overthrows the apparent victory, and as the Bible says, "turns the way of the wicked upside down." Thus He gives a great deal larger victory than we would have known if He and not allowed the enemy, seemingly, to triumph in the first place. The story of the three Hebrew children being cast into the fiery furnace is a familiar one. Here was an apparent victory for the enemy. It looked as if the servants of the living God were going to have a terrible defeat. We have all been in places where it seemed as though we were defeated, and the enemy rejoiced. We can imagine what a complete defeat this looked to be. They fell down into the flames, and their enemies watched them to see them burn up in that awful fire, but were greatly astonished to see them walking around in the fire enjoying themselves. Nebuchadnezzar told them to "come forth out of the midst of the fire." Not even a hair was singed, nor was the smell of fire on their garments, "because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort." This apparent defeat resulted in a marvelous victory. Suppose that these three men had lost their faith and courage, and had complained, saying, "Why did not God keep us out of the furnace!" They would have been burned, and God would not have been glorified. If there is a great trial in your life today, do not own it as a defeat, but continue, by faith, to claim the victory through Him who is able to make you more than conqueror, and a glorious victory will soon be apparent. Let us learn that in all the hard places God brings us into, He is making opportunities for us to exercise such faith in Him as will bring about blessed results and greatly glorify His name. ─Life of Praise. "Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy."
■ 永活之泉（01月18日）
一月十八日 恆切禱告 「要人常常禱告，不可灰心。」路加福音十八章1節 「禱告要恆切。」羅馬書十二章12節 「不住地禱告。」帖撒羅尼迦前書五章17節 在禱告生活中，最叫人覺得為難的，就是禱告的答應，來得並不像我們所盼望的那樣迅速。我們常會為著這個思想：「或許我的禱告不對罷？」因而感覺氣餒，因此我們就不恆切禱告了。這就是我們的主所常常迫切教導我們學習的功課。若是我們細查這件事，我們就會看見，答應的遲延可能是有原因的，並且我們的等候也可能給我們帶來祝福。因為答應的遲延，我們的願望會越過越深、越來越強，我們也就會用我們的全心來禱告了。神是把我們放在恆久禱告的訓練學校裡，使我們軟弱的信心能變為剛強。請務必相信，在禱告遲延得答應這件事上，是有極大的祝福的。 更重要的，就是神的意思是要把我們吸引進入與祂自己更深的交通裡。當我們的禱告尚未得著答應的時候，我們要學習認識與神交通、與神親近，並神的愛，這些比我們的祈求得著答應更要緊，這樣我們才能繼續禱告。雅各因著他的禱告遲延得著答應，結果他得著了何等大的祝福！他面對面的看見了神，並且從神得著能力和得勝，作神的君王。（譯註：以色列原文意即神的君王，此處係指雅各在毘努伊勒與神摔跤後，改名「以色列」而言。） 基督徒啊！請注意這個警告。不要在答應還沒有得到的時候，就不耐煩和失望。「禱告要恆切」「不住的禱告」當你這樣作，你要看見這裡會有無可估計的祝福。你要查問——你的禱告是否真正照著神的旨意和神的話語；你也該查問——你的禱告是否在對的靈裡，是否奉著基督的尊名。只要繼續禱告，你就會知道禱告答應的遲延，反而是神所能賜給你的一個最寶貴的恩典了。你也會認識一件事，就是那些在禱告中從神得著最大能力的人，就是那些在神面前抓住祂的應許，而恆切禱告的人。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月18日）
一月十八日 是主！ 「多馬說，我的主、我的神。」約翰福音廿章28節 「你們給我喝。」我們之中有許多人要求耶穌基督止我們的渴，殊不知這正是我們要給祂喝的時候。我們現在應該傾出去，傾至最後一滴，不要吸取祂的來滿足我們自己。「你們要替我作見證」──意思是說，有一種純潔，不妥協，不貪污的生命，奉獻給主耶穌，祂無論把我們安放在那裡，我們總要使祂感覺滿意。 當事事留心，不要讓這些事與忠於耶穌基督的心爭強比勝。與崇奉耶穌競爭的事，是替祂服務。但是服務比較的易，喝盡苦杯，比較的難。神呼召的唯一目的，是滿足神，並不是替祂服務。我們不是奉召去替神打仗，卻是奉召去使用在祂的戰爭裡。我們是獻身服務的多呢？還是獻身耶穌基督的多呢？
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月18日）
一月十八日 「可以拿去給他們，作你我的稅銀。」馬太福音十七章27節 主耶穌奇蹟地在迦百農，為彼得準備了稅金。這個記載使我們能看出主的愛及善解人意。當彼得見了稅吏之後，經上說：「他進了屋子，耶穌先向他說」(太十七25)換句話說，主等待著他。耶穌在彼得還未開口之前，就已預備好他的需要，叫他到海邊去找在魚嘴裡的錢。 由此可見，主總是事先想到我們的需要。祂喜歡為我們保留面子，而且在緊急情況發生之前，祂不僅能預料得到，而且總是帶著愛心準備好我們的需要。 當主耶穌對彼得非常溫柔地說：「……可以拿去給他們，作你我的稅銀。」祂不僅先提到自己尷尬的需要，而且為祂憂愁受罪的孩子承擔一切重擔。祂將我們的憂慮視為祂的憂慮，把我們的悲哀當作祂的悲哀，把我們的恥辱看作祂的恥辱。因祂也曾凡事受過試探，祂能體恤我們的軟弱(來四15)。
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