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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16日)
三月十六日 「生身的父都是暫隨己意管教我們,惟有萬靈的父管教我們,是要我們得益處,使我們在祂的聖潔上有分。」希伯來書十二章10節 康諾氏所寫的書中,說有一個山野少女葛文的故事。葛文頑皮任性,她在某一日不幸遇到意外,成了殘廢。臥病在床第中,性情更加暴躁,當她在怨天尤人的時候,「天的嚮導」來看她,所謂「天的嚮導」,是山中居民對傳教士的尊敬稱呼。 傳教士給她講了一個谷的寓言,他說:地球最初的時候,只有一望無際的原野,並沒有峽谷。原野的主人,有一天出外散步,看見大地上只長著青草,就問原野道:「你的花在那裏」?原野回答說:「主人,我沒有種子。」 於是主人吩咐禽鳥把各類花的種子帶來,四處播種。不久原野上就開出了番紅玫瑰,水荳花,毛莨花,向日葵,紅鈐蘭,以及一些耐熱的夏季花卉。主人看了很高興,但他找不到他最心愛的幾種花,於是他對原野說「還有鐵線蓮,縷斗菜,紫羅蘭,白頭翁,各種鳳尾草和開花的灌木在那裏呢?」 他又吩咐禽鳥把所有種子帶來,四處播種。但主人再來的時候,還是找不到他最心愛的花,於是他說:「那些最可愛的花在那裏」? 原野悲哀地說:「主人,我無法保存這些花,因為狂風拚命的吹颳,烈陽炙烤著我的胸膛,這些花忍不住原野的氣候,它們都零落凋萎了。」 於是主人吩咐閃電劈開原野的胸懷。原野在劇痛中顫抖哀號,為那黝黑而凹凸不平的裂口,悲痛呻吟了許多日子。 由於河水湧進了裂口,把深黑色的泥土帶了進來,禽鳥再把種子帶來,在那峽谷中播種。過了很長一段時間之後,粗糙的岩石上,舖滿了柔軟的青苔和綿延的籐蔓,各處角落,都垂掛著鐵線蓮和縷斗菜,碩壯的榆樹,仰起粗大枝幹,升向高空的陽光,樹根附近盤屈著矮杉和鳳仙花,到處都有紫羅蘭,白頭翁和孔雀草在生長開花,峽谷終於成了主人所尋求的安息,平安和快樂的心愛之地了。 傳教士講完了教事之後,就對她說:「聖靈所結的果子,也可以稱之謂聖靈之花,包括愛,喜愛,平安,堅忍,溫柔等等,其中有些只能在峽谷中生長」。 「只能在峽谷裏生長的是什麼花呢?」葛文輕聲問。傳教士答道:「溫和,謙卑,忍耐,其他如愛,喜樂,和平安,雖能在原野開放,但若生長在峽谷裏,它們將更美麗,更芬芳」。 葛文默默地躺了好一會,然後嘴唇顫抖地自言自語道:「在我的峽谷裏沒有花,只有粗陋的岩石」。 「親愛的葛文,總有一天它們會開出花來,主會發現,我們也會看到」。 親愛的,當你淪入你的峽谷時,請記著這句話!
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月16日)
March 16 "For our profit." (Heb. 12:10.) IN one of Ralph Connor's books he tells a story of Gwen. Gwen was a wild, wilful lassie and one who had always been accustomed to having her own way. then one day she met with a terrible accident which crippled her for life. She became very rebellious and in the murmuring state she was visited by the Sky Pilot, as the missionary among the mountaineers was termed. He told her the parable of the canyon. "At first there were no canyons, but only the broad, open prairie. One day the Master of the Prairie, walking over his great lawns, where were only grasses, asked the Prairie, `Where are your flowers?' and the prairie said, `Master I have no seeds.' "Then he spoke to the birds, and they carried seeds of every kind of flower and strewed them far and wide, and soon the prairie bloomed with crocuses and roses and buffalo beans and the yellow crowfoot and the wild sunflowers and the red lilies all summer long. Then the Master came and was well pleased; but he missed the flowers he loved best of all, and he said to the Prairie: `Where are the clematis and the columbine, the sweet violets and wind-flowers, and all the ferns and flowering shrubs?' "And again he spoke to the birds, and again they carried all the seeds and scattered them far and wide. But, again, when the Master came he could not find the flowers he loved best of all, and he said: "`Where are those my sweetest flowers?' and the prairie cried sorrowfully: "`Oh, Master, I cannot keep the flowers, for the winds sweep fiercely, and the sun beats upon my breast, and they wither up and fly away.' "Then the Master spoke to the Lightning, and with one swift blow the Lightning cleft the prairie to the heart. And the Prairie rocked and groaned in agony, and for many a day moaned bitterly over the black, jagged, gaping wound. "But the river poured its waters through the cleft, and carried down deep black mould, and once more the birds carried seeds and strewed them in the canyon. And after a long time the rough rocks were decked out with soft mosses and trailing vines, and all the nooks were hung with clematis and columbine, and great elms lifted their huge tops high up into the sunlight, and down about their feet clustered the low cedars and balsams, and everywhere the violets and wind-flower and naiden-hair grew and bloomed, till the canyon became the Master's favorit place for rest and peace and joy." Then the Sky Pilot read to her: "The fruit─I'll read `flowers'─of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness─and some of these grow only in the canyon." "Which are the canyon flowers?" asked Gwen softly, and the Pilot answered: " Gentleness, meekness, longsuffering; but though the others, love, joy, peace, bloom in the open, yet never with so rich a bloom and so sweet a perfume as in the canyon." For a long time Gwen lay quite still, and then said wistfully, who her lips trembled: "There are no flowers in my canyon, but only ragged rocks." "Some day they will bloom, Gwen dear; the Master will find them, and we, to shall see them." Beloved, when you come to your canyon, remember!
■ 永活之泉(03月16日)
三月十六日 為著工人的代禱 「要收的莊稼多,作工的人少,所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收他的莊稼。」馬太福音九章37—38節 門徒們對於以上這些話並不明白。基督所給他們的乃是一個撒種的思想,存放在他們心中待日後使用。五旬節時,當我們怎樣看到那麼多剛悔改得救的人,靠著聖靈的能力準備見證基督,他們一定也感覺到十天同心合意的禱告才帶下此祝福,就是聖靈大能所結的果子。 基督教訓我們無論莊稼有何等多,而工人又是何等少,祈求乃是最好、最有把握,也是唯一的路,為著我們的需要懇求。我們所需要知道的,不僅在我們有需要時向神禱告,而是整個的工作都是在禱告的靈中進行,所以為工人們代求乃是我們整個生活、工作最完善的配合。 在中國的內地會中,當傳道人的數字增至二百時,在中國舉行的某次會議中,他們深深地覺得需要更多的工人到偏遠地區作工;經過了多次禱告之後,他們感覺可以向神禱告在一年內,再賜給他們一百個傳道人及一萬英磅,以應付費用。他們就天天不停地禱告達一年之久。到了一年終了的時候,神賜給他們連男帶女一百位適當的工人,並且賜給他們一萬一千英磅。 為了應付當今世界的需要,為了廣大的工場,及待拯救的靈魂,許多教會都抱怨工人及金錢不夠。基督不是召我們也像起初使徒們同心恆切地禱告嗎?神是信實的,藉著聖靈的大能要供應我們每一個需要。願教會顯出合一的禱告與祈求,因神是聽禱告的神。 禱告: 可稱頌的主耶穌,求您教導您的教會知道為您活著、為您勞苦的意義何在。在恆切禱告的靈裡,使我們確信您會在每件事上,超過人所求地來供應這個即將滅亡世界的呼求。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月16日)
三月十六日 主來審判 「因為我們眾人,必要在基督臺前顯露出來。」哥林多後書五章10節 保羅說我們眾人,無論是傳道的和聽道的,都「要在基督臺前顯露出來。」如果你在基督的光榮中過慣了生活,末後的審判將使你因神的工作而快樂。你會把臉向著基督的審判臺,走在你所認知的至聖者的光中。對於別人一種錯誤的態度,終必終止在魔鬼的靈裡,與你的聖潔無關。一種私心的判斷,其結果是地獄在你裡面。趕快將這顯出來,而且要說:「我的神啊!我在那裡犯罪了」。如果你不如此,你的心就漸漸硬了。罪的懲罰使罪成為習慣。不但神要懲罰罪,罪也要在罪人裡面建立自己,償還整個代價。無論如何掙扎或祈禱,不能使你不做某種事情。罪的懲罰,就是使你逐漸成為習慣,不知道是罪。除了聖靈進入心中以外,沒有別的力量能改變罪的連屬結果。 「我們若在光明中行,如同神在光明中。」(約壹一7)光明中行,按照許多人看便是給別人一個標準。現代法利賽人的精神,最壞的不是假冒為善,卻是不覺得自己不真實。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月16日)
三月十六日 「因為耶和華……要賜下恩惠和榮耀。」詩篇八十四篇11節 「榮耀」這個詞很難翻譯、下定義或是解釋。但在靈裡敏感、儆醒的基督生命中,我們能找到「恩惠」的解釋。「榮耀」是滿溢的恩典、是生命中的甘露,是先嘗天堂的權利;更是從神寶座來的希望,由神心中所發出的啟示。我們不僅能擁有這樣的榮耀,並且能生活在其中。主耶穌曾為我們禱告,求神把賜給祂的榮耀,也賜給我們(約十七22)。 讓我們珍惜這樣的榮耀,生活在其中。大衛曾說:「我的靈啊,(原文作榮耀),你當醒起。」(詩五十七8)所以我們也可以求神使我們的榮耀奮起,加添我們能力,讓我們能如鷹展翅上騰,高高地與基督一同坐在屬天的位子上。 我們在等候主之後興起, 從新得力、生命更新, 像鷹一樣展翅上騰, 我們在靈裡必然登峰造極。 當我們健步如飛地再回到事奉中, 走許多聖徒所行過的道路, 我們必然奔跑卻不睏倦, 行走卻不疲乏。
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