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1:1 大流士王第二年八月,耶和華的話臨到易多的孫子、比利家的兒子先知撒迦利亞,說: In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo:
1:2 「耶和華曾向你們列祖大大發怒。 <<The LORD was very angry with your forefathers. 1:3 所以你要對以色列人說,萬軍之耶和華如此說:你們要轉向我,我就轉向你們。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: <Return to me,> declares the LORD Almighty, <and I will return to you,> says the LORD Almighty. 1:4 不要效法你們列祖。從前的先知呼叫他們說,萬軍之耶和華如此說:『你們要回頭離開你們的惡道惡行。』他們卻不聽,也不順從我。這是耶和華說的。 Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: <Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.> But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD. 1:5 你們的列祖在哪裏呢?那些先知能永遠存活嗎? Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? 1:6 只是我的言語和律例,就是所吩咐我僕人眾先知的,豈不臨到你們列祖嗎?他們就回頭,說:『萬軍之耶和華定意按我們的行動作為向我們怎樣行,他已照樣行了。』」 But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers? <<Then they repented and said, <The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.> >> 1:7 大流士第二年十一月,就是細罷特月二十四日,耶和華的話臨到易多的孫子、比利家的兒子先知撒迦利亞,說: On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo. 1:8 「我夜間觀看,見一人騎著紅馬,站在窪地番石榴樹中間。在他身後又有紅馬、黃馬,和白馬。」 During the night I had a vision--and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses. 1:9 我對與我說話的天使說:「主啊,這是甚麼意思?」他說:「我要指示你這是甚麼意思。」 I asked, <<What are these, my lord?>> The angel who was talking with me answered, <<I will show you what they are.>> 1:10 那站在番石榴樹中間的人說:「這是奉耶和華差遣在遍地走來走去的。」 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, <<They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth.>> 1:11 那些騎馬的對站在番石榴樹中間耶和華的使者說:「我們已在遍地走來走去,見全地都安息平靜。」 And they reported to the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees, <<We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.>> 1:12 於是,耶和華的使者說:「萬軍之耶和華啊,你惱恨耶路撒冷和猶大的城邑已經七十年,你不施憐憫要到幾時呢?」 Then the angel of the LORD said, <<LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?>> 1:13 耶和華就用美善的安慰話回答那與我說話的天使。 So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. 1:14 與我說話的天使對我說:「你要宣告說,萬軍之耶和華如此說:我為耶路撒冷為錫安,心裏極其火熱。 Then the angel who was speaking to me said, <<Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: <I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, 1:15 我甚惱怒那安逸的列國,因我從前稍微惱怒我民,他們就加害過分。 but I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they added to the calamity.> 1:16 所以耶和華如此說:現今我回到耶路撒冷,仍施憐憫,我的殿必重建在其中,準繩必拉在耶路撒冷之上。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 <<Therefore, this is what the LORD says: <I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,> declares the LORD Almighty. 1:17 你要再宣告說,萬軍之耶和華如此說:我的城邑必再豐盛發達。耶和華必再安慰錫安,揀選耶路撒冷。」 <<Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: <My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.> >> 1:18 我舉目觀看,見有四角。 Then I looked up--and there before me were four horns! 1:19 我就問與我說話的天使說:「這是甚麼意思?」他回答說:「這是打散猶大、以色列,和耶路撒冷的角。」 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, <<What are these?>> He answered me, <<These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.>> 1:20 耶和華又指四個匠人給我看。 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. 1:21 我說:「他們來做甚麼呢?」他說:「這是打散猶大的角,使人不敢抬頭;但這些匠人來威嚇列國,打掉他們的角,就是舉起打散猶大地的角。」 I asked, <<What are these coming to do?>> He answered, <<These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.>> 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04日)
二月四日 「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處。」以賽亞書五八章14節 熟習航空的人告訴我們:他們初習的時候,常是逆風駕駛。逆風會把飛機抬得高些。這個祕訣,他們是從甚麼地方學來的呢?他們從鳥類那裏學來的。如果一隻鳥兒正飛著玩,牠就隨風而飛。如果遇見了危險,牠就立刻轉過身來,面向風飛;這樣,牠可以飛得高些。 人生的逆境,是神給你的逆風,它們能抬你到最高級的一屬天的生活去。這就是「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處」的方法。讓我們作一個帶響弦的風箏,在神的風中越飄越高,同時發出最好聽的音樂——讚美——來以悅神耳。 你有沒有經歷過:夏日空氣熱悶的時候,有時竟連氣也會透不過來。但在西方的天邊,出現了一朵雲,接踵而至。暴風雨掩蓋了這世界給這世界帶來了無窮的舒適,空氣也澄清了,氣象為之一新,世界是改觀了。 人生也完全一樣的道理。當暴風雨來臨的時候,環境可能起了惡劣的變化,但它能發生澄清的作用,充滿了新的氣象,好像天堂的一角也被帶到地上來了。 ─選 障礙應該使我們歡唱。風之能發生曼妙的聲響,並不在海洋上暢行無阻的時候,而是在艱難地吹過層層枝葉交織的松樹林間,或是吹到「愛奧良」琴的弦上,起了阻抗作用的時候。在上面這些場合,風才發出有力和美麗的音韻。釋放你的靈魂,讓它橫掃生命的障礙,穿過痛苦的可佈森林,小至微細的磨折和煩惱,那麼你的靈魂,也會唱出它的歌聲了。 ─選 像一隻停飛的小鳥, 棲息在細細的樹梢, 歌唱時抖抖下垂, 我有翅膀,不必煩惱。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月04日)
February 4 "I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth." (Isa. 58:14.) THOSE who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away towards the very sun. Sufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens. You have seen in the summer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed. Human life is worked out according to exactly the same principle. When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. ─Selected. Obstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when rushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice. ─Selected. "Be like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight. And feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings."
■ 永活之泉(02月04日)
二月四日 愛慕神 「夜間,我心中羨慕您。」以賽亞書廿六章9節 甚麼人是人在地上所能看見、能尋得、最重要、最偉大、最榮耀的東西呢?只有神自己。甚麼是人每天所需要而能作到的,又最重要、最美好、最榮耀的事呢?除了尋求、認識、愛慕,並讚美這位榮耀的神之外,再也沒有別的了。神是那麼的榮耀,但那些將自己獻給神、為神而活、讓祂的榮耀在心裡工作,而成為他的生命的人,也是極其榮耀的。 弟兄們!你有沒有學習每天去作那第一的、最偉大的事呢?沒有一件事比尋求這位神,並學習碰見祂、敬拜祂,為祂和祂的榮耀而活著,是更偉大的。每一個基督徒,真的看見了這一個,當藉著交通降服跟從神,並且以神為他生活的主要目的,在那時候,也就是他在基督徒生命的道路上更長進了。 請花時間來尋求這究竟是不是一個真理,是不是一個最高的智慧,是基督徒應該為著神而活的。─在生活中對神有正確的認識並用全心來愛祂。相信這不僅是非常的實在,而且神自己也極盼望,你能這樣與祂同活,祂願意答應你的禱告,使你能經歷這一個。 請自今天起從聖經中拿出一些話,用安靜的心,來對神說:「神阿,您是我的神,我要切切地尋求您,我渴想您;我的心切慕您。我要緊緊跟隨您。」(詩六十三1)「我一心尋您。」(詩一一2) 以極深的崇敬和像小孩一樣的盼望,重複這些話,直到這些話的精意和能力,進入你的心;並且等候神,直到你嘗著了與祂這樣相交的福份。當你這樣保持下去的時候,你就要學習存敬畏的心活在神面前,並盼望整天都繼續在這種情形裡。 「我曾耐性等候耶和華,他垂聽我的呼求。」(詩四十1)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月04日)
二月四日 人格支配力量的尊嚴 「原來基督的愛激勵我們。」哥林多後書五章14節 保羅說,他被基督的愛操縱著,箝制著,好像被箝在老虎箝裡一般。我們中沒有多的人知道被神的愛握住;都是被我們的經驗握住了。有一件事握住了保羅,直到他的眼界見不著別的東西,那就是神的愛。「基督的愛激勵我們」──當你聽見某男某女心中有這樣的音調,你絕不能錯認的,你準知道神的靈在那人裡面是進行裕如,毫無阻窒的。 當我們重生於神的靈,神就在我們裡面作見證,那見證的音調,理當是這樣。但是聖靈的洗禮,卻能永遠把這忘卻了,而我們會開始覺得耶穌說「你們可以給我作見證。」這句話的意思,不是見證耶穌所作的──那是一種初步的見證──卻是「給我作見證。」我們給祂作見證,就是把一切發生在我們身上的事情,當作發生在祂的身上。無論是稱讚或譴責,是逼迫,或欽仰,沒有人像這樣替耶穌基督忍受這些事,除非他受過耶穌基督人格的激勵。這是該當留意的,也是基督徒工人最難明白的。保羅說他被基督的愛握住;那是因為他行其所行的緣故。無論人批評他放蕩或拘謹,他卻不介意;他只為一件事活著,那就是勸人注意神的審判和基督的愛。像這樣徜徉於基督的愛中是生活成功的祕訣,將永留神的權能和聖潔的印象,不計自身的聖潔與否。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月04日)
二月四日 「我就常與你們同在,直到世界的末了。」馬太福音廿八章20節 主基督不是仍然釘在十字架上的主,祂乃是我們又真又活的神。 有一天,在派斯頓潘靠近愛丁堡的地方,我舉目往這曾為戰場的地方看了很久。有一回當戰事正危險之即,一方的首領因受傷而倒了下來。當他的部下看到他不支倒地,他們幾乎立刻夾腿逃離戰場。他們握著手榴彈的手雖然強壯,但卻不停地抖,突然之間,他們竟寸步難行。還好這個年老的首領強打精神,用他的手肘把自己撐起來說:「我沒死,我的孩子們,我在觀看我的同胞盡他們的責任。」 同樣情況,我們的救主在復活之後,也這麼對我們說。儘管我們無法看到祂,但是祂曾說:「我就常與你們同在,直到世界的末了。」注意,祂用「常」這個字來強調祂的同在,是不斷且恆常的。祂沒有用「將會與你們同在」,卻保證我們與祂的同在是繼續、永恆的。 不多時,我們將勝過一切衝突; 不多時,我們將贏得所有戰鬥; 然後,我們要揮舞我們勝利的雙手, 高唱不朽的詩歌, 我們歡樂之歌的歌詞將是── 靠著您,我已戰勝了一切。
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