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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17日）
二月十七日 「我……賜給以色列人的地。」約書亞記一章2節（直譯） 這裏神所說的「賜給」是現在式，並不是神將要作的事，乃是神就在此刻要作的。信心求神現在，神就現在賜給。神今天就要工作。許多時候我們在神面前等候一件東西、盼望一件東西、尋求一件東西，卻並沒有相信。這不過是我們的盼望，這不過是我們的需要，並不是我們的信心；因為「信就是所望之事的實底，是未見之事的確據。」（來十一1）「凡你們禱告祈求的，無論是甚麼，只要信是得著的，就必得著。」（可十一24）這裏說到信心的禱告，所用的動詞都是現在式的。我們有沒有這現在的信心呢？ ─辛普遜 真實的信心，就是以神的話為算數，在未見應驗之前，就已經深信了。頂自然地，我們常要先有眼見，或是憑據，證明我們所求的已經蒙神應許，然後纔肯相信；但是如果我們走信心的道路，除了神的話以外，我們不需要別的憑據，雖然四周的環境儘可和祂的話相反。祂已經說了，必定會按照我們的信心，給我們成全的。我們將要看見祂話語的應驗，因為我們已經信了。 寫詩篇的人說：「我若不信在活人之地得見耶和華的恩惠，就早已喪膽了。」（詩廿七13）他雖然還沒有看見神對他禱告的答應，但是他已經相信得見；這就能保守他不喪膽。 若是我們也有「信得見」的信心，我們就不會灰心了。我們要笑「不可能」，我們要頂高興地看神怎樣在紅海——人沒有方法可以脫離艱難的時候─開路。在這種試煉中，我們的信心最會長髮。 親愛的受苦的信徒啊，你是不是日夜在等待神，深怕神已經把你忘了呢？絕不會的，你當舉起你的頭來，為著那已經在半路上的拯救開始讚美祂。 ─譯自讚美的生命
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月17日）
February 17 "The land which I do give them, even the children of Israel." (Joshua 1:2.) ＧOD here speaks in the immediate present. It is not something He is going to do, but something He does do, this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting you today, in the present moment. This is the test of faith. So long as you are waiting for a thing, hoping for it, looking for it, you are not believing. It may be hope, it may be earnest desire, but it is not faith; for "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The command in regard to believing prayer is the present tense. "When ye pray, believe that ye receive the things that ye desire, and ye shall have them." Have we come to that moment' Have we met God in His everlasting NOW? ─Joshua, by Simpson. True faith counts on God, and believes before it sees. Naturally, we want some evidence that our petition is granted before we believe; but when we walk by faith we need no other evidence than God's Word. He has spoken, and according to our faith it shall be done unto us. We shall see because we have believed, and this faith sustains us in the most trying places, when everything around us seems to contradict God's Word. The Psalmist says, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of living" (Psa. 27:13). He did not see as yet the Lord's answer to his prayers, but he believed to see; and this kept him from fainting. If we have the faith that believes to see, it will keep us from growing discouraged. We shall "laugh at impossibilities," we shall watch with delight to see how God is going to open up a path through the Red Sea when there is no human way out of our difficulty. It is just in such places of severe testing that our faith grows and strengthens. Have you been waiting upon God, dear troubled one, during long nights and weary days, and have feared that you were forgotten? Nay, lift up your head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance which is on its way to you. ─Life of Praise.
■ 永活之泉（02月17日）
二月十七日 一個完全的心 「耶和華的眼目遍察全地，要顯大能幫助向祂心存誠實的人。」歷代志下十六章9節 我們知道，作世界的事務，必須用整個的心，才能作得好；這個原則，在屬靈的境界裡更是如此。神曾命令我們：「你要盡心、盡性、盡力，愛耶和華你的神。」（申六5）在耶利米廿九章十三節說：「你們尋求我，若專心尋求我，就必尋見。」 如果有熱心的基督徒，只專心注意他們日常的工作，卻在事奉神的事上非常隨便，這是希奇的事。他們不認識無論在甚麼情景中都該全心全力獻上事奉神。 我們願藉這本書有一個徹底的認識，就是：必須絕對用全心來尋求神。「耶和華的眼目遍察全地，要顯大能幫助向祂心存誠實的人。」這句話對於我們是一個何等的鼓勵，要叫我們帶著一個正直的心，謙卑等候在神面前，我們可以相信，祂的眼睛是察看我們的，要在我們和我們的工作上，顯出神的大能來。 基督徒啊！你有沒有在你敬拜神的時候，每個早晨學習這個功課，將自己獻上，為要遵行祂的旨意呢？用全心來禱告，用誠實的全心將自己獻給祂，然後在信心裡盼望神的能力在你裡面作工，也藉著你作工。 請你記得，要達到這個，必須先安靜在祂面前，直到你充分地領會祂實在是秘密的在你心裡作工。「我……等候神。」（詩六十九3）「把我藏在祂帳幕的隱密處。」（詩廿七5）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月17日）
二月十七日 避免意志消沉的自動力 「起來吃罷！」列王記上十九章5節 天使未給以利亞甚麼異象，未給他解釋聖經，也未行甚麼非常的事；只吩咐他去做極平常的事──起來吃。如果我們從未意志消沉，我們就不是有生之物；一個結晶體，是不會意志消沉的。要做一個人就有意志消沉的可能。不然，也就沒有所謂揚眉吐氣了。有些東西，是使我們意志消沉的，是產生死亡的，所以估計你自己的力量，總要將意志消沉的可能計算在裡面。 當神的靈來臨的時候，也不給我們異象；祂只告訴我行極平常的事。意志消沉容易叫我們避免神所造諸物中極平常的事，但神的靈來到，祂就啟示我們極自然極平常的事──我們也從未夢到神在這些事裡面，不過在我們作的時候，我們就會覺得神是在裡面。這樣的靈感，是一種避免意志消沉的自動力；我們要做當前的事，並且是因神的靈感而去做。如果我們做一件事，為的是勝過消沉，反而更加消沉起來；但是，如果神的靈使我們直覺地覺悟我們應做的事，我們一做，馬上就不消沉了。我們起來服從，就立刻踏入一種高尚生命的範圍。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月17日）
二月十七日 「……你們的生命與基督一同藏在神裡面。」歌羅西書三章3節 有些基督徒帶領了極多的人歸主，有時多得不太對勁。他們自己知道、別人也知道他們帶領了多少人信主。他們的果實似乎像水晶一樣具體，而且變成勞動本身的記念。 有些基督徒則完全與其他同工打成一片，所以別人很難看到他們的特性。但是這樣的事工才是最像基督的事工，因為主耶穌在教會的事工裡，也是隱藏的。主耶穌是教會隱藏的生命、榮耀的頭，而聖靈則更是藏在祂所用的器皿裡。 葡萄樹的主籐並不結果子，結滿成串果實的常是較小的籐，並且似乎得到收穫的光榮。而樹汁雖然不停地流，卻不為人所見；當我們越接近基督時，我們也願意不為人所注目，而讓他人變得更重要。我們應藉著無聲的愛和禱告，來支持別人的事工。 主啊！求您讓我變成在您寶座面前，用兩片翅膀遮臉的撒拉弗。我願像這些天使遮住他們的臉和腳一樣；情願順服您，就像他們將自己和他們的事奉都藏起來，那樣地服事您。
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