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1:1 當猶大王亞們的兒子約西亞在位的時候,耶和華的話臨到希西家的玄孫,亞瑪利雅的曾孫,基大利的孫子,古示的兒子西番雅。 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, during the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:
1:2 耶和華說:我必從地上除滅萬類。 <<I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,>> r declares the LORD. 1:3 我必除滅人和牲畜,與空中的鳥、海裏的魚,以及絆腳石和惡人;我必將人從地上剪除。這是耶和華說的。 <<I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble 1:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain. when I cut off man from the face of the earth,>> r declares the LORD. 1:4 我必伸手攻擊猶大和耶路撒冷的一切居民,也必從這地方剪除所剩下的巴力,並基瑪林的名和祭司, <<I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the pagan and the idolatrous priests-- 1:5 與那些在房頂上敬拜天上萬象的,並那些敬拜耶和華指著他起誓,又指著瑪勒堪起誓的, those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the LORD and who also swear by Molech, 1:5 Hebrew ((Malcam,)) that is, Milcom 1:6 與那些轉去不跟從耶和華的,和不尋求耶和華也不訪問他的。 those who turn back from following the LORD and neither seek the LORD nor inquire of him. 1:7 你要在主耶和華面前靜默無聲,因為耶和華的日子快到。耶和華已經預備祭物,將他的客分別為聖。 Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited. 1:8 到了我─耶和華獻祭的日子,必懲罰首領和王子,並一切穿外邦衣服的。 On the day of the LORD's sacrifice I will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign clothes. 1:9 到那日,我必懲罰一切跳過門檻、將強暴和詭詐得來之物充滿主人房屋的。 On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, 1:9 See 1 Samuel 5:5. who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit. 1:10 耶和華說:當那日,從魚門必發出悲哀的聲音,從二城發出哀號的聲音,從山間發出大破裂的響聲。 <<On that day,>> declares the LORD, <<a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the New Quarter, and a loud crash from the hills. 1:11 瑪革提施的居民哪,你們要哀號,因為迦南的商民都滅亡了!凡搬運銀子的都被剪除。 Wail, you who live in the market district; 1:11 Or ((the Mortar)) all your merchants will be wiped out, all who trade with 1:11 Or ((in)) silver will be ruined. 1:12 那時,我必用燈巡查耶路撒冷;我必懲罰那些如酒在渣滓上澄清的;他們心裏說:耶和華必不降福,也不降禍。 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, <The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.> 1:13 他們的財寶必成為掠物;他們的房屋必變為荒場。他們必建造房屋,卻不得住在其內;栽種葡萄園,卻不得喝所出的酒。 Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. They will build houses but not live in them; they will plant vineyards but not drink the wine. 1:14 耶和華的大日臨近,臨近而且甚快,乃是耶和華日子的風聲;勇士必痛痛地哭號。 <<The great day of the LORD is near-- near and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the day of the LORD will be bitter, the shouting of the warrior there. 1:15 那日是忿怒的日子,是急難困苦的日子,是荒廢淒涼的日子,是黑暗幽冥、密雲烏黑的日子, That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, 1:16 是吹角吶喊的日子,要攻擊堅固城和高大的城樓。 a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers. 1:17 我必使災禍臨到人身上,使他們行走如同瞎眼的,因為得罪了我。他們的血必倒出如灰塵;他們的肉必拋棄如糞土。 I will bring distress on the people and they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like filth. 1:18 當耶和華發怒的日子,他們的金銀不能救他們;他的忿怒如火必燒滅全地,毀滅這地的一切居民,而且大大毀滅。 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth.>> 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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