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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16日)
二月十六日 「我雖然使你受苦,卻不再使你受苦。」那鴻書一章12節 受苦是有限度的。神能使你受苦,也能免去你受苦。讀者啊,你豈不是在嘆息說:「要受苦到幾時方纔停止呢?哦!讓我們耐心等候,直到神的旨意成功。當父用杖的目的完成以後,我們的父自然會把杖挪去的。 神使我們受苦,若是目的為要試驗我們,要我們在受苦中靠恩典榮耀祂,那麼,必須等到我們在人前有了明顯的見證之後,苦難纔會停止。 我們不該盼望苦難早些離去,除非神已經從我們得到了我們該給祂的一切榮耀和尊貴。 也許今天就會有平安,誰知道波浪翻騰的海,頃刻之間就會變成平靜如鏡的玻璃海呢? 農夫經歷了許多艱難之後,犁和鐮可以藏起來了,禾可以紮成捆收在倉裏了。那時我們都要歡喜快樂了。 在神不難將黑夜變成白晝。祂能將黑雲密佈天空,祂也能很容易地使天氣清朗。所以讓我們放心罷。苦難終究是要過去的。讓我們預先唱哈利路亞罷! ─司布真 農夫不會一直打穀,神也不會一直用杖。試煉不過是暫時。目前雖然有暴雨,不久卻要停止;一宿雖然有哭泣,早晨便必歡呼。因為祂的怒氣不過是轉眼之間,祂的恩典乃是一生之久。 我們這至輕的苦楚,乃是至暫的。並且這至暫的苦楚也是有目的的——為要完成我們永遠的榮耀。 信徒受試煉,就是證明我們在主面前的寶貴;不然主不會花這許多時間、力氣和心機在我們身上的。主絕不會來試煉我們,除非祂發現我們有頂寶貴的信心的礦苗,混在我們肉體的沙石中,祂要把我們純粹的信心提出來,就必須放我們在試煉的爐火中。 哦,受苦的信徒們啊,耐著罷!將來我們所得的酬報,將遠超過現在所出的代價。在萬王之王的面前得稱讚;在千萬聖天使面前受尊敬;在基督裏得榮耀;在國度和永世裏戴冠冕,操鐵杖,坐寶座——作王,直到永遠。啊,這是何等的賞賜呢! ─譯自火的試煉 時鳴鐘上的鐘錘,是使時鳴鐘走得準確的必需品;照樣,患難也是屬靈生命的必需品。香料越壓得緊,香氣越是濃郁;最美麗的花卉,是生長在荒僻的雪地裏的;最精美的寶石,受匠人琢磨的時間最長;最貴重的彫刻,受鑿子的擊打最多。這是一個自然定律。任何事物的完成,都要經過遠見高大而無微不至的磨練。 ─日誠報
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月16日)
February 16 "Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more." (Nah. 1:12.) THERE is a limit to affliction. God sends it, and removes it. Do you sigh and say, "When will the end be?" Let us quietly wait and patiently endure the will of the Lord till He cometh. Our Father takes away the rod when His design in using it is fully served. If the affliction is sent for testing us, that our graces may glorify God, it will end when the Lord has made us bear witness to his praise. We would not wish the affliction to depart until God has gotten out of us all the honor which we can possibly yield Him. There may be today "a great calm." Who knows how soon those raging billows will give place to a sea of glass, and the sea birds sit on the gentle waves? After long tribulation, the flail is hung up, and the wheat rests in the garner. We may, before many hours are past, be just as happy as now we are sorrowful. It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation. ─C. H. Spurgeon. The great Husbandman is not always threshing. Trial is only for a season. The showers soon pass. Weeping may tarry only for the few hours of the short summer night; it must be gone at daybreak. Our light affliction is but for a moment. Trial is for a purpose, "If needs be." The very fact of trial proves that there is something in us very precious to our Lord; else He would not spend so much pains and time on us. Christ would not test us if He did not see the precious ore of faith mingled in the rocky matrix of our nature; and it is to bring this out into purity and beauty that He forces us through the fiery ordeal. Be patient, O sufferer! The result will more than compansate for all our trials, when we see how they wrought out the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. To have one word of God's commendation; to be honored before the holy angels; to be glorified in Christ, so as to be better able to flash His glory on Himself─ah! that will more than repay for all. ─Tried by Fire. As the weights of the clock, or the ballast in the vessel, are necessary for their right ordering, so is trouble in the soul-life. The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine snow-solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary's wheel; the noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight. ─Daily Devotional Commentary.
■ 永活之泉(02月16日)
二月十六日 神的偉大 「因您為大,且行奇妙的事,惟獨您是神。」詩篇八十六篇10節 一個人開始作一件重要工作的時候,他就要擺上時間,思想那件工作的偉大。研究科學的人,在研究自然界的時候。例如天文學,需要花許多年的精力研究太陽,以及各種天體的大小重要性等。 那麼,難道我們榮耀的神,竟不值得我們花時間去尋求、去敬拜祂的榮耀麼?但是,我們對神之偉大的認識,是何等地膚淺呢?我們沒有花時間,俯伏在祂面前,在祂無可比擬的威嚴和尊榮之下接受感動。 用下面的話來默想,直到你充足的感覺,神是如何偉大的神。「耶和華本為大,該受大讚美,其大無法測度。」「我也要傳揚您的大德。」「他們記念您的大恩,就要傳出來。」(詩一四五3、6、7)不要想很容易把握著這些話的意思。要花時間讓這些話印在你心裡,直到你俯伏無聲地在神面前敬拜。 「耶和華啊!在您沒有難成的事,……您……是至大全能的神,謀事有大略,行事有大能。」(耶卅二17、19) 讓我們聽神的答應:「我是耶和華,是凡有血氣者的神,我豈有難成的事麼?」(耶卅二27) 要對神的偉大,有準確的認識,是需要花時間的。但是,如果我們將神所該得的尊榮歸給祂,並且我們的信心增長,認識我們的神,和祂的能力是何等偉大,我們就要被吸引停留在內室裡,在這位偉大全能的神面前,謙卑地俯伏敬拜。在祂豐盛的憐憫裡;藉著聖靈,祂要教導我們:「耶和華為大神,來啊!」 「我們要屈身敬拜,在造我們的耶和華面前跪下。」(詩九十五6) 「耶和華為大神,為大王,超乎萬神之上。」(詩九十五3)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月16日)
二月十六日 靈性自動的靈感 「從死裡復活。」以弗所書五章14節 一切的自動,不都是靈感。某人也許對你說:「振作精神,強制你不願意的思想,把它拋棄,努力奮鬥。」那是人類平常的自動。但是神之靈臨近的時候,說,「振作精神」,我們就感覺那種自動是靈感。 我們大家在青年時代都有一些夢幻和理想,但是遲早我們會覺得沒有力量去實現它們。我們不能做我們所想做的事,而我們很容易把我們的夢幻和理想看成死的,但是神要來說:「從死裡復活。」當神的靈感到來的時候,那叫我們從死裡復活,行不可能的事的能力也相偕而來了。那關於靈性自動的事,是要我們的精神發動以後,那種生命才能來到。神不賜與我們得勝的生命;祂在我們用力得勝的時候才給我們的生命。當神的靈感來到,祂說「從死裡復活」的時候,我們要站起來;神並不把我們扶起來。我們的主對枯乾手的人說:「伸出你的手來,」那人馬上一伸,他的手就好了,可見那人也履行了他自動的部份。如果我們修為得勝之業,我們就覺得有神的靈感;因為祂立刻給以生命。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月16日)
二月十六日 「但我們要專心以祈禱……為事。」使徒行傳六章4節 聖靈對聖潔的基督徒而言,主要是禱告的靈。如果我們將自己全然交託祂,我們的思維也完全受祂的影響,那麼祂將時刻與我們有美好的交通。 當我們面臨每件事時,我們應該帶到祂面前。在我們付出任何行動之前,應該先在靈裡祈求。然後,我們會發現重擔會減輕。儘管我們經常不能理解自己無言的禱告是什麼意思,但是這樣的禱告,不過是讓祂在我們裡面的心思旨意表明出來。當祂的旨意明顯之後,祂總是豐富地供給我們的需要。 對祂輕聲的忠告沒有信心,或是不順服,往往會使我們得不到祂所為我們預備的祝福。如果我們經常不順服,過一陣子,我們可能聽不到那微小的聲音,忽視祂的旨意。這非但使祂不再信任我們,更會讓我們在黑暗中絆倒,而失去祂最高旨意的引導。 主啊!請教導我們在靈裡禱告,不斷地禱告,使我們能完全照您的旨意行事。
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