2016年6月18日 星期六

哈巴谷書3:17-19

19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
 Habakkuk 3:19




3:17 雖然無花果樹不發旺,葡萄樹不結果,橄欖樹也不效力,田地不出糧食,圈中絕了羊,棚內也沒有牛;
3:18 然而,我要因耶和華歡欣,因救我的上帝喜樂。
3:19 主耶和華是我的力量;他使我的腳快如母鹿的蹄,又使我穩行在高處。這歌交與伶長,用絲弦的樂器。

Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
 I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength;
 he makes my feet like the deer's;
he makes me tread on my high places.
 To the choirmaster:with stringed instruments.

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    「主耶和華是我的力量」是整本書的高潮,若沒有耶和華成為我們的力量,我們就無法突破環境的限制,正如這裡說的環境是多麼遭:「無花果樹不發旺,葡萄樹不結果,橄欖樹也不效力,田地不出糧食,圈中絕了羊,棚內也沒有牛」!

    因為,可以在這惡劣的環境「因耶和華歡欣,因救我的上帝喜樂」因為「主耶和華是我的力量」,所以「我的腳快如母鹿的蹄,穩行在高處。」

    也因為此,哈巴谷做了這首快樂的歌,如同在禮拜中的聖歌隊所獻的詩歌一樣,因著「主耶和華是我的力量」


哈巴谷書3:8-16



3:8 耶和華啊,你乘在馬上,坐在得勝的車上,豈是不喜悅江河、向江河發怒氣、向洋海發憤恨嗎?
3:9 你的弓全然顯露,向眾支派所起的誓都是可信的。(細拉)你以江河分開大地。
3:10 山嶺見你,無不戰懼;大水氾濫過去,深淵發聲,洶湧翻騰(原文是向上舉手)。
3:11 因你的箭射出發光,你的槍閃出光耀,日月都在本宮停住。
3:12 你發忿恨通行大地,發怒氣責打列國,如同打糧。
3:13 你出來要拯救你的百姓,拯救你的受膏者,打破惡人家長的頭,露出他的腳(原文是根基),直到頸項。(細拉)
3:14 你用敵人的戈矛刺透他戰士的頭;他們來如旋風,要將我們分散。他們所喜愛的是暗中吞吃貧民。
3:15 你乘馬踐踏紅海,就是踐踏洶湧的大水。
3:16 我聽見耶和華的聲音,身體戰兢,嘴唇發顫,骨中朽爛;我在所立之處戰兢。我只可安靜等候災難之日臨到,犯境之民上來。

Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord?
Was your anger against the rivers,
 or your indignation against the sea,
 when you rode on your horses,
 on your chariot of salvation?
You stripped the sheath from your bow,
calling for many arrows.
Selah
 You split the earth with rivers.
The mountains saw you and writhed;
the raging waters swept on;
 the deep gave forth its voice;
 it lifted its hands on high.
The sun and moon stood still in their place
 at the light of your arrows as they sped,
at the flash of your glittering spear.
You marched through the earth in fury;
 you threshed the nations in anger.
You went out for the salvation of your people,
for the salvation of your anointed.
 You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,
laying him bare from thigh to neck.
Selah
You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,
who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
You trampled the sea with your horses,
the surging of mighty waters.
I hear, and my body trembles;
my lips quiver at the sound;
 rottenness enters into my bones;
my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
to come upon people who invade us.

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    哈巴谷先知再次用大自然的現況來展現上帝的大能讓人覺得自己在上帝面前是要謙卑的正如16節說「我聽見耶和華的聲音,身體戰兢,嘴唇發顫,骨中朽爛;我在所立之處戰兢。我只可安靜等候災難之日臨到,犯境之民上來。」

    然而在這樣的情況下,人只能將自己交託給上帝,讓上帝的能力透過基督來彰顯,正如保羅所說:「我為基督的緣故,就以軟弱、凌辱、急難、逼迫、困苦為可喜樂的;因我甚麼時候軟弱,甚麼時候就剛強了。」(哥林多後書12:10

    所以,我們不要自以為剛強,反倒要靠主的能力來面對現實狀況的考驗,讓主的能力自己彰顯出來,這才是真正的榮耀上帝。

哈巴谷書3:3-7



3:3 上帝從提幔而來;聖者從巴蘭山臨到。(細拉)他的榮光遮蔽諸天;頌讚充滿大地。
3:4 他的輝煌如同日光;從他手裡射出光線,在其中藏著他的能力。
3:5 在他前面有瘟疫流行;在他腳下有熱症發出。
3:6 他站立,量了大地(或譯:使地震動),觀看,趕散萬民。永久的山崩裂;長存的嶺塌陷;他的作為與古時一樣。
3:7 我見古珊的帳棚遭難,米甸的幔子戰兢。

 God came from Teman,
 and the Holy One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
and the earth was full of his praise.
His brightness was like the light;
rays flashed from his hand;
and there he veiled his power.
Before him went pestilence,
and plague followed at his heels.
He stood and measured the earth;
he looked and shook the nations;
then the eternal mountains were scattered;
the everlasting hills sank low.
His were the everlasting ways.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
 the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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    先知在此宣告上帝的威嚴和公義尤其是祂的大能是無人所能抵擋的人無法在祂面前誇耀自己人只能福在祂威嚴的大能之下人只能俯伏在地稱呼祂是主因為祂不僅是大能的主祂是我們的創造主也是我們的救贖主我們只能在祂面前承認我們是軟弱和無能甚至我們是悖逆與自私還自高自大不以祂為上帝來榮耀祂

    因此,我們來敬拜上帝不是看場面、看人數,而是確確實實來到祂面前,仰望祂,並享受祂的同在!不是誇耀自己、表現自己,或展現自己多麼有能力,多麼聖潔,這在上帝面前都毫無意義。

    讓我們在一次透過先知的禱告在上帝面前認罪和悔改放下自我的一切讓上帝親自來掌權透過我們來彰顯祂的榮耀使我們活出上帝兒女的榮美形象讓人由我們看見基督並且來靠基督的大工成為上帝的兒女這就是聖靈在我們身上的工作了

哈巴谷書3章

          哈巴谷書3章1-19節   ,

          哈巴谷書3:1-2   , 

          哈巴谷書3:3-7  , 

          哈巴谷書3:8-16  ,

          哈巴谷書3:17-19 , 哈巴谷書3:18 ,

          哈巴谷書3章17-19節 ,

哈巴谷書3:1-2



3:1 先知哈巴谷的禱告,調用流離歌。
3:2 耶和華啊,我聽見你的名聲(或譯:言語)就懼怕。耶和華啊,求你在這些年間復興你的作為,在這些年間顯明出來;在發怒的時候以憐憫為念。

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
O Lord, I have heard the report of you,
and your work, O Lord, do I fear.
In the midst of the years revive it;
in the midst of the years make it known;
 in wrath remember mercy.

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    這是先知哈巴谷的禱告,讓人感受到他求上帝的憐憫,因為上帝如同烈火,他對於罪惡是極其痛惡,所以上帝立一些人如同基督一樣在祂面前代求,希望祂施憐憫。

    然而基督更是勝於先知,祂不只是先知更是祭司,甚至還是祭牲,雖然祂是上帝,卻用犧牲的愛是上帝和人和好,又將這樣的和好藉由聖靈來運用、來實現,使這樣的和好突破時間與空間的限制。不僅如此,耶穌基督更如祭司一般,在上帝的右邊代求,使上帝施憐憫於祂的兒女。

    感謝天父上帝如此豐富的救恩,在耶穌基督死在十字架上時已經成了,更藉由耶穌基督的復活,顯明祂已勝過罪與死,並且透過耶穌督接納我們為兒女、為後嗣,要承受祂永遠的國,得永遠的榮耀!