以賽亞書33:7-16

33:7 看哪，他們的豪傑在外頭哀號；求和的使臣痛痛哭泣。
33:8 大路荒涼，行人止息；敵人背約，藐視城邑，不顧人民。
33:9 地上悲哀衰殘；黎巴嫩羞愧枯乾；沙崙像曠野；巴珊和迦密的樹林凋殘。
33:10 耶和華說：現在我要起來；我要興起；我要勃然而興。
33:11 你們要懷的是糠秕，要生的是碎秸；你們的氣就是吞滅自己的火。
33:12 列邦必像已燒的石灰，像已割的荊棘在火中焚燒。
33:13 你們遠方的人當聽我所行的；你們近處的人當承認我的大能。
33:14 錫安中的罪人都懼怕；不敬虔的人被戰兢抓住。我們中間誰能與吞滅的火同住？我們中間誰能與永火同住呢？
33:15 行事公義、說話正直、憎惡欺壓的財利、擺手不受賄賂、塞耳不聽流血的話，閉眼不看邪惡事的，
33:16 他必居高處；他的保障是磐石的堅壘；他的糧必不缺乏（原文是賜給）；他的水必不斷絕。 

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Listen! the valiant cry in the streets;

the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

8

The highways are deserted,

travelers have quit the road.

The treaty is broken,

its oaths are despised,

its obligation is disregarded.

9

The land mourns and languishes;

Lebanon is confounded and withers away;

Sharon is like a desert;

and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

10

“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,

“now I will lift myself up;

now I will be exalted.

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You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble;

your breath is a fire that will consume you.

12

And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,

like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”

13

Hear, you who are far away, what I have done;

and you who are near, acknowledge my might.

14

The sinners in Zion are afraid;

trembling has seized the godless:

“Who among us can live with the devouring fire?

Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”

15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,

who despise the gain of oppression,

who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,

who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed

and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

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they will live on the heights;

their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks;

their food will be supplied, their water assured.

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    當人感到枯竭無力的時候，正是上帝要動工的時候，正如先知在這裡所說：「看哪，他們的豪傑在外頭哀號；求和的使臣痛痛哭泣。大路荒涼，行人止息；敵人背約，藐視城邑，不顧人民。地上悲哀衰殘；黎巴嫩羞愧枯乾；沙崙像曠野；巴珊和迦密的樹林凋殘。耶和華說：現在我要起來；我要興起；我要勃然而興。」

    然而上帝興起的時候，就要張顯聖潔的力量！當然這樣的力量是上帝的屬性，這樣的力量要協助一切敬畏上帝行公義的人，使這樣得被高舉！對於悖逆上帝的人，則要遭受上帝責罰。

    然而誰是敬畏上帝行公義的人呢？就是信靠耶穌基督的人！這是上帝定義要人得拯救的條件，若是拒絕這道路的，將永遠受到地獄火湖的刑罰！因此，我們當懇求聖靈引導，使我們可以因著信，得著上帝在基督裡的風聖恩典！