2017年10月28日 星期六

以賽亞書26:16-21



26:16 耶和華啊,他們在急難中尋求你;你的懲罰臨到他們身上,他們就傾心吐膽禱告你。
26:17
婦人懷孕,臨產疼痛,在痛苦之中喊叫;耶和華啊,我們在你面前也是如此。
26:18
我們也曾懷孕疼痛,所產的竟像風一樣。我們在地上未曾行甚麼拯救的事;世上的居民也未曾敗落。
26:19
死人(原文是你的死人)要復活,屍首(原文是我的屍首)要興起。睡在塵埃的啊,要醒起歌唱!因你的甘露好像菜蔬上的甘露,地也要交出死人來。
26:20
我的百姓啊,你們要來進入內室,關上門,隱藏片時,等到忿怒過去。
26:21
因為耶和華從他的居所出來,要刑罰地上居民的罪孽。地也必露出其中的血,不再掩蓋被殺的人。

O Lord, in distress they sought you,
they poured out a prayer
when your chastening was on them.
17
Like a woman with child,
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18
we were with child, we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.
19
Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise.
O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.
 
20
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.
21
For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no longer cover its slain.

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    苦難的人的盼望就是「復活」!正如這裡從禱告上帝轉道說到死人的復活,使我們體會到上帝的美意!因為,上帝要透過復活來進行審判,就如啟示錄所說,人在復活之後要面對審判!然而這個審判,是一種轉化,使基督裡的人顯明出來!

    不屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要面對滅亡。但是屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要進入新天新地,就是上帝的國中,在那裏一切都更新了!這就是上帝拯救得做為,不是人能做甚麼!尤其是在審判台前人只能謙卑倚靠耶穌基督為中保,若沒有耶穌基督救站立不住了!

    所以,面對上帝的審判,是在乎上帝在基督裡的憐憫,不在乎人自己做了多少。照人的行為審判,是沒有人站立得住,故此需要耶穌基督為中保,為救主,為保惠師!

以賽亞書26:13-15



26:13 耶和華我們的上帝啊,在你以外曾有別的主管轄我們,但我們專要倚靠你,提你的名。
26:14
他們死了,必不能再活;他們去世,必不能再起;因為你刑罰他們,毀滅他們,他們的名號就全然消滅。
26:15
耶和華啊,你增添國民,你增添國民;你得了榮耀,又擴張地的四境。

O Lord our God,
other lords besides you have ruled over us,
but we acknowledge your name alone.
14
The dead do not live;
shades do not rise—
because you have punished and destroyed them,
and wiped out all memory of them.
15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land. 

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    先知在這裡說到那些自立權柄的人,就想取代上帝做別人的主的那些人,不管是君王,或是其他有權有勢的人,他們死了,必不能再活;他們去世,必不能再起;因為你刑罰他們,毀滅他們,他們的名號就全然消滅。

    先知這樣說,就是要讓那些君王,或是自以為有權有勢的人,認清一個事實,就是人是受造之物,終有一天要面臨到死亡,用心建造和經營的個人王權或主權,也隨之消失無有!

    然上帝卻不是如此,上帝的國不斷的擴展!「耶和華啊,你增添國民,你增添國民;你得了榮耀,又擴張地的四境。

    讓我一起等候與盼望上帝國的完全實現,上帝真正掌王權!

以賽亞書26:8-12



26:8 耶和華啊,我們在你行審判的路上等候你;我們心裡所羨慕的是你的名,就是你那可記念的名。
26:9
夜間,我心中羨慕你;我裡面的靈切切尋求你。因為你在世上行審判的時候,地上的居民就學習公義。
26:10
以恩惠待惡人,他仍不學習公義;在正直的地上,他必行事不義,也不注意耶和華的威嚴。
26:11
耶和華啊,你的手高舉,他們仍然不看;卻要看你為百姓發的熱心,因而抱愧,並且有火燒滅你的敵人。
26:12
耶和華啊,你必派定我們得平安,因為我們所做的事都是你給我們成就的。

In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and your renown
are the soul’s desire.
9
My soul yearns for you in the night,
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10
If favor is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness they deal perversely
and do not see the majesty of the Lord.
11
O Lord, your hand is lifted up,
but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.

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    先知在這裡宣告一個很重要的真理:「耶和華啊,你必派定我們得平安,因為我們所做的事都是你給我們成就的。

    人常常以為自己有辦法,認為一切的成果都是自己努力來的其實不是,是上帝給我們成就!所以,成就者還是上帝,不是我們,也因此人必須認清這點,才會真正成為謙卑的人!

    當然,事情沒有成就也不要太自責,上帝不讓其成就必有其美意,雖然我們不明白,我們也要存感恩的心接受,如此我們的心才不至於失去喜樂,才可以感受到主同在的平安!

以賽亞書26:5-6



26:5 他使住高處的與高城一併敗落,將城拆毀,拆平,直到塵埃,
26:6
要被腳踐踏,就是被困苦人的腳和窮乏人的腳踐踏。

For he has brought low
the inhabitants of the height;
the lofty city he lays low.
He lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6
The foot tramples it,
the feet of the poor,
the steps of the needy.

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    上帝必定會為受欺壓者申冤的!正如在這裡所述說的,「他使住高處的與高城一併敗落,將城拆毀,拆平,直到塵埃,要被腳踐踏,就是被困苦人的腳和窮乏人的腳踐踏。

    這是超乎人的想像,因為人常常是利用權勢來欺壓人,使別人來懼怕與屈服他們,好使他們的地位鞏固,可以長居高位,繼續來建立自己的高城!然而,當人覺得穩固的時候,上帝就要發出祂的作為,讓這些人敗亡!

    而這些人敗亡之後,就會遭受道他所欺壓的困苦人來噬,就是被他們踐踏,這是上帝允許的,也是做惡者要承受的懲罰。因為在人間的正義是不可以虧欠別人,也不可以讓別人占便宜!

以賽亞書25:1-12



25:1 耶和華啊,你是我的上帝;我要尊崇你,我要稱讚你的名。因為你以忠信誠實行過奇妙的事,成就你古時所定的。
25:2
你使城變為亂堆,使堅固城變為荒場,使外邦人宮殿的城不再為城,永遠不再建造。
25:3
所以,剛強的民必榮耀你;強暴之國的城必敬畏你。
25:4
因為當強暴人催逼人的時候,如同暴風直吹牆壁,你就作貧窮人的保障,作困乏人急難中的保障,作躲暴風之處,作避炎熱的陰涼。
25:5
你要壓制外邦人的喧嘩,好像乾燥地的熱氣下落;禁止強暴人的凱歌,好像熱氣被雲影消化。
25:6
在這山上,萬軍之耶和華必為萬民用肥甘設擺筵席,用陳酒和滿髓的肥甘,並澄清的陳酒,設擺筵席。
25:7
他又必在這山上除滅遮蓋萬民之物和遮蔽萬國蒙臉的帕子。
25:8
他已經吞滅死亡直到永遠。主耶和華必擦去各人臉上的眼淚,又除掉普天下他百姓的羞辱,因為這是耶和華說的。
25:9
到那日,人必說:「看哪,這是我們的上帝;我們素來等候他,他必拯救我們。這是耶和華,我們素來等候他,我們必因他的救恩歡喜快樂。」
25:10
耶和華的手必按在這山上;摩押人在所居之地必被踐踏,好像乾草被踐踏在糞池的水中。
25:11
他必在其中伸開手,好像洑水的伸開手洑水一樣;但耶和華必使他的驕傲和他手所行的詭計一併敗落。
25:12
耶和華使你城上的堅固高臺傾倒,拆平,直到塵埃。

O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you, I will praise your name;
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2
For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the palace of aliens is a city no more,
it will never be rebuilt.
3
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4
For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat.
When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,
5
the noise of aliens like heat in a dry place,
you subdued the heat with the shade of clouds;
the song of the ruthless was stilled.

6
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines,
of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.
7
And he will destroy on this mountain
the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
the sheet that is spread over all nations;
8
he will swallow up death forever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9
It will be said on that day,
Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10
For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.
 
The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place
as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit.
11
Though they spread out their hands in the midst of it,
as swimmers spread out their hands to swim,
their pride will be laid low despite the struggle of their hands.
12
The high fortifications of his walls will be brought down,
laid low, cast to the ground, even to the dust.

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    這是一首讚美詩的詩歌雖然猶大的處境不是很好,但事先知看見上帝的拯救就喜樂了,正如他所說的:「看哪,這是我們的上帝;我們素來等候他,他必拯救我們。這是耶和華,我們素來等候他,我們必因他的救恩歡喜快樂。

    再怎樣不如意,都要記得:上帝是拯救我們的主!他必拯救我們,我們必因他的救恩歡喜快樂

    不要為一時的挫折難過或灰心喪志,上帝不會丟棄我們的,我們是永遠蒙他的保守,祂拯救我們就必拯救到底的!