哈巴谷書1:12-17

1:12 耶和華─我的上帝，我的聖者啊，你不是從亙古而有嗎？我們必不致死。耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人；磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。

1:13 你眼目清潔，不看邪僻，不看奸惡；行詭詐的，你為何看著不理呢？惡人吞滅比自己公義的，你為何靜默不語呢？

1:14 你為何使人如海中的魚，又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？

1:15 他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲，用拉網聚集他們；因此，他歡喜快樂，

1:16 就向網獻祭，向網燒香，因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。

1:17 他豈可屢次倒空網羅，將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？

Are you not from everlasting,

O Lord my God, my Holy One?

 We shall not die.

O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment,

and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil

and cannot look at wrong,

 why do you idly look at traitors

and remain silent when the wicked swallows up

the man more righteous than he?

You make mankind like the fish of the sea,

like crawling things that have no ruler.

He brings all of them up with a hook;

he drags them out with his net;

he gathers them in his dragnet;

so he rejoices and is glad.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net

and makes offerings to his dragnet;

for by them he lives in luxury,

and his food is rich.

Is he then to keep on emptying his net

 and mercilessly killing nations forever?

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    這是哈巴谷第二次質問上帝，仍然是以現實的惡者，可以行惡而興盛來問上帝。的確這是讓人不能接受的，但是又常常覺得在現實環境中要忍耐，所以就不太計較！

    上帝讓先知問出來，也是提醒我們來思考這事，讓我們從現實狀況中去思考上帝的作為，因為我們是在現實狀況中「做神學」，讓我們在此發展，我們在基督裡對上帝的認識與關係。

    願上帝透過現實狀況，引導我們進入永生，正如哈巴谷在此的成長！

哈巴谷書1章

        哈巴谷書1:1-4       ,

       哈巴谷書1:5-11  ,   哈巴谷書1:5  , 

       哈巴谷書1:12-17   ,

哈巴谷書1:1-4

1:1 先知哈巴谷所得的默示。

1:2 他說：耶和華啊！我呼求你，你不應允，要到幾時呢？我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。

1:3 你為何使我看見罪孽？你為何看著奸惡而不理呢？毀滅和強暴在我面前，又起了爭端和相鬥的事。

1:4 因此律法放鬆，公理也不顯明；惡人圍困義人，所以公理顯然顛倒。

The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,

and you will not hear?

Or cry to you "Violence!"

and you will not save?

 Why do you make me see iniquity,

and why do you idly look at wrong?

Destruction and violence are before me;

strife and contention arise.

So the law is paralyzed,

and justice never goes forth.

 For the wicked surround the righteous;

so justice goes forth perverted.

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    這是先知哈巴谷對上帝的質問，讓我們感受到，他對於世上不公義的事情，感到不滿！其實不只哈巴谷心中有這樣的質問，許多盼望公義實現的人，也是這樣質問，因為在他們心中認為：沒有公義就沒有平安，就沒有安息！

    而之所以會有這樣的質問，是來自於現實生活之狀況。正如先知的描述：受到強暴的對待，呼求耶和華，上帝竟然不理會、不拯救！任由惡人囂張來欺負與攻擊，真是天理何在呢？

    基督徒的信心常常在這樣的是受到考驗，甚至看到許多需要幫助的人，得不到幫助！甚至包括基督徒殉道的事情，還有大家迫切禱告未得醫治的情況。這些事實和心中的確信似乎有距離！做一個牧者更是常常遇見這樣的事情，如何面對呢？如何安慰弟兄姊妹呢？

西番雅書3:18-20

3:18 那些屬你、為無大會愁煩、因你擔當羞辱的，我必聚集他們。

3:19 那時，我必罰辦一切苦待你的人，又拯救你瘸腿的，聚集你被趕出的。那些在全地受羞辱的，我必使他們得稱讚，有名聲。

3:20 那時，我必領你們進來，聚集你們；我使你們被擄之人歸回的時候，就必使你們在地上的萬民中有名聲，得稱讚。這是耶和華說的。

I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival,

so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

  Behold, at that time I will deal

with all your oppressors.

And I will save the lame

and gather the outcast,

and I will change their shame into praise

and renown in all the earth.

  At that time I will bring you in,

at the time when I gather you together;

for I will make you renowned and praised

among all the peoples of the earth,

when I restore your fortunes

before your eyes,” says the Lord.

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    對以色列人而言，被擄歸回，是他們莫大的盼望！正如我們今日的基督徒是盼望主耶穌的再臨，上帝國的實現！

西番雅書3:9-13

3:9 那時，我必使萬民用清潔的言語好求告我─耶和華的名，同心合意地事奉我。

3:10 祈禱我的，就是我所分散的民（原文是女子；下同），必從古實河外來，給我獻供物。

3:11 當那日，你必不因你一切得罪我的事自覺羞愧；因為那時我必從你中間除掉矜誇高傲之輩，你也不再於我的聖山狂傲。

3:12 我卻要在你中間留下困苦貧寒的民；他們必投靠我─耶和華的名。

3:13 以色列所剩下的人必不作罪孽，不說謊言，口中也沒有詭詐的舌頭；而且吃喝躺臥，無人驚嚇。

“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples

to a pure speech,

that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord

and serve him with one accord.

  From beyond the rivers of Cush

my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones,

shall bring my offering.

  “On that day you shall not be put to shame

because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;

for then I will remove from your midst

your proudly exultant ones,

and you shall no longer be haughty

in my holy mountain.

  But I will leave in your midst

a people humble and lowly.

They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,

  those who are left in Israel;

they shall do no injustice

and speak no lies,

nor shall there be found in their mouth

a deceitful tongue.

For they shall graze and lie down,

and none shall make them afraid.”

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    上帝的拯救要帶來真正的和樂，因為祂要除去人的罪，使人享受真正的平安！

西番雅書3:6-8

3:6 我─耶和華已經除滅列國的民；他們的城樓毀壞。我使他們的街道荒涼，以致無人經過；他們的城邑毀滅，以致無人，也無居民。

3:7 我說：你只要敬畏我，領受訓誨；如此，你的住處不致照我所擬定的除滅。只是你們從早起來就在一切事上敗壞自己。

3:8 耶和華說：你們要等候我，直到我興起擄掠的日子；因為我已定意招聚列國，聚集列邦，將我的惱怒─就是我的烈怒都傾在她們身上。我的忿怒如火，必燒滅全地。

“I have cut off nations;

their battlements are in ruins;

I have laid waste their streets

so that no one walks in them;

their cities have been made desolate,

without a man, without an inhabitant.

  I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;

you will accept correction.

Then your dwelling would not be cut off

according to all that I have appointed against you.’

But all the more they were eager

to make all their deeds corrupt.

  “Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord,

“for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.

For my decision is to gather nations,

to assemble kingdoms,

to pour out upon them my indignation,

all my burning anger;

for in the fire of my jealousy

all the earth shall be consumed.

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   上帝的憤怒要臨到全地，是因為人的罪惡滿貫，惹動上帝的怒氣！