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2016年8月8日星期一

何西阿書2:1-6

2:1 你們要稱你們的弟兄為阿米（就是我民的意思），稱你們的姊妹為路哈瑪（就是蒙憐憫的意思）。

2:2 你們要與你們的母親大大爭辯；因為她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫。叫她除掉臉上的淫像和胸間的淫態，

2:3 免得我剝她的衣服，使她赤體，與才生的時候一樣，使她如曠野，如乾旱之地，因渴而死。

2:4 我必不憐憫她的兒女，因為他們是從淫亂而生的。

2:5 他們的母親行了淫亂，懷他們的母做了可羞恥的事，因為她說：我要隨從所愛的；我的餅、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒都是他們給的。

2:6 因此，我必用荊棘堵塞她的道，築牆擋住她，使她找不著路。

Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”

“Plead with your mother, plead—

for she is not my wife,

and I am not her husband—

that she put away her whoring from her face,

and her adultery from between her breasts;

lest I strip her naked

and make her as in the day she was born,

and make her like a wilderness,

and make her like a parched land,

and kill her with thirst.

Upon her children also I will have no mercy,

because they are children of whoredom.

For their mother has played the whore;

she who conceived them has acted shamefully.

For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,

who give me my bread and my water,

my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,

and I will build a wall against her,

so that she cannot find her paths.

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先知在此說明以色列在信仰上不忠，與淫婦沒有兩樣！因為信仰是人內心最基本的部分，是上帝有親密關係之表現。如今以色列不尊崇上帝，以別神代替耶和華，跟淫亂沒有兩樣！

2016年8月5日星期五

何西阿書1:8-11

1:8 歌篾給羅‧路哈瑪斷奶以後，又懷孕生了一個兒子。

1:9 耶和華說：「給他起名叫羅‧阿米（就是非我民的意思）；因為你們不作我的子民，我也不作你們的上帝。」

1:10 然而，以色列的人數必如海沙，不可量，不可數。從前在甚麼地方對他們說「你們不是我的子民」，將來在那裡必對他們說「你們是永生上帝的兒子」。

1:11 猶大人和以色列人必一同聚集，為自己立一個首領，從這地上去（或譯：從被擄之地上來），因為耶斯列的日子必為大日。

8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God."

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God." 11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

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先知在此宣告以色列會被棄絕，但不是永遠的，因為上帝會再一次收納他們，並且稱他們為：「永生上帝的兒子」。並且上帝還會使人數加增，如經文所說：「以色列的人數必如海沙，不可量，不可數。」

在上帝沒有難成的事，上帝必定成就！「以色列」不是一個不好的名字，它的意思是「上帝的王子」，是上帝賜給雅各的，為要紀念雅各是上帝所愛、所寶貝的。也讓我們感受到：上帝的憤怒是一時的，祂的慈愛卻是永遠的！

既然如此，我們要透過耶穌悔改歸向上帝，享受上帝在基督了恩典，使自己成為上帝真正的兒女。

2016年8月4日星期四

何西阿書1:6-7

1:6 歌篾又懷孕生了一個女兒，耶和華對何西阿說：「給她起名叫羅‧路哈瑪（就是不蒙憐憫的意思）；因為我必不再憐憫以色列家，決不赦免他們。

1:7 我卻要憐憫猶大家，使他們靠耶和華─他們的上帝得救，不使他們靠弓、刀、爭戰、馬匹，與馬兵得救。」

She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."

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上帝又再一次藉由歌篾的小孩來宣告祂的信息，讓人看見上帝雖然不憐憫以色列家，卻仍然憐憫猶大家，使他們靠耶和華─他們的上帝得救！

這樣的宣告讓我們認識倚靠上帝，勝過倚靠弓、刀、爭戰、馬匹，與馬兵。因為人只倚靠可以看的見的，卻不倚靠那創造天地與掌管萬有的上帝，導致最後敗亡還不知原因。

這也是聖經一直向我們強調的，要我們認識我們當倚靠的是上帝。

何西阿書1:3-5

1:3 於是，何西阿去娶了滴拉音的女兒歌篾。這婦人懷孕，給他生了一個兒子。

1:4 耶和華對何西阿說：「給他起名叫耶斯列；因為再過片時，我必討耶戶家在耶斯列殺人流血的罪，也必使以色列家的國滅絕。

1:5 到那日，我必在耶斯列平原折斷以色列的弓。」

So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."

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上帝藉由歌篾所生的兒子，要何西阿以命名的方式來宣告上帝對以色列的審判。

當然這是聖經常用的方式，使人由命名中發展出上帝的信息，使人知道上帝的作為。