詩篇51:1-19

51:1 （大衛與拔示巴同室以後，先知拿單來見他；他作這詩，交與伶長。）上帝啊，求你按你的慈愛憐恤我！按你豐盛的慈悲塗抹我的過犯！
51:2 求你將我的罪孽洗除淨盡，並潔除我的罪！
51:3 因為，我知道我的過犯；我的罪常在我面前。
51:4 我向你犯罪，惟獨得罪了你；在你眼前行了這惡，以致你責備我的時候顯為公義，判斷我的時候顯為清正。
51:5 我是在罪孽裡生的，在我母親懷胎的時候就有了罪。
51:6 你所喜愛的是內裡誠實；你在我隱密處，必使我得智慧。
51:7 求你用牛膝草潔淨我，我就乾淨；求你洗滌我，我就比雪更白。
51:8 求你使我得聽歡喜快樂的聲音，使你所壓傷的骨頭可以踴躍。
51:9 求你掩面不看我的罪，塗抹我一切的罪孽。
51:10 上帝啊，求你為我造清潔的心，使我裡面重新有正直（或譯：堅定）的靈。
51:11 不要丟棄我，使我離開你的面；不要從我收回你的聖靈。
51:12 求你使我仍得救恩之樂，賜我樂意的靈扶持我，
51:13 我就把你的道指教有過犯的人，罪人必歸順你。
51:14 上帝啊，你是拯救我的上帝；求你救我脫離流人血的罪！我的舌頭就高聲歌唱你的公義。
51:15 主啊，求你使我嘴唇張開，我的口便傳揚讚美你的話！
51:16 你本不喜愛祭物，若喜愛，我就獻上；燔祭，你也不喜悅。
51:17 上帝所要的祭就是憂傷的靈；上帝啊，憂傷痛悔的心，你必不輕看。
51:18 求你隨你的美意善待錫安，建造耶路撒冷的城牆。
51:19 那時，你必喜愛公義的祭和燔祭並全牲的燔祭；那時，人必將公牛獻在你壇上。

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

¹ Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
    blot out my transgressions.
² Wash away all my iniquity
    and cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my transgressions,
    and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned
    and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
    and justified when you judge.
⁵ Surely I was sinful at birth,
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
⁶ Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
    you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

⁷ Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
    wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness;
    let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
⁹ Hide your face from my sins
    and blot out all my iniquity.

¹⁰ Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
¹¹ Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
    so that sinners will turn back to you.
¹⁴ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
    you who are God my Savior,
    and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
¹⁵ Open my lips, Lord,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
¹⁶ You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
¹⁷ My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart
    you, God, will not despise.

¹⁸ May it please you to prosper Zion,
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹ Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
    in burnt offerings offered whole;
    then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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    看到大衛寫的這首悔罪詩，讓人有一種親切與認同的感覺，因為連上帝所喜悅的大衛王都會犯罪，都會做上帝不喜悅的事，而且勇敢向上帝認罪！比起一些自以為很聖潔的人好太多了！

    有許多基督徒以為宣揚自己很優秀、很敬虔，才會讓人來信靠耶穌！其實這是大錯特錯，不僅不會讓人認同，還會覺得很不真實！因為真正的人性是充滿軟弱，甚至是被惡所勝！也因為這樣，人才需要來尋求耶穌基督，靠耶穌基督的救贖大功被上帝接納！

    而大衛在這裡說的很好：「上帝所要的祭就是憂傷的靈；上帝啊，憂傷痛悔的心，你必不輕看。」

    是的上帝樂意我們在祂面前為罪憂傷，因為罪使我們與上帝隔絕，無法得著上帝的賜福，有甚麼事比這更難過呢！因為罪使我們與上帝所賜的喜樂隔絕，使我們無法在上帝的同在之榮耀中！

申命記 2:24-37

2:24 你們起來前往，過亞嫩谷；我已將亞摩利人希實本王西宏和他的地交在你手中，你要與他爭戰，得他的地為業。
2:25 從今日起，我要使天下萬民聽見你的名聲都驚恐懼怕，且因你發顫傷慟。」
2:26 「我從基底莫的曠野差遣使者去見希實本王西宏，用和睦的話說：
2:27 『求你容我從你的地經過，只走大道，不偏左右。
2:28 你可以賣糧給我吃，也可以賣水給我喝，只要容我步行過去，
2:29 就如住西珥的以掃子孫和住亞珥的摩押人待我一樣，等我過了約旦河，好進入耶和華─我們上帝所賜給我們的地。』
2:30 但希實本王西宏不容我們從他那裡經過；因為耶和華─你的上帝使他心中剛硬，性情頑梗，為要將他交在你手中，像今日一樣。
2:31 耶和華對我說：『從此起首，我要將西宏和他的地交給你；你要得他的地為業。』
2:32 那時，西宏和他的眾民出來攻擊我們，在雅雜與我們交戰。
2:33 耶和華─我們的上帝將他交給我們，我們就把他和他的兒子，並他的眾民，都擊殺了。
2:34 我們奪了他的一切城邑，將有人煙的各城，連女人帶孩子，盡都毀滅，沒有留下一個。
2:35 惟有牲畜和所奪的各城，並其中的財物，都取為自己的掠物。
2:36 從亞嫩谷邊的亞羅珥和谷中的城，直到基列，耶和華─我們的上帝都交給我們了，沒有一座城高得使我們不能攻取的。
2:37 惟有亞捫人之地，凡靠近雅博河的地，並山地的城邑，與耶和華─我們上帝所禁止我們去的地方，都沒有挨近。」

²⁴ “Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle. ²⁵ This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

²⁶ From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, ²⁷ “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot— ²⁹ as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.” ³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

³¹ The Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

³² When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, ³³ the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. ³⁴ At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed^[c] them—men, women and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵ But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. ³⁶ From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all of them. ³⁷ But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

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    上帝讓以色列的大軍將亞摩利人希實本王西宏的百姓都殺盡，連婦人和小孩也不留，佔領全部城池！因為這樣的大獲全勝，讓迦南地的許多民族和國家聽見這事之後都喪膽害怕！甚至影響到約書亞帶領以色列進入迦南地，使得以色列可以順利地得迦南地為業。

    其實我們的生命中大大小小的事都是上帝在安排與保守，祂必讓我們在各樣的事上靠祂得力！因為我們蒙恩成為上帝的兒女，上帝必一路保守我們直到主耶穌再來的時候，讓我們可以一同進入上帝的國，享受永生無限！

    也因為如此，我們才能有真平安，才能安穩在主的手中，不管環境如何變化，我們都肯定上帝必要保守，因為祂絕對不會離棄我們，祂既然付出重大的代價，救恩必定完成且完全在我們身上！

申命記2章

        申命記2:1-23  ,

        申命記 2:24-37  ,

申命記2:1-23

2:1 「此後，我們轉回，從紅海的路往曠野去，是照耶和華所吩咐我的。我們在西珥山繞行了許多日子。
2:2 耶和華對我說：
2:3 『你們繞行這山的日子夠了，要轉向北去。
2:4 你吩咐百姓說：你們弟兄以掃的子孫住在西珥，你們要經過他們的境界。他們必懼怕你們，所以你們要分外謹慎。
2:5 不可與他們爭戰；他們的地，連腳掌可踏之處，我都不給你們，因我已將西珥山賜給以掃為業。
2:6 你們要用錢向他們買糧吃，也要用錢向他們買水喝。
2:7 因為耶和華─你的上帝在你手裡所辦的一切事上已賜福與你。你走這大曠野，他都知道了。這四十年，耶和華─你的上帝常與你同在，故此你一無所缺。』
2:8 「於是，我們離了我們弟兄以掃子孫所住的西珥，從亞拉巴的路，經過以拉他、以旬‧迦別，轉向摩押曠野的路去。
2:9 耶和華吩咐我說：『不可擾害摩押人，也不可與他們爭戰。他們的地，我不賜給你為業，因我已將亞珥賜給羅得的子孫為業。』
2:10 （先前，有以米人住在那裡，民數眾多，身體高大，像亞衲人一樣。
2:11 這以米人像亞衲人；也算為利乏音人；摩押人稱他們為以米人。
2:12 先前，何利人也住在西珥，但以掃的子孫將他們除滅，得了他們的地，接著居住，就如以色列在耶和華賜給他為業之地所行的一樣。）
2:13 現在，起來過撒烈溪！於是我們過了撒烈溪。
2:14 自從離開加低斯‧巴尼亞，到過了撒烈溪的時候，共有三十八年，等那世代的兵丁都從營中滅盡，正如耶和華向他們所起的誓。
2:15 耶和華的手也攻擊他們，將他們從營中除滅，直到滅盡。
2:16 「兵丁從民中都滅盡死亡以後，
2:17 耶和華吩咐我說：
2:18 『你今天要從摩押的境界亞珥經過，
2:19 走近亞捫人之地，不可擾害他們，也不可與他們爭戰。亞捫人的地，我不賜給你們為業，因我已將那地賜給羅得的子孫為業。』
2:20 （那地也算為利乏音人之地，先前利乏音人住在那裡，亞捫人稱他們為散送冥。
2:21 那民眾多，身體高大，像亞衲人一樣，但耶和華從亞捫人面前除滅他們，亞捫人就得了他們的地，接著居住。
2:22 正如耶和華從前為住西珥的以掃子孫將何利人從他們面前除滅、他們得了何利人的地、接著居住一樣，直到今日。
2:23 從迦斐託出來的迦斐託人將先前住在鄉村直到迦薩的亞衛人除滅，接著居住。）

 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea,^[a] as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

² Then the Lord said to me, ³ “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north. ⁴ Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. ⁵ Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. ⁶ You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
⁷ The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.
⁸ So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.
⁹ Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”
¹⁰ (The Emites used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. ¹¹ Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. ¹² Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)
¹³ And the Lord said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.
¹⁴ Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵ The Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
¹⁶ Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, ¹⁷ the Lord said to me, ¹⁸ “Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar. ¹⁹ When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”
²⁰ (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. ²¹ They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. ²² The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. ²³ And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor^[b] destroyed them and settled in their place.)

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    摩西在這裡描述人得罪上帝所要面對的慘況，就是要失去上帝所應許的福分。正如摩西在這裡所描述：「自從離開加低斯‧巴尼亞，到過了撒烈溪的時候，共有三十八年，等那世代的兵丁都從營中滅盡，正如耶和華向他們所起的誓。耶和華的手也攻擊他們，將他們從營中除滅，直到滅盡。」

    雖然以色列人活在上帝的憤怒中，上帝仍恩待與眷顧，正如摩西在這裡說：「因為耶和華─你的上帝在你手裡所辦的一切事上已賜福與你。你走這大曠野，他都知道了。這四十年，耶和華─你的上帝常與你同在，故此你一無所缺。」

    上帝的確眷顧祂的子民，供應他們無所缺乏，這是上帝對人的恩惠。正如主耶穌所說的：「所以我告訴你們，不要為生命憂慮吃甚麼，喝甚麼；為身體憂慮穿甚麼。生命不勝於飲食嗎？身體不勝於衣裳嗎？你們看那天上的飛鳥，也不種，也不收，也不積蓄在倉裡，你們的天父尚且養活牠。你們不比飛鳥貴重得多嗎？」（馬太福音6:25-26）

    上帝的眷顧不只如此，祂更為我們預備永生之福份呢！

申命記28章

        申命記28:1-14   ,

       申 命 記 28:7-9  , 申命記28:8  ,

       申命記28:9  , 申命記 28:11-14  , 

       申命記28:15-68 ,

申命記 28:11-14

28:11 你在耶和華向你列祖起誓應許賜你的地上，他必使你身所生的，牲畜所下的，地所產的，都綽綽有餘。
28:12 耶和華必為你開天上的府庫，按時降雨在你的地上，在你手裏所辦的一切事上賜福與你。你必借給許多國民，卻不致向他們借貸。
28:13-14 你若聽從耶和華你神的誡命，就是我今日所吩咐你的，謹守遵行，不偏左右，也不隨從事奉別神，耶和華就必使你作首不作尾，但居上不居下。

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    耶和華應許敬畏祂的人要得著富貴。正如這裡經文所述：『你在耶和華向你列祖起誓應許賜你的地上，他必使你身所生的，牲畜所下的，地所產的，都綽綽有餘。耶和華必為你開天上的府庫，按時降雨在你的地上，在你手裏所辦的一切事上賜福與你。你必借給許多國民，卻不致向他們借貸。…耶和華就必使你作首不作尾，但居上不居下。』

    這也是許多人所盼望的，甚至有人拿來當“成功神學”之依據。但是，敬畏耶和華的人在世上的際遇並完全如此。可是在上帝的國度確是如此豐富，因為上帝在天上﹙永世裡﹚卻是為他預備得如此豐盛，並且使他承受上帝所賜的尊榮之地位：『作首不作尾，但居上不居下。』

    因此，我們不要為今世之榮辱而難過或高興，我們當將眼光放在天上—上帝國之榮美，存感恩喜樂的心在世度日！