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旧约 - 尼希米记(Nehemiah)第9章

Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
尼希米记第九章   第 9 章 

  尼 9:1> 9:1 禁食、身穿麻衣、头蒙灰尘,是公开表示忧伤和悔改的举动。 

  尼 9:2-3> 你有没有常常向神忏悔认罪的习惯?你觉得这重要吗? 

  9:2-3 希伯来人习惯公开认罪,彼此忏悔。认罪前,我们要先读神的话,祂会藉此指明我们的罪。在敬拜之前,我们也先要认罪,因为罪会隔绝我们与神的关系。 

  尼 9:7-38> 以色列人为什么喜欢重述历史?从历史中,人们可以学到…… 

  9:7-38 在圣经中,不少祈祷和信息都包括了对以色列历史的忆述,原因是那时的人并不像今日的人能拥有自己的圣经。这些对神过去作为的重述提醒以色列人,自己拥有伟大的产业和神的应许。 

  借鉴历史,我们可以避免重犯祖先的错误,对神有更美好的事奉,并使我们明白使灵命成长的方法,作一个神所喜悦的人。 

  尼 9:16-21> 神乐意饶恕人,也要人如此待人──可祂是神呀!而我…… 

  9:16-21 神从不舍弃以色列人这一点,显明祂无比的耐性。虽然我们不断跌倒、骄傲、固执,但神总是准备好了宽恕( 9:17 ),圣灵也准备好了随时指引我们( 9:20 )。明白神是何等宽宏大量,我们便容易原谅得罪自己的人,甚至宽恕他们“七十个七次”(参太 18:21-22 )。 

  尼 9:28-31> 犯罪我免不了,背叛神倒不至于,不过…… 

  9:28-31 以色列人常犯罪背叛神,但只要肯悔改归向祂,神必将他们从罪中释放。神永不会拒绝我们到祂的宝座前。只要我们愿意亲近祂、承认我们的需要,求祂帮助,祂的怜悯就临到我们。这奇妙的恩典,感动我们赞美这位慈悲的天父。当你生活一再遇到困难时,不断地求神帮助,同时愿意改变自己的心态和行为,问题便可得到解决。 

  尼 9:35> 我对神赐的恩典是感谢还是…… 

  9:35 有时神赐丰厚的恩典,我们却忘记祂,因为我们将安全感建立在财富之上。以色列人的叛逆提醒了我们,我们是感谢神的恩典,还是以为一切皆出于自己而漠视神的恩典? 

  尼 9:36> “神赐给我大恩时,我一定会感谢祂”──你认为神赐给你的恩典大不大?你认为怎样才算大? 

  9:36 以色列人的处境十分尴尬,也非常具有讽刺意味──神本已将地赐给他们,他们却要在自己的地上作奴隶,每年把部分出产及财物进贡给别国的王。 

  尼 9:38> 以色列人这次与神立了哪些约?这些约的实质是什么? 

  9:38 以色列人与神立的约有六项规条,他们同意:( 1 )不与外族人通婚( 10:30 );( 2 )守安息日( 10:31 );( 3 )遵守每逢第七年为安息年( 10:31 )( 4 )缴圣殿税;( 5 )向圣殿提供献祭用的柴( 10:34 );( 6 )把金钱物资奉献到圣殿去( 10:35-38 )。经过多年的衰微和放逐,以色列人再次认真跟从神,专心遵守祂的律法。──《灵修版圣经注释》