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12013-12-1以賽亞書42
42:1 看哪，我的僕人─我所扶持所揀選、心裡所喜悅的！我已將我的靈賜給他；他必將公理傳給外邦。
42:2 他不喧嚷，不揚聲，也不使街上聽見他的聲音。
42:3 壓傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將殘的燈火，他不吹滅。他憑真實將公理傳開。
42:4 他不灰心，也不喪膽，直到他在地上設立公理；海島都等候他的訓誨。
42:5 創造諸天，鋪張穹蒼，將地和地所出的一併鋪開，賜氣息給地上的眾人，又賜靈性給行在其上之人的 神耶和華，他如此說：
42:6 我─耶和華憑公義召你，必攙扶你的手，保守你，使你作眾民的中保（中保：原文是約），作外邦人的光，
42:7 開瞎子的眼，領被囚的出牢獄，領坐黑暗的出監牢。
42:8 我是耶和華，這是我的名；我必不將我的榮耀歸給假神，也不將我的稱讚歸給雕刻的偶像。
42:9 看哪，先前的事已經成就，現在我將新事說明，這事未發以先，我就說給你們聽。
42:10 航海的和海中所有的，海島和其上的居民，都當向耶和華唱新歌，從地極讚美他。
42:11 曠野和其中的城邑，並基達人居住的村莊都當揚聲；西拉的居民當歡呼，在山頂上吶喊。
42:12 他們當將榮耀歸給耶和華，在海島中傳揚他的頌讚。
42:13 耶和華必像勇士出去，必像戰士激動熱心，要喊叫，大聲吶喊，要用大力攻擊仇敵。
默想:
上帝的僕人是一個安靜不喧鬧的人，他也是一個充滿愛心、溫柔、慈悲的人，他扶持軟弱，幫助困乏之人，為的是將上帝的公理傳開。
這個僕人，不是隨便被困難、挫折所打倒，他不灰心，也不喪膽，就是堅定地傳揚公理，使各地的人都能夠明白知曉他的訓誨。
上帝憑著公義選召他，必不放棄他，與他同在，保守他，使他能夠在上帝和眾人的中間成為中保，並照亮外邦人。他所要做的就是使看不見的人得看見，使被壓制的得自由，使被擄的得釋放。
這位上帝的僕人，充滿堅定的態度與精神，就是要完成上帝所付予他的使命，使人們能夠認識上帝，將榮耀歸給上帝，並且使上帝的名得以傳揚。
事實上，我們常常把這個形象與耶穌結合在一起，祂就是上帝的僕人，一位充滿愛、安靜、堅定，扶助軟弱的僕人，祂所做的，都是為了要將人引到上帝的真道之中。
我們當思想，我們是否有這樣的形像呢？我們一切所做的是為了榮耀神的緣故嗎？我們的生命是否有活出像上帝僕人的這種形象呢？求神幫助我們，在我們的生命、服侍中，是使人更多看見上帝的恩典與愛，而不是看見我們有什麼值得誇口、自滿的。
題目:根據本章1-13節，耶和華的僕人有什麼樣的形象呢？我們作為敬拜上帝的子民，該如何回應這個形象？
42:1 看哪，我的僕人─我所扶持所揀選、心裡所喜悅的！我已將我的靈賜給他；他必將公理傳給外邦。
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
42:2 他不喧嚷，不揚聲，也不使街上聽見他的聲音。
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
42:3 壓傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將殘的燈火，他不吹滅。他憑真實將公理傳開。
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. smoking: or, dimly burning quench: Heb. quench it
42:4 他不灰心，也不喪膽，直到他在地上設立公理；海島都等候他的訓誨。
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. discouraged: Heb. broken
42:5 創造諸天，鋪張穹蒼，將地和地所出的一併鋪開，賜氣息給地上的眾人，又賜靈性給行在其上之人的 神耶和華，他如此說：
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
42:6 我─耶和華憑公義召你，必攙扶你的手，保守你，使你作眾民的中保（中保：原文是約），作外邦人的光，
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
42:7 開瞎子的眼，領被囚的出牢獄，領坐黑暗的出監牢。
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
42:8 我是耶和華，這是我的名；我必不將我的榮耀歸給假神，也不將我的稱讚歸給雕刻的偶像。
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
42:9 看哪，先前的事已經成就，現在我將新事說明，這事未發以先，我就說給你們聽。
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10 航海的和海中所有的，海島和其上的居民，都當向耶和華唱新歌，從地極讚美他。
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. all...: Heb. the fulness thereof
42:11 曠野和其中的城邑，並基達人居住的村莊都當揚聲；西拉的居民當歡呼，在山頂上吶喊。
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice , the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
42:12 他們當將榮耀歸給耶和華，在海島中傳揚他的頌讚。
Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
42:13 耶和華必像勇士出去，必像戰士激動熱心，要喊叫，大聲吶喊，要用大力攻擊仇敵。
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. prevail: or, behave himself mightily
42:14 我許久閉口不言，靜默不語；現在我要喊叫，像產難的婦人；我要急氣而喘哮。
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. devour: Heb. swallow, or, sup up
42:15 我要使大山小岡變為荒場，使其上的花草都枯乾；我要使江河變為洲島，使水池都乾涸。
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
42:16 我要引瞎子行不認識的道，領他們走不知道的路；在他們面前使黑暗變為光明，使彎曲變為平直。這些事我都要行，並不離棄他們。
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. straight: Heb. into straightness
42:17 倚靠雕刻的偶像，對鑄造的偶像說：你是我們的神；這等人要退後，全然蒙羞。
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
42:18 你們這耳聾的，聽吧！你們這眼瞎的，看吧！使你們能看見。
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 誰比我的僕人眼瞎呢？誰比我差遣的使者耳聾呢？誰瞎眼像那與我和好的？誰瞎眼像耶和華的僕人呢？
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
42:20 你看見許多事卻不領會，耳朵開通卻不聽見。
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
42:21 耶和華因自己公義的緣故，喜歡使律法（或譯：訓誨）為大，為尊。
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. it: or, him
42:22 但這百姓是被搶被奪的，都牢籠在坑中，隱藏在獄裡；他們作掠物，無人拯救，作擄物，無人說交還。
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. they are all...: or, in snaring all the young men of them for a spoil: Heb. a treading
42:23 你們中間誰肯側耳聽此，誰肯留心而聽，以防將來呢？
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? for...: Heb. for the after time?
42:24 誰將雅各交出當作擄物，將以色列交給搶奪的呢？豈不是耶和華嗎？就是我們所得罪的那位。他們不肯遵行他的道，也不聽從他的訓誨。
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
42:25 所以，他將猛烈的怒氣和爭戰的勇力傾倒在以色列的身上。在他四圍如火著起，他還不知道，燒著他，他也不介意。
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
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