路得的故事

在愛情的盡頭尋找婚姻，在婚姻的盡頭尋見神。 神愛你，僅僅因爲你是你，是神所創造的你，是能夠讚美神的你，是明白神才能給你價值的你。 你若單單尋求愛情，那麼你既得不到愛情，也得不到神。而當你先求神的國和神的義，你所需要的，神必加給你，你會收穫神與愛情。

2023年12月14日 星期四 祝福早安 天氣多雲 氣溫3℃ 《路得的故事》 我們以爲自己一生無風無浪，然後有一天發現自己原來是顛沛流離。我們都會遇到“改變”，我們都是拿俄米，像她一樣走出死亡之墓；我們都是俄珥巴，像她一樣步向安全；我們都是路得，像她一樣邁向陌生的明天。——《路得的故事》 以利米勒全家遷往摩押 【得 1:1】 當士師秉政的時候，國中遭遇饑荒。在猶大伯利恆，有一個人帶着妻子和兩個兒子往摩押地去寄居。 【Rut 1:1】 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. 【得 1:2】 這人名叫以利米勒，他的妻名叫拿俄米。他兩個兒子，一個名叫瑪倫，一個名叫基連，都是猶大伯利恆的以法他人。他們到了摩押地，就住在那裏。 【Rut 1:2】 The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there. 【得 1:3】 後來拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了，剩下婦人和她兩個兒子。 【Rut 1:3】 Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 【得 1:4】 這兩個兒子娶了摩押女子爲妻，一個名叫俄珥巴，一個名叫路得，在那裏住了約有十年。 【Rut 1:4】 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, 【得 1:5】 瑪倫和基連二人也死了，剩下拿俄米沒有丈夫，也沒有兒子。 【Rut 1:5】 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. 拿俄米和路得回伯利恆 【得 1:6】 她就與兩個兒婦起身要從摩押地歸回，因爲她在摩押地聽見耶和華眷顧自己的百姓，賜糧食與他們。 【Rut 1:6】 When she heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 【得 1:7】 於是她和兩個兒婦起行離開所住的地方，要回猶大地去。 【Rut 1:7】 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. 【得 1:8】 拿俄米對兩個兒婦說：“你們各人回孃家去吧！願耶和華恩待你們，像你們恩待已死的人與我一樣。 【Rut 1:8】 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 【得 1:9】 願耶和華使你們各在新夫家中得平安！”於是，拿俄米與她們親嘴。她們就放聲而哭， 【Rut 1:9】 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them and they wept aloud 【得 1:10】 說：“不然，我們必與你一同回你本國去。” 【Rut 1:10】 and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people." 【得 1:11】 拿俄米說：“我女兒們哪，回去吧！爲何要跟我去呢？我還能生子作你們的丈夫嗎？ 【Rut 1:11】 But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 【得 1:12】 我女兒們哪，回去吧！我年紀老邁，不能再有丈夫；即或說，我還有指望，今夜有丈夫可以生子， 【Rut 1:12】 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me--even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons-- 【得 1:13】 你們豈能等着他們長大呢？你們豈能等着他們不嫁別人呢？我女兒們哪，不要這樣！我爲你們的緣故甚是愁苦，因爲耶和華伸手攻擊我。” 【Rut 1:13】 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD'S hand has gone out against me!" 【得 1:14】 兩個兒婦又放聲而哭，俄珥巴與婆婆親嘴而別，只是路得捨不得拿俄米。 【Rut 1:14】 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her. 【得 1:15】 拿俄米說：“看哪，你嫂子已經回她本國和她所拜的神那裏去了，你也跟着你嫂子回去吧。” 【Rut 1:15】 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her." 【得 1:16】 路得說：“不要催我回去不跟隨你。你往哪裏去，我也往那裏去；你在哪裏住宿，我也在那裏住宿；你的國就是我的國，你的 神就是我的 神。 【Rut 1:16】 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 【得 1:17】 你在哪裏死，我也在那裏死，也葬在那裏。除非死能使你我相離，不然，願耶和華重重地降罰與我。” 【Rut 1:17】 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." 【得 1:18】 拿俄米見路得定意要跟隨自己去，就不再勸她了。 【Rut 1:18】 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. 【得 1:19】 於是二人同行，來到伯利恆。她們到了伯利恆，合城的人就都驚訝。婦女們說：“這是拿俄米嗎？” 【Rut 1:19】 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?" 【得 1:20】 拿俄米對他們說：“不要叫我拿俄米（“拿俄米”就是“甜”的意思），要叫我瑪拉（“瑪拉”就是“苦”的意思），因爲全能者使我受了大苦。 【Rut 1:20】 "Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 【得 1:21】 我滿滿地出去，耶和華使我空空地回來。耶和華降禍與我，全能者使我受苦。既是這樣，你們爲何還叫我拿俄米呢？” 【Rut 1:21】 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me." 【得 1:22】 拿俄米和她兒婦摩押女子路得，從摩押地回來到伯利恆，正是動手割大麥的時候。 【Rut 1:22】 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning. 路得在波阿斯田裏拾麥穗 【得 2:1】 拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的親族中，有一個人名叫波阿斯，是個大財主。 【Rut 2:1】 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, from the clan of Elimelech, a man of standing, whose name was Boaz. 【得 2:2】 摩押女子路得對拿俄米說：“容我往田間去，我蒙誰的恩，就在誰的身後拾取麥穗。”拿俄米說：“女兒啊，你只管去。” 【Rut 2:2】 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." 【得 2:3】 路得就去了，來到田間，在收割的人身後拾取麥穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那塊田裏。 【Rut 2:3】 So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. 【得 2:4】 波阿斯正從伯利恆來，對收割的人說：“願耶和華與你們同在！”他們回答說：“願耶和華賜福與你！” 【Rut 2:4】 Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!" "The LORD bless you!" they called back. 【得 2:5】 波阿斯問監管收割的僕人說：“那是誰家的女子？” 【Rut 2:5】 Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, "Whose young woman is that?" 【得 2:6】 監管收割的僕人回答說：“是那摩押女子，跟隨拿俄米從摩押地回來的。 【Rut 2:6】 The foreman replied, "She is the Moabitess who came back from Moab with Naomi. 【得 2:7】 她說：‘請你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麥穗。’她從早晨直到如今，除了在屋子裏坐一會兒，常在這裏。” 【Rut 2:7】 She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She went into the field and has worked steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter." 【得 2:8】 波阿斯對路得說：“女兒啊，聽我說，不要往別人田裏拾取麥穗，也不要離開這裏，要常與我使女們在一處。 【Rut 2:8】 So Boaz said to Ruth, "My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. 【得 2:9】 我的僕人在哪塊田收割，你就跟着他們去。我已經吩咐僕人不可欺負你。你若渴了，就可以到器皿那裏喝僕人打來的水。” 【Rut 2:9】 Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the girls. I have told the men not to touch you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled." 【得 2:10】 路得就俯伏在地叩拜，對他說：“我既是外邦人，怎麼蒙你的恩，這樣顧恤我呢？” 【Rut 2:10】 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She exclaimed, "Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me--a foreigner?" 【得 2:11】 波阿斯回答說：“自從你丈夫死後，凡你向婆婆所行的，並你離開父母和本地，到素不認識的民中，這些事人全都告訴我了。 【Rut 2:11】 Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 【得 2:12】 願耶和華照你所行的賞賜你。你來投靠耶和華以色列 神的翅膀下，願你滿得他的賞賜。” 【Rut 2:12】 May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." 【得 2:13】 路得說：“我主啊，願在你眼前蒙恩！我雖然不及你的一個使女，你還用慈愛的話安慰我的心。” 【Rut 2:13】 "May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord," she said. "You have given me comfort and have spoken kindly to your servant--though I do not have the standing of one of your servant girls." 【得 2:14】 到了喫飯的時候，波阿斯對路得說：“你到這裏來喫餅，將餅蘸在醋裏。”路得就在收割的人旁邊坐下，他們把烘了的穗子遞給她，她喫飽了，還有餘剩的。 【Rut 2:14】 At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar." When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. 【得 2:15】 她起來又拾取麥穗，波阿斯吩咐僕人說：“她就是在捆中拾取麥穗，也可以容她，不可羞辱她。 【Rut 2:15】 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, "Even if she gathers among the sheaves, don't embarrass her. 【得 2:16】 並要從捆裏抽出些來，留在地下任她拾取，不可叱嚇她。” 【Rut 2:16】 Rather, pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke her." 【得 2:17】 這樣，路得在田間拾取麥穗，直到晚上，將所拾取的打了，約有一伊法大麥。 【Rut 2:17】 So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. 【得 2:18】 她就把所拾取的帶進城去給婆婆看，又把她喫飽了所剩的給了婆婆。 【Rut 2:18】 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough. 【得 2:19】 婆婆問她說：“你今日在哪裏拾取麥穗，在哪裏作工呢？願那顧恤你的得福。”路得就告訴婆婆說：“我今日在一個名叫波阿斯的人那裏作工。” 【Rut 2:19】 Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said. 【得 2:20】 拿俄米對兒婦說：“願那人蒙耶和華賜福，因爲他不斷地恩待活人死人。”拿俄米又說：“那是我們本族的人，是一個至近的親屬。” 【Rut 2:20】 "The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers." 【得 2:21】 摩押女子路得說：“他對我說：‘你要緊隨我的僕人拾取麥穗，直等他們收完了我的莊稼。’” 【Rut 2:21】 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.'" 【得 2:22】 拿俄米對兒婦路得說：“女兒啊，你跟着他的使女出去，不叫人遇見你在別人田間，這才爲好。” 【Rut 2:22】 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone else's field you might be harmed." 【得 2:23】 於是，路得與波阿斯的使女常在一處拾取麥穗，直到收完了大麥和小麥。路得仍與婆婆同住。 【Rut 2:23】 So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

《路得記》實際上是一個關於贖回的故事，但是，它也同樣講述波阿斯和以色列的贖回，關於家庭和文化的贖回，關於男性的下一代和女性的下一代的贖回，關於信仰的義和虔誠得贖的贖回，關於我們的贖回，和這個我們認爲是支離破碎卻又理所當然地享有的世界的贖回，就好像路得和拿俄米的贖回一樣。《路得記》講述的是女人幫助女人去打破隔閡，使人不再軟弱無力，因爲隔閡影響着每一個活着的人，包括男人、女人和小孩。 這是一本寫在每一個女性和每一個男性的屬靈生命上的書。但這本書還沒有完結，它要留待每一個女性親自將餘下的部分寫出來。

所有的移民都應該讀讀這卷書，精彩絕倫☺️☺️

有一些比較新的角度切入，會有一些提醒，但更多給人的感覺還是事件的擴寫。

耶和華在地上造了一件新事，就是女子護衛男子。無論拿俄米和路得做了什麼，都是神的工。