這等下流人在我右邊起來,推開我的腳,築成戰路來攻擊我。 12 On my right the tribe 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
這些無人幫助的,毀壞我的道,加增我的災。 13 They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me-- without anyone's helping them. 30:13 Or ((me. No one can help him, (they say).))
因 神的大力,我的外衣污穢不堪,又如裏衣的領子將我纏住。 18 In his great power (God) becomes like clothing to me; 30:18 Hebrew; ((Septuagint (God) grasps my clothing)) he binds me like the neck of my garment.
January 15 "And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night." (Gen. 26:24.) APPEARED the same night," the night on which he went to beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on any other night as well as this? If so, you are grievously mistaken. Why did it come to Isaac in the night on which he reached beer-sheba? Beacuse that was the night on which he reached rest. In his old locality, he had been tormented. There had been a whole series of petty quarrels about the possession of paltry wells. There are no worries like little worries, particularly if there is an accumulation of them. Isaac felt this. Even after the strife was past, the place retained a disagreeable association. He determined to leave. He sought change of scene. He pitched his tent away from the place of former strife. That very night the revelation came. God spoke when there was no inward storm. He could not speak when the mind was fretted; His voice demands the silence of the soul. Only in the hush of the spirit could Isaac hear the garments of his God sweep by. His still night was his starry night. My soul, hast thou pondered these words, "Be still, and know"? In the hour of perturbation, thou canst not hear the answer to thy prayers. How often has the answer seemed to come long after! The heart got no response in the moment of its crying─in its thunder, its earthquake, and its fire. But when the crying ceased, when the stillness fell, when thy hand desisted from knocking on the iron gate, when the interest of other lives broke the tragedy of thine own, then appeared th long-delayed reply. Thou must rest, O soul, it thou wouldst have thy heart's desire. Still the beating of thy pulse of personal care. Hide thy tempest of individual trouble behind the altar of a common tribulation and, that same night, the Lord shall appear to thee. The rainbow shall span the place of the subsiding flood, and in thy stillness thou shalt hear the everlasting music. ─George Matheson. Tread in solitude thy pathway, Quiet heart and undismayed. Thou shalt know things strange, mysterious, Which to thee no voice has said. While the crowd of petty hustlers Grasps at vain and paltry things, Thou wilt see a great world rising Where soft mystic music rings. Leave the dusty road to others, Spotless keep thy soul and bright, As the radiant ocean's surface When the sun is taking flight. ─(From the German of V. Schoffel) H.F.