惡人的燈何嘗熄滅?患難何嘗臨到他們呢? 上帝何嘗發怒,向他們分散災禍呢? Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
你們說: 上帝為惡人的兒女積蓄罪孽;我說:不如本人受報,好使他親自知道。 (It is said) <God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.> Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!
願他親眼看見自己敗亡,親自飲全能者的忿怒。 Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21:17-20 Verses 17 and 18 may be taken as exclamations and 19 and 20 as declarations.
就是惡人在禍患的日子得存留,在發怒的日子得逃脫。 that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, that he is delivered from 21:30 Or ((man is reserved for the day of calamity, that he is brought forth to)) the day of wrath?
他要以谷中的土塊為甘甜;在他以先去的無數,在他以後去的更多。 The soil in the valley is sweet to him; all men follow after him, and a countless throng goes 21:33 Or ((as a countless throng went)) before him.
December 29 "Arise……for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; and are ye still? Be not slothful to go, and enter to possess the land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth." (Judges 18:9,10) ARISE! Then there is something definite for us to do. Nothing is ours unless we take it. "The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance." (Joshua 16:4) "The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions." (Obad. 17) The uprihgt shall have good things in possession." We need to have appropriating faith in regard to God's promises. We must make God's Word our own personal possession. A child was asked once what appropriating faith was, and the answer was, "It is taking a pencil and underscoring all the me's and mine's and my's in the Bible." Take any word please the He has spoken and say, "That word is my word." Put your finger on this promise and say, "It is mine." How much of the Word has been endorsed and receipted and said "It is done." How many promises can you subscribe and say, "Fulfilled to me." "Son, thou art ever with Me, and all that I have is thine." Don't let your inheritance go by default. "When faith goes to market it always takes a basket."