第五章
1我要為我所親愛的唱歌，是我所愛者的歌，論他葡萄園的事。我
所親愛的有葡萄園在肥美的山岡上。2他刨挖園子，撿去石頭，栽
種上等的葡萄樹，在園中蓋了一座樓，又鑿出壓酒池，指望結好葡
萄，反倒結了野葡萄。3耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪，請你們現今
在我與我的葡萄園中，斷定是非。4我為我葡萄園所做之外，還有
甚麼可做的呢？我指望結好葡萄，怎麼倒結了野葡萄呢？5現在我
告訴你們，我要向我葡萄園怎樣行：我必撤去籬笆，使它被吞滅；
拆毀牆垣，使它被踐踏。6我必使它荒廢，不再修理，不再鋤刨，
荊棘蒺藜倒要生長。我也必命雲不降雨在其上。7萬軍之耶和華的
葡萄園，就是以色列家；他所喜愛的樹，就是猶大人。他指望的是
公平，誰知倒有暴虐（註：或作“倒流人血”）；指望的是公義，
誰知倒有冤聲。
默想：
1.慢慢地讀這段經文，想像你伴隨著這個葡萄園的園主。留意園
主為葡萄園所花的心血、淚汗，以及他的期望。然後，與園主
同往收割期，當園主看到所結的果實，不過是臭味難聞、又酸
又澀的野葡萄時，觀察園主是多麼的傷心。
2.在你的生命中，神曾經怎樣賜厚恩給你？對你諸多的關愛和保
護？神在你（這個葡萄園）身上是否有豐收？或是苦澀的欠
收？神在你身上的工作，與葡萄園園主的勞苦，有什麼相類似
的地方？
3.神在呼喚你向祂回應；祈求神在你身上能結出某一個果實來。
（禱告，找出一樣聖靈的果子，來向神禱告。）
禱告與筆錄：
繼續安靜在神面前，與神對話，並聆聽祂對我說的話。將心中
的思想（心得），或是與神的禱告，記錄在「靈程筆記簿」上面。
Chapter 5
1 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard:My loved one
had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.He built a watchtower in it and cut
out a winepress as well.Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it
yielded only bad fruit.3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of
Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.4 What more could have been
done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good
grapes, why did it yield only bad?5 Now I will tell you what I am going
to do to my vineyard:I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I
will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.6 I will make it a wasteland,
neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”7 The vineyard of the LORD
Almighty is the nation of Israel,and the people of Judah are the vines he
delighted in.And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness,
but heard cries of distress.
Meditation
1.Read this passage slowly as if you were with the owner in the vineyard.
Notice the care that was lavished on the vineyard, the sweat,
the hard labour, and the anticipation. Then go with the owner at
harvest time, and observe the owner’s dismay when the product
was only evil-smelling, bitter, wild grapes.
2.In which ways has God lavished his care on you? Was it a bumper
crop? Or a bitter harvest? How is God’s work in you similar to that
of the vineyard owner?
3.God calls you to respond to him. Pray for one specific sweet fruit
to grow in your life.
Prayer & Journaling: Stay with God for a little longer. Continue to converse
with God and listen to what he wants to tell me. Then write down
any thought and/or prayer in the 2012 “Spiritual Journal” book.