★0724 引用經文→詩篇106:12至15

12 那時他們纔信了他的話、歌唱讚美他。 

Then they believed his promises and sang his praise. 

13 等不多時、他們就忘了他的作為、不仰望他的指教、 

But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel. 

14 反倒在曠野大起慾心、在荒地試探　神。 

In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test. 

15 他將他們所求的賜給他們、卻使他們的心靈軟弱。 

★Desert(沙漠)：解

vt.（及物動詞 transitive verb）

1.     遺棄(親屬等),拋棄(朋友等);從(軍隊、輪船等處)開小差,逃亡,潛逃,擅離;背離,捨棄,捨…而去  

vi.（不及物動詞 intransitive verb）

1.     擅離職守,放棄義務,瀆職;脫黨

2.     【軍】開小差,逃亡

n.（名詞 noun）

1.     【事】當然的報償,相應的賞罰  

2.     枯燥無味的話題,荒涼的時期,缺乏知識性和刺激精神的場所[環境]  

3.     【地】沙漠  

4.     【地】不毛之地,荒野(= wilderness)   

5.     【地】(指森林、草原而言的)荒原;水生生物不能生存的海域  

6.     【事】荒涼的境地,令人不快的狀態  

7.     【事】應得的賞罰;功過  

8.     【事】功績,優點(= merit)   

a.（形容詞 adjective）

1.     荒無人煙,空寂無人的

2.     沙漠的,似沙漠的;住在[生長於]沙漠中的

3.     不毛的(= barren)

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經文→Viewing References Part 1 [1-10 in 41 refs]: 

Exo 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Exo 5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Exo 19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

Exo 23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Num 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Num 27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

Num 33:16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibrothhattaavah.

Deu 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

2Chr 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Job 24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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