May 5【每日活水】伸冤在神，仰望交托

18  亚比该急忙将二百饼，两皮袋酒，五只收拾好了的羊，五细亚烘好了的穗子，一百葡萄饼，二百无花果饼，都驮在驴上，

19  对仆人说：「你们前头走，我随着你们去。」这事她却没有告诉丈夫拿八。

20  亚比该骑着驴，正下山坡，见大卫和跟随他的人从对面下来，亚比该就迎接他们。

21  大卫曾说：「我在旷野为那人看守所有的，以致他一样不失落，实在是徒然了！他向我以恶报善。

22  凡属拿八的男丁，我若留一个到明日早晨，愿　神重重降罚与我！」

23  亚比该见大卫，便急忙下驴，在大卫面前脸伏于地叩拜，

24  俯伏在大卫的脚前，说：「我主啊，愿这罪归我！求你容婢女向你进言，更求你听婢女的话。

25  我主不要理这坏人拿八，他的性情与他的名相称；他名叫拿八，他为人果然愚顽。但我主所打发的仆人，婢女并没有看见。

26  我主啊，耶和华既然阻止你亲手报仇，取流血的罪，所以我指着永生的耶和华、又敢在你面前起誓说：『愿你的仇敌和谋害你的人都像拿八一样。』

27  如今求你将婢女送来的礼物给跟随你的仆人。

28  求你饶恕婢女的罪过。耶和华必为我主建立坚固的家，因我主为耶和华争战；并且在你平生的日子查不出有什么过来。

29  虽有人起来追逼你，寻索你的性命，你的性命却在耶和华－你的　神那里蒙保护，如包裹宝器一样；你仇敌的性命，耶和华必抛去，如用机弦甩石一样。

30-31  我主现在若不亲手报仇流无辜人的血，到了耶和华照所应许你的话赐福与你，立你作以色列的王，那时我主必不至心里不安，觉得良心有亏。耶和华赐福与我主的时候，求你记念婢女。」

18  Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

19  Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20  As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.

21  David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.

22  May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”

23  When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.

24  She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.

25  Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.

26  And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

27  And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.

28  “Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.

29  Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.

30  When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,

31  my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”