2/14 (六)
以賽亞書 50：1-3
現代文譯本（2019）
1 上主這樣說：
你們以為我趕走你們的母親，
那麼，我給她的休書在哪裡呢？
你們以為我把你們賣給債主，
那麼，究竟是賣給哪一個呢？
你們被賣是因你們的罪；
你們的母親被拋棄是因你們的惡行。
2 我來救援，為什麼沒有人？
我呼召，為什麼沒有人答應？
我軟弱不能救援嗎？
我發令，海就乾涸；
我使河流變成沙漠，
使魚類因無水而死。
3 我能使天變黑，
像在為死亡的人哀哭。
ESV
1 Thus says the LORD: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”
《舊約-聖經背景註釋》
將小孩賣給債主 古代近東地區，人要貸款或借錢，擔保品通常是以個人物產作抵押。而沒有擔保品可以沒收時，債務人或其家庭成員可能被賣為奴。例如：中亞述法典規定質押孩童來抵付債務。當然，整個家族會作出最大努力來確保家庭成員留在家中。請參：出埃及記二十一2～6注釋。
