6/18 (四)
耶利米書 2：28-31
現代文譯本（2019）
28 「你們為自己造的神明在哪裡呢？如果它們能搭救，你們遇難的時候，就讓它們來救你們吧！猶大人哪，你們的神明像你們的城市一樣多。
29 你們都是叛徒！為什麼還跟我爭辯呢？
30 我懲罰你們都沒有效果，因為你們不肯受教。像發狂的獅子一樣，你們殺害了自己的先知。
31 以色列人哪，留心聽我的話！我像荒涼的曠野或幽暗的地方嗎？為什麼你們竟說要隨從自己的意思，不回我這裡來呢？
ESV
28 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29 “Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the LORD.
30 In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to you’?
《聖經背景注釋》
神的數目與城的數目相等 大部分古代近東民族的諸神系統，都有數以百計甚至數以千計的神祇。耶利米宣稱猶大人在這方面與他們的多神鄰邦沒有分別。按照慣例，城鎮都各有自己的守護神祇。隨著城鎮的增長，神祇的數目亦同時遞增。
