6/21 (日)
耶利米書 3：1-2
現代文譯本（2019）
1 上主說：「如果丈夫休了妻子，妻子離開他，跟別人結婚，他怎能把她再接回來呢？他這樣做就是玷汙了土地。但是以色列啊，你跟好些情郎私奔，現在卻想回來找我！
2 舉目看看那些山頭；你能找到一片你沒有賣過淫的土地嗎？你在路旁等候情郎，好像阿拉伯人埋伏曠野，等著獵物一樣。你的淫行玷汙了土地。
ESV
1 “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.
2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
《聖經背景注釋》
離婚法 美索不達米亞和埃及都有無數文獻，討論離婚的法律。這些法律雖則大體而言都是偏袒男方，兩個文化都容許女子在某些條件之下申請離婚。耶利米在此引述的是舊約的一條離婚法例，記於申命記二十四1～4。法例規定妻子離婚之後若是改嫁他人，前夫便不可與她覆合。因此，耶利米之問題的答案是否定的，這人不得與她再度結婚。
