7月1日
耶利米書4章6-10節
現代中文譯本2019
6 要豎立指向錫安的路標！不要拖延，趕快避難！上主要降大災害；大毀滅要從北方臨到。
7 那萬國的毀滅者已經出發，好像獅子衝出叢林。他要來毀滅猶大。猶大的土地要荒涼，城鎮沒有人居住。
8 所以，你們要披上麻衣，痛哭哀號，因為上主對猶大的怒火沒有熄滅。
9 上主說：「在那天，君王和官長將喪失勇氣；祭司將目瞪口呆，先知也會驚駭。」
10 於是我抗議說：「至高的上主啊，你確實欺騙了耶路撒冷人！你說會有太平，其實刀劍正頂住他們的咽喉。」
ESV
6 Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
8 For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.”
9 “In that day, declares the LORD, courage shall fail both king and officials. The priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.”
10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ whereas the sword has reached their very life.”
今天的經文中，延續了昨天的經文主題，先知進一步地大聲疾呼：全國當備戰，將有侵略者由北方下來，使得猶大地變成荒涼。
敵國巴比倫已經動身繞經北方來攻擊猶大，猶大人民必須準備過戰爭生活了。無奈一般百姓都還以為戰爭不會來，完全沒想到戰爭很快就來臨了。
先知耶利米一方面感嘆著，當時的先知已經不再憑上帝的旨意說話，而是看著君王的臉色說預言，導致說出來的都是君王和百姓愛聽的話（就是「平安」）。
一方面他也跟上帝抗議，認為責怪上帝欺哄大家。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=4&sec=10
