7月3日
耶利米書4章19-26節
現代中文譯本2019
19 哎呀，我忍受不住絞痛！我心焦灼，坐立不安。我聽到軍號的響聲，戰爭的吶喊。
20 災難接踵而來；全國荒廢。我的帳棚突然倒塌，帳棚的幔子破裂。
21 我還得經歷多少烽火？還得聽多少軍號？
22 上主說：我的子民愚蠢；他們不認識我。他們像低能的小孩子，一點兒智慧都沒有。他們只曉得做壞事，不曉得做好事。
23 我俯視大地，一片荒涼；我仰望天空，黑暗無光。
24 我眺望大山，觀看小山；大山震動，小山搖擺。
25 我看不見人影；連鳥兒也都飛走。
26 良田變成荒野；城市有如土堆，因為上主傾下他的烈怒。
ESV
19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Crash follows hard on crash; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment.
21 How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
今天的經文中，描述了先知感覺到極度痛苦，因為看到毀滅與全地荒廢。耶利米用四種自然現象：地、天、大山、小山，與四種生物現象：人、鳥、肥田、城邑的毀滅來描述審判的嚴重性。自然現象表現的是一種「反創造」，讓被造物回到受造前的狀況。而生物現象表現的也是一種「反創造」，讓這些生物現象回到不存在的狀況。。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=4&sec=19
