7月7日
耶利米書5章20-31節
現代中文譯本2019
20 上主說：「要通告雅各的後代，向猶大人民宣布：
21 你們這些愚蠢無知的人哪，要留心聽！你們有眼睛卻不能看，有耳朵卻不能聽！
22 我—上主問你們：你們為什麼不敬畏我？在我面前，為什麼不戰戰兢兢？我安置沙灘作海洋的界限，大洋不能越過這界限。海水洶湧也不能穿越；浪濤翻騰也不能突破。
23 但是你們這些人又頑固又悖逆！你們背叛我，離棄了我。
24 雖然我按時賜給你們春霖秋雨，讓你們年年豐收，你們卻從來不敬畏我。
25 你們的罪行使風雨失調；你們的罪過使你們不得收穫。
26 「邪惡的人住在我子民當中。他們設圈套陷害人，好像捕鳥的人張開羅網。
27 他們的家堆滿了贓物，好像獵人的籠子裝滿了獵物。所以，他們有錢有勢，
28 肥胖紅潤。他們窮凶極惡，不替無依的孤兒伸冤，不替無助的窮人主持公道。
29 「因此，我—上主要為這些事懲罰他們；我要報復這樣的國家。
30 在這國土上竟然發生了這樣可怕、令人驚駭的事！
31 先知只會撒謊；祭司專為自己爭權奪利；我的子民竟不反對。懲罰的日子一到，他們要怎麼辦呢？」
ESV
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah:
21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
22 Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
24 They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
25 Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
26 For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;
28 they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”
30 An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
今天的經文中，描述了上主要先知去警告以色列和猶大：自然界臣服於上主，為什麼上主的百姓不知道應該要臣服呢？導致惡人坐大成為富足，神職人員也虛假胡鬧，而上帝不得不為這些事情施行審判。最後一節說出了耶利米認為恐怖、可怕的狀況：先知說謊、祭司濫權，百姓還喜歡神職人員這樣。難怪他要嘆氣：「最後該怎樣？」
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=5&sec=20
