7月13日
耶利米書6章9-15節
現代中文譯本2019
9 上主—萬軍的統帥這樣說：「敵人要來洗劫以色列，好像採葡萄的人摘光所有的葡萄。所以，你要趁著機會，盡量搶救殘存的人。」
10 我說：「縱使我向他們傳達你的話，警告他們，有誰願意接受呢？他們頑固，不肯接受你的話。他們拿你吩咐我說的話開玩笑。
11 上主啊，你向他們發的烈怒也在我身上燃燒，我再也不能忍受了！」 於是上主告訴我：「把我的烈怒傾瀉在街頭巷尾的孩童和成群結夥的年輕人身上。夫妻要一起被擄，老年人也不能倖免。
12 他們的房子連同他們的妻子、田地都要歸別人。我要懲罰這地的居民；
13 因為他們無論地位高低都貪圖不義之財，連先知和祭司也都欺詐人民。
14 他們看我子民的創傷為不足輕重。他們說『沒有問題，沒有問題』，其實問題嚴重。
15 他們做了這可惡的事理當知恥，可是他們不知恥，不臉紅。所以，他們要跟別人一樣跌倒；我懲罰他們的時候，他們就一蹶不振。我—上主這樣宣布了。」
ESV
9 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “They shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape gatherer pass your hand again over its branches.”
10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.
12 Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
13 “For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says the LORD.
今天的經文中，描述了先知警告耶路撒冷百姓不聽，祭司也用謊言欺騙百姓，導致上帝的憤怒必然臨到。當時的宗教領袖好比庸醫用紗布包住病人的毒瘤，並過甚其辭地對病人保證已經醫好了，絲毫不覺得慚愧和羞愧。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=6&sec=9
