7月25日
耶利米書8章8-12節
現代中文譯本2019
8:8 你們怎能自誇聰明、明白我的法律呢？其實，法律被詭詐的經學教師修改了。
8:9 你們的聰明人蒙羞，驚惶失措。他們拒絕了我的話，還有什麼智慧可言呢？
8:10 所以，我要把他們的妻子給別人，把田地也交給新主人。他們不論地位高低都貪圖不義之財，連先知和祭司也都欺詐人民。
8:11 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。
8:12 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
8:8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
8:9 The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?
8:10 Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
8:11 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
8:12 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 the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.
今天的經文中，描述了在約西亞王時代找到的律法書，到了耶利米這個時候好像只是一個「研究用的考古發現」，那些字句只是「以前的人的文件」，不是「上主的律法」，文士和智慧人還可以「拒絕」這些文件。這些百姓跌倒不會爬起來，又不如禽鳥會遵守上主的法則，怎麼說自己有智慧呢？丟棄上帝的話，怎麼還會有智慧？所以上主透過先知啟示，一定要懲罰他們。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=8&sec=8
