7月23日
耶利米書7章29-8章3節
現代中文譯本2019
7:29 「耶路撒冷人哪，哀悼吧！剃光頭髮，把它扔掉！到山頭上唱輓歌吧！因為我—上主拋棄了激怒我的子民。
7:30 「猶大人做了一件可惡的事。他們把我憎恨的偶像放在敬拜我的聖殿裡，汙辱了我的居所。
7:31 他們在欣嫩子谷造了陀斐特祭壇，把自己的兒女焚燒獻在上面。我並沒有要求他們獻這種祭，連想也沒有想過。
7:32 所以，有一天，那地方不再叫陀斐特或欣嫩子谷，而要叫『屠殺谷』。因為墳地不夠，人要在陀斐特埋葬屍體。
7:33 飛鳥和走獸要來吃屍體，沒有人可趕走牠們。
7:34 我要使整塊土地死氣沉沉。猶大各城鎮和耶路撒冷的大街小巷不再有歡笑，也不再有婚宴喜慶的聲音。這塊土地要荒廢。」
8:1 「到那一天，敵人要把猶大諸王、官長、祭司、先知，和耶路撒冷居民的骸骨都從墳裡挖出來，
8:2 暴露在太陽、月亮，和星星底下。這些天體正是他們生前所愛慕、服事、占卜、崇拜的。這些骸骨不再被收殮埋葬，要變成地面上的肥料。
8:3 這邪惡國家的殘存之民要在我流放他們去的地方求死而不求生。我—上主、萬軍的統帥這樣宣布了。」
ESV
7:29 “‘Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’
7:30 “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
7:31 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
7:32 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
7:33 And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
7:34 And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
8:1 “At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.
8:2 And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
8:3 Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts.
今天的經文中，描述先知呼籲猶大人要舉哀，因為他們已經被上主拋棄，將會遭受嚴厲的刑罰。在古代對於安葬是相當重視，如果連屍骨都會被挖出來，而且像糞土一樣被散置，是非常不能容忍的事情。上主用曝屍於天體下來懲罰生前喜歡天體敬拜的人。
參考資料: https://cb.fhl.net/read1.php?id=19155&VERSION20=esv&TABFLAG=0
