7月28日
耶利米書9章2-9節
現代中文譯本2019
9:2 但願我在荒野有藏身的地方，能遠遠地避開同胞。唉！他們是一群叛徒，一點忠信都沒有。
9:3 他們隨時隨地撒謊；虛偽取代了真理，控制這地。上主說：我的子民一再作惡，不承認我是他們的上帝。
9:4 每一個人都得提防親友，親兄弟也不能信任；因為兄弟都跟雅各一樣詭詐，每一個親友都好搬弄是非。
9:5 人人欺騙朋友；沒有人說誠實話；人人教導舌頭撒謊。他們繼續不斷地犯罪；
9:6 他們接二連三地強暴欺詐。上主說，他的子民背棄他。
9:7 因此，上主—萬軍的統帥這樣說：我要鍛鍊我的子民，考驗他們。我的子民作惡，我能不懲罰嗎？
9:8 他們的舌頭像銳利的箭；他們不斷撒謊。人人對朋友甜言蜜語，其實在挖陷阱。
9:9 我不該為這些事懲罰他們嗎？我不該對這種國家報復嗎？
ESV
9:2 Oh that I had in the desert a travelers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
9:3 They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
9:4 Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
9:5 Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
9:6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.
9:7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
9:9 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
今天的經文中，大篇幅地描述以色列民的說謊與詭詐的景況，似乎耶和華不僅不喜悅以色列民的背信與拜偶像，也非常不喜悅以色列民的說謊與詭詐。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=9&sec=2
