8月19日
耶利米書14章7-12節
現代中文譯本2019
14:7 我的子民向我呼求：上主啊，即使我們的罪指控我們，求你仍然照你的諾言幫助我們。我們一再離棄你；我們得罪了你。
14:8 你是以色列唯一的希望，是我們遭難時的救主。在我們中間，你為何像陌生人？像過路旅客一早就走？
14:9 為何你像毫無戒備的人，像無能為力的戰士？然而，上主啊，你的確與我們同在！我們是你的子民；求你不要棄絕我們。
14:10 關於這些人，上主這樣說：「他們喜歡背離我，隨自己的意思游蕩。因此我厭惡他們；我要記住他們的過錯，懲罰他們的罪行。」
14:11 上主對我說：「你不必求我幫助這些人。
14:12 即使他們禁食，我也不聽他們的哀求；即使他們獻燒化祭和素祭，我也不接受。我倒要用戰爭、饑荒，和瘟疫消滅他們。」
ESV
14:7 “Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
14:8 O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
14:9 Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.”
14:10 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”
14:11 The LORD said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
14:12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
今天的經文，先知為猶大代求，求上帝能夠拯救猶大，但上帝禁止耶利米為百姓求好處，決心要滅絕他們。一般在這種群體國家哀悼的情況中，有時會有祭司或聖殿中的先知奉上帝的名對百姓講說保證的話（例如 詩 60:6-8 ），但此處14:10 卻不是一句保證的話，畢竟沒有希望時仍告知百姓有希望是最令人心痛的愚弄。它不是他們期望的救贖應許 代下 20:14-17 詩 12:5 ），而是一句證實上帝審判的訊息。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=14&sec=7
