8月22日
耶利米書15章1-4節
現代中文譯本2019
15:1 上主又告訴我：「即使摩西和撒母耳站在我面前向我祈求，我也不憐憫這些人。把他們趕走！叫他們從我面前滾開！
15:2 如果他們問，他們該到什麼地方去，你就告訴他們，上主說：該病死的，病死！該戰死的，戰死！該餓死的，餓死！該被擄的，被擄！
15:3 我—上主決定使他們遭遇四種災害：被刀劍殺死；被野狗拖走屍體；被天空的飛鳥啄食；被野獸吞吃。
15:4 由於猶大王希西家的兒子瑪拿西在耶路撒冷的惡行，我要使天下萬國的人一看見他們就厭惡。」
ESV
15:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!
15:2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: “‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
15:3 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
15:4 And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
今天的經文中，上帝重申不聽耶利米的代求，一定要嚴厲的處罰猶大人。王下 21:1-16 和 代下 33:3-7 都有描述「瑪拿西」的邪惡行為，包括了天象崇拜和竟然在聖殿之內為巴力築壇。舊約聖經背景注釋提到瑪拿西是被視為最努力將耶和華崇拜與迦南祭儀結合的人，他後來雖然悔改 代下 33:3-12 ，但他的鼓勵偶像崇拜卻影響延至後代。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=15&sec=1
