9月2日
耶利米書17章5-11節
現代中文譯本2019
17:5 上主說：信賴世人，倚靠必死之人的力量，叛離了我—上主的人，這種人該受詛咒。
17:6 他像沙漠中的灌木：長在乾旱的曠野，長在荒蕪的鹽地；他不可能有幸福。
17:7 專心信靠我—上主的，這種人多麼有福！
17:8 他像栽種在溪旁的樹：樹根伸入水中，不怕旱災熱浪，樹葉常青，不斷結出果子。
17:9 人心比什麼都詭詐，比什麼都腐敗；誰能測透呢？
17:10 我—上主探索人心，察驗人的肺腑；我照各人的作為報應他。
17:11 以不正當手段發財的人像一隻鳥孵了不是自己下的蛋。他會在壯年時失掉財富；到頭來他不過是一個傻瓜。
ESV
17:5 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
17:6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
17:7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
17:8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
17:10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
17:11 Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
今天的經文中，說明依靠人的有災禍了，依靠神的將得興盛。今天的經文一般被認為跟詩1很接近。但和詩1比較，在這裏的對比不是「惡人」與「義人」之間的，而是「那倚靠人的人」與「那倚靠耶和華的人」之間的對比。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=17&sec=5
