9月11日
耶利米書19章4-9節
現代中文譯本2019
19:4 我這樣做是因為我的子民離棄了我；他們在這裡向別的神明獻祭，汙染了這土地。他們拜的神明是他們和他們祖先所不認識的，猶大的君王也不認識。他們把無辜者的血灑遍這地方，
19:5 為巴力造祭壇，在上面焚燒自己的兒女作牲祭。我從沒有命令他們這樣做；我連想也沒有想過這種事。
19:6 所以，有一天這地方將不再叫陀斐特或欣嫩子谷，而要叫『屠殺谷』。
19:7 我要在這裡挫敗猶大和耶路撒冷人民的一切計畫。我要使敵人戰勝他們，殺死他們。我要把他們的屍體給飛鳥走獸作食物。
19:8 我要使這城遭受令人恐怖的毀滅；每一個過路人看見了都要驚駭唾棄。
19:9 敵人要來包圍這城，屠殺居民。城裡的人因被圍困絕糧，不得不吃鄰人的肉，甚至吃親生兒女的肉！」
ESV
19:4 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
19:5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—
19:6 therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
19:7 And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
19:9 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
今天的經文中，先知描述因為猶大人離棄神，敬拜巴力，所以上帝要讓以色列人遭遇嚴重的懲罰。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=19&sec=4
