9月16日
耶利米書20章14-18節
現代中文譯本2019
20:14 願我的生日受詛咒！願我出母胎的那一天被遺忘！
20:15 願那向我父親報喜的人受詛咒！他對我父親報告：是男的，你得了一個兒子！
20:16 願那人像被上主毀滅的城，得不到上主的憐憫。願他清早聽到哀號，午間聽見戰爭的吶喊。
20:17 因為他不在我出母胎以前殺我，好使我以母腹作墳墓。
20:18 我為什麼要出世呢？難道只為著經歷辛勞、悲傷，在羞辱中消耗我的歲月嗎？
ESV
20:14 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
20:15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad.
20:16 Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,
20:17 because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
20:18 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
今天的經文中，耶利米咒詛自己的生日，希望自己沒有出生過。很多人都提及這段自白，是耶利米書中最悲傷、失望的一段。許多人認為此處跟約伯記3:3-12 相似。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=20&sec=14
