9月18日
耶利米書21章8-10節
現代中文譯本2019
21:8 接著，上主吩咐我對人民這樣說：「看哪，我—上主把活路死路都擺在你們面前，讓你們自己選擇。
21:9 留在這城裡的人要不是戰死，就是餓死或病死。但是到城外向圍困你們的巴比倫人投降的，不至於死，卻有機會逃生。
21:10 我定意懲罰這城，毀滅這城。我要把它交給巴比倫王；他要燒毀這城。我—上主這樣宣布了。」
ESV
21:8 “And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
21:9 He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.
21:10 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’
今天的經文，耶利米傳達上帝的話，要猶大人投降巴比倫人以保命。先知的勸降無疑被視為是賣國賊的舉動，然而當國家淪亡後，他卻選擇留在故土為邦國未來的復興而努力。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=21&sec=8
