9月28日
耶利米書23章16-22節
現代中文譯本2019
23:16 上主—萬軍的統帥對耶路撒冷人民這樣說：「不要聽信這些先知的話；他們給你們的是虛幻的希望。他們憑自己的幻想說預言，不是傳達我的話。
23:17 他們不斷地對那些不肯聽從我的人說：『萬事如意！』又對那些頑固的人說：『你們不至於遭殃。』」
23:18 我說：「其實，這些先知中，沒有一人曾經站在上主的天庭親自聽他說話，沒有一人聽從他的話。
23:19 瞧吧，上主的震怒像強烈的旋風，在壞人頭上旋轉。
23:20 上主的忿怒將繼續，直到他完成自己一切的計畫；那時候，他的子民才會完全明白這事。」
23:21 上主說：「我沒有差派這些先知，但他們到處跑；我沒有給他們信息，他們卻擅自說預言。
23:22 如果他們曾站在天庭接受我的話，他們就會向我子民傳達我的信息，使他們離棄邪惡，不做壞事。
ESV
23:16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
23:17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”
23:18 For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?
23:19 Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
23:20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
23:21 “I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
23:22 But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.
今天的經文，耶利米描述當時代的先知隨著自己的意思說預言，導致人聽不見上帝的話。所以上帝非常憤怒，要刑罰這些惡人。很可能假先知就是告訴別人他們參與上主天庭的會，得以事先知道上帝的心意。耶利米反駁說：如果假先知真的知道上帝的計畫，應該要知道災禍臨頭，且要知道上帝要人離開邪惡。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=23&sec=16
