7月14日
耶利米書6章16-21節
現代中文譯本2019
16 上主勸告他子民說：「你們要站在十字路口觀察。要探問那些舊路，查一查那條最好的路在哪裡。走那條路，你們就有平安。」 但是他們回答：「不！我們不走那條路。」
17 上主又為他們指派守望者，替他們聽警報的角聲，但是他們說：「我們不聽！」
18 因此，上主說：「列國啊，仔細觀看我子民的遭遇！
19 大地呀，聽吧！為了我子民的詭詐，我要降災禍給他們；因為他們拒絕我的教訓，不聽從我的話。
20 他們獻給我示巴的乳香，帶給我遠方的香料，我不稀罕！我不接受他們的燒化祭，也不喜歡他們的牲祭。
21 因此，我要使這些人絆倒。父子都要死去，鄰人親友也都要滅亡。」
ESV
16 Thus says the LORD: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not pay attention.’
18 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20 What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.’”
今天的經文中，闡述了描述猶大滅亡前，盡全力透過外交手法希望能夠救亡圖存，但沒想到過去跟猶大眉來眼去的國家，居然也要滅了猶大，以致猶大不知所措。但雖然是如此，上帝還是承諾不完全毀滅猶大。
參考資料: https://bible.fhl.net/new/com.php?book=3&engs=Jer&chap=6&sec=16
