旧约 - 耶利米书(Jeremiah)第9章

Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.
Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.
"They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me," declares the LORD.
"Beware of your friends; do not trust your brothers. For every brother is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.
Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me," declares the LORD.
Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: "See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks with deceit. With his mouth each speaks cordially to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Should I not punish them for this?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?"
I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.
"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."
What man is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?
The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their fathers taught them."
Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.
I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them."
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.
Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.
The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.'"
Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.
Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.
Say, "This is what the LORD declares: "'The dead bodies of men will lie like refuse on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.'"
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,
but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh--
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
耶利米书第九章   第 9 章 

  耶 9:1-6> 是愤怒?是心伤?若我曾尽力让心爱的人重回正路,结果徒劳无功,我的心情会怎样? 

  9:1-6 耶利米面对他的百姓,心情万分矛盾。他一方面因比比皆是的谎言、欺骗、谗谤、奸淫和拜偶像等事而义愤填胸,另一方面却又怜悯、深爱着他的同胞。他一方面为神的使命从他们中间分别出来,另一方面却深感与百姓息息相关,是他们的一分子。主耶稣来到耶路撒冷,面对那离弃拒绝祂的小城时,心情也是这样矛盾(参太 23:37 )。 

  耶 9:23-24> 你最希望别人赞赏你什么呢? 

  9:23-24 一般人称赞别人的时候,不外乎欣赏下列四方面:智慧、权势、善良和财富。但神最重视的,却是一个人是否认识祂和在生活上是否彰显祂的公义。 

  耶 9:25-26> 行割礼的民族都信仰耶和华吗? 

  9:25-26 割礼的传统源自亚伯拉罕年代,那是以色列人与神立约的标记(参创 17:9-14 )。某些外邦国家虽然也有行割礼的习俗,但是完全没有与神立约的含义。到了耶利米所处的时代,犹大人虽然继续在身上延续这个传统,却完全忘记了割礼的属灵意义。──《灵修版圣经注释》