彌迦書1:1-7

1:1 當猶大王約坦、亞哈斯、希西家在位的時候，摩利沙人彌迦得耶和華的默示，論撒馬利亞和耶路撒冷。

1:2 萬民哪，你們都要聽！地和其上所有的，也都要側耳而聽！主耶和華從他的聖殿要見證你們的不是。

1:3 看哪，耶和華出了他的居所，降臨步行地的高處。

1:4 眾山在他以下必消化，諸谷必崩裂，如蠟化在火中，如水沖下山坡。

1:5 這都因雅各的罪過，以色列家的罪惡。雅各的罪過在哪裡呢？豈不是在撒馬利亞嗎？猶大的邱壇在哪裡呢？豈不是在耶路撒冷嗎？

1:6 所以我必使撒馬利亞變為田野的亂堆，又作為種葡萄之處；也必將她的石頭倒在谷中，露出根基來。

1:7 她一切雕刻的偶像必被打碎；她所得的財物必被火燒；所有的偶像我必毀滅；因為是從妓女雇價所聚來的，後必歸為妓女的雇價。

The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Hear, you peoples, all of you;

 pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,

and let the Lord God be a witness against you,

 the Lord from his holy temple.

For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place,

and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

And the mountains will melt under him,

and the valleys will split open,

like wax before the fire,

like waters poured down a steep place.

All this is for the transgression of Jacob

and for the sins of the house of Israel.

 What is the transgression of Jacob?

Is it not Samaria?

And what is the high place of Judah?

Is it not Jerusalem?

Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,

a place for planting vineyards,

and I will pour down her stones into the valley

and uncover her foundations.

All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,

 all her wages shall be burned with fire,

and all her idols I will lay waste,

for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,

and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

***********

    彌迦一開始，就論到以色列國拜偶像的事，這是讓上帝非常不喜悅的事情！

    同樣，我們今天自稱是基督徒，還一樣敬拜偶像，不敬拜上帝，一樣會惹上帝的憤怒！這不僅是惹上帝的憤怒，更是虧欠耶穌基督在十字架上為我們擺上的一切，這可不是說宗教自由就可以說得過去的！

    今天我們要除掉我們心中一切的偶像，更要除掉「邱壇」不可以在其上「燒香」，今天有的只有上帝的祭壇，就是耶穌基督的十字架，唯有耶穌督獻上的，才能得上帝喜悅，不是耶穌基督的就是罪，就是上帝所厭惡，就是不公不義！