2:11 我眼中流淚，以致失明；我的心腸擾亂，肝膽塗地，都因我眾民遭毀滅，又因孩童和吃奶的在城內街上發昏。
2:12 那時，他們在城內街上發昏，好像受傷的，在母親的懷裡，將要喪命；對母親說：穀、酒在哪裡呢？
2:13 耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用甚麼向你證明呢？我可用甚麼與你相比呢？錫安的民哪，我可拿甚麼和你比較，好安慰你呢？因為你的裂口大如海，誰能醫治你呢？
2:14 你的先知為你見虛假和愚昧的異象，並沒有顯露你的罪孽，使你被擄的歸回；卻為你見虛假的默示和使你被趕出本境的緣故。
My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out to the ground
because of the destruction of the daughter
of my people,
because infants and babies faint
in the streets of the city.
They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers' bosom.
What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What can I liken to you, that I may comfort
you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
they have not exposed your iniquity
to restore your fortunes,
but have seen for you oracles
that are false and misleading.
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先知在此哀嘆耶路撒冷的民所受的慘狀，而這一切的原因是來自假先知！因為將先知，未將他們的罪孽指出來，使得他們沒有辦法在上帝面前認罪和悔改，才會有今天的慘狀！
這也提醒我們這些為上帝出口的人，不可以盡說好話，不說責備的話！更不可因為想要生存或獲得更高的謝禮，就討好會眾，容許他們有不法得罪上帝的事，裝作沒有看見、沒有聽見，而使會眾敗亡，最後自己也沒有什麼好處，反倒被上帝所厭棄！
同樣會眾要有勇氣與意志，肯聽逆耳的忠言，不要因為傳道人的責備，就不聽從傳道人的話，切記以色列人之所以敗亡，是因為不聽先知的話，用錢收買先知，叫先知不說上帝來的忠言，說自己順耳的話！
因此，要教會復興，就要有敢說忠言的傳道人與肯聽忠言的會眾，大家不斷地對付罪惡的事，使教會被上帝的話語所煉淨，教會才會進步，才會成為聖潔合乎主用的軍隊，為主在世界征戰，打敗仇敵！
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