18:11 現在你要對猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民說：『耶和華如此說：我造出災禍攻擊你們，定意刑罰你們。你們各人當回頭離開所行的惡道，改正你們的行動作為。』
18:12 「他們卻說：『這是枉然。我們要照自己的計謀去行。』各人隨自己頑梗的惡心做事。」
18:13 所以，耶和華如此說：你們且往各國訪問，有誰聽見這樣的事？以色列民（原文是處女）行了一件極可憎惡的事。
18:14 黎巴嫩的雪從田野的磐石上豈能斷絕呢？從遠處流下的涼水豈能乾涸呢？
18:15 我的百姓竟忘記我，向假神燒香，使他們在所行的路上，在古道上絆跌，使他們行沒有修築的斜路，
18:16 以致他們的地令人驚駭，常常嗤笑；凡經過這地的必驚駭搖頭。
18:17 我必在仇敵面前分散他們，好像用東風吹散一樣。遭難的日子，我必以背向他們，不以面向他們。
Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and
devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend
your ways and your deeds.’
“But they say, That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will
every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
“Therefore thus says the Lord:
Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done a very horrible thing.
Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?
Do the mountain waters run dry,
the cold flowing streams?
But
my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
not the highway,
making their land a horror,
a thing to be hissed at forever.
Everyone who passes by it is horrified
and shakes his head.
Like the east wind I will scatter them
before the enemy.
I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
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先知耶利米在此宣告猶大人若不願意悔改，將遭受到耶和華上帝大大懲罰，並且受到世人的唾棄，上帝也一定會讓他們在敵人面前敗亡，使他們受到大大的羞辱！
上帝透過猶大百姓的失敗，來警戒我們，若是要享受上帝在基督裡的救恩，我們也必須悔改，離棄過去的罪惡，透過主耶穌的救贖大功來親近上帝，聖靈也必將這樣的拯救實踐在我們這些願意悔改的人身上的！
親愛的弟兄姊妹，我們若是感受到上帝這樣的慈愛與拯救，就讓我們順從聖靈的工作，快快悔改親近主！使我們真正活出上帝兒女該有的樣式，這更是上帝在我們身上動工的展現！你願意放下自己，讓上帝做成在你身上嗎？
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