彌迦書2:6-11

2:6 他們（或譯：假先知）說：你們不可說預言；不可向這些人說預言，不住地羞辱我們。

2:7 雅各家啊，豈可說耶和華的心不忍耐嗎（或譯：心腸狹窄嗎）？這些事是他所行的嗎？我─耶和華的言語豈不是與行動正直的人有益嗎？

2:8 然而，近來我的民興起如仇敵，從那些安然經過不願打仗之人身上剝去外衣。

2:9 你們將我民中的婦人從安樂家中趕出，又將我的榮耀從她們的小孩子盡行奪去。

2:10 你們起來去吧！這不是你們安息之所；因為污穢使人（或譯：地）毀滅，而且大大毀滅。

2:11 若有人心存虛假，用謊言說：我要向你們預言得清酒和濃酒。那人就必作這民的先知。

"Do not preach"—thus they preach—

 "one should not preach of such things;

 disgrace will not overtake us."

Should this be said, O house of Jacob?

 Has the Lord grown impatient?

Are these his deeds?

Do not my words do good

to him who walks uprightly?

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;

you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly

with no thought of war.

The women of my people you drive out

from their delightful houses;

from their young children you take away

my splendor forever.

Arise and go,

for this is no place to rest,

because of uncleanness that destroys

with a grievous destruction.

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,

saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,"

he would be the preacher for this people!

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    這是對假先知的警告，叫他們不要為了自己的利益，向不公義的人發平安的預言來討好人，好得著生活所需用的！

    這不僅對當時的先知說的，也是對世世代代的傳道人說的，讓我們清楚我們是上帝的代言人，不是討人喜悅的弄臣或小丑。

    因此，身為傳道人的我們，要有格調，不要為別人的賞金度日，我們是上帝的僕人，不是人的工具！

彌迦書2章

      

•       彌迦書2:1-11    ,

       彌迦書2:1-5  , 彌迦書2:1-2  , 彌迦書2:3-5 ,

     彌迦書2:6-11  , 彌迦書2:6-7  , 

     彌迦書2:8-10    , 彌迦書2:10   ,  彌迦書2:10 , 

     彌迦書2:12-13  ,

彌迦書2:1-5

2:1 禍哉，那些在床上圖謀罪孽、造作奸惡的！天一發亮，因手有能力就行出來了。

2:2 他們貪圖田地就佔據，貪圖房屋便奪取；他們欺壓人，霸佔房屋和產業。

2:3 所以耶和華如此說：我籌劃災禍降與這族；這禍在你們的頸項上不能解脫；你們也不能昂首而行，因為這時勢是惡的。

2:4 到那日，必有人向你們提起悲慘的哀歌，譏刺說：我們全然敗落了！耶和華將我們的分轉歸別人，何竟使這分離開我們？他將我們的田地分給悖逆的人。

2:5 所以在耶和華的會中，你必沒有人拈鬮拉準繩。

Woe to those who devise wickedness

and work evil on their beds!

When the morning dawns, they perform it,

because it is in the power of their hand.

They covet fields and seize them,

and houses, and take them away;

they oppress a man and his house,

a man and his inheritance.

Therefore thus says the Lord:

behold, against this family I am devising disaster,

from which you cannot remove your necks,

and you shall not walk haughtily,

 for it will be a time of disaster.

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you

and moan bitterly,

and say, "We are utterly ruined;

 he changes the portion of my people;

 how he removes it from me!

 To an apostate he allots our fields."

Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot

in the assembly of the Lord.

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    上帝對於不公義的族群是心中憤怒，必定降災在他們當中。這也讓我們看見：富有人他的子孫不一定富有，窮苦人的小孩也不是永遠窮苦！上帝有祂的作為，使上帝的公義彰顯。

    也因為如此，窮苦人的家庭，不要自卑；富有人的家庭，也不要自傲！所行的一切，要在上帝的引導中，不要妄想別人的田產，一切要遵照上帝的公義來生活行事。

    彌迦先知所要強調的的就是要行公義、好憐憫，與上帝同行！

彌迦書1章

         彌迦書1:1-7    ,

         彌迦書1:1 , 彌迦書1:2 ,

         彌迦書1:3 , 彌迦書1:4 ,

         彌迦書1:5  , 彌迦書1:6-7 ,

        彌迦書1:8-16   , 

        彌迦書1:8-9  ,

彌迦書1:8-16

1:8 先知說：因此我必大聲哀號，赤腳露體而行；又要呼號如野狗，哀鳴如鴕鳥。

1:9 因為撒馬利亞的傷痕無法醫治，延及猶大和耶路撒冷我民的城門。

1:10 不要在迦特報告這事，總不要哭泣；我在伯‧亞弗拉滾於灰塵之中。

1:11 沙斐的居民哪，你們要赤身蒙羞過去。撒南的居民不敢出來。伯‧以薛人的哀哭使你們無處可站。

1:12 瑪律的居民心甚憂急，切望得好處，因為災禍從耶和華那裡臨到耶路撒冷的城門。

1:13 拉吉的居民哪，要用快馬套車；錫安民（原文是女子）的罪由你而起；以色列人的罪過在你那裡顯出。

1:14 猶大啊，你要將禮物送給摩利設‧迦特。亞革悉的眾族必用詭詐待以色列諸王。

1:15 瑪利沙的居民哪，我必使那奪取你的來到你這裡；以色列的尊貴人（原文是榮耀）必到亞杜蘭。

1:16 猶大啊，要為你所喜愛的兒女剪除你的頭髮，使頭光禿，要大大地光禿，如同禿鷹，因為他們都被擄去離開你。

For this I will lament and wail;

I will go stripped and naked;

I will make lamentation like the jackals,

and mourning like the ostriches.

For her wound is incurable,

and it has come to Judah;

it has reached to the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.

Tell it not in Gath;

weep not at all;

in Beth- le- aphrah

 roll yourselves in the dust.

Pass on your way,

inhabitants of Shaphir,

 in nakedness and shame;

the inhabitants of Zaanan

do not come out;

the lamentation of Beth- ezel

shall take away from you its standing place.

For the inhabitants of Maroth

wait anxiously for good,

because disaster has come down from the Lord

to the gate of Jerusalem.

Harness the steeds to the chariots,

inhabitants of Lachish;

it was the beginning of sin

to the daughter of Zion,

for in you were found

 the transgressions of Israel.

Therefore you shall give parting gifts

to Moresheth- gath;

the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing

to the kings of Israel.

I will again bring a conqueror to you,

inhabitants of Mareshah;

the glory of Israel

shall come to Adullam.

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,

for the children of your delight;

 make yourselves as bald as the eagle,

for they shall go from you into exile.

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    不僅以色列受到上帝的懲罰，猶大也是一樣！因為她們都遠離上帝！

    今日教會更是要以此為鑑！

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.

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    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！