5:4 我說:這些人實在是貧窮的,是愚昧的,因為不曉得耶和華的作為和他們上帝的法則。
5:5 我要去見尊大的人,對他們說話,因為他們曉得耶和華的作為和他們上帝的法則。哪知,這些人齊心將軛折斷,掙開繩索。
5:6 因此,林中的獅子必害死他們;晚上(或譯:野地)的豺狼必滅絕他們;豹子要在城外窺伺他們。凡出城的必被撕碎;因為他們的罪過極多,背道的事也加增了。
4 Then I said, "These are only the
poor;
they have no sense;
for
they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God."
But
they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion from the forest shall
strike them down;
a wolf from the desert shall devastate
them.
A
leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn
in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their apostasies are great.
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先知認為這些在街上找的人可能是低下階層的人,如果去找上流社會的應該就沒問題。無奈上流階層的人知道上帝的道路語法則,卻反倒執意背叛上帝。可見悖逆上帝的心,不管事任何階層的人都是如此!
也因為如此,耶穌基督拯救的福音要向各階層的人傳揚,也願聖靈與我們同在,感動人心拯救上帝要拯救的人,我們不知道是誰,但是我們就是忠心宣揚,呼召人悔改歸向上帝,透過耶穌基督的福音。
讓我們一生為主所用,不要怕人的拒絕,流淚撒種,必定歡呼收割!我們必定會看見上帝奇妙的作為,祂必定拯救人進入自己的府庫的!