8:8 你們怎麼說:我們有智慧,耶和華的律法在我們這裡?看哪,文士的假筆舞弄虛假。
8:9 智慧人慚愧,驚惶,被擒拿;他們棄掉耶和華的話,心裡還有甚麼智慧呢?
8:10 所以我必將他們的妻子給別人,將他們的田地給別人為業;因為他們從最小的到至大的都一味地貪婪,從先知到祭司都行事虛謊。
8:11 他們輕輕忽忽地醫治我百姓的損傷,說:平安了!平安了!其實沒有平安。
8:12 他們行可憎的事知道慚愧嗎?不然,他們毫不慚愧,也不知羞恥。因此他們必在仆倒的人中仆倒;我向他們討罪的時候,他們必致跌倒。這是耶和華說的。
8:13 耶和華說:我必使他們全然滅絕;葡萄樹上必沒有葡萄,無花果樹上必沒有果子,葉子也必枯乾。我所賜給他們的,必離開他們過去。
8 "How can you say, 'We are wise,
and the law of the Lord is with us'?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.
9 The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the
Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore I will give their wives to
others
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
11 They have healed the wound of my people
lightly,
saying, 'Peace, peace,'
when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they committed
abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
when I punish them, they shall be
overthrown,
says the Lord.
13 When I would gather them, declares the
Lord,
there are no grapes on the vine,
nor
figs on the fig tree;
even
the leaves are withered,
and what I gave them has passed away from
them."
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在舊約時代有文士和智慧人,向以色列人傳講上帝的律法,和安慰百姓!這些人有可能是先知和祭司,正如今天教會的牧者一般的角色!但是這群人沒有向人將上帝的話語說明清楚,只向人說好話,盼望得到生活上的財物供應,正如耶利米先知在這裡所說:「他們從最小的到至大的都一味地貪婪,從先知到祭司都行事虛謊。他們輕輕忽忽地醫治我百姓的損傷,說:平安了!平安了!其實沒有平安。」
這給我很大的提醒,我是不是為了生活來當牧者?我是不是為了讓人願意聘請,而不敢將真理向人說清楚呢?是不是怕得罪人,而不傳悔改的道呢?我是不是為了教會友來跟從我,而沒有教會友來跟隨耶穌督呢?這都是成為牧者要思考的,要反省的!
上帝將祂的教會交給我們成為牧者的,我們要思考這群人是基督用寶血所買贖回來的人,我們豈可隨隨便便讓他們落在魔鬼的攻擊中呢?我們豈可讓他們再流離失所,如同無牧的羊群呢?要用上帝的話餵養他們,要如同牧人一般保護他們,才不會虧負上帝給我的使命!