16:1 耶和華的話又臨到我說:
16:2 「你在這地方不可娶妻,生兒養女。
16:3 因為論到在這地方所生的兒女,又論到在這國中生養他們的父母,耶和華如此說:
16:4 他們必死得甚苦,無人哀哭,必不得葬埋,必在地上像糞土,必被刀劍和饑荒滅絕;他們的屍首必給空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸作食物。」
The
word of the Lord came to me: “You shall
not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. For thus says the Lord concerning the sons
and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore
them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall
not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface
of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead
bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
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上帝雖然是教先知耶利米不可娶妻生子,其實不是對先知個人說的,是對廣大的猶大國百姓說的,因為他們將要遭受到巴比倫的攻擊,導致許多人最後的狀態是無葬身之地!
這也在一次讓我們感受到上帝的憤怒是何等可怕,祂的懲罰是讓人永不得安息!死無葬身之地,在猶太人的觀念中是非常可怕的,因為他們的觀念是身體與靈魂是合一的,身體沒有得著安葬,靈魂是永遠無法安息,那是非常可怕之事!
而我們如何可以得真正的安息呢?沒有別的途徑,就是要在基督裡,遇上地建立正確和合宜的關係,如此才有真正的安息,才能夠不生活在上帝的憤怒之下,因為在基督裡上帝不再定我們的罪了,還賜生命和聖靈給我們!