耶利米書27章

     耶利米書27:1-11   , 耶利米書27:12-15   , 耶利米書27:16-22   ,

耶利米書27:1-11

27:1 猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬（約雅敬是西底家的別名，看第三節）登基的時候，有這話從耶和華臨到耶利米說：
27:2 「耶和華對我如此說：你做繩索與軛，加在自己的頸項上，
27:3 藉那些來到耶路撒冷見猶大王西底家的使臣之手，把繩索與軛送到以東王、摩押王、亞捫王、泰爾王、西頓王那裡，
27:4 且囑咐使臣，傳與他們的主人說，萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：
27:5 我用大能和伸出來的膀臂，創造大地和地上的人民、牲畜。我看給誰相宜，就把地給誰。
27:6 現在我將這些地都交給我僕人巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒的手，我也將田野的走獸給他使用。
27:7 列國都必服事他和他的兒孫，直到他本國遭報的日期來到。那時，多國和大君王要使他作他們的奴僕。
27:8 「無論哪一邦哪一國，不肯服事這巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒，也不把頸項放在巴比倫王的軛下，我必用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫刑罰那邦，直到我藉巴比倫王的手將他們毀滅。這是耶和華說的。
27:9 至於你們，不可聽從你們的先知和占卜的、圓夢的、觀兆的，以及行邪術的；他們告訴你們說：『你們不致服事巴比倫王。』
27:10 他們向你們說假預言，要叫你們遷移，遠離本地，以致我將你們趕出去，使你們滅亡。
27:11 但哪一邦肯把頸項放在巴比倫王的軛下服事他，我必使那邦仍在本地存留，得以耕種居住。這是耶和華說的。」​​

In the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. ²Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them on your neck. ³Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah. ⁴Give them this charge for their masters: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: ⁵It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever I please. ⁶Now I have given all these lands into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him even the wild animals of the field to serve him. ⁷All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

⁸ But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord, until I have completed its destruction by his hand. ⁹You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.” ¹⁰For they are prophesying a lie to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land; I will drive you out, and you will perish. ¹¹But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, says the Lord, to till it and live there.

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    耶利米傳講的內容的確不太重聽，尤其是說到要國王、大臣、…將來都要成為亡國奴，被帶到巴比倫去！這在今日也是不受歡迎的，簡直是失敗主義，或是失敗論！

    今日大多說要積極、要正面，尤其是現今教會中的「幸福小組」的思潮下，都說基督徒一定會幸福，會過豐盛的生活，充滿上帝的賜福，一定凡事都順利的，一定會幸福的！

    但是，基督徒真正的幸福是在苦難中有上帝的同在，因為基督是以十字架的生命來向人啟示，是受人厭棄的，是不被人看好的！但是，卻在這樣的狀態下，反映出上帝兒子的榮光！不因外表的軟弱、不光彩、大大失敗、被人拒絕，就不人認出他是上帝的兒子！祂反倒願意謙卑順服，以被釘十字架的人來顯明上帝的拯救！

    耶穌基督雖以軟弱與失敗者的樣式讓人看見，但是在將來再來的時候，卻要以榮耀出現！你有厭棄軟弱與失敗的耶穌嗎？將來得榮耀的基督也要厭棄你！你現在歡呼成功、高舉自己，將來你卻要在黑暗中咬牙切齒！

耶利米書26:7-24

26:7 耶利米在耶和華殿中說的這些話，祭司、先知與眾民都聽見了。
26:8 耶利米說完了耶和華所吩咐他對眾人說的一切話，祭司、先知與眾民都來抓住他，說：「你必要死！
26:9 你為何託耶和華的名預言，說這殿必如示羅，這城必變為荒場無人居住呢？」於是眾民都在耶和華的殿中聚集到耶利米那裡。
26:10 猶大的首領聽見這事，就從王宮上到耶和華的殿，坐在耶和華殿的新門口。
26:11 祭司、先知對首領和眾民說：「這人是該死的；因為他說預言攻擊這城，正如你們親耳所聽見的。」
26:12 耶利米就對眾首領和眾民說：「耶和華差遣我預言，攻擊這殿和這城，說你們所聽見的這一切話。
26:13 現在要改正你們的行動作為，聽從耶和華─你們上帝的話，他就必後悔，不將所說的災禍降與你們。
26:14 至於我，我在你們手中，你們眼看何為善，何為正，就那樣待我吧！
26:15 但你們要確實地知道，若把我治死，就使無辜人的血歸到你們和這城，並其中的居民了；因為耶和華實在差遣我到你們這裡來，將這一切話傳與你們耳中。」
26:16 首領和眾民就對祭司、先知說：「這人是不該死的，因為他是奉耶和華─我們上帝的名向我們說話。」
26:17 國中的長老就有幾個人起來，對聚會的眾民說：
26:18 「當猶大王希西家的日子，有摩利沙人彌迦對猶大眾人預言說：萬軍之耶和華如此說：錫安必被耕種像一塊田；耶路撒冷必變為亂堆；這殿的山必像叢林的高處。
26:19 猶大王希西家和猶大眾人豈是把他治死呢？希西家豈不是敬畏耶和華、懇求他的恩嗎？耶和華就後悔，不把自己所說的災禍降與他們。若治死這人，我們就作了大惡，自害己命。」
26:20 （又有一個人奉耶和華的名說預言，是基列‧耶琳人示瑪雅的兒子烏利亞，他照耶利米的一切話說預言，攻擊這城和這地。
26:21 約雅敬王和他眾勇士、眾首領聽見了烏利亞的話，王就想要把他治死。烏利亞聽見就懼怕，逃往埃及去了。
26:22 約雅敬王便打發亞革波的兒子以利拿單，帶領幾個人往埃及去。
26:23 他們就從埃及將烏利亞帶出來，送到約雅敬王那裡；王用刀殺了他，把他的屍首拋在平民的墳地中。）
26:24 然而，沙番的兒子亞希甘保護耶利米，不交在百姓的手中治死他。​​

⁷ The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. ⁸And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! ⁹Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord. ¹¹Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

¹² Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “It is the Lord who sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard. ¹³Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will change his mind about the disaster that he has pronounced against you. ¹⁴But as for me, here I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you. ¹⁵Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will be bringing innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

¹⁶ Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” ¹⁷And some of the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembled people, ¹⁸“Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

Zion shall be plowed as a field;

Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,

and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

¹⁹ Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”

²⁰ There was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words exactly like those of Jeremiah. ²¹And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. ²²Then King Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Achbor and men with him to Egypt, ²³and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

²⁴ But the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over into the hands of the people to be put to death.

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    耶利米傳講上帝的話到一個地步，受到全國上下的攻擊，因為大家受不了他所說的信息。這是上帝話與傳講者會遇到的問題，不只是先知的時代，就是現代也是如此！

    這是為甚麼呢？是因為人心有罪，是悖逆上帝，聽不下上帝的話！就是在今日的教會界也是如此，稗子和麥子在教會裡面，不是人人都是真正悔改信靠主耶穌的，有些人自稱是基督徒，仍然是我行我素，以自己的想法在生活，甚至在教會中被選上執事、或長老、或是牧者，仍然是未重生的人。

    也因為如此，真正看重上帝話語的人，常常在教會中被排擠；喜歡順應人的想法的人，反而受歡迎！這些在將來的時候，上帝都要審判。然而在現今的世代，主所揀選的人，反倒要忍耐，盼望主耶穌在來，讓上帝國真正實現，這樣的事情才會過去，上帝的名才會真正得榮耀！

耶利米書26章

     耶利米書26:1-6    ,   耶利米書26:7-24   ,

耶利米書26:1-6

26:1 猶大王約西亞的兒子約雅敬登基的時候，有這話從耶和華臨到耶利米說：
26:2 「耶和華如此說：你站在耶和華殿的院內，對猶大眾城邑的人，就是到耶和華殿來禮拜的，說我所吩咐你的一切話，一字不可刪減。
26:3 或者他們肯聽從，各人回頭離開惡道，使我後悔不將我因他們所行的惡，想要施行的災禍降與他們。
26:4 你要對他們說，耶和華如此說：『你們若不聽從我，不遵行我設立在你們面前的律法，
26:5 不聽我從早起來差遣到你們那裡去我僕人眾先知的話（你們還是沒有聽從），
26:6 我就必使這殿如示羅，使這城為地上萬國所咒詛的。』」

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26:1 When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,
26:2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
26:3 It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.
26:4 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,
26:5 And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;
26:6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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    上帝透過耶利米向猶大人宣告：「你們若不聽從我，不遵行我設立在你們面前的律法，不聽我從早起來差遣到你們那裡去我僕人眾先知的話（你們還是沒有聽從），我就必使這殿如示羅，使這城為地上萬國所咒詛的。」

    可見聽從上帝的話是帶來賜福，不聽的話是帶來禍害和咒詛！也因此，不管是個人或群體都要聽上帝的話。這也是為什麼，禮拜必須是以上帝的話為中心，不是牧者自己的話，必須是上帝的話！

    也因此，我們成為牧者，是要去說上帝的話，不是個人的話。這是很重要！今日弟兄姊妹到教會來崇拜，是要聽上帝的話，不是聽牧者訓話。所以，牧者要用心去明白何為上帝的話，然後專心宣講。使弟兄姊妹，都可以聽見上帝的話，而不迷失！

耶利米書25:15-38

25:15 耶和華─以色列的上帝對我如此說：「你從我手中接這杯忿怒的酒，使我所差遣你去的各國的民喝。

25:16 他們喝了就要東倒西歪，並要發狂，因我使刀劍臨到他們中間。」

25:17 我就從耶和華的手中接了這杯，給耶和華所差遣我去的各國的民喝，

25:18 就是耶路撒冷和猶大的城邑，並耶路撒冷的君王與首領，使這城邑荒涼，令人驚駭、嗤笑、咒詛，正如今日一樣。

25:19 又有埃及王法老和他的臣僕、首領，以及他的眾民，

25:20 並雜族的人民和烏斯地的諸王，與非利士地的諸王（亞實基倫、迦薩、以革倫，以及亞實突剩下的人）；

25:21 以東、摩押、亞捫人、

25:22 泰爾的諸王、西頓的諸王、海島的諸王、

25:23 底但、提瑪、布斯，和一切剃周圍頭髮的；

25:24 阿拉伯的諸王、住曠野雜族人民的諸王、

25:25 心利的諸王、以攔的諸王、米底亞的諸王、

25:26 北方遠近的諸王，以及天下地上的萬國喝了，以後示沙克（就是巴比倫）王也要喝。

25:27 「你要對他們說：『萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：你們要喝，且要喝醉，要嘔吐，且要跌倒，不得再起來，都因我使刀劍臨到你們中間。』

25:28 「他們若不肯從你手接這杯喝，你就要對他們說：『萬軍之耶和華如此說：你們一定要喝！

25:29 我既從稱為我名下的城起首施行災禍，你們能盡免刑罰嗎？你們必不能免，因為我要命刀劍臨到地上一切的居民。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。』

25:30 「所以你要向他們預言這一切的話，攻擊他們，說：耶和華必從高天吼叫，從聖所發聲，向自己的羊群大聲吼叫；他要向地上一切的居民吶喊，像踹葡萄的一樣。

25:31 必有響聲達到地極，因為耶和華與列國相爭；凡有血氣的，他必審問；至於惡人，他必交給刀劍。這是耶和華說的。

25:32 萬軍之耶和華如此說：看哪，必有災禍從這國發到那國，並有大暴風從地極颳起。

25:33 「到那日，從地這邊直到地那邊都有耶和華所殺戮的。必無人哀哭，不得收殮，不得葬埋，必在地上成為糞土。

25:34 牧人哪，你們當哀號，呼喊；群眾的頭目啊，你們要滾在灰中；因為你們被殺戮分散的日子足足來到。你們要跌碎，好像美器打碎一樣。

25:35 牧人無路逃跑；群眾的頭目也無法逃脫。

25:36 聽啊，有牧人呼喊，有群眾頭目哀號的聲音，因為耶和華使他們的草場變為荒場。

25:37 耶和華發出猛烈的怒氣，平安的羊圈就都寂靜無聲。

25:38 他離了隱密處像獅子一樣，他們的地，因刀劍凶猛的欺壓，又因他猛烈的怒氣都成為可驚駭的。」

​​Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.  They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them.”

  So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:  Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;  Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,  and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);  Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;  all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;  Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;  all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;  all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;  all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.

  “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.’

  “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink!  For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’

  “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:      

“‘The Lord will roar from on high,

and from his holy habitation utter his voice;

he will roar mightily against his fold,

and shout, like those who tread grapes,

against all the inhabitants of the earth.

  The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth,

for the Lord has an indictment against the nations;

he is entering into judgment with all flesh,

and the wicked he will put to the sword,

declares the Lord.’

  “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Behold, disaster is going forth

from nation to nation,

and a great tempest is stirring

from the farthest parts of the earth!

  “And those pierced by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

  “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,

and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,

for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,

and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

  No refuge will remain for the shepherds,

nor escape for the lords of the flock.

  A voice—the cry of the shepherds,

and the wail of the lords of the flock!

For the Lord is laying waste their pasture,

  and the peaceful folds are devastated

because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

  Like a lion he has left his lair,

for their land has become a waste

because of the sword of the oppressor,

and because of his fierce anger.”

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    上帝透過先知來宣告祂要藉由巴比倫來審判列國，使列國面臨到比亞述國更強大的軍事強權，讓世界各國認識到上帝是歷史與時勢的主宰者，進而成為上帝大能的見證人。

    人最淒慘的狀態，就是不知上帝的權能，還自以為了不起，以至於受到極大的懲罰之後，還自以為是抗拒上帝，不肯順服在上帝的手下，以為自己可以闖出一番榮景，可以揚眉吐氣來傲視群雄。

    因此，人必須要向上帝的主權低頭，承認自己的不能、無知與有罪，必須透過耶穌基督和祂釘十字架的救恩，生命才能得著更新，享受上帝在基督裡的一切恩典與大能，成為主的見證人！