耶利米哀歌5:8-18

5:8 奴僕轄制我們，無人救我們脫離他們的手。

5:9 因為曠野的刀劍，我們冒著險才得糧食。

5:10 因飢餓燥熱，我們的皮膚就黑如爐。

5:11 敵人在錫安玷污婦人，在猶大的城邑玷污處女。

5:12 他們吊起首領的手，也不尊敬老人的面。

5:13 少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。

5:14 老年人在城門口斷絕；少年人不再作樂。

5:15 我們心中的快樂止息，跳舞變為悲哀。

5:16 冠冕從我們的頭上落下；我們犯罪了，我們有禍了！

5:17 這些事我們心裡發昏，我們的眼睛昏花。

5:18 錫安山荒涼，野狗（或譯：狐狸）行在其上。

8 Slaves rule over us;

there is none to deliver us from their hand.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven

with the burning heat of famine.

11 Women are raped in Zion,

young women in the towns of Judah.

12 Princes are hung up by their hands;

 no respect is shown to the elders.

13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,

and boys stagger under loads of wood.

14 The old men have left the city gate,

the young men their music.

15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;

 our dancing has been turned to mourning.

16 The crown has fallen from our head;

woe to us, for we have sinned!

17 For this our heart has become sick,

for these things our eyes have grown dim,

18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;

 jackals prowl over it.

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    在此看見哀歌的文學性極高，將錫安的荒涼描寫得十分生動和詳細，讓人感受到如同泉源般，讓人的心受到感觸到那一份失去上帝同在的情境！

    在此也看見聖靈的能力，人離了上帝，就沒有生趣，但是有上帝的同在，就能有泉源自腹中出來，永不乾涸！

    願主讓我們都有這樣的能力，為主傳揚信息，成為上帝信息的出口，成為多人的幫助！

耶利米哀歌5章

      耶利米哀歌5章1-22節   ,

       耶利米哀歌5:1-7   ,

       耶利米哀歌5:8-18 ,

      耶利米哀歌5:19-22  ,

耶利米哀歌5:1-7

5:1 耶和華啊，求你記念我們所遭遇的事，觀看我們所受的凌辱。

5:2 我們的產業歸與外邦人；我們的房屋歸與外路人。

5:3 我們是無父的孤兒；我們的母親好像寡婦。

5:4 我們出錢才得水喝；我們的柴是人賣給我們的。

5:5 追趕我們的，到了我們的頸項上；我們疲乏不得歇息。

5:6 我們投降埃及人和亞述人，為要得糧吃飽。

5:7 我們列祖犯罪，而今不在了；我們擔當他們的罪孽。

1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;

look, and see our disgrace!

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our homes to foreigners.

3 We have become orphans, fatherless;

our mothers are like widows.

4 We must pay for the water we drink;

the wood we get must be bought.

5 Our pursuers are at our necks;

we are weary; we are given no rest.

6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,

to get bread enough.

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;

 and we bear their iniquities.

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    哀歌在這裡開始有轉折，開始祈求上帝的憐憫，並且將自身的苦境向上帝述說，也說自己的感受：「我們列祖犯罪，而今不在了；我們擔當他們的罪孽。」

    這也讓我們感受到罪惡的無奈，一代一代承受著罪惡所帶來的後果！這事多麼重的擔子啊！但是人如同宿命一般的承受，並且是一代一代的下去，好像沒完沒了一樣！

    感謝上帝！祂在基督耶穌裡將這一切都挪移了！讓我們在基督裡得著拯救，讓我們不再為罪惡所壓制，賜下聖靈與生命，使我們有永生復活的盼望！並且在時候到了，應許必定實現，決不落空！

耶利米哀歌4:14-22

4:14 他們在街上如瞎子亂走，又被血玷污，以致人不能摸他們的衣服。

4:15 人向他們喊著說：不潔淨的，躲開，躲開！不要挨近我！他們逃走飄流的時候，列國中有人說：他們不可仍在這裡寄居。

4:16 耶和華發怒，將他們分散，不再眷顧他們；人不重看祭司，也不厚待長老。

4:17 我們仰望人來幫助，以致眼目失明，還是枉然；我們所盼望的，竟盼望一個不能救人的國！

4:18 仇敵追趕我們的腳步像打獵的，以致我們不敢在自己的街上行走。我們的結局臨近；我們的日子滿足；我們的結局來到了。

4:19 追趕我們的比空中的鷹更快；他們在山上追逼我們，在曠野埋伏，等候我們。

4:20 耶和華的受膏者好比我們鼻中的氣，在他們的坑中被捉住；我們曾論到他說：我們必在他蔭下，在列國中存活。

4:21 住烏斯地的以東民哪，只管歡喜快樂；苦杯也必傳到你那裡；你必喝醉，以致露體。

4:22 錫安的民哪，你罪孽的刑罰受足了，耶和華必不使你再被擄去。以東的民哪，他必追討你的罪孽，顯露你的罪惡。

They wandered, blind, through the streets;

they were so defiled with blood

that no one was able to touch

their garments.

  “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.

“Away! Away! Do not touch!”

So they became fugitives and wanderers;

people said among the nations,

“They shall stay with us no longer.”

  The Lord himself has scattered them;

he will regard them no more;

no honor was shown to the priests,

no favor to the elders.

Our eyes failed, ever watching

vainly for help;

in our watching we watched

for a nation which could not save.

  They dogged our steps

so that we could not walk in our streets;

our end drew near; our days were numbered,

for our end had come.

  Our pursuers were swifter

than the eagles in the heavens;

they chased us on the mountains;

they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed,

was captured in their pits,

of whom we said, “Under his shadow

we shall live among the nations.”

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,

you who dwell in the land of Uz;

but to you also the cup shall pass;

you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

  The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;

he will keep you in exile no longer;

but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;

he will uncover your sins.

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    這裡說到以色列人犯罪，被上帝懲罰，國家被滅、人民四散到世界各國之中，並且被人討厭！

    本是尊貴之民，因為犯罪，就淪為卑賤之民！因此，我們要小心不可以讓自己在犯罪之中，失去了上帝榮美的形象。雖然我們蒙主拯救的人，一個也不失落，但是我們要豐豐富富的享受上帝在基督裡的福分，就要遠離惡事，行在公義之中！

    願主守我們，常在祂的慈愛與憐憫之中，直到永生！

耶利米哀歌4:11-13

4:11 耶和華發怒成就他所定的，倒出他的烈怒；在錫安使火著起，燒毀錫安的根基。

4:12 地上的君王和世上的居民都不信敵人和仇敵能進耶路撒冷的城門。

4:13 這都因她先知的罪惡和祭司的罪孽；他們在城中流了義人的血。

The Lord gave full vent to his wrath;

he poured out his hot anger,

and he kindled a fire in Zion

that consumed its foundations.

  The kings of the earth did not believe,

nor any of the inhabitants of the world,

that foe or enemy could enter

the gates of Jerusalem.

  This was for the sins of her prophets

and the iniquities of her priests,

who shed in the midst of her

the blood of the righteous.

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    世人本來以為錫安是上帝的居所，上帝一定會保守這城，哪知仇敵竟然可以進入這個城，使她被攻破！而這原因是來自「先知的罪惡和祭司的罪孽」，導致城中發生流義人的血的事件，使上帝生氣，所以祂要追討他們的罪。

    今日在教會中，強調人人皆祭司，只要信耶穌基督的人，都可以來事奉上帝。也說到人人都是先知，因為每個人都可以傳上帝國的福音，引導人進入上帝的家中，成了上帝的兒女！

    也因此，我們要求耶穌基督的寶血洗淨我們，使我們的生命更新，可以活出上帝的先知與祭司的樣式，使上帝的公義得以彰顯！