2016年6月23日 星期四

彌迦書3:1-4



3:1 我說:雅各的首領,以色列家的官長啊,你們要聽!你們不當知道公平嗎?
3:2 你們惡善好惡,從人身上剝皮,從人骨頭上剔肉,
3:3 吃我民的肉,剝他們的皮,打折他們的骨頭,分成塊子像要下鍋,又像釜中的肉。
3:4 到了遭災的時候,這些人必哀求耶和華,他卻不應允他們。那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。

And I said:
 Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
 Is it not for you to know justice? —
you who hate the good and love the evil,
 who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
 he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.

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    先知彌迦在此責備雅各的首領和以色列家的官長,因為他們沒有照上帝給他們的責任,好好照顧牧養上帝的子民,反倒是從別人身上搶奪不義之錢財,害死那些真正的義人,這些事情上帝都知道。

    所以先知將這些事情向外宣布,並且警告他們將受到上帝的棄絕,在災難的時期,上帝不搭救他們,向他們掩臉不理他們的苦情。這是何等可怕的事啊

    因此,我們要靠耶穌成為上帝所愛的兒女,更要行在上帝的公義之中,討上帝的喜悅。


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