Giê-rê-mi 17
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
ApprofondimentoTội lỗi khắc sâu — Tội lỗi được hình tượng hóa như được khắc bằng bút sắt và đầu kim cương—vĩnh viễn và không thể xóa nhòa. Nó được viết trên chính lòng của chúng, và ngay cả trên sừng các bàn thờ, cho thấy sự thờ phượng và con người bên trong của chúng đã bị tội lỗi làm cho hư hỏng.The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel on their stone-hard hearts. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the horns of their altars.
ApprofondimentoCác cây xanh (hình tượng) — Từ "cây xanh" chỉ các cọc A-sê-ra—những biểu tượng bằng gỗ của một nữ thần Ca-na-an, được đặt gần các bàn thờ và trên các gò cao. Việc con cái nhớ lại những điều này cho thấy sự thờ thần tượng đã ăn sâu như thế nào và được truyền lại như một tập quán.Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.
You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”
The Lord says, “I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.
They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.
My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.
They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.
ApprofondimentoChữ "lòng" trong tiếng Hê-bơ-rơ — Từ Hê-bơ-rơ dịch là "lòng" chỉ toàn bộ con người bên trong: tâm trí, ý chí, cảm xúc. Câu này nói rằng chúng ta không thể hiểu hết động cơ của chính mình—vì chúng rất quanh co—nhưng Đức Chúa Trời biết rõ tất cả.The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
Approfondimento“Trí” và "lòng" — Trong nguyên ngữ, các từ chỉ về tâm trí và lòng cũng liên quan đến thận, nơi mà thế giới Kinh Thánh coi là nơi trú ngụ của những suy nghĩ thầm kín và cảm xúc sâu sắc nhất. Đức Chúa Trời dò xét những điều này, nghĩa là Ngài chạm đến những nơi ẩn giấu nhất bên trong chúng ta.I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
Then I said, “Lord, from the very beginning you have been seated on your glorious throne on high. You are the place where we can find refuge.
ApprofondimentoSuối nước sống — Đức Chúa Trời được mô tả như nguồn nước hằng sống. Những ai cố tình lìa bỏ Ngài là chọn lấy sự khô hạn. Chúa Giê-xu đã sử dụng hình ảnh tương tự cho Đức Thánh Linh, Đấng sẽ cung cấp Nước hằng sống của sự sống Đức Chúa Trời bên trong chúng ta.You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.
Lord, grant me relief from my suffering so that I may have some relief. Rescue me from those who persecute me so that I may be rescued.
Listen to what they are saying to me. They are saying, “Where are the things the Lord threatens us with? Come on! Let’s see them happen!”
But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.
Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.
May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.”
The Lord told me, “Go and stand in the People’s Gate through which the kings of Judah enter and leave the city. Then go and stand in all the other gates of the city of Jerusalem.
As you stand in those places announce, ‘Listen, all you people who pass through these gates. Listen, all you kings of Judah, all you people of Judah and all you citizens of Jerusalem. Listen to what the Lord says.
ApprofondimentoGánh nặng ngày sa-bát — “Khiêng gánh” nghĩa là vận chuyển hàng hóa hoặc nhu yếu phẩm qua các cửa thành Giê-ru-sa-lem vào ngày sa-bát—để theo đuổi việc buôn bán. Đây là một hành động rõ ràng của việc mang thương mại vào thánh thành, vi phạm sự nghỉ ngơi được truyền dạy cho dân của Đức Chúa Trời.The Lord says, ‘Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord, as I commanded your ancestors.
Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’
The Lord says, ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.
If you do this, then the kings and princes who follow in David’s succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to enter through these gates, as well as their officials and the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. This city will always be filled with people.
Then people will come here from the towns in Judah, from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the western foothills, from the southern hill country, and from the southern part of Judah. They will come bringing offerings to the temple of the Lord: burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense along with their thank offerings.
But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”
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