ميخا 3
| وَقُلْتُ اسْمَعُوا يَا رُؤَسَاءَ يَعْقُوبَ وَيَاقُضَاةَ شَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: أَلا يَنْبَغِي لَكُمْ أَنْ تَعْرِفُوا الْحَقَّ؟ | ١ 1 |
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
| أَنْتُمْ يَا مَنْ تُبْغِضُونَ الْخَيْرَ وَتُحِبُّونَ الشَّرَّ، وَتَسْلُخُونَ جُلُودَ شَعْبِي وَتُجَرِّدُونَ لُحُومَهُمْ عَنْ عِظَامِهِمْ. | ٢ 2 |
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
| الَّذِينَ تَأْكُلُونَ لُحُومَ شَعْبِي، وَتَسْلُخُونَ جُلُودَهُمْ عَنْهُمْ وَتُهَشِّمُونَ عِظَامَهُمْ، وَتُقَطِّعُونَهُمْ كَمَا يُقَطَّعُ اللَّحْمُ فِي الْقِدْرِ، أَوْ كَاللَّحْمِ الْمُعَدِّ لِلْمِقْلَى. | ٣ 3 |
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
| ثُمَّ حِينَ تَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِالرَّبِّ لَا يَسْتَجِيبُ وَيَحْجُبُ وَجْهَهُ عَنْكُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ بِسَبَبِ مَا ارْتَكَبْتُمُوهُ مِنْ أَعْمَالٍ شِرِّيرَةٍ. | ٤ 4 |
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
| وَهَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ بِشَأْنِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ الَّذِينَ يُضِلُّونَ شَعْبَهُ، الَّذِينَ يُنَادُونَ قَائِلِينَ: «سَلامٌ» لِمَنْ يُعْطِيهِمْ طَعَاماً، وَيُعْلِنُونَ الْحَرْبَ عَلَى مَنْ لَا يُلْقِمُ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ. | ٥ 5 |
Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
| لِذَلِكَ يَطْغَى عَلَيْكُمْ لَيْلٌ خَالٍ مِنَ الرُّؤْيَا، وَظَلامٌ مِنْ غَيْرِ عِرَافَةٍ، وَتَغْرُبُ الشَّمْسُ عَنِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ وَيُظْلِمُ عَلَيْهِمِ النَّهَارُ. | ٦ 6 |
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
| يَعْتَرِي الرَّائِينَ الْخِزْيُ وَيَنْتَابُ الْعَرَّافِينَ الْخَجَلُ، وَيُغَطُّونَ جَمِيعُهُمْ شِفَاهَهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَنَالُونَ جَوَاباً مِنَ الرَّبِّ. | ٧ 7 |
The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.”
| أَمَّا أَنَا، فَإِنِّي مُمْتَلِئٌ بِقُوَّةِ رُوحِ الرَّبِّ وَبِالْحَقِّ وَالْعِزَّةِ، لأُعْلِنَ لِنَسْلِ يَعْقُوبَ مَعَاصِيَهُ وَلإِسْرَائِيلَ خَطِيئَتَهُ. | ٨ 8 |
But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
| اسْتَمِعُوا هَذَا يَا رُؤَسَاءَ بَيْتِ يَعْقُوبَ وَقُضَاةَ شَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِينَ يَكْرَهُونَ الْعَدْلَ وَيُحَرِّفُونَ الْحَقَّ. | ٩ 9 |
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
| الَّذِينَ يَبْنُونَ صِهْيَوْنَ بِالدَّمِ وَأُورُشَلِيمَ بِالظُّلْمِ. | ١٠ 10 |
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
| إِذْ يَحْكُمُ رُؤَسَاؤُهَا بِالرِّشْوَةِ، وَكَهَنَتُهَا يُعَلِّمُونَ بِالأُجْرَةِ وَيَتَعَاطَى أَنْبِيَاؤُهَا الْعِرَافَةَ لِقَاءَ الْمَالِ، وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ يَدَّعُونَ الاتِّكَالَ عَلَى اللهِ قَائِلِينَ: «أَلَيْسَ الرَّبُّ فِي وَسَطِنَا؟ لِذَلِكَ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا مَكْرُوهٌ». | ١١ 11 |
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
| لِهَذَا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ أَعْمَالِكُمْ سَتُحْرَثُ صِهْيَوْنُ كَالْحَقْلِ وَتُصْبِحُ أُورُشَلِيمُ كَوْمَةً مِنَ الْخَرَائِبِ، وَجَبَلُ الْهَيْكَلِ مُرْتَفَعاً تَنْمُو عَلَيْهِ أَشْجَارُ الْغَابِ. | ١٢ 12 |
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
