< 彌迦書 2 >

1 禍哉,那些在床上籌劃不義,圖謀行惡的人! 因為你們手中有能力,一到天亮,就去實行。
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2 他們想要田地,便去霸佔;朼想要房屋,便去奪取:以暴力對付業主和他的家族,物主和他的產業。
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3 為此上主這樣說:「看,我正在為這一家籌劃災禍,致令你們不能縮回你們的頭頸,也不能挺身前行,因為那是一個災禍的時刻。」
Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which all of you shall not remove your necks; neither shall all of you go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 在那一日,人要作詩諷刺你們,唱這悲慘的哀哥說:「我們完全被搶掠了,我人民的基業已被人瓜分了,再無人歸還;我們的土地已分配給搶掠我們的人! 」
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.
5 因此,你們在上主的集會中,再沒有拉繩測量和抽籤的人。
Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6 你們講說:「你們不要說預言。」「人不該預言這樣的事,恥辱決不會來到我們身上!
Prophesy all of you not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
7 雅各伯的家豈是可詛咒的﹖上主的氣量豈能變為狹小﹖難道這是衪的作風﹖衪的話豈不是有益於以色列子民﹖」
O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?
8 「但是你們正像敵人一樣,起來攻擊我的人民,因為你們向沒有短衣的人索取長袍,向平安走路的人索取戰利品。
Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: all of you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
9 你們驅逐我人民的婦女離開她們的快樂家庭,從她們的嬰兒身上,永遠奪去我的光榮。
The women of my people have all of you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have all of you taken away my glory for ever.
10 你們起來走吧! 因為這不是你們安息之所。為了不懂,這地必要遭受不可挽救的毀滅。」
Arise all of you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 假若有人隨從虛妄而撒謊說:「我要對你預言清酒和醇酒。」這人必可作這民族的先知。
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 我必要聚集雅各伯全民眾,我必要集合以色列的遺民,使他們合併在一處,有如羊欄裏的綿羊,有如牧場上的羊群,不再怕任何人。
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
13 開路者走在他們前面開道;他走在前面,眾人隨他穿門而過;他們的君王走在他們們前面,上主親作他們的響導。
The breaker has come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

< 彌迦書 2 >