彌迦書 6
1 惟願你們傾聽上主所說的話：「起來，在諸山面前進行訴訟，使丘陵能聽見你的聲音! 」
Listen now to what YHWH says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
2 諸山，請聽上主的申訴；大地的基礎，側耳傾聽吧! 因為上主與衪的人民有所爭訟，與以色列有所爭辯：
Hear, you mountains, YHWH's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for YHWH has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
3 「我的人民! 我對你做了什麼﹖我在什麼事上叫你討厭﹖請你答覆我!
My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me.
4 難道如果我由埃及地領了你上來，從奴隸之家贖了你回來，在你面前委派了梅瑟、亞郎和米黎盎﹖
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 我的人民，請你記憶摩阿布王巴拉圖圖謀過什麼事，貝敖爾的兒子巴郎答應了他什麼；再記憶從史廷到基耳加耳發生過什麼事，好使你明瞭上主的仁慈作為。」
My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of YHWH."
6 我要到上主那裏，叩拜至高者天主，應進獻什麼，應進獻全燔祭，還是應進獻一歲的牛犢﹖
How shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
7 上主豈喜悅萬千的公羊，或萬道河流的油﹖為了我的過犯，我應否獻上我的長子﹖為了我靈魂的罪惡，我應否獻上我親生的兒子﹖」
Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 人啊! 已通知了你，什麼是善，上主要求於你的是什麼：無非就是履行正義，愛好慈善，虛心與你的天主來往。
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does YHWH require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 聽! 上主向城邑的呼聲：我必拯救敬畏我名的人。支派和城市的會眾，靜聽：
YHWH's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
10 我豈能忘掉惡人家中的不義之財，和那可詛咒的小「厄法」﹖
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
11 我豈能把用欺騙的天秤和囊中有假法碼的人視為清廉﹖
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12 城中的富人充滿了強暴，其中的居民好說謊話，滿口欺詐；
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
13 因此，我才開始打擊你，為了你的罪惡使你荒涼。
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
14 你要吃，卻吃不飽，腹中常感到空虛；你縱然能把寶藏搬走，卻不能保全；既使你能保全，我也必要付之刀劍。
You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
15 你要播種，卻得不到收穫；你要榨橄欖油，卻得不到油抹身；你要榨葡萄酒，卻得不到酒喝。
You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
16 因為你遵守了敖默黎的法令，保存了阿哈布家的一切作風，遵循行了他們的主張；因此，我必要仗你荒涼，使你們你的居民成為笑柄；你必要承擔異民的侮辱。
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and her inhabitants an object of contempt; and you will bear the scorn of the nations."
