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! 」
Hear, I pray you, what, Yahweh, is saying, —arise thou, maintain thy controversy before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice: —
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, ye mountains, the controversy of Yahweh, and ye lasting rocks, the foundations of the earth, —for, a controversy, hath Yahweh, with his people, and, with Israel, will he dispute.
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!
O my people! what have I done to thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify thou against 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 thee up out of the land of Egypt, and, out of the house of slaves, I ransomed thee, —and I sent before thee, 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。」
O my people! remember, I pray you, what Balak king of Moab, counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor, answered him, —from the Acacias as far as Gilgal, that ye may know the righteousness of Yahweh.
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﹖
Wherewith, shall I come before Yahweh? bow myself to God on high? Shall I come before him with ascending-sacrifice? with calves of 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 Yahweh, be pleased, with thousands of rams? with myriads of torrents of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression? 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 hath told thee, O son of earth, what is good, —what then is, Yahweh, seeking of thee, but, to do justice, to delight in lovingkindness, and humbly to walk with thy 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：
The voice of Yahweh, to the city, crieth out, With safety for him who regardeth his name, —Hear ye the rod, and who hath 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」﹖
Even yet, are there, in the house of the lawless one, the treasures of lawlessness, —and the scant measure—accurst?
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 lawless balances? or with 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；
For, her rich men, are full of violence, and, her inhabitants, have spoken falsehood, —and, their tongue, is deceitful in their mouth.
13 因此，我才開始打擊你，為了你的罪惡使你荒涼。
Moreover also, I, have made thee sick with smiting thee, —laying thee waste because of thy 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。
Thou, shalt eat—and not be satisfied, but be shrunk with hunger within thee, —Though thou remove, yet shalt thou not set in safety, and, what thou dost set in safety, to the sword, will I deliver.
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。
Thou, shalt sow, but shalt not reap, —thou, shalt tread the olive, but shalt not anoint thee with oil, also the grape, but shalt not 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 strictly observed are the statutes of Omri, and every doing of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels, —to the end I may give thee up to desolation, and her inhabitants to hissing, that, the reproach of peoples, ye may bear.
