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, that which Jehovah is saying: 'Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to 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, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife [is] to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.
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 what — have I wearied thee? Testify 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 from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send 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 counsel did Balak king of Moab, What answer him did Balaam son of Beor, (From Shittim unto Gilgal, ) In order to know the righteous acts of Jehovah.'
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﹖
With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year?
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﹖」
Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born [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 declared to thee, O man, what [is] good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly 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：
A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him 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 [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?
11 我豈能把用欺騙的天秤和囊中有假法碼的人視為清廉﹖
Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
12 城中的富人充滿了強暴，其中的居民好說謊話，滿口欺詐；
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its 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。
And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, 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 — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.
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 — thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou — thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine — and thou drinkest not 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。
And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!
