弥迦书 3
1 我说：雅各的首领， 以色列家的官长啊，你们要听！ 你们不当知道公平吗？
And he shall say, Hear now these words, you heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgement?
2 你们恶善好恶， 从人身上剥皮， 从人骨头上剔肉，
[who] hate good, and seek evil; [who] tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:
3 吃我民的肉， 剥他们的皮， 打折他们的骨头， 分成块子像要下锅， 又像釜中的肉。
even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the cauldron, and as meat for the pot,
4 到了遭灾的时候， 这些人必哀求耶和华， 他却不应允他们。 那时他必照他们所行的恶事向他们掩面。
thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not listen to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.
5 论到使我民走差路的先知— 他们牙齿有所嚼的， 他们就呼喊说：平安了！ 凡不供给他们吃的， 他们就预备攻击他— 耶和华如此说：
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:
6 你们必遭遇黑夜，以致不见异象； 又必遭遇幽暗，以致不能占卜。 日头必向你们沉落， 白昼变为黑暗。
therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
7 先见必抱愧， 占卜的必蒙羞， 都必捂着嘴唇， 因为 神不应允他们。
And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to listen to them.
8 至于我，我借耶和华的灵， 满有力量、公平、才能， 可以向雅各说明他的过犯， 向以色列指出他的罪恶。
Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgement, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.
9 雅各家的首领、以色列家的官长啊， 当听我的话！ 你们厌恶公平， 在一切事上屈枉正直；
Hear now these words, you chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgement, and pervert all righteousness;
10 以人血建立锡安， 以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 首领为贿赂行审判； 祭司为雇价施训诲； 先知为银钱行占卜。 他们却倚赖耶和华，说： 耶和华不是在我们中间吗？ 灾祸必不临到我们。
The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and [yet] they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord amongst us? no evil shall come upon us.
12 所以因你们的缘故， 锡安必被耕种像一块田， 耶路撒冷必变为乱堆； 这殿的山必像丛林的高处。
Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.
