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？
I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
2 你们恶善好恶， 从人身上剥皮， 从人骨头上剔肉，
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from 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。
who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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。
Then they will cry to YHWH, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
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 YHWH concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace." and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
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 night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over 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。
The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God."
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。
But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of YHWH, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
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；
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
10 以人血建立锡安， 以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
They build up Zion 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。
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on YHWH, and say, "Isn't YHWH in the midst of us? No disaster will come on 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 Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
