弥迦书 7
1 哀哉！我好像夏天的果子已被收尽， 又像摘了葡萄所剩下的， 没有一挂可吃的； 我心羡慕初熟的无花果。
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
2 地上虔诚人灭尽； 世间没有正直人； 各人埋伏，要杀人流血， 都用网罗猎取弟兄。
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
3 他们双手作恶； 君王徇情面，审判官要贿赂； 位分大的吐出恶意， 都彼此结联行恶。
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
4 他们最好的，不过是蒺藜； 最正直的，不过是荆棘篱笆。 你守望者说，降罚的日子已经来到。 他们必扰乱不安。
The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
5 不要倚赖邻舍； 不要信靠密友。 要守住你的口； 不要向你怀中的妻提说。
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
6 因为，儿子藐视父亲； 女儿抗拒母亲； 媳妇抗拒婆婆； 人的仇敌就是自己家里的人。
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
7 至于我，我要仰望耶和华， 要等候那救我的 神； 我的 神必应允我。
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
8 我的仇敌啊，不要向我夸耀。 我虽跌倒，却要起来； 我虽坐在黑暗里， 耶和华却作我的光。
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
9 我要忍受耶和华的恼怒； 因我得罪了他， 直等他为我辨屈，为我伸冤。 他必领我到光明中； 我必得见他的公义。
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
10 那时我的仇敌， 就是曾对我说“耶和华—你 神在哪里”的， 他一看见这事就被羞愧遮盖。 我必亲眼见他遭报； 他必被践踏，如同街上的泥土。
Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
11 以色列啊，日子必到， 你的墙垣必重修； 到那日，你的境界必开展。
The day for rebuilding your walls will come— the day for extending your boundary.
12 当那日，人必从亚述， 从埃及的城邑， 从埃及到大河， 从这海到那海， 从这山到那山， 都归到你这里。
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
13 然而，这地因居民的缘故， 又因他们行事的结果，必然荒凉。
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
14 求耶和华在迦密山的树林中， 用你的杖牧放你独居的民， 就是你产业的羊群。 求你容他们在巴珊和基列得食物，像古时一样。
Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
15 耶和华说： 我要把奇事显给他们看， 好像出埃及地的时候一样。
As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
16 列国看见这事就必为自己的势力惭愧； 他们必用手捂口，掩耳不听。
Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
17 他们必舔土如蛇， 又如土中腹行的物， 战战兢兢地出他们的营寨。 他们必战惧投降耶和华， 也必因我们的 神而惧怕。
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
18 神啊，有何神像你，赦免罪孽， 饶恕你产业之余民的罪过， 不永远怀怒，喜爱施恩？
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
19 必再怜悯我们， 将我们的罪孽踏在脚下， 又将我们的一切罪投于深海。
He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
20 你必按古时起誓应许我们列祖的话， 向雅各发诚实， 向亚伯拉罕施慈爱。
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
