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。
Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
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。
For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none amongst men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:
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。
they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:
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。
therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.
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。
Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
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 the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.
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 I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will listen to 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。
Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen [yet] shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.
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。
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold 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。
And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where [is] the Lord your God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.
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。
[It is] the day of making of brick; that day shall be your utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish your ordinances.
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。
And your cities shall be levelled, and parted amongst the Assyrians; and your strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from 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。
And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.
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。
Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, 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。
And according to the days of your departure out of Egypt shall you see marvellous [things].
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。
The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.
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 shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid 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, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.
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 return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins.
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。
He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as you sware to our fathers, according to the former days.
