彌迦書 3
1 我說：雅各的首領， 以色列家的官長啊，你們要聽！ 你們不當知道公平嗎？
Then I said, “Please listen, leaders of the descendants of Jacob, people of Israel. You are meant to know the difference between right and wrong,
2 你們惡善好惡， 從人身上剝皮， 從人骨頭上剔肉，
you who hate good and love evil! You tear off their skin, and rip the flesh from their bones.
3 吃我民的肉， 剝他們的皮， 打折他們的骨頭， 分成塊子像要下鍋， 又像釜中的肉。
You eat the flesh of my people, you strip off their skin, you break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the saucepan, like flesh for the cooking pot.”
4 到了遭災的時候， 這些人必哀求耶和華， 他卻不應允他們。 那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。
Then they'll cry out to the Lord, but he won't answer them. He will turn away from them at that time because of the evil things they have done.
5 論到使我民走差路的先知－ 他們牙齒有所嚼的， 他們就呼喊說：平安了！ 凡不供給他們吃的， 他們就預備攻擊他－ 耶和華如此說：
This is what the Lord says about the prophets who deceive my people. To those who feed them they prophesy peace to them, while to those who do not they prophesy war against them.
6 你們必遭遇黑夜，以致不見異象； 又必遭遇幽暗，以致不能占卜。 日頭必向你們沉落， 白晝變為黑暗。
Therefore it will be like night for you, with no visions; dark, with no predictions. The sun will set on these prophets; their day will end in darkness.
7 先見必抱愧， 占卜的必蒙羞， 都必摀着嘴唇， 因為上帝不應允他們。
The seers will be disgraced, the fortune-tellers put to shame, and they will cover their faces because none of them receive any answer from God.
8 至於我，我藉耶和華的靈， 滿有力量、公平、才能， 可以向雅各說明他的過犯， 向以色列指出他的罪惡。
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord. I am filled with justice and strength to make clear to the descendants of Jacob their rebellion, and to the people of Israel their sin.
9 雅各家的首領、以色列家的官長啊， 當聽我的話！ 你們厭惡公平， 在一切事上屈枉正直；
Listen to me, leaders of the descendants of Jacob and the people of Israel, you who hate justice and distort all that is right.
10 以人血建立錫安， 以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
You are building Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil.
11 首領為賄賂行審判； 祭司為雇價施訓誨； 先知為銀錢行占卜。 他們卻倚賴耶和華，說： 耶和華不是在我們中間嗎？ 災禍必不臨到我們。
Your leaders judge for a bribe, and your priests teach for a price, and your prophets only prophesy for pay. Yet they all lean on the Lord saying, “Isn't the Lord here with us? Nothing bad can happen to us!”
12 所以因你們的緣故， 錫安必被耕種像一塊田， 耶路撒冷必變為亂堆； 這殿的山必像叢林的高處。
Therefore because of you Zion will become a ploughed field and Jerusalem a heap of rubble, and the Temple mount will be overgrown.
