彌迦書 5
1 成群的民哪，現在你要聚集成隊； 因為仇敵圍攻我們， 要用杖擊打以色列審判者的臉。
Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.
2 伯利恆的以法他啊， 你在猶大諸城中為小， 將來必有一位從你那裏出來， 在以色列中為我作掌權的； 他的根源從亙古，從太初就有。
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
3 耶和華必將以色列人交付敵人， 直等那生產的婦人生下子來。 那時掌權者其餘的弟兄 必歸到以色列人那裏。
For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.
4 他必起來，倚靠耶和華的大能， 並耶和華－他上帝之名的威嚴， 牧養他的羊群。 他們要安然居住； 因為他必日見尊大，直到地極。
And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.
5 這位必作我們的平安。 當亞述人進入我們的地境， 踐踏宮殿的時候， 我們就立起七個牧者， 八個首領攻擊他。
And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.
6 他們必用刀劍毀壞亞述地 和寧錄地的關口。 亞述人進入我們的地境踐踏的時候， 他必拯救我們。
And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.
7 雅各餘剩的人必在多國的民中， 如從耶和華那裏降下的露水， 又如甘霖降在草上； 不仗賴人力，也不等候世人之功。
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
8 雅各餘剩的人必在多國多民中， 如林間百獸中的獅子， 又如少壯獅子在羊群中。 他若經過就必踐踏撕裂， 無人搭救。
And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.
9 願你的手舉起，高過敵人！ 願你的仇敵都被剪除！
Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.
10 耶和華說：到那日， 我必從你中間剪除馬匹， 毀壞車輛，
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:
11 也必從你國中除滅城邑， 拆毀一切的保障，
I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:
12 又必除掉你手中的邪術； 你那裏也不再有占卜的。
I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
13 我必從你中間除滅雕刻的偶像和柱像， 你就不再跪拜自己手所造的。
And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
14 我必從你中間拔出木偶， 又毀滅你的城邑。
I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.
15 我也必在怒氣和忿怒中向那不聽從的列國施報。
And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.
