< 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 gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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。
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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。
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto 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 shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto 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 man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal 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 shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
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 remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth 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 remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
9 願你的手舉起,高過敵人! 願你的仇敵都被剪除!
Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall 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 shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
12 又必除掉你手中的邪術; 你那裏也不再有占卜的。
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
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。
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.