< 彌迦書 7 >

1 哀哉!我好像夏天的果子已被收盡, 又像摘了葡萄所剩下的, 沒有一掛可吃的; 我心羨慕初熟的無花果。
I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, [who searches for fruit to pick] after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.
2 地上虔誠人滅盡; 世間沒有正直人; 各人埋伏,要殺人流血, 都用網羅獵取弟兄。
[All] the godly people have disappeared from this land; there is not one of them left. [The people who are left] are all murderers [MTY]; [it is as though] everyone is eager to kill his fellow countryman.
3 他們雙手作惡; 君王徇情面,審判官要賄賂; 位分大的吐出惡意, 都彼此結聯行惡。
They [all] use both hands to do what is evil. [Government] officials and judges [all] ask for bribes. Important people tell others what they want, and they plot/scheme together [about how to get it done].
4 他們最好的,不過是蒺藜; 最正直的,不過是荊棘籬笆。 你守望者說,降罰的日子已經來到。 他們必擾亂不安。
[Even] the best people are [as worthless] [SIM] as briers; the people [who are considered by others to be] [IRO] the most honest are worse than clumps of thornbushes. But, [Yahweh] will soon judge them; now is the time that he will punish people, a time when they will be [very] confused [because of being defeated].
5 不要倚賴鄰舍; 不要信靠密友。 要守住你的口; 不要向你懷中的妻提說。
[So], do not trust anyone! Do not trust [even] a friend; [even] be careful what you say to your wife whom you love!
6 因為,兒子藐視父親; 女兒抗拒母親; 媳婦抗拒婆婆; 人的仇敵就是自己家裏的人。
Boys will despise their fathers, and girls will defy their mothers. Women will defy their mothers-in-law. Your enemies will be those who live in your own houses.
7 至於我,我要仰望耶和華, 要等候那救我的上帝; 我的上帝必應允我。
As for me, I wait for Yahweh [to help me]. I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me [when I pray].
8 我的仇敵啊,不要向我誇耀。 我雖跌倒,卻要起來; 我雖坐在黑暗裏, 耶和華卻作我的光。
You who are our enemies, do not gloat/rejoice about [what has happened to] us, [because even] if we have experienced disasters, [those disasters will end and] we will be restored. [Even] if [it is as though] we are sitting in the darkness, Yahweh will be our light.
9 我要忍受耶和華的惱怒; 因我得罪了他, 直等他為我辨屈,為我伸冤。 他必領我到光明中; 我必得見他的公義。
We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us because we have sinned against him. But later, [it will be as though] he will go to court and defend us, and he will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us. [It will be as though] he will bring us out into the light, and we will see it when he rescues us.
10 那時我的仇敵, 就是曾對我說「耶和華-你上帝在哪裏」的, 他一看見這事就被羞愧遮蓋。 我必親眼見他遭報; 他必被踐踏,如同街上的泥土。
Our enemies will [also] see that, and they will be disgraced because they [ridiculed us], saying “Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, [not helping you]?” But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated; we will see them trampled like [SIM] mud in the streets.
11 以色列啊,日子必到, 你的牆垣必重修; 到那日,你的境界必開展。
[You people of Israel, ] at that time your cities will be rebuilt, and your territory will become larger.
12 當那日,人必從亞述, 從埃及的城邑, 從埃及到大河, 從這海到那海, 從這山到那山, 都歸到你這裏。
[People from many countries will come to honor you]: people from Assyria and from [near] the [Euphrates] River [in the east] and from Egypt [in the south], from distant seas, and from many mountains.
13 然而,這地因居民的緣故, 又因他們行事的結果,必然荒涼。
But [the other countries on] the earth will become desolate because of the [evil] things that their people have done.
14 求耶和華在迦密山的樹林中, 用你的杖牧放你獨居的民, 就是你產業的羊群。 求你容他們在巴珊和基列得食物,像古時一樣。
Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] [a shepherd protects his sheep] by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. [Even though some of them] live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead [regions] that they possessed long ago.
15 耶和華說: 我要把奇事顯給他們看, 好像出埃及地的時候一樣。
[Yahweh says/replies], “[Yes], I will perform miracles for you like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your [ancestors] from [being slaves in] Egypt.”
16 列國看見這事就必為自己的勢力慚愧; 他們必用手摀口,掩耳不聽。
[People from many] nations will see [what Yahweh does for you], and they will be ashamed because they do not have any power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears [because they will be very amazed because of what Yahweh does], [and they will not be able to say anything or hear anything].
17 他們必舔土如蛇, 又如土中腹行的物, 戰戰兢兢地出他們的營寨。 他們必戰懼投降耶和華, 也必因我們的上帝而懼怕。
[Being very humiliated, ] they will crawl on the ground [MTY] like [SIM] snakes. They will come out of their homes trembling, and stand revering Yahweh our God. They will be very afraid of him, and will tremble in front of him.
18 上帝啊,有何神像你,赦免罪孽, 饒恕你產業之餘民的罪過, 不永遠懷怒,喜愛施恩?
[Yahweh], there is no [RHQ] God like you; you forgive the sins [DOU] that were committed by the people who have survived, the people who belong to you. You do not remain angry forever; you are very happy [to show us] that you faithfully love [us].
19 必再憐憫我們, 將我們的罪孽踏在腳下, 又將我們的一切罪投於深海。
You will again act kindly/compassionately toward us. You will get rid of [the scroll on which you have written] the sins that we have committed [as though you were] trampling it under your feet or throwing it into the deep ocean.
20 你必按古時起誓應許我們列祖的話, 向雅各發誠實, 向亞伯拉罕施慈愛。
You will show that you faithfully [do what you promised for us] and faithfully love us, just like you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.

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