Micah 3
1 I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Is not it for you to know justice?
Pea ne u pehē, “ʻOku ou kole, fanongo ʻakimoutolu ʻae kau mātuʻa ʻa Sēkope, pea mo kimoutolu ʻae houʻeiki ʻoe fale ʻo ʻIsileli; ʻikai ʻoku ngali mo kimoutolu ke ʻilo ʻae fakamaau?
2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
ʻAkimoutolu ʻoku fehiʻa ki he lelei, kae manako ki he kovi; ʻaia ʻoku fohi honau kili meiate kinautolu, pea mo honau kakano mei honau ngaahi hui.
3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
ʻAkimoutolu ʻoku kai ʻae kakano ʻo hoku kakai foki, pea fohi ʻa honau kili meiate kinautolu; pea ʻoku nau fesiʻi honau ngaahi hui, mo tuʻutuʻu fakaikiiki ʻakinautolu, ʻo hangē ka teu ki he kulo, pea hangē ko e kakano ʻi he loto kulo.
4 Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Pea te nau toki tangi kia Sihova, ka ʻe ʻikai te ne tokangaʻi kinautolu: ko e moʻoni ʻe fakafufū ʻe ia ʻa hono fofonga meiate kinautolu ʻi he kuonga ko ia, ʻo hangē ko ʻenau ngāue kovi ʻi heʻenau ngaahi faianga.”
5 The LORD says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever does not provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
ʻOku pehē ʻe Sihova ki he kau palōfita, ʻaia ʻoku fakahēʻi ʻa hoku kakai; ʻakinautolu ʻoku uʻu ʻaki honau nifo, pea kalanga, “Fiemālie;” pea ko ia ʻoku ʻikai ke ai ki honau ngutu, ʻio, ʻoku nau te u tau kiate ia:
6 “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
“Ko ia ʻe ʻiate kimoutolu ʻae pō, ke ʻoua naʻa mou maʻu ha meʻa hā mai; pea ʻe poʻuli kiate kimoutolu ke ʻoua naʻa mou kikite; pea ʻe tō ʻae laʻā ki he kau palōfita, pea ʻe poʻuli ʻae ʻaho kiate kinautolu.
7 The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.”
Pea ʻe toki mā ʻae kau kikite, pea puputuʻu ʻae kau fakaʻilo meʻa: ʻio, ko e moʻoni, te nau ʻufiʻufi kotoa pē honau loungutu; he ʻoku ʻikai ha tali mei he ʻOtua.
8 But as for me, I am full of power by the LORD’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
Ka ko e moʻoni ʻoku ou pito ʻi he mālohi mei he Laumālie ʻo Sihova, pea mo e fakamaau, mo e faʻa fai, ke fakahā kia Sēkope ʻene hia, pea ki ʻIsileli ʻa ʻene angahala.
9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
ʻOku ou kole, fanongo ki ai, ʻakimoutolu ʻae kau mātuʻa ʻi he fale ʻo Sēkope, mo e houʻeiki ʻoe fale ʻo ʻIsileli, ʻaia ʻoku fehiʻa ki he fakamaau, mo liliu ʻae meʻa totonu kotoa pē.
10 who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
ʻOku nau langa ʻa Saione ʻaki ʻae toto, mo Selūsalema ʻi he angahala.
11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”
Ko e kau mātuʻa ʻi ai ʻoku fakamaau ke maʻu ʻae foaki, pea ko e kau taulaʻeiki ʻo ia ʻoku ako ke maʻu totongi, pea ʻoku kikite ʻae kau palōfita ke maʻu paʻanga; ka ʻoku nau falala kia Sihova, mo pehē, “ʻIkai ʻoku ʻiate kitautolu ʻa Sihova? ʻE ʻikai ha kovi ʻe hoko kiate kitautolu.”
12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Ko ia, koeʻuhi ko kimoutolu, ʻe keli ʻa Saione ʻo hangē ko e ngoue, pea ʻe hoko ʻa Selūsalema ko e ngaahi tuʻunga, pea mo e moʻunga ʻoe fale, ke hangē ko e ngaahi potu māʻolunga ʻoe vao ʻakau.
