Micah 2
1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Ole kwa wale wapangao uovu, kwa wale wafanyao shauri la hila vitandani mwao! Kunapopambazuka wanalitimiza kwa sababu uko katika uwezo wao kutekeleza.
2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Wanatamani mashamba na kuyakamata, pia nyumba na kuzichukua. Wanamlaghai mwanaume nyumba yake, mwanadamu mwenzake urithi wake.
3 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Kwa hiyo, Bwana asema: “Ninapanga maangamizi dhidi ya watu hawa, ambayo hamwezi kujiokoa wenyewe. Hamtatembea tena kwa majivuno, kwa kuwa utakuwa ni wakati wa maafa.
4 In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Siku hiyo watu watawadhihaki, watawafanyia mzaha kwa wimbo huu wa maombolezo: ‘Tumeangamizwa kabisa; mali ya watu wangu imegawanywa. Ameninyangʼanya! Ametoa mashamba yetu kwa wasaliti.’”
5 Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
Kwa hiyo hutakuwa na yeyote katika kusanyiko la Bwana wa kugawanya mashamba kwa kura.
6 “Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
Manabii wao husema, “Usitabiri. Usitabiri kuhusu vitu hivi; aibu haitatupata.”
7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
Je, ingesemwa, ee nyumba ya Yakobo: “Je, Roho wa Bwana amekasirika? Je, yeye hufanya vitu kama hivyo?” “Je, maneno yangu hayamfanyii mema yeye ambaye njia zake ni nyofu?
8 But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
Siku hizi watu wangu wameinuka kama adui. Unawavua joho la kitajiri wale wanaopita pasipo kujali, kama watu warudio kutoka vitani.
9 You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
Unawahamisha wanawake wa watu wangu kutoka kwenye nyumba zao za kupendeza. Unaondoa baraka yangu kwa watoto wao milele.
10 Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
Inuka, nenda zako! Kwa maana hapa sio mahali pako pa kupumzikia, kwa sababu pametiwa unajisi, pameharibiwa, wala hapatengenezeki tena.
11 If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
Ikiwa mwongo na mdanganyifu atakuja na kusema, ‘Nitawatabiria divai na pombe kwa wingi,’ angekuwa ndiye nabii anayekubalika na watu hawa!
12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.
“Hakika nitawakusanya ninyi nyote, ee Yakobo, Hakika nitawaleta pamoja mabaki ya Israeli. Nitawaleta pamoja kama kondoo ndani ya zizi, kama kundi kwenye malisho yake, mahali hapa patakuwa na msongamano wa watu.
13 One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
Yeye afunguaye njia atawatangulia; watapita kwenye lango na kutoka nje. Mfalme wao atawatangulia, Bwana atakuwa kiongozi.”
