Micah 3
1 Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
我曾經說過：「雅各伯的首領，以色列家的官吏，請你們傾聽! 認識正義，豈不是你們分內的事﹖」
2 You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
然而他們惡善好惡，從平民身上剝下他們的皮，從骨頭上剔下他們的肉。
3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
他們吞食我百姓的肉，剝去他們的皮，折斷他們的骨頭，將他們切成碎塊，如釜中的肉，如鼎中的肉。
4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
當他們呼求上主時，上主決不俯聽他們；反要掩面不理他們，因為他們行了窮凶極惡的事。
5 This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
論及迷我百姓的先知，上主這樣說：當他們的牙齒有咀嚼的東西時，他們便呼喊：「和平。」但凡不將食物送到他們口上的，他們便宣佈「戰爭。」
6 Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
因此，為你們只有黑夜而沒有神視，只有黑暗而沒有神諭；太陽必為先知而沒落，白畫必為他們而變為黑暗。
7 Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
先知必將抱愧，巫士必將蒙羞，他們都要掩住自己的鬍鬚，因為沒有天主的答覆。
8 As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
至於我，我因上主的神而充滿 力量、正義和勇氣，向雅各伯指出她的邪惡，向以色列說明她的罪過。
9 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
雅各伯家的領袖，以色列家的官吏，請你們傾聽這事! 你們憎惡正義，曲解一切正理；
10 who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
你們以血債建設耶路撒冷。
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
她火首領為賄賂而審判，司祭為薪俸而設教，先知為銀錢而占卜，尚依賴上主說：「上主不是在我們中間嗎﹖災禍決不會臨在我們身上! 」
12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
因此，為了你的緣故，熙雍必被耕耘有如一塊地．耶路撒冷必成為一堆廢墟，聖殿山必成為叢林中的一個丘陵。
