Micah 3
1 Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not 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 hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from 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 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.”
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 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.
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 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:
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 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.
“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 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.”
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 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.
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 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,
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 Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
ʻOku nau langa ʻa Saione ʻaki ʻae toto, mo Selūsalema ʻi he angahala.
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.”
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, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
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.
