Micah 5

1 Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.

被圍困的女子，現在妳要抓傷身，他們己圍困住我們，用棍杖搫打以色列民長的面頰。

2 And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

厄弗辣大白冷! 你在猶大群邑中雖是最小的，但是將由你從我生出一位統治以色列的人，他的來歷源自亙古，遠自永遠的時代。

3 For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

因此，上主必將遺棄他們，直到孕婦生產之時，那時他 弟兄中的遺民必將歸來，與以色列子民團聚。

4 And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

他必卓然屹立，以上主的能力及上主他們的天主之名的權威，牧放自己的羊群。他們將獲得安居，因為他必大有權勢，直達地極。

5 And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.

他本人將是和平! 當亞述人侵入我們地域，蹂躪我們領土時，必有七個牧者，八個人民首領奮起對抗。

6 And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

他們必用刀統治亞述，用劍管轄默洛得地。當亞述侵入我們地域，蹂躪我們的境域時，他必救援我們。

7 And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

那時，雅各伯的遺民，在許多民族中，必如由上主而來的朝露，必如落在青草上的甘霖，不再期待於人，也不寄望於人子。

8 And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

那時，雅各伯的遺民，在異民中，在許多民族中，必如獅子在森林百獸中，必如幼童在羊群中，所經之處，必加以蹂躪摧殘，無人能夠搶救。

9 Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

你的手臂將高舉在你敵人之上，你的一切仇敵必要滅絕。

10 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:

到那一日──上主的斷語──我必由你中間毀滅你的戰馬，破壞你的車輛，

11 I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

毀壞你境內的城市，傾覆你的一切堡壘，

12 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

滅絕你手中的巫術，使你不再有人占卜；

13 And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

我必由你們中間消滅你的彫像和石柱，使你不再膜拜你手製的作品；

14 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

我必由你們中間根除你的神柱，毀壞你的神像；

15 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

對那不順服的異民，我必在憤怒激憤之下施以報復。