Michaeas 7
1 Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
我有禍了! 因為我變成了一個夏季搜摘果實，採集殘餘葡萄的人，卻沒有一粒葡萄可吃，也沒有我心思所想望的早熟的無花果。
2 For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:
虔敬人從地上消逝了，人間竟沒有一個正直人；人人都潛伏著要流人血，各以羅網獵取自己的弟兄。
3 they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:
他們的手善於作惡，官員貪求賄賂，法官勒索酬金，權貴只隨自己的心願發言，他們顛倒了一切。
4 therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.
他們中最好的人也不過相似荊棘，最正直的人也不過相似有刺的籬笆。你的守望者所宣佈的懲罰之日已經到了；現在他們必要驚惶。
5 Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
你們不要信賴鄰里；不要倚靠朋友，連對躺在你懷中的妻子，也也要堅守口舌，
6 For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.
因為兒子要侮辱自己的父親，女兒要反抗自己的母親，兒媳要違抗自己的婆母：人的仇敵就是自己的家人。
7 But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.
至於我，我要仰望上主，寄望於拯救我的天主；天主必要俯聽我。
8 Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen [yet] shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.
我的仇敵! 你不要因我遭難而高興；我雖然跌倒，必再起來；我雖坐在黑暗中，但上主是我的光明。
9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.
因為我得罪了上主，我必須承擔上主的義怒，直到衪審判我的案件，為我主持公道，衪必領 進入光明，我必能目睹衪的正義。
10 And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where [is] the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.
我的仇敵見了，必要蒙受羞辱，因為他曾對我說：「上主你的天主在哪裏﹖」我的眼必要看見他，有如街上的污泥被人踐踏。
11 [It is] the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.
必有一天，要重建你的城垣；那一天，你的地界必要擴展；
12 And thy cities shall be levelled, and parted among the Assyrians; and thy strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
那一天，從亞述到埃及，從提洛到幼發的河，從這海到那海，從這山到那山的人民，都要向你歸來；
13 And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.
其餘的地域，必因其中居民行為的惡果，變為一片荒涼。
14 Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.
上主，求你拿你的牧杖牧放你的人民──獨留在草莽中，在田園間，作你基業的羊群；讓他們在巴商和基肋阿得獲得豢養，一如昔日。
15 And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous [things].
上主一如讓我們在你出離埃及的時日內，見到奇蹟；
16 The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.
讓異民見了，感到自己一籌莫展，棎自慚愧，用手掩口，雙耳變聾。
17 They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.
他們將舔土如蛇，像上爬行的爬蟲，戰戰兢兢地從他們洞穴裏爬出來，向你，上主我們的天主，表示尊敬敬畏。
18 Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.
哪裏有神相似你，赦免罪惡，寬宥他的基業──遺民的過錯，不堅時憤怒於永遠，反而喜愛仁慈﹖
19 He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins.
你必再憐憫我們，將我們的邪惡踏於足下，將我們的一切罪過投入海底。
20 He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.
你必按照你昔日向我們祖先所發了的誓，對雅各伯表示忠信，對亞巴郎施行仁慈。
