Micah 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Væ qui cogitatis inutile, et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris: in luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Et concupierunt agros, et violenter tulerunt, et rapuerunt domos: et calumniabantur virum, et domum eius, virum, et hereditatem eius.
3 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time.
Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum: unde non auferetis colla vestra, et non ambulabitis superbi, quoniam tempus pessimum est.
4 In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.
In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate, dicentium: Depopulatione vastati sumus: pars populi mei commutata est: quomodo recedet a me, cum revertatur, qui regiones nostras dividat?
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in cœtu Domini.
6 Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart.
Ne loquamini loquentes: Non stillabit super istos, non comprehendet confusio.
7 O thou [that art] named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Dicit domus Iacob: Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt cogitationes eius? Nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo, qui recte graditur?
8 But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war.
Et econtrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit: desuper tunica pallium sustulistis: et eos, qui transibant simpliciter, convertistis in bellum.
9 The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.
Mulieres populi mei eiecistis de domo deliciarum suarum: a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.
Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem: propter immunditiam eius corrumpetur putredine pessima.
11 If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, [saying, ] I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people.
Utinam non essem vir habens spiritum, et mendacium potius loquerer: stillabo tibi in vinum, et in ebrietatem: et erit super quem stillatur populus iste.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
Congregatione congregabo Iacob totum te: in unum conducam reliquias Israel, pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio caularum, tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.
13 One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos: divident, et transibunt portam, et ingredientur per eam: et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.
