Micah 7
1 I'm totally miserable! I've become like someone trying to glean summer fruit after the grape harvest is over. I can't find any grapes to eat, and there are no early figs that I love.
Vae mihi, quia factus sum sicut qui colligit in autumno racemos vindemiae: non est botrus ad comedendum, praecoquas ficus desideravit anima mea.
2 All the good people in the country are gone, there's no one who does right left anywhere. Everyone is looking to murder others; they try to trap even their own brothers.
Periit sanctus de terra, et rectus in hominibus non est: omnes in sanguine insidiantur, vir fratrem suum ad mortem venatur.
3 They are experts at evil; both officials and judges ask for bribes; the powerful demand their evil desires; and they scheme together to get what they want.
Malum manuum suarum dicunt bonum: princeps postulat, et iudex in reddendo est: et magnus locutus est desiderium animae suae, et conturbaverunt eam.
4 Even the best of them is like a thorny bush, the most honest like a thorn hedge. Your day of judgment that was announced by the prophets, your time of punishment, has arrived. You'rethrown into complete confusion.
Qui optimus in eis est, quasi paliurus: et qui rectus, quasi spina de sepe. Dies speculationis tuae, visitatio tua venit: nunc erit vastitas eorum.
5 Don't trust a neighbor, don't rely on a friend. Watch what you say even to the one who lies in your arms.
Nolite credere amico: et nolite confidere in duce: ab ea, quae dormit in sinu tuo, custodi claustra oris tui.
6 For a son treats his father with contempt; a daughter opposes her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law. Your enemies are members of your own family.
Quia filius contumeliam facit patri, et filia consurgit adversus matrem suam, nurus adversus socrum suam: et inimici hominis domestici eius.
7 But as for me, I look to the Lord. I will wait for the God who saves me. My God will hear me.
Ego autem ad Dominum aspiciam, expectabo Deum salvatorem meum: audiet me Deus meus.
8 Don't gloat over me, my enemies! Even though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.
Ne laeteris inimica mea super me, quia cecidi: consurgam, cum sedero in tenebris, Dominus lux mea est.
9 I will endure the Lord's anger because I have sinned against him. But after that he will argue my case and give me justice. He will bring me into the light and I will see his integrity.
Iram Domini portabo, quoniam peccavi ei, donec causam meam iudicet, et faciat iudicium meum: educet me in lucem, videbo iustitiam eius.
10 Then my enemies will see it and cover their faces in shame for taunting me, asking, “Where is the Lord your God?” With my own eyes I will see what happens to them; they will be trodden down like mud in the streets.
Et aspiciet inimica mea, et operietur confusione, quae dicit ad me: Ubi est Dominus Deus tuus? Oculi mei videbunt in eam: nunc erit in conculcationem ut lutum platearum.
11 On that day it will be time to build your walls. On that day your boundaries will be extended.
Dies, ut aedificentur maceriae tuae: in die illa longe fiet lex.
12 On that day people will come from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, from Egypt to the Euphrates River, from sea to sea, from mountain to mountain.
In die illa usque ad te veniet Assur, et usque ad civitates munitas: et a civitatibus munitis usque ad flumen, et ad mare de mari, et ad montem de monte.
13 But the rest of the earth will become desolate because of what those who live there have done.
Et terra erit in desolationem propter habitatores suos, et propter fructum cogitationum eorum.
14 Protect your people with your shepherd's rod. Take care of your flock, your special people, who live alone in the wilderness and in cultivated land. Let them feed in Basham and Gilead as they did long ago.
Pasce populum tuum in virga tua, gregem hereditatis tuae habitantes solos in saltu, in medio Carmeli: pascentur Basan et Galaad iuxta dies antiquos.
15 Like the time when you left the land of Egypt, I will do miracles for you.
Secundum dies egressionis tuae de Terra Aegypti ostendam ei mirabilia.
16 The nations will see, and they will be humiliated despite their strength. They will cover their mouths with their hands, and their ears shall become deaf.
Videbunt gentes, et confundentur super omni fortitudine sua: ponent manum super os, aures eorum surdae erunt.
17 They will lick the dust like snakes; they will be like the creepy-crawlies of the earth. They will come trembling from their fortresses to meet the Lord our God, fearful and afraid before him.
Lingent pulverem sicut serpentes, velut reptilia terrae turbabuntur de aedibus suis: Dominum Deum nostrum desiderabunt, et timebunt te.
18 Who is a God like you who forgives sin and passes over the rebellion of those who are left of his special people? You do not remain angry forever because you delight in showing faithful love.
Quis Deus similis tui, qui aufers iniquitatem, et transis peccatum reliquiarum hereditatis tuae? non immittet ultra furorem suum, quoniam volens misericordiam est.
19 You will have compassion on us again. You will tread our sins under your feet, and you will throw our sins into the depths of the sea.
Revertetur, et miserebitur nostri: deponet iniquitates nostras, et proiiciet in profundum maris omnia peccata nostra.
20 You will give your trustworthy truth to the people of Jacob, your faithful love to the people of Abraham, as you promised our forefathers long ago.
Dabis veritatem Iacob, misericordiam Abraham: quae iurasti patribus nostris a diebus antiquis.
