< Micah 1 >
1 A word of YHWH that has been to Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, that he has seen concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:
猶大不約堂、阿哈次和希則克雅年間,上主的話傳給摩勒舍特人米該亞;以下如果他關於撒馬黎雅和耶路撒冷所見的聖視:
2 Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fullness, And Lord YHWH is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.
眾民族,你們請聽! 大地和充乎其間的萬物,你們側耳傾聽! 吾主上主要作証反抗你們,吾主已離開了衪的聖殿。
3 For behold, YHWH is going out from His place, And He has come down, And has trodden on high places of earth.
看,上主已離開自己的居所下降,踏著大地高處前行。
4 The mountains have been melted under Him, And the valleys split themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.
在衪腳下,諸山銷鎔,諸谷分裂,有如蠟在火前,有如冰瀉斜坡。
5 For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, And for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
這一切都是因為雅各伯的邪惡,猶大家的罪過。雅各伯的邪惡是什麼﹖不就是撒馬黎雅﹖猶大的罪過是什麼﹖不就是耶路撒冷﹖
6 “And I have set Samaria for a heap of the field, For plantations of a vineyard, And poured out into a valley her stones, And her foundations I uncover.
我必要使撒馬黎雅變為田野中的廢墟,化為栽植葡萄的園地;我要把她的石頭投入山谷,暴露她的基礎。
7 And all her carved images are beaten down, And all her wages are burned with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For from the wage of a harlot she gathered, and to the wage of a harlot they return.”
她的一切雕像必被打碎;她的一切淫資必被火燒盡;她的一切偶像,我必使之變為廢物,因為偶像是聚合娼妓淫資做成的,將再轉為娼妓的淫資。
8 For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.
為此,我要哀號悲鳴,我要赤足裸體而行;哀號若豺狼,悲鳴如駝鳥;
9 For mortal [are] her wounds, For it has come to Judah, It has come to a gate of My people—to Jerusalem.
因為撒馬黎雅的創傷無法醫治,且已廷及猶大,逼近我的門口,直達耶路撒冷。
10 In Gath do not tell—in Acco do not weep, In Beth-Aphrah, roll yourself in dust.
你們在加達不要歡樂,在隨苛要慟哭,在貝特敖斐勒,要輾轉於灰塵之中。
11 Pass over for you, O inhabitant of Shaphir, Naked one of shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not gone out, The lamentation of Beth-Ezel takes from you its standing.
沙非爾的居民! 人已向你吹起了號角;匝南的居民,不要走出自己的城! 在貝特厄責耳有了哭訴,因為人從你們手中奪去了立足之地。
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth has stayed for good, For calamity has come down from YHWH to the gate of Jerusalem.
災禍已由上主降於耶路撒冷門前,瑪洛特的居民還怎能希望幸福﹖
13 Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, The beginning of sin [is] she to the daughter of Zion, For in you have been found the transgressions of Israel.
拉基士的居民,你們要以快馬駕車! 你們是熙雍子女犯罪的開端,因為在你們中間找出以色列罪惡的根源。
14 Therefore you give presents to Moresheth-Gath, The houses of Achzib become a lying thing to the kings of Israel.
摩勒舍特加特! 人要給你送來臨別的贈品;阿革齊布家為以色列君王,是一條變幻無常的溪流。
15 Yet I bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, The glory of Israel comes to Adullam.
瑪勒沙的居民,征服者還要來你們這裏;的確,以色列的光榮阿杜蘭將要消逝!
16 Make bald and shave, for your delightful sons, Enlarge your baldness as an eagle, For they have removed from you!
熙雍女子! 妳應為了妳所愛的子女剃頭削髮,並要徹底使妳的頭光禿,有如一隻兀鷹,因為你們已由妳面前被擄去充軍。