< Micah 2 >

1 Woe [to] those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the morning light they do it, For their hand is—to God.
禍哉,那些在床上籌劃不義,圖謀行惡的人! 因為你們手中有能力,一到天亮,就去實行。
2 And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.
他們想要田地,便去霸佔;朼想要房屋,便去奪取:以暴力對付業主和他的家族,物主和他的產業。
3 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am devising against this family calamity, From which you do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for it [is] a time of evil.
為此上主這樣說:「看,我正在為這一家籌劃災禍,致令你們不能縮回你們的頭頸,也不能挺身前行,因為那是一個災禍的時刻。」
4 In that day [one] takes up for you an allegory, And he has wailed a wailing of woe, He has said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He changes, How He moves toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportions.
在那一日,人要作詩諷刺你們,唱這悲慘的哀哥說:「我們完全被搶掠了,我人民的基業已被人瓜分了,再無人歸還;我們的土地已分配給搶掠我們的人! 」
5 Therefore, you have no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of YHWH.
因此,你們在上主的集會中,再沒有拉繩測量和抽籤的人。
6 You do not prophesy—they prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It does not remove shame.
你們講說:「你們不要說預言。」「人不該預言這樣的事,恥辱決不會來到我們身上!
7 [Those] named the house of Jacob: Has the Spirit of YHWH been shortened? Are these His doings? Do My words not benefit the people that are walking uprightly?
雅各伯的家豈是可詛咒的﹖上主的氣量豈能變為狹小﹖難道這是衪的作風﹖衪的話豈不是有益於以色列子民﹖」
8 And recently My people raise up as an enemy, You strip off the honorable ornament from the outer garment, From the confident passers by, You who are turning back from war.
「但是你們正像敵人一樣,起來攻擊我的人民,因為你們向沒有短衣的人索取長袍,向平安走路的人索取戰利品。
9 The women of My people you cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings you take away My honor for all time.
你們驅逐我人民的婦女離開她們的快樂家庭,從她們的嬰兒身上,永遠奪去我的光榮。
10 Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, Because of uncleanness it corrupts, And corruption is powerful.
你們起來走吧! 因為這不是你們安息之所。為了不懂,這地必要遭受不可挽救的毀滅。」
11 If one is going [with] the wind, And [with] falsehood has lied: I prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink, He has been the prophet of this people!
假若有人隨從虛妄而撒謊說:「我要對你預言清酒和醇酒。」這人必可作這民族的先知。
12 I surely gather you, O Jacob, all of you, I surely bring together the remnant of Israel, Together I set it as the flock of Bozrah, As a drove in the midst of its pasture, It makes a noise because of man.
我必要聚集雅各伯全民眾,我必要集合以色列的遺民,使他們合併在一處,有如羊欄裏的綿羊,有如牧場上的羊群,不再怕任何人。
13 The breaker has gone up before them, They have broken through, Indeed, they pass through the gate, Indeed, they go out through it, And their king passes on before them, And YHWH at their head!”
開路者走在他們前面開道;他走在前面,眾人隨他穿門而過;他們的君王走在他們們前面,上主親作他們的響導。

< Micah 2 >