Micah 3
1 Then I said, “You Israeli [MTY] leaders, listen [to what I say]! You should certainly [RHQ] know what things are right [to do] [and what things are wrong],
Kataku: Baiklah dengar, hai para kepala di Yakub, dan hai para pemimpin kaum Israel! Bukankah selayaknya kamu mengetahui keadilan,
2 but you hate what is good and you love what is evil. [You act like butchers]: [it is as though] you strip the skin off my people and [tear] the flesh from their bones.
hai kamu yang membenci kebaikan dan yang mencintai kejahatan? Mereka merobek kulit dari tubuh bangsaku dan daging dari tulang-tulangnya;
3 [It is as though] you chop them into pieces like [SIM] meat [to be cooked] in a pot.
mereka memakan daging bangsaku, dan mengupas kulit dari tubuhnya; mereka meremukkan tulang-tulangnya, dan mencincangnya seperti daging dalam kuali, seperti potongan-potongan daging di dalam belanga.
4 Then, [when you have troubles], you plead to Yahweh [to help you], but he will not answer you. At that time, he will turn away from you because of the evil things that you have done.”
Mereka sendirilah nanti akan berseru-seru kepada TUHAN, tetapi Ia tidak akan menjawab mereka; Ia akan menyembunyikan wajah-Nya terhadap mereka pada waktu itu, sebab jahat perbuatan-perbuatan mereka.
5 This is what Yahweh says about your [false] prophets who are deceiving the people: “If someone gives them food, those prophets say that things will go well for him. But they declare war against anyone who does not give them food.
Beginilah firman TUHAN terhadap para nabi, yang menyesatkan bangsaku, yang apabila mereka mendapat sesuatu untuk dikunyah, maka mereka menyerukan damai, tetapi terhadap orang yang tidak memberi sesuatu ke dalam mulut mereka, maka mereka menyatakan perang.
6 So [now it is as though] [MET] night will descend on you prophets; you will not receive any [more] visions. [It is as though] [MET] the sun will set for you; the time [when you are greatly honored] will end.
Sebab itu hari akan menjadi malam bagimu tanpa penglihatan, dan menjadi gelap bagimu tanpa tenungan. Matahari akan terbenam bagi para nabi itu, dan hari menjadi hitam suram bagi mereka.
7 [Then] you (seers/people who predict what will happen in the future) [DOU] will be disgraced; you will cover your faces [because you will be ashamed], because when you ask me [what will happen], there will be no answer from me.”
Para pelihat akan mendapat malu dan tukang-tukang tenung akan tersipu-sipu; mereka sekalian akan menutupi mukanya, sebab tidak ada jawab dari pada Allah.
8 But as for me, I am full of [God’s] power, [power] from the Spirit of Yahweh. I am courageous and strong to declare to the Israeli people [MTY, DOU] that they have sinned and rebelled [against Yahweh].
Tetapi aku ini penuh dengan kekuatan, dengan Roh TUHAN, dengan keadilan dan keperkasaan, untuk memberitakan kepada Yakub pelanggarannya dan kepada Israel dosanya.
9 You leaders of the people [MTY] of Israel, listen to this! You hate [it when people do] what is just; and [when people say] what is true, you distort it, [saying it is false].
Baiklah dengarkan ini, hai para kepala kaum Yakub, dan para pemimpin kaum Israel! Hai kamu yang muak terhadap keadilan dan yang membengkokkan segala yang lurus,
10 [It is as though] you are building [houses in] Jerusalem on foundations that consist of murdering people and doing what is corrupt.
hai kamu yang mendirikan Sion dengan darah dan Yerusalem dengan kelaliman!
11 Your leaders make [favorable] decisions [only if they receive] bribes. Your priests teach people only if [those people] pay them [well]. Your [false] prophets require people to pay them to tell people what will happen [to them] in the future. Those prophets say, “Yahweh is telling us [what we should say], and [we say that] we will not experience any disasters.”
Para kepalanya memutuskan hukum karena suap, dan para imamnya memberi pengajaran karena bayaran, para nabinya menenung karena uang, padahal mereka bersandar kepada TUHAN dengan berkata: "Bukankah TUHAN ada di tengah-tengah kita! Tidak akan datang malapetaka menimpa kita!"
12 Because of what you [leaders do], Zion [Hill] will be plowed like a field; it will become a heap of ruins/rubble; the top of the hill, where the temple is [now], will be covered with bushes.
Sebab itu oleh karena kamu maka Sion akan dibajak seperti ladang, dan Yerusalem akan menjadi timbunan puing, dan gunung Bait Suci akan menjadi bukit yang berhutan.
