Micah 7
1 Woe is me! I have become like the gathering of summer fruit, and like the grapes that have been gleaned; there is no grape cluster to eat, no ripe early fig that my soul desires.
哀哉！我好像夏天的果子已被收盡， 又像摘了葡萄所剩下的， 沒有一掛可吃的； 我心羨慕初熟的無花果。
2 Faithful people have disappeared from the land; there is no upright person in all mankind. They all lie in wait to shed blood; each one hunts his own brother with a net.
地上虔誠人滅盡； 世間沒有正直人； 各人埋伏，要殺人流血， 都用網羅獵取弟兄。
3 Their hands are very good at doing harm: the ruler asks for money, the judge is ready for bribes, and the powerful man is saying to others what he wants to obtain. Thus they plot together.
他們雙手作惡； 君王徇情面，審判官要賄賂； 位分大的吐出惡意， 都彼此結聯行惡。
4 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. It is the day foretold by your watchmen, the day of your punishment. Now is the time of their confusion.
他們最好的，不過是蒺藜； 最正直的，不過是荊棘籬笆。 你守望者說，降罰的日子已經來到。 他們必擾亂不安。
5 Do not trust any neighbor; put no confidence in any friend. Be careful about what you say even to the woman who lies in your arms.
不要倚賴鄰舍； 不要信靠密友。 要守住你的口； 不要向你懷中的妻提說。
6 For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the people of his own house.
因為，兒子藐視父親； 女兒抗拒母親； 媳婦抗拒婆婆； 人的仇敵就是自己家裏的人。
7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
至於我，我要仰望耶和華， 要等候那救我的上帝； 我的上帝必應允我。
8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. After I fall, I will rise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light for me.
我的仇敵啊，不要向我誇耀。 我雖跌倒，卻要起來； 我雖坐在黑暗裏， 耶和華卻作我的光。
9 Because I sinned against Yahweh, I will bear his rage until he pleads my cause, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me to the light, and I will see him rescue me in his justice.
我要忍受耶和華的惱怒； 因我得罪了他， 直等他為我辨屈，為我伸冤。 他必領我到光明中； 我必得見他的公義。
10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover the one who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will look at her; she will be trampled down like the mud in the streets.
那時我的仇敵， 就是曾對我說「耶和華－你上帝在哪裏」的， 他一看見這事就被羞愧遮蓋。 我必親眼見他遭報； 他必被踐踏，如同街上的泥土。
11 A day to build your walls will come; on that day the boundaries will be extended very far.
以色列啊，日子必到， 你的牆垣必重修； 到那日，你的境界必開展。
12 On that day your people will come to you, from Assyria and the cities in Egypt, from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
當那日，人必從亞述， 從埃及的城邑， 從埃及到大河， 從這海到那海， 從這山到那山， 都歸到你這裏。
13 But the land will be desolate because of the people who are living there, because of the fruit of their actions.
然而，這地因居民的緣故， 又因他們行事的結果，必然荒涼。
14 Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance. They live alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the old days.
求耶和華在迦密山的樹林中， 用你的杖牧放你獨居的民， 就是你產業的羊群。 求你容他們在巴珊和基列得食物，像古時一樣。
15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them wonders.
耶和華說： 我要把奇事顯給他們看， 好像出埃及地的時候一樣。
16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their power. They will put their hands on their mouths; their ears will be deaf.
列國看見這事就必為自己的勢力慚愧； 他們必用手摀口，掩耳不聽。
17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the earth. They will come out of their dens with fear; they will come with fear to you, Yahweh our God, and they will be afraid because of you.
他們必舔土如蛇， 又如土中腹行的物， 戰戰兢兢地出他們的營寨。 他們必戰懼投降耶和華， 也必因我們的上帝而懼怕。
18 Who is a God like you— who takes away sin, who passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He does not keep his anger forever, because he delights in his covenant faithfulness.
上帝啊，有何神像你，赦免罪孽， 饒恕你產業之餘民的罪過， 不永遠懷怒，喜愛施恩？
19 You will again have compassion on us; you will trample our iniquities under your feet. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.
必再憐憫我們， 將我們的罪孽踏在腳下， 又將我們的一切罪投於深海。
20 You will give truth to Jacob and covenant faithfulness to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors in ancient days.
你必按古時起誓應許我們列祖的話， 向雅各發誠實， 向亞伯拉罕施慈愛。
