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.
Vae mihi, quia factus sum sicut qui colligit in autumno racemos vindemiae: non est botrus ad comedendum, praecoquas ficus desideravit anima mea.
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.
Periit sanctus de terra, et rectus in hominibus non est: omnes in sanguine insidiantur, vir fratrem suum ad mortem venatur.
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.
Malum manuum suarum dicunt bonum: princeps postulat, et iudex in reddendo est: et magnus locutus est desiderium animae suae, et conturbaverunt eam.
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.
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 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.
Nolite credere amico: et nolite confidere in duce: ab ea, quae dormit in sinu tuo, custodi claustra oris tui.
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.
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 will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Ego autem ad Dominum aspiciam, expectabo Deum salvatorem meum: audiet me Deus meus.
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.
Ne laeteris inimica mea super me, quia cecidi: consurgam, cum sedero in tenebris, Dominus lux mea est.
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.
Iram Domini portabo, quoniam peccavi ei, donec causam meam iudicet, et faciat iudicium meum: educet me in lucem, videbo iustitiam eius.
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.
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 A day to build your walls will come; on that day the boundaries will be extended very far.
Dies, ut aedificentur maceriae tuae: in die illa longe fiet lex.
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.
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 land will be desolate because of the people who are living there, because of the fruit of their actions.
Et terra erit in desolationem propter habitatores suos, et propter fructum cogitationum eorum.
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.
Pasce populum tuum in virga tua, gregem hereditatis tuae habitantes solos in saltu, in medio Carmeli: pascentur Basan et Galaad iuxta dies antiquos.
15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them wonders.
Secundum dies egressionis tuae de Terra Aegypti ostendam ei mirabilia.
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.
Videbunt gentes, et confundentur super omni fortitudine sua: ponent manum super os, aures eorum surdae erunt.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Revertetur, et miserebitur nostri: deponet iniquitates nostras, et proiiciet in profundum maris omnia peccata nostra.
20 You will give truth to Jacob and covenant faithfulness to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors in ancient days.
Dabis veritatem Iacob, misericordiam Abraham: quae iurasti patribus nostris a diebus antiquis.
