< Micah 1 >
1 The LORD’s word that came to Micah of Morasheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw 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, you peoples, all of you! Listen, O earth, and all that is therein. Let the Lord GOD be witness against you, 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, the LORD comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the 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 melt under him, and the valleys split apart like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
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 “All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they 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 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.
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 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall 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 will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
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 her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even 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 Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the 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 on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
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 waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD 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 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
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 will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful 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 I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come 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 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity 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。