Mika 3

1 Eye megblɔ be: “Miɖo to, mi Yakob ƒe kplɔlawo. Mi ame siwo le Israel ƒe aƒe dzi ɖum. Miawoe wòdze be mianya nyui tso vɔ̃ gbɔ

And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

2 gake miawo boŋue gbe nu le nyui gbɔ eye mielɔ̃ vɔ̃. Mievuvu ayi le nye amewo ŋu ye mievuvu lã le woƒe ƒuwo ŋuti.

You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones?

3 Mieɖu nye amewo katã ƒe lã, vuvu ayi le wo ŋuti, gbã ƒu ɖe lãme na wo eye miefli wo abe ale si woflia adelã dea zee ene.”

Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin from off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

4 Ekema woado ɣli ayɔ Yehowa gake matɔ na wo o eye aɣla eƒe mo ɖe wo ɖe nu vɔ̃ si wowɔ la ta.

Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

5 Ale Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: “Mi nyagblɔɖila siwo kplɔa nye amewo tranae; ne ame aɖe na nu wo, woɖu la, wodoa ŋutifafa nɛ; ke ne ame aɖe mena nu wo o la, wohoa aʋa ɖe eŋuti.

Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

6 Zã ado aƒo xlã mi eye miegale ŋutega kpɔ ge o; viviti atsyɔ mia dzi eye Mawu ƒe gbe mava na mi o. Ɣe aɖo to ɖe mia dzi eye ŋkeke ado viviti na mi.

Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

7 Miaƒe nukpɔlawo aɖu ŋukpe eye woado ŋukpe miaƒe nukalawo. Woatsɔ asi atsyɔ mo elabena gbe aɖeke metso Mawu gbɔ na wo o.”

And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.

8 Ke nye la, ŋusẽ yɔ menye taŋtaŋ, Yehowa ƒe Gbɔgbɔ le dzinye eya ta matsɔ dzɔdzɔenyenye kple ŋusẽ aɖe gbeƒã Yakob ƒe nu tovowo wɔwɔ kple Israel ƒe nu vɔ̃.

But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment, and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness, and to Israel his sin.

9 Miɖo tom, mi Yakob ƒe aƒe ƒe kplɔlawo kple mi ame siwo le Israel ƒe aƒe dzi ɖum. Mi ame siwo gbe nu le dzɔdzɔenyenye gbɔ eye mietrɔa gbo nu siwo katã le dzɔdzɔe.

Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment, and pervert all that is right.

10 Mi ame siwo tu Zion ɖe ʋukɔkɔɖeanyi dzi kple Yerusalem ɖe vɔ̃ɖinyenye dzi.

You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 Miaƒe kplɔlawo xɔa zãnu hafi drɔ̃a ʋɔnu. Miaƒe nunɔlawo fiaa nu ɖe ga si woaxɔ ta eye miaƒe Nyagblɔɖilawo gblɔa nya ɖi ɖe ga ta gake woziɔna ɖe Yehowa ŋu gblɔna be: “Yehowa le mia dome eya ta vɔ̃ aɖeke mawɔ mí o.”

Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

12 Miawo ta woaŋlɔ Zion abe agble ene, Yerusalem azu glikpo gã ɖeka eye to si dzi gbedoxɔ le la azu togbɛ si zu ave.

Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.