Mikha 3
1 Dengarlah, hai kamu penguasa-penguasa Israel! Seharusnya kamu tahu apa yang adil,
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],
2 tapi kamu malah membenci yang baik, dan senang akan yang jahat. Bangsaku kamu kuliti hidup-hidup, dan kamu cabik dagingnya dari tulang-tulangnya.
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.
3 Kamu makan bangsaku. Kulitnya kamu sobek-sobek dan tulang-tulangnya kamu hancurkan. Kamu memotong-motong mereka seperti memotong daging untuk dimasukkan ke dalam belanga.
[It is as though] you chop them into pieces like [SIM] meat [to be cooked] in a pot.
4 Akan tiba waktunya kamu berteriak minta tolong kepada TUHAN, tapi Ia tidak mau menjawab. Ia tidak akan mendengarkan doa-doamu, karena kamu telah melakukan yang jahat.
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.”
5 Bangsaku ditipu oleh nabi-nabi yang meramalkan yang baik kepada orang yang memberi uang, tapi memusuhi dan meremehkan orang yang tidak memberi. Kepada nabi-nabi yang demikian, TUHAN berkata,
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.
6 "Hai nabi, waktumu sudah hampir habis; mataharimu sedang terbenam. Kamu tak akan lagi mendapat penglihatan yang menyatakan rencana-rencana-Ku. Kamu tak akan lagi dapat meramalkan apa-apa."
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.
7 Orang-orang yang meramalkan hari depan akan mendapat malu karena ramalannya meleset. Mereka semua kehilangan muka karena Allah tidak menjawab mereka.
[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.”
8 Tapi mengenai diriku ini, TUHAN telah mengisi aku dengan roh-Nya dan kuasa-Nya. Aku diberi-Nya pengertian tentang keadilan, dan juga keberanian untuk menyatakan kepada orang Israel dosa-dosa yang telah dilakukannya.
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].
9 Dengarlah kata-kataku ini, hai kamu penguasa Israel yang membenci keadilan dan memutarbalikkan kebenaran.
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].
10 Kamu membangun Yerusalem, kota Allah, berdasarkan pembunuhan dan ketidakadilan.
[It is as though] you are building [houses in] Jerusalem on foundations that consist of murdering people and doing what is corrupt.
11 Penguasa-penguasa kota memerintah untuk mendapat uang suap, imam-imam mengajar hukum TUHAN untuk gaji, dan nabi-nabi meminta petunjuk dari Allah untuk mendapat uang--lalu mereka semua mengira TUHAN ada di pihak mereka. Mereka berkata, "TUHAN ada di tengah-tengah kita; kita tak akan ditimpa malapetaka."
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.”
12 Karena kejahatanmu itu, Sion akan dibajak seperti ladang, Yerusalem akan menjadi timbunan puing, dan bukit Rumah TUHAN akan menjadi hutan belukar.
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.
