Micha Propheta 2
1 Vae qui cogitatis inutile, et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris: in luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum.
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
2 Et concupierunt agros, et violenter tulerunt, et rapuerunt domos: et calumniabantur virum, et domum eius, virum, et hereditatem eius.
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
3 Idcirco haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum: unde non auferetis colla vestra, et non ambulabitis superbi, quoniam tempus pessimum est.
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.
4 In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate, dicentium: Depopulatione vastati sumus: pars populi mei commutata est: quomodo recedet a me, cum revertatur, qui regiones nostras dividat?
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.
5 Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in coetu Domini.
For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.
6 O Israel Ne loquamini loquentes: Non stillabit super istos, non comprehendet confusio.
Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!
7 Dicit domus Iacob: Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt cogitationes eius? Nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo, qui recte graditur?
Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?
8 Et econtrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit: desuper tunica pallium sustulistis: et eos, qui transibant simpliciter, convertistis in bellum.
As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.
9 Mulieres populi mei eiecistis de domo deliciarum suarum: a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum.
The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.
10 Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem: propter immunditiam eius corrumpetur putredine pessima.
Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.
11 Utinam non essem vir habens spiritum, et mendacium potius loquerer: stillabo tibi in vinum, et in ebrietatem: et erit super quem stillatur populus iste.
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
12 Congregatione congregabo Iacob totum te: in unum conducam reliquias Israel, pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio caularum, tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.
I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.
13 Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos: divident, et transibunt portam, et ingredientur per eam: et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.
The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.
