Micha Propheta 6
1 Audite quae Dominus loquitur: Surge, contende iudicio adversum montes, et audiant colles vocem tuam.
Hearken ye nowe what the Lord sayth, Arise thou, and contende before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voyce.
2 Audiant montes iudicium Domini, et fortia fundamenta terrae: quia iudicium Domini cum populo suo, et cum Israel diiudicabitur.
Heare ye, O mountaynes, the Lordes quarel, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarell against his people, and he will pleade with Israel.
3 Popule meus quid feci tibi, aut quid molestus fui tibi? responde mihi.
O my people, what haue I done vnto thee? or wherin haue I grieued thee? testifie against me.
4 Quia eduxi te de Terra Aegypti, et de domo servientium liberavi te: et misi ante faciem tuam Moysen, et Aaron, et Mariam?
Surely I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I haue sent before thee, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 Popule meus memento quaeso quid cogitaverit contra te Balach rex Moab, et quid responderit ei Balaam filius Beor, de Setim usque ad Galgalam, ut cognosceres iustitias Domini.
O my people, remember nowe what Balak King of Moab had deuised, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him, from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that ye may knowe the righteousnes of the Lord.
6 Quid dignum offeram Domino? curvabo genu Deo excelso? numquid offeram ei holocaustomata, et vitulos anniculos?
Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bowe my selfe before the hie God? Shall I come before him with burnt offrings, and with calues of a yeere olde?
7 Numquid placari potest Dominus in millibus arietum, aut in multis millibus hircorum pinguium? numquid dabo primogenitum meum pro scelere meo fructum ventris mei pro peccato animae meae?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand riuers of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, euen the fruite of my bodie, for the sinne of my soule?
8 Indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum, et quid Dominus requirat a te: Utique facere iudicium, et diligere misericordiam, et solicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: surely to doe iustly, and to loue mercie, and to humble thy selfe, to walke with thy God.
9 Vox Domini ad civitatem clamat, et salus erit timentibus nomen eius: Audite tribus, et quis approbabit illud?
The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy name: Heare the rodde, and who hath appoynted it.
10 Adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis, et mensura minor irae plena.
Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?
11 Numquid iustificabo stateram impiam, et saccelli pondera dolosa?
Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?
12 In quibus divites eius repleti sunt iniquitate, et habitantes in ea loquebantur mendacium, et lingua eorum fraudulenta in ore eorum.
For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.
13 Et ego ergo coepi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis.
Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
14 Tu comedes, et non saturaberis: et humiliatio tua in medio tui: et apprehendes, et non salvabis: et quos salvaveris, in gladium dabo.
Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde.
15 Tu seminabis, et non metes: tu calcabis olivam, et non ungeris oleo: et mustum, et non bibes vinum.
Thou shalt sowe, but not reape: thou shalt treade the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oyle, and make sweete wine, but shalt not drinke wine.
16 Et custodisti praecepta Amri, et omne opus domus Achab: et ambulasti in voluptatibus eorum, ut darem te in perditionem, et habitantes in ea in sibilum et opprobrium populi mei portabitis.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the maner of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall beare the reproche of my people.
