Micah

欺压者的命运

1祸哉，那些在床上图谋罪孽、造作奸恶的！ 天一发亮，因手有能力就行出来了。

2他们贪图田地就占据， 贪图房屋便夺取； 他们欺压人，霸占房屋和产业。

3所以耶和华如此说： 我筹划灾祸降与这族； 这祸在你们的颈项上不能解脱； 你们也不能昂首而行， 因为这时势是恶的。

4到那日，必有人向你们提起悲惨的哀歌， 讥刺说：我们全然败落了！ 耶和华将我们的分转归别人， 何竟使这分离开我们？ 他将我们的田地分给悖逆的人。

5所以在耶和华的会中， 你必没有人拈阄拉准绳。

6他们说：你们不可说预言； 不可向这些人说预言， 不住地羞辱我们。

7雅各家啊，岂可说耶和华的心不忍耐吗？ 这些事是他所行的吗？ 我—耶和华的言语岂不是与行动正直的人有益吗？

8然而，近来我的民兴起如仇敌， 从那些安然经过不愿打仗之人身上剥去外衣。

9你们将我民中的妇人从安乐家中赶出， 又将我的荣耀从她们的小孩子尽行夺去。

10你们起来去吧！ 这不是你们安息之所； 因为污秽使人毁灭， 而且大大毁灭。

11若有人心存虚假，用谎言说： 我要向你们预言得清酒和浓酒。 那人就必作这民的先知。

12雅各家啊，我必要聚集你们， 必要招聚以色列剩下的人， 安置在一处，如波斯拉的羊， 又如草场上的羊群； 因为人数众多就必大大喧哗。

13开路的在他们前面上去； 他们直闯过城门，从城门出去。 他们的王在前面行； 耶和华引导他们。

1Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

2And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

3Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

4In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

6Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

7The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

8But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.

9You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.

10Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

11Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

12I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

13For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.