| 米該亞 |
Micah |
| 1惟願你們傾聽上主所說的話：「起來，在諸山面前進行訴訟，使諸丘陵能聽見你的聲音！」 |
1Hear, then, what the LORD says: Arise, present your plea before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice! |
| 2諸山！請聽上主的申訴；大地的基礎，側耳聆聽罷！因為上主與他的人民有所爭訟，與以色列有所爭辯： |
2Hear, O mountains, the plea of the LORD, pay attention, O foundations of the earth! For the LORD has a plea against his people, and he enters into trial with Israel. |
| 3「我的人民！我對你做了什麼？我在什麼事上叫你討厭？請你答覆我！ |
3O my people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Answer me! |
| 4難道是因為我由埃及地領了你上來，從奴隸之家贖了你回來，在你面前委派了梅瑟、亞郎和米黎盎？ |
4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I released you; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. |
| 5我的人民，請你記憶摩阿布王巴拉克圖謀過什麼事，貝敖爾的兒子巴郎答應了他什麼；再記憶從史廷到基耳加耳發生過什麼事，好使你明瞭上主的仁慈作為。」 |
5 My people, remember what Moab's King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him . . . from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the LORD. |
| 6「我要到上主那裏，叩拜至高者天主，應進獻什麼？應進獻全燔祭，還是應進獻一歲的牛犢？ |
6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow before God most high? Shall I come before him with holocausts, with calves a year old? |
| 7上主豈喜悅萬千的公羊，或萬道河流的油？為了我的過犯，我應否獻上我的長子？為了我靈魂的罪惡，我應否獻上我親生的兒子？」 |
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my crime, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
| 8人啊！已通知了你，什麼是善，上主要求於你的是什麼：無非就是履行正義，愛好慈善，虛心與你的天主來往。 |
8You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. |
| 9聽，上主向城邑的呼聲：我必拯救敬畏我名的人。支派和城市的會眾，靜聽： |
9 Hark! the LORD cries to the city. (It is wisdom to fear your name!) Hear, O tribe and city council, |
| 10我豈能忘掉惡人家中的不義之財，和那可詛咒的小「厄法」？ |
10You whose rich men are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their heads! |
| 11我豈能把用欺騙的天秤和囊中有假法碼的人視為清廉？ |
11Am I to bear any longer criminal hoarding and the meager ephah that is accursed? |
| 12城中的富人充滿了強暴，其中的居民好說謊話，滿口欺詐； |
12Shall I acquit criminal balances, bags of false weights? |
| 13因此，我纔開始打擊你，為了你的罪惡使你荒涼。 |
13Rather I will begin to strike you with devastation because of your sins. |
| 14你要吃，卻吃不飽，腹中常感到空虛；你縱然能把寶藏搬走，卻不能保全；即使你能保全，我也必要付之於刀劍。 |
14You shall sow, yet not reap, tread out the olive, yet pour no oil, and the grapes, yet drink no wine. |
| 15你要播種，卻得不到收穫；你要榨橄欖油，卻得不到油抹身；你要榨葡萄酒，卻得不到酒喝。 |
15You shall eat, without being satisfied, food that will leave you empty; What you acquire, you cannot save; what you do save, I will deliver up to the sword. |
| 16因為你遵守了敖默黎的法令，保存了阿哈布家的一切作風，遵循了他們的主張；因此，我必要使你荒涼，使你的居民成為笑柄；你必要承擔異民的侮辱。 |
16 You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations. |
