弥迦书 3
1 我说：雅各的首领， 以色列家的官长啊，你们要听！ 你们不当知道公平吗？
I said, “Now listen, you leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not right for you to understand justice?
2 你们恶善好恶， 从人身上剥皮， 从人骨头上剔肉，
You who hate good and love evil, you who tear off their skin, their flesh from their bones—
3 吃我民的肉， 剥他们的皮， 打折他们的骨头， 分成块子像要下锅， 又像釜中的肉。
you who also eat the flesh of my people, and tear their skin off, break their bones, and chop them in pieces, just like meat for a pot, just like meat in a cauldron.
4 到了遭灾的时候， 这些人必哀求耶和华， 他却不应允他们。 那时他必照他们所行的恶事向他们掩面。
Then you rulers will cry out to Yahweh, but he will not answer you. He will hide his face from you at that time, because you have done evil deeds.”
5 论到使我民走差路的先知— 他们牙齿有所嚼的， 他们就呼喊说：平安了！ 凡不供给他们吃的， 他们就预备攻击他— 耶和华如此说：
Yahweh says this, “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, if one gives them something to eat, they proclaim, 'Peace.' But if he puts nothing in their mouths, they dedicate themselves to wage war on him.
6 你们必遭遇黑夜，以致不见异象； 又必遭遇幽暗，以致不能占卜。 日头必向你们沉落， 白昼变为黑暗。
Therefore, it will be night for you with no vision for you; it will be dark so that you will do no divination. The sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be dark on them.
7 先见必抱愧， 占卜的必蒙羞， 都必捂着嘴唇， 因为 神不应允他们。
The seers will be put to shame, and the diviners will be confused. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no answer from me.”
8 至于我，我借耶和华的灵， 满有力量、公平、才能， 可以向雅各说明他的过犯， 向以色列指出他的罪恶。
But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and am full of justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 雅各家的首领、以色列家的官长啊， 当听我的话！ 你们厌恶公平， 在一切事上屈枉正直；
Now listen to this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who detest justice, and pervert everything right.
10 以人血建立锡安， 以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
You build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 首领为贿赂行审判； 祭司为雇价施训诲； 先知为银钱行占卜。 他们却倚赖耶和华，说： 耶和华不是在我们中间吗？ 灾祸必不临到我们。
Your leaders judge for a bribe, your priests teach for a price, and your prophets do divination for money. Yet you rely on Yahweh and say, “Is not Yahweh with us? No evil will come on us.”
12 所以因你们的缘故， 锡安必被耕种像一块田， 耶路撒冷必变为乱堆； 这殿的山必像丛林的高处。
Therefore, because of you, Zion will become a plowed field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the hill of the temple will become a thicket.
