彌迦書 7

1 我有禍了! 因為我變成了一個夏季搜摘果實，採集殘餘葡萄的人，卻沒有一粒葡萄可吃，也沒有我心思所想望的早熟的無花果。

Misery is mine. Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

2 虔敬人從地上消逝了，人間竟沒有一個正直人；人人都潛伏著要流人血，各以羅網獵取自己的弟兄。

The faithful have vanished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

3 他們的手善於作惡，官員貪求賄賂，法官勒索酬金，權貴只隨自己的心願發言，他們顛倒了一切。

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

4 他們中最好的人也不過相似荊棘，最正直的人也不過相似有刺的籬笆。你的守望者所宣佈的懲罰之日已經到了；現在他們必要驚惶。

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

5 你們不要信賴鄰里；不要倚靠朋友，連對躺在你懷中的妻子，也也要堅守口舌，

Do not trust in a neighbor. Do not put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth.

6 因為兒子要侮辱自己的父親，女兒要反抗自己的母親，兒媳要違抗自己的婆母：人的仇敵就是自己的家人。

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

7 至於我，我要仰望上主，寄望於拯救我的天主；天主必要俯聽我。

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

8 我的仇敵! 你不要因我遭難而高興；我雖然跌倒，必再起來；我雖坐在黑暗中，但上主是我的光明。

Do not rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

9 因為我得罪了上主，我必須承擔上主的義怒，直到衪審判我的案件，為我主持公道，衪必領 進入光明，我必能目睹衪的正義。

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

10 我的仇敵見了，必要蒙受羞辱，因為他曾對我說：「上主你的天主在哪裏﹖」我的眼必要看見他，有如街上的污泥被人踐踏。

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is the LORD your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

11 必有一天，要重建你的城垣；那一天，你的地界必要擴展；

A day to build your walls—In that day, he will extend your boundary.

12 那一天，從亞述到埃及，從提洛到幼發的河，從這海到那海，從這山到那山的人民，都要向你歸來；

In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.

13 其餘的地域，必因其中居民行為的惡果，變為一片荒涼。

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

14 上主，求你拿你的牧杖牧放你的人民──獨留在草莽中，在田園間，作你基業的羊群；讓他們在巴商和基肋阿得獲得豢養，一如昔日。

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 上主一如讓我們在你出離埃及的時日內，見到奇蹟；

"As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."

16 讓異民見了，感到自己一籌莫展，棎自慚愧，用手掩口，雙耳變聾。

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

17 他們將舔土如蛇，像上爬行的爬蟲，戰戰兢兢地從他們洞穴裏爬出來，向你，上主我們的天主，表示尊敬敬畏。

They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling creatures of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the LORD our God, and will be afraid because of you.

18 哪裏有神相似你，赦免罪惡，寬宥他的基業──遺民的過錯，不堅時憤怒於永遠，反而喜愛仁慈﹖

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

19 你必再憐憫我們，將我們的邪惡踏於足下，將我們的一切罪過投入海底。

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

20 你必按照你昔日向我們祖先所發了的誓，對雅各伯表示忠信，對亞巴郎施行仁慈。

You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.