彌迦書 3
1 我說：雅各的首領， 以色列家的官長啊，你們要聽！ 你們不當知道公平嗎？
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 你們惡善好惡， 從人身上剝皮， 從人骨頭上剔肉，
You who hate good and love evil, you who tear off their skin, their flesh from their bones—
3 吃我民的肉， 剝他們的皮， 打折他們的骨頭， 分成塊子像要下鍋， 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 到了遭災的時候， 這些人必哀求耶和華， 他卻不應允他們。 那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。
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 論到使我民走差路的先知－ 他們牙齒有所嚼的， 他們就呼喊說：平安了！ 凡不供給他們吃的， 他們就預備攻擊他－ 耶和華如此說：
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 你們必遭遇黑夜，以致不見異象； 又必遭遇幽暗，以致不能占卜。 日頭必向你們沉落， 白晝變為黑暗。
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 先見必抱愧， 占卜的必蒙羞， 都必摀着嘴唇， 因為上帝不應允他們。
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 至於我，我藉耶和華的靈， 滿有力量、公平、才能， 可以向雅各說明他的過犯， 向以色列指出他的罪惡。
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 雅各家的首領、以色列家的官長啊， 當聽我的話！ 你們厭惡公平， 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 以人血建立錫安， 以罪孽建造耶路撒冷。
You build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 首領為賄賂行審判； 祭司為雇價施訓誨； 先知為銀錢行占卜。 他們卻倚賴耶和華，說： 耶和華不是在我們中間嗎？ 災禍必不臨到我們。
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 所以因你們的緣故， 錫安必被耕種像一塊田， 耶路撒冷必變為亂堆； 這殿的山必像叢林的高處。
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.
