Micah 7
1 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.
Vae mihi, quia factus sum sicut qui colligit in autumno racemos vindemiae: non est botrus ad comedendum, praecoquas ficus desideravit anima mea.
2 The godly man has perished out of 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.
Periit sanctus de terra, et rectus in hominibus non est: omnes in sanguine insidiantur, vir fratrem suum ad mortem venatur.
3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Malum manuum suarum dicunt bonum: princeps postulat, et iudex in reddendo est: et magnus locutus est desiderium animae suae, et conturbaverunt eam.
4 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.
Qui optimus in eis est, quasi paliurus: et qui rectus, quasi spina de sepe. Dies speculationis tuae, visitatio tua venit: nunc erit vastitas eorum.
5 Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
Nolite credere amico: et nolite confidere in duce: ab ea, quae dormit in sinu tuo, custodi claustra oris tui.
6 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.
Quia filius contumeliam facit patri, et filia consurgit adversus matrem suam, nurus adversus socrum suam: et inimici hominis domestici eius.
7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Ego autem ad Dominum aspiciam, expectabo Deum salvatorem meum: audiet me Deus meus.
8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
Ne laeteris inimica mea super me, quia cecidi: consurgam, cum sedero in tenebris, Dominus lux mea est.
9 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 out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Iram Domini portabo, quoniam peccavi ei, donec causam meam iudicet, et faciat iudicium meum: educet me in lucem, videbo iustitiam eius.
10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Et aspiciet inimica mea, et operietur confusione, quae dicit ad me: Ubi est Dominus Deus tuus? Oculi mei videbunt in eam: nunc erit in conculcationem ut lutum platearum.
11 A day to build your walls! In that day, he will extend your boundary.
Dies, ut aedificentur maceriae tuae: in die illa longe fiet lex.
12 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.
In die illa usque ad te veniet Assur, et usque ad civitates munitas: et a civitatibus munitis usque ad flumen, et ad mare de mari, et ad montem de monte.
13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Et terra erit in desolationem propter habitatores suos, et propter fructum cogitationum eorum.
14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest. Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land, in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Pasce populum tuum in virga tua, gregem hereditatis tuae habitantes solos in saltu, in medio Carmeli: pascentur Basan et Galaad iuxta dies antiquos.
15 “As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”
Secundum dies egressionis tuae de Terra Aegypti ostendam ei mirabilia.
16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Videbunt gentes, et confundentur super omni fortitudine sua: ponent manum super os, aures eorum surdae erunt.
17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the LORD our God, and will be afraid because of you.
Lingent pulverem sicut serpentes, velut reptilia terrae turbabuntur de aedibus suis: Dominum Deum nostrum desiderabunt, et timebunt te.
18 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.
Quis Deus similis tui, qui aufers iniquitatem, et transis peccatum reliquiarum hereditatis tuae? non immittet ultra furorem suum, quoniam volens misericordiam est.
19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Revertetur, et miserebitur nostri: deponet iniquitates nostras, et proiiciet in profundum maris omnia peccata nostra.
20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Dabis veritatem Iacob, misericordiam Abraham: quae iurasti patribus nostris a diebus antiquis.
