Micha Propheta 6
1 Audite quæ Dominus loquitur: Surge, contende iudicio adversum montes, et audiant colles vocem tuam.
Hear you now what the LORD says; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Audiant montes iudicium Domini, et fortia fundamenta terræ: quia iudicium Domini cum populo suo, et cum Israel diiudicabitur.
Hear you, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 Popule meus quid feci tibi? aut quid molestus fui tibi? responde mihi.
O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me.
4 Quia eduxi te de Terra Ægypti, et de domo servientium liberavi te: et misi ante faciem tuam Moysen, et Aaron, et Mariam.
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 Popule meus memento quæso quid cogitaverit Balach rex Moab, et quid responderit ei Balaam filius Beor, de Setim usque ad Galgalam, ut cognosceres iustitias Domini.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
6 Quid dignum offeram Domino? curvabo genu Deo excelso? numquid offeram ei holocautomata, et vitulos anniculos?
With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Numquid placari potest Dominus in millibus arietum, aut in multis millibus hircorum pinguium? numquid dabo primogenitum meum pro scelere meo fructum ventris mei pro peccato animæ meæ?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 Indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum, et quid Dominus requirat a te: Utique facere iudicium, et diligere misericordiam, et sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo.
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 Vox Domini ad civitatem clamat, et salus erit timentibus nomen tuum: Audite tribus, et quis approbabit illud?
The LORD’s voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it.
10 Adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis, et mensura minor iræ plena.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 Numquid iustificabo stateram impiam, et saccelli pondera dolosa?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
12 In quibus divites eius repleti sunt iniquitate, et habitantes in ea loquebantur mendacium, et lingua eorum fraudulenta in ore eorum.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 Et ego ergo cœpi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis.
Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.
14 Tu comedes, et non saturaberis: et humiliatio tua in medio tui: et apprehendes, et non salvabis: et quos salvaveris, in gladium dabo.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the middle of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
15 Tu seminabis, et non metes: tu calcabis olivam, et non ungeris oleo: et mustum, et non bibes vinum.
You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
16 Et custodisti præcepta Amri, et omne opus domus Achab: et ambulasti in voluntatibus eorum, ut darem te in perditionem, et habitantes in ea in sibilum et opprobrium populi mei portabitis.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.
