Micah 7
1 Woe to me, for I have become just like one who gleans the clusters of the vintage in autumn. There is no cluster of grapes to consume; my soul desired figs out of season.
哀哉！我好像夏天的果子已被收盡， 又像摘了葡萄所剩下的， 沒有一掛可吃的； 我心羨慕初熟的無花果。
2 The holy ones pass away from the land, and there is no one righteous among men. All wait in ambush for blood; a man hunts his brother to death.
地上虔誠人滅盡； 世間沒有正直人； 各人埋伏，要殺人流血， 都用網羅獵取弟兄。
3 The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.
他們雙手作惡； 君王徇情面，審判官要賄賂； 位分大的吐出惡意， 都彼此結聯行惡。
4 Whoever is best among them is like a thorny plant, and he who is righteous is like a thorny hedge. The day of your inspection, your visitation, arrives. Now will be their ruination.
他們最好的，不過是蒺藜； 最正直的，不過是荊棘籬笆。 你守望者說，降罰的日子已經來到。 他們必擾亂不安。
5 Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed.
不要倚賴鄰舍； 不要信靠密友。 要守住你的口； 不要向你懷中的妻提說。
6 For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.
因為，兒子藐視父親； 女兒抗拒母親； 媳婦抗拒婆婆； 人的仇敵就是自己家裏的人。
7 But I will look towards the Lord. I will wait for God, my Savior. My God will hear me.
至於我，我要仰望耶和華， 要等候那救我的上帝； 我的上帝必應允我。
8 You, my enemy, should not rejoice over me because I have fallen. I will rise up, when I sit in darkness. The Lord is my light.
我的仇敵啊，不要向我誇耀。 我雖跌倒，卻要起來； 我雖坐在黑暗裏， 耶和華卻作我的光。
9 I will carry the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he may judge my case and execute judgment for me. He will lead me into the light. I will behold his justice.
我要忍受耶和華的惱怒； 因我得罪了他， 直等他為我辨屈，為我伸冤。 他必領我到光明中； 我必得見他的公義。
10 And my enemy will look, and she will be covered with confusion, she who says to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her. Now she will be trampled underfoot like the mud of the streets.
那時我的仇敵， 就是曾對我說「耶和華－你上帝在哪裏」的， 他一看見這事就被羞愧遮蓋。 我必親眼見他遭報； 他必被踐踏，如同街上的泥土。
11 The day that your walls will be rebuilt, in that day the law will be far away.
以色列啊，日子必到， 你的牆垣必重修； 到那日，你的境界必開展。
12 In that day also, they will come towards you even from Assur, and even to the fortified cities, and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
當那日，人必從亞述， 從埃及的城邑， 從埃及到大河， 從這海到那海， 從這山到那山， 都歸到你這裏。
13 And the land will be in desolation, because of its inhabitants and because of the fruit of their intentions.
然而，這地因居民的緣故， 又因他們行事的結果，必然荒涼。
14 With your rod, pasture your people, the flock of your inheritance, living alone in the narrow forest, in the midst of Carmel. They will graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the ancient days.
求耶和華在迦密山的樹林中， 用你的杖牧放你獨居的民， 就是你產業的羊群。 求你容他們在巴珊和基列得食物，像古時一樣。
15 As in the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will reveal miracles to him.
耶和華說： 我要把奇事顯給他們看， 好像出埃及地的時候一樣。
16 The nations will look, and they will be confounded at the strength of them all. They will place hand over mouth; their ears will be deaf.
列國看見這事就必為自己的勢力慚愧； 他們必用手摀口，掩耳不聽。
17 They will lick the dust like serpents, and, like the creeping things of the earth, they will be disturbed in their houses. They will dread the Lord our God, and they will fear you.
他們必舔土如蛇， 又如土中腹行的物， 戰戰兢兢地出他們的營寨。 他們必戰懼投降耶和華， 也必因我們的上帝而懼怕。
18 What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.
上帝啊，有何神像你，赦免罪孽， 饒恕你產業之餘民的罪過， 不永遠懷怒，喜愛施恩？
19 He will turn back and have mercy on us. He will put away our iniquities, and he will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
必再憐憫我們， 將我們的罪孽踏在腳下， 又將我們的一切罪投於深海。
20 You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.
你必按古時起誓應許我們列祖的話， 向雅各發誠實， 向亞伯拉罕施慈愛。
