Micha Propheta 6
1 Audite quæ Dominus loquitur: Surge, contende iudicio adversum montes, et audiant colles vocem tuam.
Hear now a word: the Lord God has said; Arise, plead with 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 controversy of the Lord, and [you] valleys [even] the foundations of the earth: for the Lord [has] a controversy with his people, and 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? or wherein have I grieved you? or wherein have I troubled you? answer 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 tee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and sent before you Moses, and Aaron, and Mariam.
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 counsel Balac king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Galgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.
6 Quid dignum offeram Domino? curvabo genu Deo excelso? numquid offeram ei holocautomata, et vitulos anniculos?
Wherewithal shall I reach the Lord, [and] lay hold of my God most high? shall I reach him by whole burnt offerings, by 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 accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my firstborn for ungodliness, 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.
Has it [not] been told you, O man, what [is] good? or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?
9 Vox Domini ad civitatem clamat, et salus erit timentibus nomen tuum: Audite tribus, et quis approbabit illud?
The Lord's voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, O tribe; and who shall order the city?
10 Adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis, et mensura minor iræ plena.
[Is there] not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and [that] with the pride of unrighteousness?
11 Numquid iustificabo stateram impiam, et saccelli pondera dolosa?
Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,
12 In quibus divites eius repleti sunt iniquitate, et habitantes in ea loquebantur mendacium, et lingua eorum fraudulenta in ore eorum.
whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?
13 Et ego ergo cœpi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis.
Therefore will I begin to strike you; I will destroy you in 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, and shall not be satisfied; and there shall be darkness upon you; and he shall depart from [you], and you shall not escape; and all that shall escape shall be delivered over 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 press the olive, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and [shall make] wine, but you shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.
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 you have kept the statues of Zambri, and [done] all the works of the house of Achaab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver you to utter destruction, and those that inhabit the city to hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of nations.
