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Micah 1 Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power. 祸哉，那些在床上筹划不义，图谋行恶的人！因为他们手中有能力，一到天亮，就去实行。 2 1 They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance. 他们想要田地，便去霸占；想要房屋，便去夺取：以暴力对付业主和他的家族，物主和他的产业。 3 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of evil. 为此上主这样说：＂看，我正在为这一家筹划灾祸，致令你们不能缩回你们的颈项，也不能挺身前行，因为那是一个灾祸的时刻。＂ 4 On that day a satire shall be sung over you, and there shall be a plaintive chant: ＂Our ruin is complete, our fields are portioned out among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!＂ 5 2 Thus you shall have no one to mark out boundaries by lot in the assembly of the LORD. 因此，你们在上主的集会中，再没有拉绳测量和抽签的人。 6 3 ＂Preach not,＂ they preach, ＂let them not preach of these things!＂ The shame will not withdraw. 他们讲说：＂你们不要说预言。＂＂人不该预言这样的事，耻辱决不会来到我们身上！ 7 How can it be said, O house of Jacob, ＂Is the LORD short of patience, or are such his deeds?＂ Do not my words promise good to him who walks uprightly? 雅各伯的家岂是可诅咒的？上主的气量岂能变为狭小？难道这是他的作风？他的话岂不是有益于以色列子民？＂ 8 But of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you have stripped off the mantle covering the tunic Of those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war. ＂但是你们正像敌人一样，起来攻击我的人民，因为你们向没有短衣的人索求长袍，向平安走路的人索取战利品。 9 4 The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; From their children you take away forever the honor I gave them. 你们驱逐我人民的妇女离开她们的快乐家庭，从她们的婴儿身上，永远夺去我的光荣。 10 5 ＂Up! Be off, this is no place to rest＂; For any trifle you exact a crippling pledge. 你们起来走吧！因为这不是你们安息之所。为了不洁，这地必要遭受不可挽救的毁灭。＂ 11 If one, acting on impulse, should make the futile claim: ＂I pour you wine and strong drink as my prophecy,＂ then he would be the prophet of this people. 假若有人随从虚妄而撒谎说：＂我要对你预言清酒和醇酒。＂这人必可作这民族的先知。 12 6 I will gather you, O Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in the midst of its corral; they shall not be thrown into panic by men. 我必要聚集雅各伯全民众，我必要集合以色列的遗民，使他们合并在一处，有如羊栏里的绵羊，有如牧场上的羊群，不再怕任何人。 13 With a leader to break the path they shall burst open the gate and go out through it; Their king shall go through before them, and the LORD at their head. 开路者走在他们前面开道；他走在前面，众人随他穿门而过；他们的君王走在他们们前面，上主亲作他们的响导。 Footnotes（注解） 1 [2] Land monopoly, also denounced by Isaiah, was a chronic vice in 2 [5] To mark our boundaries by lot: an allusion to the initial distribution of the 3 [6-7] The words in quotation marks are the protestations of the people against the prophet's predictions of doom. 4 [9] The honor I gave them: their dignity as free Israelites. 5 [10] A crippling pledge: Israelite law forbade exacting pledges for loans that would work hardship on the borrower (Exodus 22:25-26; Deut 24:6, 10-13, 17); but the law was habitually violated. 6 [12-13] The messianic passage concerning the restoration after the Babylonian exile seems out of place here and is probably a later addition. |
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