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严责恶人肆行欺虐必受灾祸

祸哉,那些在床上图谋罪孽、造做奸恶的!天一发亮,因手有能力就行出来了。 他们贪图田地就占据,贪图房屋便夺取。他们欺压人,霸占房屋和产业。 所以耶和华如此说:“我筹划灾祸降于这族,这祸在你们的颈项上不能解脱,你们也不能昂首而行,因为这时势是恶的。

人必为之作讽词发哀歌

“到那日,必有人向你们提起悲惨的哀歌,讥刺说:‘我们全然败落了!耶和华将我们的份转归别人。何竟使这份离开我们?他将我们的田地分给悖逆的人。’ 所以在耶和华的会中,你必没有人拈阄拉准绳。

责其多行强暴

“他们[a]说:‘你们不可说预言!不可向这些人说预言,不住地羞辱我们。’ 雅各家啊,岂可说耶和华的心不忍耐吗[b]?这些事是他所行的吗?我耶和华的言语,岂不是与行动正直的人有益吗? 然而近来我的民兴起如仇敌,从那些安然经过不愿打仗之人身上剥去外衣。 你们将我民中的妇人从安乐家中赶出,又将我的荣耀从她们的小孩子尽行夺去。 10 你们起来去吧!这不是你们安息之所。因为污秽使人[c]毁灭,而且大大毁灭。 11 若有人心存虚假,用谎言说‘我要向你们预言得清酒和浓酒’,那人就必做这民的先知!

许雅各蒙恩旋返如羊归牢

12 雅各家啊,我必要聚集你们,必要招聚以色列剩下的人,安置在一处,如波斯拉的羊,又如草场上的羊群。因为人数众多,就必大大喧哗。 13 开路的[d]在他们前面上去,他们直闯过城门,从城门出去。他们的王在前面行,耶和华引导他们。”

Footnotes

  1. 弥迦书 2:6 或作:假先知。
  2. 弥迦书 2:7 或作:心肠狭窄吗。
  3. 弥迦书 2:10 或作:地。
  4. 弥迦书 2:13 或作:破城的。

Human Plans and God’s Plans

Woe to those who plan iniquity,
    to those who plot evil(A) on their beds!(B)
At morning’s light they carry it out
    because it is in their power to do it.
They covet fields(C) and seize them,(D)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud(E) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.(F)

Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster(G) against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,(H)
    for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;(I)
    my people’s possession is divided up.(J)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
    to divide the land(K) by lot.(L)

False Prophets

“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.
    “Do not prophesy about these things;
    disgrace(M) will not overtake us.(N)
You descendants of Jacob, should it be said,
    “Does the Lord become[a] impatient?
    Does he do such things?”

“Do not my words do good(O)
    to the one whose ways are upright?(P)
Lately my people have risen up
    like an enemy.
You strip off the rich robe
    from those who pass by without a care,
    like men returning from battle.
You drive the women of my people
    from their pleasant homes.(Q)
You take away my blessing
    from their children forever.
10 Get up, go away!
    For this is not your resting place,(R)
because it is defiled,(S)
    it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
11 If a liar and deceiver(T) comes and says,
    ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’(U)
    that would be just the prophet for this people!(V)

Deliverance Promised

12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;
    I will surely bring together the remnant(W) of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
    like a flock in its pasture;
    the place will throng with people.(X)
13 The One who breaks open the way will go up before(Y) them;
    they will break through the gate(Z) and go out.
Their King will pass through before them,
    the Lord at their head.”

Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:7 Or Is the Spirit of the Lord

Chapter 2

[a]Ah! you plotters of iniquity,
    who work out evil on your beds!
In the morning light you carry it out
    for it lies within your power.
[b]You covet fields, and seize them;
    houses, and take them;
You cheat owners of their houses,
    people of their inheritance.

    Therefore thus says the Lord:
Look, I am planning against this family an evil
    from which you cannot free your necks;
Nor shall you walk with head held high,
    for it will be an evil time.
On that day you shall be mocked,
    and there will be bitter lament:
“Our ruin is complete,
    our fields are divided among our captors,
The fields of my people are measured out,
    and no one can get them back!”[c]
Thus you shall have no one
    in the assembly of the Lord
    to allot to you a share of land.

[d]“Do not preach,” they preach,
    “no one should preach of these things!
    Shame will not overtake us.”
How can it be said, house of Jacob,
    “Is the Lord short of patience;
    are these the Lord’s deeds?”
Do not my words promise good
    to the one who walks in justice?
But you rise up against my people as an enemy:
    you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful,
From those who go their way in confidence,
    as though it were spoils of war.
The women of my people you drive out
    from their pleasant houses;
From their children you take away
    forever the honor I gave them.

10 [e]“Get up! Leave,
    this is no place to rest”;
Because of uncleanness that destroys
    with terrible destruction.
11 If one possessed of a lying spirit(A)
    speaks deceitfully, saying,
“I will preach to you wine and strong drink,”
    that one would be the preacher for this people.

12 [f]I will gather you, 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 its pasture;
    the noise of the people will resound.

13 The one who makes a breach goes up before them;
    they make a breach and pass through the gate;
Their king shall go through before them,
    the Lord at their head.

Footnotes

  1. 2:1–5

    The cry “Ah” (hoy) begins a typical prophetic speech that is usually continued, as here (vv. 1–2), by a description of the addressees in terms of their unrighteous activities. This description is an indictment which gives the reasons for punishment announced to a particular group of people (vv. 3–5). The prophet spells out the crimes; the Lord announces the punishment, which corresponds to the crime: those who take the land of others will have their own land taken.

    Those who plot iniquity and have the power to do it are wealthy landowners. The evil which they do consists in coveting the fields and houses of others and taking them.

  2. 2:2

    To covet the “house” and other property of the neighbor was a violation of the Decalogue (Ex 20:17; 34:24; Dt 5:21).

    The Lord, as owner of the earth, allotted the land by tribes and families to the people of Israel (Jos 13–19). Losing one’s inheritance diminished one’s place in the community and threatened the family’s economic viability and existence. According to Micah, those who used their power to expand their estates at the expense of weaker Israelites took more than land from them: they were tampering with the divine order.

  3. 2:4 Those who take land from the less powerful will in turn have their land taken away by invaders.
  4. 2:6–11 This unit is a disputation, an argument in which the prophet is debating with his opponents. The words of the opponents are given to us only as the prophet quotes them. The opponents accuse Micah of being a false prophet, and he reacts by accusing them of injustice and of preferring prophets and preachers who speak lies (v. 11).
  5. 2:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  6. 2:12–13 This announcement of salvation to the “remnant of Israel” stands out dramatically in the context, and is probably a later addition to the words of Micah, coming from the time of the Babylonian exile. The content of the promise and the images are similar to those found in Second Isaiah, the great poet of Israel’s salvation and restoration (see Is 40:11; 43:5).