Miqueas 2
Nueva Traducción Viviente
Juicio contra los ricos opresores
2 ¡Qué aflicción les espera a ustedes que despiertan en la noche,
tramando planes malvados!
Se levantan al amanecer y se apuran a realizarlos,
solo porque tienen el poder para hacerlo.
2 Cuando quieren un pedazo de tierra,
encuentran la forma de apropiárselo.
Cuando quieren la casa de alguien,
la toman mediante fraude y violencia.
Estafan a un hombre para quitarle su propiedad
y dejan a su familia sin herencia.
3 Pero esto es lo que dice el Señor:
«Pagaré su maldad con maldad;
no podrán librar su cuello de la soga.
No volverán a caminar con orgullo,
porque será un tiempo terrible».
4 En aquel día sus enemigos se burlarán de ustedes
cuando entonen esta canción de lamento acerca de ustedes:
«¡Estamos acabados,
totalmente arruinados!
Dios confiscó la tierra,
nos la ha quitado.
Dio nuestros campos
a los que nos traicionaron[a]».
5 Entonces otros establecerán los límites de propiedad
y el pueblo del Señor no tendrá voz ni voto
en cómo se reparte la tierra.
Falsos y verdaderos profetas
6 «No digan semejantes cosas
—responde la gente—[b].
No profeticen así.
¡Esos desastres nunca nos llegarán!».
7 ¿Debes hablar de esa manera, oh familia de Israel[c]?
¿Tendrá paciencia el Espíritu del Señor con semejante comportamiento?
Si ustedes hicieran lo correcto,
encontrarían consuelo en mis palabras.
8 Sin embargo, hasta este mismo instante
mi pueblo se rebela contra mí, ¡como un enemigo!
Les roban hasta la camisa
a los que confiaban en ustedes
y los dejan tan andrajosos como hombres
que regresan de la guerra.
9 Desalojaron a las mujeres de sus cómodos hogares
y despojaron a sus hijos para siempre de todo lo que Dios les hubiera dado.
10 ¡Levántense! ¡Fuera!
Esta ya no es su tierra ni su hogar,
porque la llenaron de pecado
y la arruinaron por completo.
11 Supongamos que un profeta lleno de mentiras les dice:
«¡Les predicaré las delicias del vino y del alcohol!».
¡Esa es la clase de profeta que a ustedes les gustaría!
Esperanza de restauración
12 «Algún día, oh Israel, yo te reuniré;
juntaré al remanente que quedó.
Volveré a reunirlos como ovejas en su redil
y como un rebaño en su pastizal.
¡Sí, su tierra se llenará nuevamente
de ruidosas multitudes!
13 Su líder irrumpirá, se pondrá al frente
y los sacará del destierro,
a través de las puertas de las ciudades enemigas,
y los llevará de regreso a su propia tierra.
Su rey los conducirá;
el Señor mismo los guiará».
Micah 2
Good News Translation
The Fate of Those Who Oppress the Poor
2 How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned. 2 When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
3 And so the Lord says, “I am planning to bring disaster on you, and you will not be able to escape it. You are going to find yourselves in trouble, and then you will not walk so proudly any more. 4 When that time comes, people will use the story about you as an example of disaster, and they will sing this song of despair about your experience:
We are completely ruined!
The Lord has taken our land away
And given it to those who took us captive.”[a]
5 So then, when the time comes for the land to be given back to the Lord's people, there will be no share for any of you.
6 The people preach at me and say, “Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us. 7 Do you think the people of Israel are under a curse?[b] Has the Lord lost his patience? Would he really do such things? Doesn't he[c] speak kindly to those who do right?”
8 The Lord replies, “You attack my people[d] like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs. 9 You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever. 10 Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.
11 “These people want the kind of prophet who goes around full of lies and deceit and says, ‘I prophesy that wine and liquor will flow for you.’
12 “But I will gather you together, all you people of Israel that are left. I will bring you together like sheep returning to the fold. Like a pasture full of sheep, your land will once again be filled with many people.”
13 God will open the way for them and lead them out of exile. They will break out of the city gates and go free. Their king, the Lord himself, will lead them out.
Micah 2
New King James Version
Woe to Evildoers
2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And [a]work out evil on their beds!
At (A)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They (B)covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, against this (C)family I am devising (D)disaster,
From which you cannot remove your necks;
Nor shall you walk haughtily,
For this is an evil time.
4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And (E)lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the [b]heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To [c]a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
5 Therefore you will have no [d]one to determine boundaries by lot
In the assembly of the Lord.
Lying Prophets
6 “Do not prattle,” you say to those who [e]prophesy.
So they shall not prophesy [f]to you;
[g]They shall not return insult for insult.
7 You who are named the house of Jacob:
“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?
Are these His doings?
Do not My words do good
To him who walks uprightly?
8 “Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—
You pull off the robe with the garment
From those who trust you, as they pass by,
Like men returned from war.
9 The women of My people you cast out
From their pleasant houses;
From their children
You have taken away My glory forever.
10 “Arise and depart,
For this is not your (F)rest;
Because it is (G)defiled, it shall destroy,
Yes, with utter destruction.
11 If a man should walk in a false spirit
And speak a lie, saying,
‘I will [h]prophesy to you [i]of wine and drink,’
Even he would be the (H)prattler of this people.
Israel Restored
12 “I(I) will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together (J)like sheep of [j]the fold,
Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
(K)They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
13 The one who breaks open will come up before them;
They will break out,
Pass through the gate,
And go out by it;
(L)Their king will pass before them,
(M)With the Lord at their head.”
Footnotes
- Micah 2:1 Plan
- Micah 2:4 Lit. portion
- Micah 2:4 Lit. one turning back, an apostate
- Micah 2:5 Lit. one casting a surveyor’s line
- Micah 2:6 Or preach, lit. drip words
- Micah 2:6 Lit. to these
- Micah 2:6 Vg. He shall not take shame
- Micah 2:11 Or preach, lit. drip
- Micah 2:11 concerning
- Micah 2:12 Heb. Bozrah
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