Miquéias 3

1 I said,

"Please listen, you heads of Jacob,

and rulers of the house of Israel:

Isn’t it for you to know justice?

2 You who hate the good,

and love the evil;

who tear off their skin,

and their flesh from off their bones;

3 who also eat the flesh of my people,

and peel their skin from off them,

and break their bones,

and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,

and as meat within the cauldron.

4 Then they will cry to Yahweh,

but he will not answer them.

Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time,

because they made their deeds evil."

5 Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

6 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision,

and it is dark to you, that you may not divine;

and the sun will go down on the prophets,

and the day will be black over them.

7 The seers shall be disappointed,

and the diviners confounded.

Yes, they shall all cover their lips,

for there is no answer from God."*3:7 The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "אֱלֹהִ֑ים" (Elohim).

8 But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit,

and of judgment, and of might,

to declare to Jacob his disobedience,

and to Israel his sin.

9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,

and rulers of the house of Israel,

who abhor justice,

and pervert all equity,

10 who build up Zion with blood,

and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 Her leaders judge for bribes,

and her priests teach for a price,

and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money;

yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,

"Isn’t Yahweh among us?

No disaster will come on us."

12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,

and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,

and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Ngā Ariki Kino me ngā Poropiti Kino

1 Ā, i mea ahau:

"Whakarongo mai, e ngā upoko o Hākopa,

e ngā ariki o te whare o Īharaira!

He teka ianei mō koutou te mātauranga ki te whakawā?

2 E kino nā ki te pai, e aroha nā ki te kino;

e tīhore nā i tō rātou kiri i ō rātou tinana,

i tō rātou kikokiko i ō rātou wheua;

3 e kai nā hoki i ngā kikokiko o tāku iwi;

e tīhore nā i tō rātou kiri i ō rātou tinana,

e wāwāhi nā i ō rātou wheua;

āe rā, e tapatapahia rawatia ana e rātou,

ānō he mea mō te kōhua,

ānō he kikokiko i roto i te kōhua nui."

4 Ko reira rātou karanga ai ki a Ihowā,

heoi e kore ia e whakahoki kupu ki a rātou.

Āe rā, ka hunā e ia tōna mata ki a rātou i taua wā,

ka rite ki tō rātou kino i mahia e rātou.

5 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Mō ngā poropiti e whakapōhēhē nei i tāku iwi,

e ngau nei ō rātou niho,

me te karanga, ‘He rongo māu’;

ā, ki te kāhore e komotia e tētahi he mea ki ō rātou māngai,

ka tino anga rātou ki te whakataka whawhai ki a ia.

6 Mō reira ko te pō mō koutou,

e kore ai he kite ki a koutou;

ā, ka pōuri ki a koutou,

e kore ai koutou e kite tikanga;

ā, ka tō te rā ki ngā poropiti,

ā, ka mangu te awatea ki runga ki a rātou.

7 Ā, tērā e whakamā ngā matakite,

e numinumi hoki ngā tohunga tūāhu;

āe rā, tērā rātou katoa e ārai i ō rātou ngutu;

nō te mea kāhore he kupu whakahoki a te Atua."

8 Otiia, he pono, kua kī ahau i te kaha,

he mea nā te Wairua o Ihowā,

i te whakawā hoki, i te mana,

kia whakaaturia ai e ahau ki a Hākopa tōna poka kē,

ki a Īharaira tōna hara.

9 Tēnā rā, whakarongo ki tēnei,

e ngā upoko o te whare o Hākopa,

e ngā ariki hoki o te whare o Īharaira,

e whakarihariha nā ki te whakawā,

e whakapeau kē nā i te tika katoa.

10 E hanga ana rātou i Hiona ki te toto,

i Hiruhārama ki te hē.

11 E whakawā ana ōna upoko, he mea nā te patipati,

e whakaako ana ōna tohunga, he mea nā te utu;

ko ōna poropiti nā te hiriwa i kite tikanga ai;

otiia kei te whakawhirinaki rātou ki a Ihowā, kei te mea,

"He teka ianei kei roto a Ihowā i a tātou?

E kore tētahi hē e pā ki a tātou."

12 Mō reira ka parautia a Hiona,

ānō he māra, he mea mō koutou,

ā, ka waiho a Hiruhārama hei pūranga,

ka rite hoki te maunga o te whare

ki ngā wāhi tiketike o te ngahere.