Miquéias 6

1 Listen now to what Yahweh says:

"Arise, plead your case before the mountains,

and let the hills hear what you have to say.

2 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s indictment,

and you enduring foundations of the earth;

for Yahweh has a case against his people,

and he will contend with Israel.

3 My people, what have I done to you?

How have I burdened you?

Answer me!

4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,

and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.

I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,

and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,

that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."

6 How shall I come before Yahweh,

and bow myself before the exalted God?

Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,

with calves a year old?

7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?

With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?

The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good.

What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,

to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

9 Yahweh’s voice calls to the city—

and wisdom fears your name—

"Listen to the rod,

and he who appointed it.

10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,

and a short ephah*6:10 An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers. that is accursed?

11 Shall I tolerate dishonest scales,

and a bag of deceitful weights?

12 Her rich men are full of violence,

her inhabitants speak lies,

and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.

I have made you desolate because of your sins.

14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied.

Your hunger will be within you.

You will store up, but not save,

and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

15 You will sow, but won’t reap.

You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil;

and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept,

and all the works of Ahab’s house.

You walk in their counsels,

that I may make you a ruin,

and your inhabitants a hissing.

You will bear the reproach of my people."

Te Take a Ihowā ki a Īharaira

1 Whakarongo koutou ināianei ki te kupu i kōrerotia e Ihowā:

"Whakatika, totohe ki ngā maunga,

kia rangona hoki tōu reo e ngā pukepuke.

2 Whakarongo, e ngā maunga nei, ki tā Ihowā totohe,

e koutou hoki, e ngā tūranga kaha o te whenua;

he totohe hoki tā Ihowā ki tāna iwi,

ā, ka rīria e ia te hē o Īharaira.

3 "E tāku iwi, i aha ahau ki a koe?

He ahatanga nāku i hōhā ai koe?

Whakaaturia mai tōku hē!

4 Nāku nā hoki koe i kawe mai i te whenua o Īhipa,

nāku anō koe i hoko i roto i te whare pononga;

ā, i ungā atu e ahau a Mohi,

a Ārona, a Miriama ki mua i a koe.

5 Kia mahara, e tāku iwi, ki te whakaaro i whakatakotoria

e Pāraka kīngi o Moapa,

ki te kupu hoki i whakahokia ki a ia

e Paraama tama a Peoro;

maharatia i Hitimi tae noa ki Kirikara,

kia mōhio ai koutou ki ngā mahi tika a Ihowā."

Tā Ihowā i Hiahia ai

6 He aha tāku e haere ai ahau ki te aroaro o Ihowā,

e piko ai ki te Atua i runga?

He patunga tapu rānei te mea e haere ai ahau ki tōna aroaro,

he kūao tau tahi rānei?

7 E manako rānei a Ihowā ki ngā mano o ngā hipi toa,

ki ngā mano kotahi tekau rānei o ngā awa hinu?

Me hoatu rānei e ahau tāku mātāmua hei utu mō tāku poka kē,

te hua o tōku kōpū mō te hara o tōku wairua?

8 Kua whakaaturia e ia ki a koe, e te tangata, te mea pai;

ā, he aha tā Ihowā e rapu nei ki a koe,

heoi anō ko te whakawā tika, ko te pai ki te tohu tangata,

ko te whakaiti me te haere tahi i tōu Atua?

Ka Whiua te Tinihanga me te Whakarekereke

9 E karanga ana te reo o Ihowā ki te pā,

ā, ka kite te tangata whakaaro nui i tōu ingoa:

"Whakarongo ki te whiu, ki a ia hoki nāna i whakarite.

10 Tērā anō rānei ngā taonga o te kino

kei roto i te whare o te tangata kino,

me te mēhua iti, whakarihariha anō?

11 Ka mā rānei ahau ki te kino ngā pāuna,

ki te tinihanga ngā weti i roto i te pūtea?

12 Kī tonu nā hoki i te tutū ōna tāngata taonga,

ā, kua kōrero teka ōna tāngata,

kei te tinihanga hoki ō rātou arero i roto i ō rātou māngai.

13 "Mō reira kua whiua hoki koe e ahau ki te mate taimaha;

kua meinga koe e ahau kia mokemoke,

hei utu mō ōu hara.

14 Ka kai koe, ā, kāhore e mākona;

ka waiho anō tōu whakaitinga i waenganui i a koe;

ka tangohia atu anō e koe, heoi e kore e haere ora i a koe;

ko te mea hoki e mauria atu e koe ka hoatu e ahau ki te hoari.

15 Ka whakatō koe, ā, e kore e kokoti;

ka takahi koe i te ōriwa,

ā, e kore e whakawahi i a koe ki te hinu;

i te wāina hou, ā, e kore e inu i te wāina.

16 Nō te mea e mau ana ngā tikanga a Omori,

me ngā mahi katoa a te whare o Āhapa,

ā, e haere ana koutou i runga i ō rātou whakaaro;

kia meinga ai koe e ahau kia ururua,

ā, ko ngā tāngata o konā hei whakahīanga atu;

ā, ka mau ki a koutou te ingoa kino o tāku iwi."