Miquéias 7

1 Misery is mine!

Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard.

There is no cluster of grapes to eat.

My soul desires to eat the early fig.

2 The godly man has perished out of the earth,

and there is no one upright among men.

They all lie in wait for blood;

every man hunts his brother with a net.

3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently.

The ruler and judge ask for a bribe.

The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul.

Thus they conspire together.

4 The best of them is like a brier.

The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge.

The day of your watchmen,

even your visitation, has come;

now is the time of their confusion.

5 Don’t trust in a neighbor.

Don’t put confidence in a friend.

With the woman lying in your embrace,

be careful of the words of your mouth!

6 For the son dishonors the father,

the daughter rises up against her mother,

the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh.

I will wait for the God of my salvation.

My God will hear me.

8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.

When I fall, I will arise.

When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh,

because I have sinned against him,

until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me.

He will bring me out to the light.

I will see his righteousness.

10 Then my enemy will see it,

and shame will cover her who said to me,

"Where is Yahweh your God?"

My eyes will see her.

Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

11 A day to build your walls!

In that day, he will extend your boundary.

12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

and from Egypt even to the River,

and from sea to sea,

and mountain to mountain.

13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein,

for the fruit of their doings.

14 Shepherd your people with your staff,

the flock of your heritage,

who dwell by themselves in a forest.

Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land,

in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 "As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt,

I will show them marvelous things."

16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might.

They will lay their hand on their mouth.

Their ears will be deaf.

17 They will lick the dust like a serpent.

Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens.

They will come with fear to Yahweh our God,

and will be afraid because of you.

18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,

and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?

He doesn’t retain his anger forever,

because he delights in loving kindness.

19 He will again have compassion on us.

He will tread our iniquities under foot.

You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

20 You will give truth to Jacob,

and mercy to Abraham,

as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Te Hēnga Katoa o te Iwi

1 Auē te mate i ahau!

He rite hoki ahau ki ngā kohikohinga o ngā hua raumati,

ki ngā hamunga i te wā e whawhaki karepe ana.

Kāhore he tautau hei kai;

e hiahia ana tōku wairua ki te hua piki mātāmua.

2 Kua ngaro te tangata tapu i runga i te whenua,

kāhore hoki he tangata tika i roto i ngā tāngata;

kei te whanga katoa rātou ki te toto;

kei te whai rātou i tōna hoa, i tōna hoa ki te kupenga.

3 Kei runga ō rātou ringa i te mea kino kia mahia mārietia e rātou;

ka tono te rangatira, kei te tatari hoki te kaiwhakawā kia utua;

ā, ko te tangata nui, e puaki ana i a ia te nanakia o tōna wairua;

nā, whiria tahitia ake e rātou.

4 Ko te tangata pai o rātou, rite tonu ki te tūmatakuru;

ko te mea tino tika, kino atu i te taiepa tātarāmoa.

Kua tae mai te rā o āu tūtei, arā te rā e whiua ai koe;

ko āianei rātou pōkaikaha ai.

5 Kaua e whakapono ki te hoa,

kaua e whakawhirinaki ki te kaiārahi;

kaiponuhia ngā tatau o tōu māngai

ki te wahine e takoto nā i tōu uma.

6 E whakaiti ana hoki te tama ki te pāpā,

e whakatika atu ana te kōtiro ki tōna whaea,

te hunaonga ki tōna hungawai wahine;

ko ngā hoariri o te tangata ko ngā tāngata o tōna whare.

7 Tēnā ko ahau, ka titiro ahau ki a Ihowā;

ka tatari ahau ki te Atua o tōku whakaoranga;

tērā tōku Atua e rongo ki ahau.

Ka Mauria te Whakaoranga e Ihowā

8 Kei whakamanamana ki ahau e tōku hoariri;

ki te hinga ahau, ka ara anō ahau;

ki te noho ahau i te pōuri,

ko Ihowā hei whakamārama mōku.

9 Māku e waha te riri, o Ihowā,

kua hara nei hoki ahau ki a ia;

kia tohe rā anō ia i tāku tohe,

kia whakarite rā anō i tāku whakawā.

Ka whakaputaina ahau e ia ki waho ki te mārama,

ā, ka kite ahau i tōna tika.

10 Kātahi tōku hoariri ka kite,

ā, ka taupokina e te whakamā;

i kī mai rā hoki ia ki ahau,

"Kei hea a Ihowā, tōu Atua?"

Ka kite ōku kanohi i taua wahine;

ākuanei ia takahia ai,

pērātia ai me te paru o ngā ara.

He Poropiti mō te Whakaoranga

11 He rā hei hanganga mō ōu taiepa!

Ā taua rā ka matara rawa atu te tikanga i whakatakotoria.

12 Ā taua rā ka haere mai rātou ki a koe,

mai i Ahiria me ngā pā o Īhipa,

mai i Īhipa ki te awa,

mai i tētahi moana ki tētahi,

i tētahi maunga ki tētahi maunga.

13 Otiia ka ururuatia te whenua,

he mea mō te hunga e noho ana i reira,

mō ngā hua hoki o ā rātou mahi.

14 Whāngaia tāu iwi ki tāu rākau,

ngā hipi o tōu kāinga tupu,

e noho mokemoke nei i te ngahere

i waenganui o Karamere;

kia kai rātou ki Pahana, ki Kireara,

kia pērā me ngā rā o mua.

15 "Ka rite ki ngā rā i haere mai ai koe i te whenua o Īhipa,

ka whakaaturia e ahau ki a ia ngā mea whakamīharo."

16 Ka kite ngā iwi, ka whakamā

ki tō rātou mārohirohi katoa;

ka kōpania tō rātou māngai ki tō rātou ringa,

ā, ka turi ō rātou taringa.

17 Ka mitimiti rātou i te puehu, ānō he nākahi;

ka oho wiri mai rātou i ō rātou piringa kōpiri,

ānō ko ngā mea ngōkingōki o te whenua;

ka haere wehi mai rātou ki a Ihowā, ki tō tātou Atua,

ā, ka mataku ki a koe.

Te Aroha o Ihowā ki a Īharaira

18 Ko wai he Atua hei rite mōu, e muru nei i te hē,

e whakarere noa nei i te poka kē

o ngā mōrehu o tōna wāhi tupu?

E kore ia e kawe tonu i tōna riri ā ake ake,

nō te mea e ngākau nui ana ia ki te tohu tangata.

19 Tērā ia e tahuri anō, ka aroha ki a tātou;

ka pēhia e ia ō tātou kino ki raro ki ōna waewae.

Ka pangā anō e koe ō rātou hara

ki ngā rire o te moana.

20 Ka whakatutukitia e koe te mea tika ki a Hākopa,

te aroha ki a Āperahama,

ko tāu i oati ai ki ō mātou mātua

i ngā rā ō mua.