Prophetia Michaeae, 3
1. Et dixi: “Audite, principes Iacob et duces domus Israel: Numquid non vestrum est scire iudicium?”.
1. And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? --
2. Sed odio habetis bonum et diligitis malum. Violenter tollitis pelles eorum desuper eos et carnem eorum desuper ossibus eorum.
2. you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;
3. Qui comedunt carnem populi mei et pellem eorum desuper excoriant; et ossa eorum confringunt et secant sicut carnem assam in lebete et quasi carnem in medio ollae.
3. who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.
4. Tunc clamabunt ad Dominum, et non exaudiet eos et abscondet faciem suam ab eis in tempore illo, sicut pessima fecerunt opera sua.
4. Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
5. Haec dicit Dominus super prophetas, qui seducunt populum meum, qui cum habent, quid mordeant dentibus suis, praedicant pacem; et, si quis non dederit in ore eorum quippiam, sanctificant super eum proelium.
5. Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
6. Propterea nox vobis sine visione erit, et tenebrae vobis sine divinatione; et occumbet sol super prophetas, et obtenebrabitur super eos dies.
6. Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
7. Et confundentur videntes, et confundentur divini, et operient labia sua omnes, quia non est responsum Dei.
7. the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
8. Verumtamen ego repletus sum fortitudine spiritus Domini, iudicio et virtute, ut annuntiem Iacob scelus suum et Israel peccatum suum.
8. But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
9. Audite hoc, principes domus Iacob et iudices domus Israel, qui abominamini iudicium et omnia recta pervertitis,
9. Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
10. qui aedificatis Sion in sanguinibus et Ierusalem in iniquitate.
10. who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.
11. Principes eius in muneribus iudicant, et sacerdotes eius in mercede docent, et prophetae eius in pecunia divinant; et super Dominum requiescunt dicentes: “Numquid non Dominus in medio nostrum? Non venient super nos mala”.
11. Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."
12. Propter hoc causa vestri Sion quasi ager arabitur, et Ierusalem quasi acervus lapidum erit, et mons templi in excelsa silvarum.
12. Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
