Micah, 7

1. Woe to me, for I have become just like one who gleans the clusters of the vintage in autumn. There is no cluster of grapes to consume; my soul desired figs out of season.

1. Teško meni! Postao sam kao žetelac ljeti, kao trgaè poslije jematve: nema bobice grožða da je pozobljem, nema smokve ranke za kojom žudim!

2. The holy ones pass away from the land, and there is no one righteous among men. All wait in ambush for blood; a man hunts his brother to death.

2. Vjernici su išèezli iz zemlje: nijednog pravednika meðu ljudima! Svi vrebaju za krvoproliæem, svaki svome bratu mrežu postavlja.

3. The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.

3. Njihove ruke za zlo su sposobne: glavar traži dar, sudac sudi prema poklonu, velikaš po svome hiru odluèuje.

4. Whoever is best among them is like a thorny plant, and he who is righteous is like a thorny hedge. The day of your inspection, your visitation, arrives. Now will be their ruination.

4. I najbolji meðu njima je kao trn, najpravedniji kao draèa živica. Iskušenje njihovo danas sa Sjevera dolazi, dolazi ura strave njihove.

5. Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed.

5. Ne pouzdavajte se u bližnjega, ne vjerujte u prijatelja; pred onom koja s tobom dijeli postelju pazi da usta ne otvoriš.

6. For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.

6. Jer sin svoga oca zlostavlja, kæerka na majku ustaje, snaha na svoju svekrvu, svakome je dušmanin njegov ukuæanin.

7. But I will look towards the Lord. I will wait for God, my Savior. My God will hear me.

7. A ja, prema Jahvi ja sam zagledan, èekam na Boga koji spasava, Bog moj mene æe uslišati.

8. You, my enemy, should not rejoice over me because I have fallen. I will rise up, when I sit in darkness. The Lord is my light.

8. Tko je Bog kao ti koji prašta krivnju, koji grijeh oprašta i prelazi preko prekršaja Ostatka baštine svoje, koji ne ustraje dovijeka u svome gnjevu, nego uživa u pomilovanju?

9. I will carry the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he may judge my case and execute judgment for me. He will lead me into the light. I will behold his justice.

9. Moram podnositi srdžbu Jahvinu, jer sam protiv njega sagriješio, sve dok on ne prosudi spor moj i izrekne pravdu; izvest æe me na svjetlost, gledat æu pravednost njegovu.

10. And my enemy will look, and she will be covered with confusion, she who says to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her. Now she will be trampled under foot like the mud of the streets.

10. Kada ga moja dušmanka ugleda, od stida æe se pokriti ona koja mi je govorila: "Gdje je on, Jahve, tvoj Bog?" Moje æe se oèi naslaðivati kad je ugledam: ona æe biti zgažena kao blato na putu.

11. The day that your walls will be rebuilt, in that day the law will be far away.

11. Dolazi dan kad æe se sazidati tvoji bedemi! Toga dana nadaleko æe se prostirati tvoje granice!

12. In that day also, they will come towards you even from Assur, and even to the fortified cities, and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

12. Toga dana dolazit æe k tebi od zemlje asirske do Egipta, od Tira do Rijeke, od mora do mora, od gore do gore.

13. And the land will be in desolation, because of its inhabitants and because of the fruit of their intentions.

13. Zemlja æe postat' pustinja zbog stanovnika svojih, zbog djela njihovih.

14. With your rod, pasture your people, the flock of your inheritance, living alone in the narrow forest, in the midst of Carmel. They will graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the ancient days.

14. Pasi svoj narod svojom palicom, stado svoje baštine, koje osamljeno živi u šikarju, usred plodnih voænjaka. Neka pase u Bašanu i Gileadu, kao u davne dane!

15. As in the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will reveal miracles to him.

15. Kao u dane kad si izašao iz Egipta, pokaži nam èudesa!

16. The nations will look, and they will be confounded at the strength of them all. They will place hand over mouth; their ears will be deaf.

16. Narodi æe ih vidjeti i bit æe posramljeni uza svu silu svoju; stavit æe ruku na usta i uši æe im oglušiti.

17. They will lick the dust like serpents, and, like the creeping things of the earth, they will be disturbed in their houses. They will dread the Lord our God, and they will fear you.

17. Lizat æe prašinu kao zmija, kao gmazovi koji gmižu po zemlji. Iziæi æe dršæuæi iz svojih jazbina, prestravljeni i ustrašeni pred tobom.

18. What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.

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19. He will turn back and have mercy on us. He will put away our iniquities, and he will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

19. Još jednom, imaj milosti za nas! Satri naše opaèine, baci na dno mora sve grijehe naše!

20. You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.

20. Udijeli Jakovu vjernost svoju, dobrotu svoju Abrahamu, kako si se zakleo ocima našim od dana iskonskih.