Prophetia Michaeae, 2
1. Vae, qui cogitant iniquitatem et operantur malum in cubilibus suis! In luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam est in potestate manus eorum.
1. Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2. Concupiscunt agros, et violenter tollunt, domos, et rapiunt. Et opprimunt virum et domum eius, hominem et hereditatem eius.
2. They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3. Idcirco haec dicit Dominus: “Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum, unde non auferetis colla vestra; et non ambulabitis erecti, quoniam tempus pessimum est.
3. Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, against this family I am devising evil, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
4. In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et assumetur lamentum dicentium: “Depopulatione vastati sumus; pars populi mei commutatur, quam nemo ei restituet; infideli regiones nostrae dividuntur”.
4. In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields."
5. Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in coetu Domini”.
5. Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
6. “Ne vaticinemini!”. “Vaticinentur, non vaticinentur de his, non cedet confusio!”.
6. "Do not preach" -- thus they preach -- "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."
7. Numquid maledicta est domus Iacob? Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt actiones eius? Nonne verba eius bona sunt cum eo, qui recte graditur?
7. Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
8. Vos autem contra populum meum ut adversarium consurgitis. Desuper tunica pallium tollitis ei; qui transibant fiducialiter, fiunt quasi bello capti.
8. But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
9. Mulieres populi mei eicitis de domo deliciarum suarum; a parvulis earum aufertis decorem meum in perpetuum.
9. The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
10. “Surgite et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem!”. Propter immunditiam peribitis perditione pessima.
10. Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
11. Si esset vir vento excitatus et mendacium loqueretur: “Vaticinabor tibi de vino et sicera”, hic esset vates populi istius.
11. If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!
12. Congregatione congregabo, Iacob, totum te; in unum conducam reliquias Israel, pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio pascuae; et tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.
12. I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
13. Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos; erumpent et transibunt portam, egredientur per eam. Et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.
13. He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the LORD at their head.
