Prophetia Michaeae, 3

1. et dixi audite principes Jacob et duces domus Israël numquid non vestrum est scire judicium

1. And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

2. qui odio habetis bonum et diligitis malum qui violenter tollitis pelles eorum desuper eos et carnem eorum desuper ossibus eorum

2. You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them, and their flesh from their bones?

3. qui comederunt carnem populi mei et pellem eorum desuper excoriaverunt et ossa eorum confregerunt et conciderunt sicut in lebete et quasi carnem in medio ollæ

3. Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin from off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

4. tunc clamabunt ad Dominum et non exaudiet eos et abscondet faciem suam ab eis in tempore illo sicut nequiter egerunt in adinventionibus suis

4. Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

5. hæc dicit Dominus super prophetas qui seducunt populum meum qui mordent dentibus suis et prædicant pacem et si quis non dederit in ore eorum quippiam sanctificant super eum prœlium

5. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

6. propterea nox vobis pro visione erit et tenebræ vobis pro divinatione et occumbet sol super prophetas et obtenebrabitur super eos dies

6. Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

7. et confundentur qui vident visiones et confundentur divini et operient vultus suos omnes quia non est responsum Dei

7. And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.

8. verumtamen ego repletus sum fortitudine spiritus Domini judicio et virtute ut adnuntiem Jacob scelus suum et Israël peccatum suum

8. But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment, and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness, and to Israel his sin.

9. audite hæc principes domus Jacob et judices domus Israël qui abominamini judicium et omnia recta pervertitis

9. Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that abhor judgment, and pervert all that is right.

10. qui ædificatis Sion in sanguinibus et Hierusalem in iniquitate

10. You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11. principes ejus in muneribus judicabant et sacerdotes ejus in mercede docebant et prophetæ ejus in pecunia divinabant et super Dominum requiescebant dicentes numquid non Dominus in medio nostrum non venient super nos mala

11. Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: 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 Hierusalem quasi acervus lapidum erit et mons templi in excelsa silvarum

12. Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.