Prophetia Michaeae, 6

1. audite quæ Dominus loquitur surge contende judicio adversum montes et audiant colles vocem tuam

1. Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2. audiant montes judicium Domini et fortia fundamenta terræ quia judicium Domini cum populo suo et cum Israël dijudicabitur

2. Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.

3. populus meus quid feci tibi et quid molestus fui tibi responde mihi

3. O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

4. quia eduxi te de terra Ægypti et de domo servientium liberavi te et misi ante faciem tuam Mosen et Aaron et Mariam

4. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary.

5. populus meus memento quæso quid cogitaverit Balac rex Moab et quid responderit ei Balaam filius Beor de Setthim usque ad Galgalam ut cognosceret justitias Domini

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6. quid dignum offeram Domino curvem genu Deo excelso numquid offeram ei holocaustomata et vitulos anniculos

6. What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

7. numquid placari potest Dominus in milibus arietum aut in multis milibus hircorum pingujum numquid dabo primogenitum meum pro scelere meo fructum ventris mei pro peccato animæ meæ

7. May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8. indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum et quid Dominus quærat a te utique facere judicium et diligere misericordiam et sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo

8. I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily, to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

9. vox Domini ad civitatem clamat et salus erit timentibus nomen tuum audite tribus et quis adprobabit illud

9. The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear, O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

10. adhuc ignis in domo impii thesauri iniquitatis et mensura minor iræ plena

10. As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.

11. numquid justificabo stateram impiam et saccelli pondera dolosa

11. Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

12. in quibus divites ejus repleti sunt iniquitate et habitantes in ea loquebantur mendacium et lingua eorum fraudulenta in ore eorum

12. By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

13. et ego ergo cœpi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis

13. And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

14. tu comedes et non saturaberis et humiliatio tua in medio tui et adprehendes et non salvabis et quos salvaveris in gladium dabo

14. Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword.

15. tu seminabis et non metes tu calcabis olivam et non ungueris oleo et mustum et non bibes vinum

15. Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with the oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

16. et custodisti præcepta Omri et omne opus domus Achab et ambulasti in voluntatibus eorum ut darem te in perditionem et habitantes in ea in sibilum et obprobrium populi mei portabitis

16. For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according to their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.