Mika 1

¹Ve Yahuda kralları Yotam, Ahaz ve Hizkiya'nın günlerinde, Morasitli Mikaya'ya gelen ve onun Samiriye ile Yeruşalim hakkında gördüğü Rab'bin sözü şöyle gerçekleşti:

²Ey halklar, sözleri dinleyin! Yeryüzü ve üzerindeki her şey kulak versin! Rab aranızda bir tanıklık için hazır bulunacak, Rab kendi kutsal konutundan tanıklık edecek.

³Çünkü işte, Rab kendi yerinden çıkıp geliyor; aşağı inecek ve yeryüzünün yüksek yerlerine ayak basacak.

⁴Dağlar O'nun altında sarsılacak, vadiler ateş karşısındaki balmumu gibi ve yamaçtan aşağı süzülen sular gibi eriyecek.

⁵Bütün bunlar Yakup'un tanrısızlığı ve İsrail evinin günahı yüzündendir. Yakup'un tanrısızlığı nedir? Samiriye değil mi? Ya Yahuda evinin günahı nedir? Yeruşalim değil mi?

⁶Bu yüzden Samiriye'yi kırdaki bir meyve bekçi kulübesine, bağ dikim yerine çevireceğim; taşlarını uçuruma yuvarlayacak ve temellerini tamamen açığa çıkaracağım.

⁷Onun bütün oyma putlarını parçalayacaklar, fuhuş ücretlerinin hepsini ateşte yakacaklar ve bütün putlarını yok edeceğim; çünkü bunları fuhuş ücretleriyle topladı ve yine fuhuş ücretlerine geri döndürdü.

⁸Bu yüzden o kadın dövünüp yas tutacak, yalınayak ve çıplak gezecek; ejderhalar gibi feryat edecek ve sirenlerin kızları gibi yas tutacak.

⁹Çünkü onun aldığı darbe egemen oldu; Yahuda'ya kadar ulaştı ve halkımın kapısına, Yeruşalim'e kadar dokundu.

¹⁰Gat'ta olanlar, büyüklük taslamayın; Akim'de olanlar, alay konusu olan o evden ötürü onu yeniden inşa etmeyin; alayınız uyarınca üzerinize toprak serpin.

¹¹Kentlerinde güzelce oturan kadın dışarı çıkmadı; Sennaan'da oturan kadın, yanındaki ev için yas tutmak üzere sizden acı bir darbe alacak.

¹²Acılar içinde oturan kadın için kim iyilikle işe başladı? Çünkü Rab'den Yeruşalim kapılarına kötülükler indi.

¹³Savaş arabalarının ve atlıların gürültüsüdür bu! Lakiş'te oturan kadın, sen Siyon kızı için günahın öncüsü oldun; çünkü İsrail'in tanrısızlıkları sende bulundu.

¹⁴Bu yüzden Gat'ın mirasına kadar elçiler göndereceksin, boş evler vereceksin; onlar İsrail kralları için tamamen boşuna oldular.

¹⁵Mirasçıları getirecekleri güne dek, Lakiş'te oturan miras, İsrail kızının yüceliği Adullam'a kadar varacak.

¹⁶Narin çocukların için saçını kazı ve kes; kelliğini kartal gibi genişlet, çünkü onlar senden sürgüne gönderildiler.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Μιχαίαν τὸν τοῦ Μωρασθεὶ ἐν ἡμέραις ᾿Ιωάθαμ καὶ ῎Αχαζ καὶ ᾿Εζεκίου βασιλέων ᾿Ιούδα, ὑπὲρ ὧν εἶδε περὶ Σαμαρείας καὶ περὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

²᾿Ακούσατε, λαοί, λόγους, καὶ προσεχέτω ἡ γῆ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ ἔσται Κύριος ἐν ὑμῖν εἰς μαρτύριον, Κύριος ἐξ οἴκου ἁγίου αὐτοῦ.

³διότι ἰδοὺ Κύριος ἐκπορεύεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ καὶ καταβήσεται καὶ ἐπιβήσεται ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη τῆς γῆς,

⁴καὶ σαλευθήσεται τὰ ὄρη ὑποκάτωθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ αἱ κοιλάδες τακήσονται ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρὸς καὶ ὡς ὕδωρ καταφερόμενον ἐν καταβάσει.

⁵δι᾿ ἀσέβειαν ᾿Ιακὼβ πάντα ταῦτα καὶ δι᾿ ἁμαρτίαν οἴκου ᾿Ισραήλ. τίς ἡ ἀσέβεια τοῦ ᾿Ιακώβ; οὐ Σαμάρεια; καὶ τίς ἡ ἁμαρτία οἴκου ᾿Ιούδα; οὐχὶ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ;

⁶καὶ θήσομαι Σαμάρειαν εἰς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἀγροῦ καὶ εἰς φυτείαν ἀμπελῶνος καὶ κατασπάσω εἰς χάος τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς καὶ τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῆς ἀποκαλύψω.

⁷καὶ πάντα τὰ γλυπτὰ αὐτῆς κατακόψουσι καὶ πάντα τὰ μισθώματα αὐτῆς ἐμπρήσουσιν ἐν πυρί, καὶ πάντα τὰ εἴδωλα αὐτῆς θήσομαι εἰς ἀφανισμόν· διότι ἐκ μισθωμάτων πορνείας συνήγαγε καὶ ἐκ μισθωμάτων πορνείας συνέστρεψεν.

⁸ἕνεκεν τούτου κόψεται καὶ θρηνήσει, πορεύσεται ἀνυπόδετος καὶ γυμνή, ποιήσεται κοπετὸν ὡς δρακόντων καὶ πένθος ὡς θυγατέρων σειρήνων·

⁹ὅτι κατεκράτησεν ἡ πληγὴ αὐτῆς, διότι ἦλθεν ἕως ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἥψατο ἕως πύλης λαοῦ μου, ἕως ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

¹⁰οἱ ἐν Γέθ, μὴ μεγαλύνεσθε· οἱ ἐν ᾿Ακείμ, μὴ ἀνοικοδομεῖτε ἐξ οἴκου κατὰ γέλωτα, γῆν καταπάσασθε κατὰ γέλωτα ὑμῶν.

¹¹κατοικοῦσα καλῶς τὰς πόλεις αὐτῆς, οὐκ ἐξῆλθε κατοικοῦσα Σενναὰν κόψασθαι οἶκον ἐχόμενον αὐτῆς, λήψεται ἐξ ὑμῶν πληγὴν ὀδύνης.

¹²τίς ἤρξατο εἰς ἀγαθὰ κατοικούσῃ ὀδύνας; ὅτι κατέβη κακὰ παρὰ Κυρίου ἐπὶ πύλας ῾Ιερουσαλήμ,

¹³ψόφος ἁρμάτων καὶ ἱππευόντων. κατοικοῦσα Λαχίς, ἀρχηγὸς ἁμαρτίας αὐτή ἐστι τῇ θυγατρὶ Σιών, ὅτι ἐν σοὶ εὑρέθησαν ἀσέβειαι τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁴διὰ τοῦτο δώσεις ἐξαποστελλομένους ἕως κληρονομίας Γὲθ οἴκους ματαίους· εἰς κενὸν ἐγένοντο τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ,

¹⁵ἕως τοὺς κληρονόμους ἀγάγωσι, κατοικοῦσα Λαχὶς κληρονομία, ἕως ᾿Οδολλὰμ ἥξει ἡ δόξα τῆς θυγατρὸς ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁶ξύρησαι καὶ κεῖραι ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα τὰ τρυφερά σου, ἐμπλάτυνον τὴν χηρείαν σου ὡς ἀετός, ὅτι ᾐχμαλωτεύθησαν ἀπὸ σοῦ.

¹AND the word of the Lord came to Michaeas the son of Morasthi, in the days of Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

²Hear [these] words, ye people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.

³For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.

⁴And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.

⁵All these [calamities are] for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Juda? [is it] not Jerusalem?

⁶Therefore I will make Samaria [as] a store-house of the fruits of the field, and [as] a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.

⁷And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed [wealth].

⁸Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and [being] naked she shall make lamentation as [that] of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.

⁹For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Akim, do not rebuild from [the ruins of] the house in derision: sprinkle dust [in the place of] your laughter.

¹¹The inhabitant of Sennaan, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.

¹²Who has begun [to act] for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,

¹³[even] a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.

¹⁴Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, [even] vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel;

¹⁵until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, [even] the glory of the daughter of Israel.

¹⁶Shave thine hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for [thy people] are gone into captivity from thee.