Mika 3

¹Ve diyecek: “Şimdi bunları dinleyin, ey Yakup evinin önderleri ve İsrail evinin geriye kalanları! Adaleti bilmek sizin yükümlülüğünüz değil midir?

²Siz ki iyilikten nefret edip kötü olanı arayan, onların derilerini üzerlerinden zorla çekip alan ve etlerini kemiklerinden sıyıranlarsınız!

³Onlar ki halkımın etini yediler, derilerini üzerlerinden yüzdüler, kemiklerini kırdılar ve onları kazandaki etler gibi, tenceredeki et parçaları gibi parçalara ayırdılar.

⁴İşte o zaman Rab’be feryat edecekler ama O onları duymayacak; kendi üzerlerine getirdikleri kötü eylemleri yüzünden o vakit yüzünü onlardan gizleyecek.

⁵Rab, halkımı saptıran, dişleriyle ısırdıklarında barış ilan eden ama ağızlarına bir şey verilmediğinde ona karşı savaş açan peygamberler için şöyle diyor:

⁶‘Bu yüzden sahte görümleriniz yüzünden size gece, kehanetleriniz yüzünden size karanlık olacak; güneş peygamberlerin üzerine batacak ve gün üzerlerine kararacak.’

⁷Rüyalar görenler utandırılacak, falcılar alay konusu olacak; hepsi onların aleyhinde konuşacak, çünkü onları dinleyip yanıt veren kimse olmayacak.”

⁸Şüphesiz ben ise, Yakup’a isyanını, İsrail’e günahını bildirmek için Rab’bin Ruhuyla, adaletle ve kudretle dolduruldum.

⁹Şimdi bunları dinleyin, ey Yakup evinin liderleri ve İsrail evinin geriye kalanları! Siz ki adaletten tiksinir ve bütün doğru yolları saptırırsınız;

¹⁰Siyon’u dökülen kanlarla, Yeruşalim’i haksızlıklarla inşa edenler!

¹¹Kentin liderleri rüşvet karşılığı yargılıyor, kâhinleri ücret karşılığı karar bildiriyor, peygamberleri gümüş için fal bakıyordu. Yine de Rab’be yaslanıp, “Rab aramızda değil mi? Başımıza hiçbir kötülük gelmeyecek” diyorlardı.

¹²Bu yüzden sizin yüzünüzden Siyon bir tarla gibi sürülecek, Yeruşalim bir meyve bahçesi kulübesine dönecek ve tapınak dağı ormanlık bir kutsal koruluğa dönüşecek.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐρεῖ· ἀκούσατε δὴ ταῦτα, αἱ ἀρχαὶ οἴκου ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι οἴκου ᾿Ισραήλ. οὐχ ὑμῖν ἐστι τοῦ γνῶναι τὸ κρίμα;

²μισοῦντες τὰ καλὰ καὶ ζητοῦντες τὰ πονηρά, ἁρπάζοντες τὰ δέρματα αὐτῶν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς σάρκας αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτῶν.

³ὃν τρόπον κατέφαγον τὰς σάρκας τοῦ λαοῦ μου καὶ τὰ δέρματα αὐτῶν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐξέδειραν καὶ τὰ ὀστέα αὐτῶν συνέθλασαν καὶ ἐμέλισαν ὡς σάρκας εἰς λέβητα καὶ ὡς κρέα εἰς χύτραν,

⁴οὕτως κεκράξονται πρὸς τὸν Κύριον, καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούσεται αὐτῶν. καὶ ἀποστρέψει τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ἐπονηρεύσαντο ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν αὐτῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς.

⁵τάδε λέγει Κύριος ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς πλανῶντας τὸν λαόν μου, τοὺς δάκνοντας ἐν τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν καὶ κηρύσσοντας εἰρήνην ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ ἐδόθη εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν, ἤγειραν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν πόλεμον.

⁶διὰ τοῦτο νὺξ ὑμῖν ἔσται ἐξ ὁράσεως, καὶ σκοτία ἔσται ὑμῖν ἐκ μαντείας, καὶ δύσεται ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ συσκοτάσει ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἡ ἡμέρα.

⁷καὶ καταισχυνθήσονται οἱ ὁρῶντες τὰ ἐνύπνια, καὶ καταγελασθήσονται οἱ μάντεις, καὶ καταλαλήσουσι κατ᾿ αὐτῶν πάντες αὐτοί, διότι οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐπακούων αὐτῶν.

⁸ἐὰν μὴ ἐγὼ ἐμπλήσω ἰσχὺν ἐν πνεύματι Κυρίου καὶ κρίματος καὶ δυναστείας τοῦ ἀπαγγεῖλαι τῷ ᾿Ιακὼβ ἀσεβείας αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ.

⁹ἀκούσατε δὴ ταῦτα, οἱ ἡγούμενοι οἴκου ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι οἴκου ᾿Ισραήλ, οἱ βδελυσσόμενοι κρίμα καὶ πάντα τὰ ὀρθὰ διαστρέφοντες,

¹⁰οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες Σιὼν ἐν αἵμασι καὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐν ἀδικίαις.

¹¹οἱ ἡγούμενοι αὐτῆς μετὰ δώρων ἔκρινον, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῆς μετὰ μισθοῦ ἀπεκρίνοντο, καὶ οἱ προφῆται αὐτῆς μετὰ ἀργυρίου ἐμαντεύοντο, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον ἐπανεπαύοντο λέγοντες· οὐχὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστιν; οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς κακά.

¹²διὰ τοῦτο δι᾿ ἡμᾶς Σιὼν ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται, καὶ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσται καὶ τὸ ὄρος τοῦ οἴκου εἰς ἄλσος δρυμοῦ.

¹And he shall say, Hear now these words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?

²[who] hate good, and seek evil; [who] tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

³even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,

⁴thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

⁵Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and [when] nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

⁶therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.

⁷And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.

⁸Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

⁹Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;

¹⁰who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and [yet] they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.

¹²Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.