¹以色列和猶大犯罪受罰在猶大王約坦、亞哈斯、希西家執政的時候，耶和華的話臨到摩利沙人彌迦，是關於撒瑪利亞和耶路撒冷的話。

¹The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

²萬民哪！你們都要聽；地和地上所遍滿的，你們要聆聽；主耶和華要指證你們的不是，主必從他的聖殿指證你們的不是。

²Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

³看哪！耶和華離開自己的地方，他降下來，踏在地的高處。

³For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

⁴群山在他腳下融化，眾谷裂開，如蠟在火前一般，像水沖下斜坡一般，

⁴And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

⁵這都是因為雅各的過犯，以色列家的罪惡。雅各的過犯是甚麼呢？不就是撒瑪利亞嗎？猶大家的罪惡是甚麼呢？不就是耶路撒冷嗎？

⁵For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

⁶撒瑪利亞的刑罰所以我必使撒瑪利亞變成田間的廢堆，作栽種葡萄之處；我必把撒瑪利亞的石頭倒在谷中，連它的根基都露出來。

⁶Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, [and] as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.

⁷它一切雕刻的偶像必被打碎；它全部的錢財，都要用火燒盡；它所有的偶像，我都要毀滅；因為從妓女錢財榨取的，最後也必歸為妓女的錢財。

⁷And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.

⁸猶大的刑罰為此我要痛哭哀號，赤膊光腳而行；又要哀號如豺狼，悲鳴像鴕鳥。

⁸For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

⁹因為撒瑪利亞的創傷無法醫治，並且殃及猶大，直逼我子民的城門，就是耶路撒冷。

⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰不要在迦特報信，不要在巴歌哭泣；卻要在伯．亞弗拉打滾於塵土中。

¹⁰Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.

¹¹沙斐的居民哪！你們赤身羞愧走過去吧。撒南的居民不敢出來（“不敢出來”或譯：“也逃不掉”）；伯．以薛人的哀號，要把你們立足之地奪去。

¹¹Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.

¹²瑪律的居民，急待得著幸福，因有災禍從耶和華那裡降下，臨到耶路撒冷的城門。

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³拉吉的居民哪！要用快馬套車，這就是錫安子民（“子民”原文作“女子”）罪惡的開端；因為以色列的過犯，都在你那裡找到了。

¹³Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

¹⁴因此要把妝奩，送給摩利設．迦特；亞革悉的各家，必用詭詐對待以色列的眾王。

¹⁴Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

¹⁵瑪利沙的居民哪！我要再使那征服你的來到你那裡；以色列的榮耀，必去到亞杜蘭。

¹⁵I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

¹⁶猶大啊！為你所喜愛的兒女，你要剃頭，使你的頭光禿，完全光禿如同禿鷹；因為他們都從你那裡被擄去了。

¹⁶Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.