Miqueas 2

1¡Ay de los que maquinan iniquidad y en sus lechos preparan el mal! A la luz del día lo ponen por obra, porque tienen el poder en su mano.

2Codician campos y los roban, también casas, y se apoderan de ellas; oprimen al dueño y su casa, al propietario y su heredad.

3Por eso, dice Yahvé: He aquí que tengo preparado contra esta raza un mal, del cual no podréis librar vuestras cervices; y no andaréis ya erguidos, porque será tiempo calamitoso.

4En aquel día se dirá sobre vosotros un proverbio, y se entonará una lamentación. Dirán: “Somos completamente asolados; la herencia de mi pueblo. ¡Cómo me la quita a mí y reparte nuestros campos a los infieles!”

5Por eso ya no tendrás quien echando la cuerda (reparta) posesiones en la congregación de Yahvé.

6“¡No profeticéis!”, así dicen ellos. Pero si no se les profetiza, no se apartará (de ellos) el oprobio.

7Dice la casa de Jacob: “¿Se ha disminuido el espíritu de Yahvé? ¿Son estas sus obras?” ¿Acaso mis palabras no son buenas para los que andan por el recto camino?

8Hace tiempo que el pueblo mío se ha levantado (contra Mí) como enemigo; después de la ropa robáis el manto; hacéis la guerra a los que van pasando confiados.

9A las mujeres de mi pueblo las arrojáis de sus queridas casas, y a sus pequeñuelos les quitáis mi loor para siempre.

10Levantaos y marchad, pues no es este el lugar de vuestro descanso; porque es inmundo, será devastado con terrible tormento.

11Si uno anda tras el viento y tras la mentira, (diciendo): “Yo te profetizo vino y bebida embriagante”, este es el profeta de este pueblo.

12Yo te juntaré todo entero, oh Jacob; recogeré los restos de Israel, los pondré juntos como ovejas en un aprisco, cual hato en medio del pastizal, y habrá un ruido grande por (la multitud) de gente.

13Va delante de ellos aquel que les abre camino; irrumpen y fuerzan la puerta, y salen por ella; y delante de ellos marcha su rey, y Yahvé a su frente.

1[Væ qui cogitatis inutile, et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris ! In luce matutina faciunt illud, quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum.

2Et concupierunt agros, et violenter tulerunt: et rapuerunt domos, et calumniabantur virum, et domum ejus: virum, et hæreditatem ejus.

3Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus: Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum, unde non auferetis colla vestra, et non ambulabitis superbi: quoniam tempus pessimum est.

4In die illa sumetur super vos parabola, et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate, dicentium: Depopulatione vastati sumus; pars populi mei commutata est: quomodo recedet a me, cum revertatur, qui regiones nostras dividat?

5Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in cœtu Domini.

6Ne loquamini loquentes; non stillabit super istos, non comprehendet confusio.

7Dicit domus Jacob: Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini, aut tales sunt cogitationes ejus? nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo qui recte graditur?

8et e contrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit. Desuper tunica pallium sustulistis: et eos qui transibant simpliciter convertistis in bellum.

9Mulieres populi mei ejecistis de domo deliciarum suarum; a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum.

10Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem: propter immunditiam ejus corrumpetur putredine pessima.

11Utinam non essem vir habens spiritum, et mendacium potius loquerer ! Stillabo tibi in vinum et in ebrietatem; et erit super quem stillatur populus iste.

12Congregatione congregabo, Jacob, totum te; in unum conducam reliquias Israël: pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili, quasi pecus in medio caularum: tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.

13Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos: divident, et transibunt portam, et ingredientur per eam: et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.]

1Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

2And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

3Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

4In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

6Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

7The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

8But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.

9You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.

10Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

11Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

12I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

13For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.