Los malos gobernantes
1-3 »¡Escúchenme ustedes,
jefes y gobernantes de Israel!
¡Ustedes debieran hacer justicia,
pero hacen todo lo contrario!
Prefieren hacer lo malo,
en lugar de hacer lo bueno.
Maltratan mucho a mi pueblo;
se lo están comiendo vivo.
4 »Por eso, cuando me llamen,
yo no les responderé.
Es tan grande su maldad
que los abandonaré».
Los profetas mentirosos
5 A los profetas que engañan a mi pueblo, Dios les ha dicho:
«Ustedes solo hablan de paz
a quienes les dan de comer,
pero a quienes no los alimentan
les declaran la guerra.
6 Por eso no les voy a informar
lo que pienso hacer.
Nunca más les comunicaré mensajes
y ya no podrán anunciar el futuro.
7 Esos profetas y adivinos
quedarán en completo ridículo.
No tendrán nada que decir,
porque yo no les responderé».
8 Pero yo, Miqueas, estoy lleno del poder de Dios. Por eso puedo afirmar que nuestro Dios es un Dios justo. También puedo acusar a los israelitas de ser un pueblo pecador y desobediente.
La derrota de Jerusalén
9 Dios dijo:
«¡Escúchenme ustedes,
jefes y gobernantes de Israel!
Ustedes rechazan la justicia,
y no respetan ninguna ley.
10 En Jerusalén y en mi templo
los crímenes y la violencia
son cosa de todos los días.
11 Los sacerdotes, profetas y jueces
enseñan, predican o dictan sentencia
solo a cambio de dinero.
»Y para colmo se atreven a decir:
“No tenemos nada que temer.
¡Dios está con nosotros!”
12 »¡Por culpa de ustedes
mi templo será derribado!
¡Por culpa de ustedes
Jerusalén quedará en ruinas,
y el monte de Sión
se cubrirá de maleza!»
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
8 ¶ But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.