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Micah 4

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1 καὶ ἔσται ἐ{P'} ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος τοῦ κυρίου ἕτοιμον ἐπὶ τὰς κορυφὰς τῶν ὀρέων καὶ μετεωρισθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν καὶ σπεύσουσιν πρὸς αὐτὸ λαοί 2 καὶ πορεύσονται ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσιν δεῦτε ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος κυρίου καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ Ιακωβ καὶ δείξουσιν ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐκ Σιων ἐξελεύσεται νόμος καὶ λόγος κυρίου ἐξ Ιερουσαλημ 3 καὶ κρινεῖ ἀνὰ μέσον λαῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἐξελέγξει ἔθνη ἰσχυρὰ ἕως εἰς γῆν μακράν καὶ κατακόψουσιν τὰς ῥομφαίας αὐτῶν εἰς ἄροτρα καὶ τὰ δόρατα αὐτῶν εἰς δρέπανα καὶ οὐκέτι μὴ ἀντάρῃ ἔθνος ἐ{P'} ἔθνος ῥομφαίαν καὶ οὐκέτι μὴ μάθωσιν πολεμεῖν 4 καὶ ἀναπαύσεται ἕκαστος ὑποκάτω ἀμπέλου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος ὑποκάτω συκῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐκφοβῶν διότι τὸ στόμα κυρίου παντοκράτορος ἐλάλησεν ταῦτα 5 ὅτι πάντες οἱ λαοὶ πορεύσονται ἕκαστος τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς δὲ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ ἐπέκεινα

1 The Temple hill![1] One day it shall stand there, highest of all the mountain-heights, overtopping the peaks of them, and the nations will flock there together. 2 A multitude of peoples will make their way to it, crying, Come, let us climb up to the Lord’s mountain-peak, to the house where the God of Jacob dwells; he shall teach us the right way, we will walk in the paths he has chosen. The Lord’s command shall go out from Sion, his word from Jerusalem; 3 over thronging peoples he shall sit in judgement, give award to great nations from far away. Sword they will fashion into ploughshare and spear into pruning-hook; no room there shall be for nation to levy war against nation, and train itself in arms. 4 At ease you shall sit, each of you with his own vine, his own fig-tree to give him shade, and none to raise the alarm; such blessing the Lord of hosts pronounces on you. 5 Let other nations go their own way, each with the name of its own god to rally it; ours to march under his divine name, who is our God for ever and for evermore!

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Et erit: in novissimo dierum
erit mons domus Domini præparatus in vertice montium,
et sublimis super colles:
et fluent ad eum populi, 2
et properabunt gentes multæ, et dicent:
Venite, ascendamus ad montem Domini,
et ad domum Dei Jacob:
et docebit nos de viis suis,
et ibimus in semitis ejus,
quia de Sion egredietur lex,
et verbum Domini de Jerusalem. 3
Et judicabit inter populos multos,
et corripiet gentes fortes usque in longinquum:
et concident gladios suos in vomeres,
et hastas suas in ligones:
non sumet gens adversus gentem gladium,
et non discent ultra belligerare. 4
Et sedebit vir subtus vitem suam et subtus ficum suam,
et non erit qui deterreat,
quia os Domini exercituum locutum est. 5
Quia omnes populi ambulabunt
unusquisque in nomine dei sui;
nos autem ambulabimus
in nomine Domini Dei nostri,
in æternum et ultra.

6 ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ λέγει κύριος συνάξω τὴν συντετριμμένην καὶ τὴν ἐξωσμένην εἰσδέξομαι καὶ οὓς ἀπωσάμην 7 καὶ θήσομαι τὴν συντετριμμένην εἰς ὑπόλειμμα καὶ τὴν ἀπωσμένην εἰς ἔθνος ἰσχυρόν καὶ βασιλεύσει κύριος ἐ{P'} αὐτοὺς ἐν ὄρει Σιων ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα 8 καὶ σύ πύργος ποιμνίου αὐχμώδης θύγατερ Σιων ἐπὶ σὲ ἥξει καὶ εἰσελεύσεται ἡ ἀρχὴ ἡ πρώτη βασιλεία ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος τῇ θυγατρὶ Ιερουσαλημ

6 When that time comes, the Lord says, I will gather them in again and take them to myself, flock of mine that go limping and straggling, ever since I brought calamity on them; 7 lame shall yet be a stock to breed from, and wayworn shall grow into a sturdy race; here in Sion they shall dwell, and the Lord be king over them, for ever henceforward. 8 And thou, the watch-tower of that flock, cloud-capped fastness where the lady Sion reigns, power shall come back to thee as of old, once more Jerusalem shall be a queen.

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In die illa, dicit Dominus,
congregabo claudicantem,
et eam quam ejeceram colligam,
et quam afflixeram: 7
et ponam claudicantem in reliquias,
et eam quæ laboraverat, in gentem robustam:
et regnabit Dominus super eos in monte Sion,
ex hoc nunc et usque in æternum. 8
Et tu, turris gregis nebulosa filiæ Sion,
usque ad te veniet,
et veniet potestas prima,
regnum filiæ Jerusalem.

9 καὶ νῦν ἵνα τί ἔγνως κακά μὴ βασιλεὺς οὐκ ἦν σοι ἢ ἡ βουλή σου ἀπώλετο ὅτι κατεκράτησάν σου ὠδῖνες ὡς τικτούσης 10 ὤδινε καὶ ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἔγγιζε θύγατερ Σιων ὡς τίκτουσα διότι νῦν ἐξελεύσῃ ἐκ πόλεως καὶ κατασκηνώσεις ἐν πεδίῳ καὶ ἥξεις ἕως Βαβυλῶνος ἐκεῖθεν ῥύσεταί σε καὶ ἐκεῖθεν λυτρώσεταί σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν σου 11 καὶ νῦν ἐπισυνήχθη ἐπὶ σὲ ἔθνη πολλὰ οἱ λέγοντες ἐπιχαρούμεθα καὶ ἐπόψονται ἐπὶ Σιων οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν 12 αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὸν λογισμὸν κυρίου καὶ οὐ συνῆκαν τὴν βουλὴν αὐτοῦ ὅτι συνήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ὡς δράγματα ἅλωνος 13 ἀνάστηθι καὶ ἀλόα αὐτούς θύγατερ Σιων ὅτι τὰ κέρατά σου θήσομαι σιδηρᾶ καὶ τὰς ὁπλάς σου θήσομαι χαλκᾶς καὶ κατατήξεις ἐν αὐτοῖς ἔθνη καὶ λεπτυνεῖς λαοὺς πολλοὺς καὶ ἀναθήσεις τῷ κυρίῳ τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν τῷ κυρίῳ πάσης τῆς γῆς νῦν ἐμφραχθήσεται θυγάτηρ Εφραιμ ἐν φραγμῷ συνοχὴν ἔταξεν ἐ{F'} ἡμᾶς ἐν ῥάβδῳ πατάξουσιν ἐπὶ σιαγόνα τὰς φυλὰς τοῦ Ισραηλ

9 When that time comes! At this present time, what anguish is this constrains thee? Have king and counsellor played thee false, that the pangs of travail take hold on thee? 10 Sorrow thou well mayst, lady of Sion, and labour as any woman brought to bed; city thou must needs leave, and lodge in the open country-side, nay, to distant Babylon thou must journey;[2] there it is thou wilt find deliverance, there it is the Lord will ransom thee from the power of thy enemies. 11 At this present time, how many the nations that gather about thee, crying, Death to the adulteress! Feast we our eyes on Sion’s downfall! 12 Little they know God’s thoughts; little they guess his purpose is to store them up, like wheat on the threshing-floor! 13 Up, lady of Sion, and set about the threshing of them! Horn of iron, hoof of bronze he will give thee, to grind all that conspiracy of nations to dust. Forfeit to the Lord their ill-gotten gains shall be; nothing of theirs but must be his, who is master of the whole earth.

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Nunc quare mœrore contraheris?
numquid rex non est tibi,
aut consiliarius tuus periit,
quia comprehendit te dolor sicut parturientem? 10
Dole et satage, filia Sion, quasi parturiens,
quia nunc egredieris de civitate,
et habitabis in regione,
et venies usque ad Babylonem:
ibi liberaberis,
ibi redimet te Dominus de manu inimicorum tuorum. 11
Et nunc congregatæ sunt super te gentes multæ, quæ dicunt:
Lapidetur, et aspiciat in Sion oculus noster. 12
Ipsi autem non cognoverunt cogitationes Domini,
et non intellexerunt consilium ejus,
quia congregavit eos quasi fœnum areæ. 13
Surge, et tritura, filia Sion,
quia cornu tuum ponam ferreum,
et ungulas tuas ponam æreas;
et comminues populos multos,
et interficies Domino rapinas eorum,
et fortitudinem eorum Domino universæ terræ.

Nunc vastaberis, filia latronis.
Obsidionem posuerunt super nos:
in virga percutient maxillam judicis Israël.

[1] vv. 1-3. The same words occur at the beginning of Is. 2. Since Michaeas was Isaias’ contemporary, it seems probable that both prophets are quoting from some older fragment of literature.

[2] The mention of Babylon suggests, to the modern reader, the Captivity, which took place a century later. Michaeas’ own contemporaries will have imagined that they were going to take refuge in Babylon as in a friendly country (IV Kg. 20.12).

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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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