UMika 1
| 1:1 | Ilizwi likaYehova elafika kuMika waseMoresheti, ngemihla kaYotam, UAhazi, noHezekiya, ookumkani bakwaYuda, awayibonayo ngelakwaSamari neYerusalem. |
| 1:2 | Bonke abantu, mamela. Yaye ngamana umhlaba nenzaliseko yawo inganikela ingqalelo. Yaye ngamana iNkosi uYehova ibe lingqina kuni, uYehova etempileni yakhe engcwele. |
| 1:3 | Kuba, khangela!, uYehova uya kuphuma endaweni yakhe. Kwaye uya kuhla, yena uya kunyathela phezu kwemimango yehlabathi. |
| 1:4 | Ziya kuqwengwa iintaba phantsi kwakhe, neentili ziya kugqabhuka, njengomthwebeba phambi komlilo, nanjengamanzi aqukuqela ezantsi. |
| 1:5 | Konke oku kungenxa yobugwenxa bukaYakobi, nangenxa yezono zendlu kaSirayeli. Buyintoni na ububi bukaYakobi?? AsiyoSamari na?? Kwaye yintoni ukuphakama kukaYuda? AsiyoYerusalem na? |
| 1:6 | + Yaye ndiya kuyibeka elakwaSamari njengemfumba yamatye entsimini, xa kutyalwe isidiliya. Kwaye ndiza kuwawisa amatye ayo entilini, neziseko zayo ndiya kuzityhila. |
| 1:7 | Yaye yonke imifanekiso yayo eqingqiweyo iya kunqunyulwa ibe ziingceba, kwaye yonke imivuzo yayo iya kutshiswa ngomlilo, kwaye zonke izithixo zakhe ezingento zakhe ndiya kuzitshabalalisa. Kuba babuthelwe ndawonye emvuzweni womfazi ogciniweyo, Kwanakwintlawulo yomfazi ogciniweyo, baya kubuya. |
| 1:8 | Ndiya kumbambazela, ndimbambazele ngenxa yoko. ndiya kuphuma ndiphangiwe, ndize;. ndiya kubhomboloza njengeempungutye, nesijwili njengenciniba. |
| 1:9 | Kuba inxeba layo libi. Kuba ifikile nakwaYuda. Lichukumise isango labantu bakowethu, kude kuse eYerusalem. |
| 1:10 | Musani ukuvuma ukukuxela eGati; musa ukulila ulila. Endlwini yothuli, Zifefeni ngothuli. |
| 1:11 | Kwaye welela endaweni yakho yokuhlala, Ubuhle, udidekile lihlazo. Akazange ahambe, ohlala kwindawo yokuphuma. Indlu ekufutshane, eyahlala iqinile yodwa, uya kufumana isijwili kuni. |
| 1:12 | Kuba uye wabuthathaka ngenxa yokulunga, ohlala ebukrakra. Kuba kwehla ububi buphuma kuYehova, beza esangweni leYerusalem. |
| 1:13 | Ukuxokozela kweenqwelo zokulwa zamahashe amane kuye kwabaphazamisa abemi baseLakishe. Iqalelo yaba sisono entombini enguZiyon;, ngokuba kufunyenwe kuwe izenzo ezibi zikaSirayeli. |
| 1:14 | Ngenxa yale nto, uya kuthumela abathunywa elifeni laseGati: indlu yobuxoki ukuze baqhathe ookumkani bakwaSirayeli. |
| 1:15 | Nangona kunjalo, Ndiya kunikhokelela indlalifa, abemi baseMaresha: isihomo sikaSirayeli siya kufikelela naseAdulam. |
| 1:16 | Yiba nenkqayi, uchebe ngenxa yoonyana bakho abathambileyo. Yandisa inkqayi yakho njengokhozi. ngokuba bathinjiwe kuwe. |
UMika 2
| 2:1 | Yeha, nina bacinga ubutshijolo, basebenze ububi ezililini zenu!. Ekukhanyeni kwasekuseni, bayayenza, ngokuba isandla sabo sichase uThixo. |
| 2:2 | Banqwenele amasimi, bawahlutha;, kwaye izindlu bezibile. Kwaye benza izimangalo zobuxoki nxamnye nomntu nendlu yakhe, umntu nelifa lakhe. |
| 2:3 | Ngesi sizathu, utsho uYehova: Khangela, Ndiyicingela ububi kule ntsapho, eningayi kuziba iintamo zenu kuyo. Kwaye aniyi kuhamba ngokuzigwagwisa, ngokuba eli lixesha elibi kakhulu. |
| 2:4 | Ngaloo mini, kuya kwenziwa umzekeliso ngani, nengoma iya kuculwa kamnandi, esithi: "Siphangisiwe kukuhla kwabantu." Isiphelo sabantu bakowethu sitshintshiwe. Angathini ukurhoxa kum, xa enokubuya umva, Lowo unokuqwenga ilizwe lethu? |
| 2:5 | Ngenxa yale nto, Akuyi kuphoswa ulutya kuni ebandleni likaYehova. |
| 2:6 | Musa ukuthetha ngokuthetha, Ayiyi kuwela phezu kwaba; ihlazo aliyi kubafunqula. |
| 2:7 | Itsho indlu kaYakobi, “Ngaba uMoya weNkosi wenziwe buthathaka, okanye ziingcinga zakhe ezo?” Akalungile na amazwi am kohamba ngokuthe tye?? |
| 2:8 | Kodwa, ngokuchaseneyo, abantu bam basuke bandichasa. Usiphakamise isigqubuthelo kwisambatho sangaphantsi, nabadlula ngendlela engenabungozi, ujike waba yimfazwe. |
| 2:9 | Abafazi babantu bam nibagqogqa ezindlwini zabo ezixhamlayo. Uyithabathe kubantwana babo indumiso yam ngonaphakade. |
| 2:10 | Vuka uhambe, ngokuba akukho kuphumla kuwe apha. Ngenxa yokungahlambuluki kwayo, uya konakaliswa ngokubola kokubi. |
| 2:11 | Akwaba bendingemntu unomphefumlo, noko ke ndithethe ubuxoki kanye. ndiya kusihlisela kuwe ngewayini, nasesinxilweni;. Kwaye kuya kuba aba bantu kuya kunesa phezu kwabo. |
| 2:12 | Ndiya kunihlanganisa niphela, nibe libandla, uYakobi. ndiya kukhokela kunye njengomnye, amasalela akwaSirayeli. ndiya kubenza babe banye, njengomhlambi esibayeni, njengegusha esazulwini sesibaya. Baya kubangela isiphithiphithi phambi kwengxokolo yabantu. |
| 2:13 | Kuba uya kunyuka anyuke;, evula indlela phambi kwabo. Baya kwahluka, baya kuliwela isango, bangene ngalo. Nokumkani wabo uya kudlula, phambi kwamehlo abo, yaye uYehova uya kuba sentloko kubo. |
UMika 3
| 3:1 | Ndaye ndathi: Phulaphula, iinkokheli zakwaYakobi, iinkosi zendlu kaSirayeli. Asikokwenu na ukwazi umgwebo?, |
| 3:2 | nina bathiyayo ngokulungileyo, nithande ububi, baluba ulusu lwabo phezu kwabo, nenyama yabo emathanjeni abo? |
| 3:3 | Bayidlile inyama yabantu bam, bahlube ulusu lwabo phezu kwabo, bawaqobile, bawanqunqa amathambo abo, ngokungathi kuseketileni, nanjengenyama embindini wembiza. |
| 3:4 | Baya kwandula bakhale kuNdikhoyo, akayi kubaphulaphula. Uya kubusithelisa ubuso bakhe kubo ngelo xesha, kanye njengoko benze ububi ngeentlondi zabo. |
| 3:5 | Utsho uYehova ngokusingisele kubaprofeti abalahlekisa abantu bam: Baluma ngamazinyo abo kwaye bashumayela uxolo, nokuba ubani akanikeli nto emlonyeni wakhe, bamngcwalisele imfazwe. |
| 3:6 | Ngenxa yale nto, ubusuku buya kuba ngumbono kuwe, nobumnyama benu bube kukuvumisa, nelanga liya kudibana nokufa kubaprofeti, imini ibe mnyama phezu kwabo. |
| 3:7 | Kwaye abo babona imibono baya kuba neentloni, baya kudana abavumisi. Kwaye bonke baya kugubungela ubuso babo, kuba akukho mpendulo ivela kuThixo. |
| 3:8 | Nangona kunjalo, ngenene ndizele ngamandla oMoya weNkosi, ngogwebo nangesidima, ukuze amxelele uYakobi ububi bakhe, noSirayeli isono sakhe. |
| 3:9 | Yiva oku, iinkokheli zendlu kaYakobi, nabagwebi bendlu kaSirayeli, wena ucekisayo okusesikweni, ugqwetha konke okuthe tye. |
| 3:10 | Uyakha iZiyon ngegazi, neYerusalem ngobugwenxa. |
| 3:11 | Iinkokeli zayo zigwebe ngenxa yerhafu, ababingeleli bayo bafundise ukuhlawula, nabaprofeti bayo bavumisa ngenxa yemali. Kwaye bayama ngoYehova, esithi: “Akakho na uYehova phakathi kwethu?? Akukho ntlekele iya kusoyisa.” |
| 3:12 | Ngesi sizathu, ngenxa yakho, IZiyon iya kulinywa phantsi njengentsimi;, neYerusalem iya kuba njengemfumba yamatye, intaba yetempile ibe njengeendawo eziphakamileyo zehlathi. |
UMika 4
| 4:1 | Kwaye oku kuya kuba: Ngemihla yokugqibela, Intaba yendlu kaYehova iya kumiswa encotsheni yazo iintaba, yona iphakamele iinduli. Kwaye abantu baya kuba ngumsinga ukuya kuyo. |
| 4:2 | Kwaye iintlanga ezininzi ziya kungxama, kwaye uya kuthi: “Yiza, Masinyuke siye entabeni kaNdikhoyo, nasendlwini kaThixo kaYakobi. Yaye uya kusifundisa ngeendlela zakhe, kwaye siya kuhamba emendweni wakhe. Kuba umyalelo uya kuphuma eZiyon, nelizwi likaYehova eYerusalem. |
| 4:3 | Uya kugweba phakathi kwezizwe ezininzi, uya kuzohlwaya iintlanga ezinamandla;, nokuba ukude. Kwaye baya kuwagawula amakrele abo abe ngamakhuba, nemikhonto yazo ibe ngamakhuba. Uhlanga aluyi kuphakamisela uhlanga ikrele, yaye abasayi kuphinda bafunde ukulwa. |
| 4:4 | Uya kuhlala umntu phantsi komdiliya wakhe, naphantsi komkhiwane wakhe;, kwaye akuyi kubakho bani woyikayo, kuba umlomo kaYehova wemikhosi uthethile. |
| 4:5 | Ngokuba bonke abantu baya kuhamba, ngamnye egameni lothixo wakhe. Ke thina siya kuhamba egameni likaYehova uThixo wethu, ngonaphakade ngonaphakade. |
| 4:6 | Ngaloo mini, utsho uYehova, ndiya kuzihlanganisa iziqhwala;. Ndiya kumkhulula ke lowo bendimgatya, kunye nalowo ndandimcinezela. |
| 4:7 | Kwaye ndiza kubeka iziqhwala phakathi kwentsalela, naye lowo wayebandezelekile, phakathi kwabantu abasempilweni. Kwaye uYehova uya kuba ngukumkani phezu kwabo entabeni yaseZiyon, kususela ngoku kude kuse ephakadeni. |
| 4:8 | Kwaye wena, inqaba egqunywe ngamafu yomhlambi wentombi enguZiyon, ziya kuza nakuwe. Kwaye amandla okuqala aya kufika, ubukumkani bentombi enguYerusalem. |
| 4:9 | Ngoku, yini na ukuba nihlangane nisentlungwini?? Akukho kumkani na kuwe?, Umcebisi wakho wemka? Kuba usuke waphathwa bububi, njengentlungu yokuzala. |
| 4:10 | Yiba buhlungu kwaye wonganyelwe, intombi enguZiyon, njengomfazi ozalayo. Kuba ngoku kufuneka nimke esixekweni nihlale emaphandleni, yaye uya kusondela eBhabhiloni. Uya kuhlangulwa khona. Uya kukukhulula khona uYehova esandleni seentshaba zakho. |
| 4:11 | Ngoku ke izizwe ezininzi zihlanganisene ngawe, kwaye bathi, “Mayixulutywe ngamatye, amehlo ethu makakhangele eZiyon.” |
| 4:12 | Ke bona abazazi iingcinga zikaYehova, kwaye abaliqondi icebo lakhe. Kuba ubabuthile njengengca yesanda. |
| 4:13 | Vuka ubhule, intombi enguZiyon. Kuba ndiya kulumisa uphondo lwakho njengentsimbi, neempuphu zakho ndiya kuzenza zibe njengobhedu. Uya kuziqhekeza izizwe ezininzi, nixhelele kuYehova amaxhoba awo, namandla abo kwiNkosi yehlabathi lonke. |
UMika 5
| 5:1 | Ngoku uya kuphanziswa, ntombi yesihange. Basibekele umqobo, baya kuwubetha ngentonga emhlathini womgwebi wakwaSirayeli. |
| 5:2 | Kwaye wena, eBhetelehem Efrata, Mncinane phakathi kwamawaka akwaYuda. Kuya kuphuma kuwe oya kuba ngumlawuli kwaSirayeli, nendawo yakhe yokuhlala imisiwe kwasekuqaleni, kususela kwimihla yamandulo. |
| 5:3 | Ngenxa yale nto, uya kubabonelela, kude kube lixesha lokuba lowo uyizeleyo azale. Yaye abaseleyo kubazalwana bakhe baya kuguqulelwa koonyana bakaSirayeli. |
| 5:4 | Uya kuma, azidlise ngokwamandla eNkosi, ngokwegama elizukileyo likaYehova uThixo wakhe. Kwaye baya kuguqulwa, ngokuba ngoku uya kuba mkhulu, kude kuse eziphelweni zehlabathi. |
| 5:5 | And this man will be our peace, when the Assyrian will come into our land, and when he will trample on our houses; and we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men. |
| 5:6 | And they will graze on the land of Assur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with its spears; and he will free us from Assur, when he will come into our land, and when he will trample our borders. |
| 5:7 | And there will be a remnant of Jacob in the midst of many peoples, like a dew from the Lord and like drops upon the grass, which awaits no man and does not stand before the sons of men. |
| 5:8 | And there will be a remnant of Jacob within the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forests, and like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, I-WHO, when he will pass through and trample down and seize, there is none who can rescue. |
| 5:9 | Your hand will be exalted over your enemies, and all your adversaries will pass away. |
| 5:10 | And it will be in that day, utsho uYehova: I will take away your horses from your midst, and I will utterly ruin your four-horse chariots. |
| 5:11 | And I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will pull down all your fortifications, and I will take away evil-doing from your hand, and there will be no divinations among you. |
| 5:12 | And I will cause your graven images to perish, and your statues, from your midst. And you will no longer adore the works of your hands. |
| 5:13 | And I will root out your sacred groves from your midst, and I will crush your cities. |
| 5:14 | And I will exact vengeance, in fury and in indignation, among all the nations which have not listened. |
UMika 6
| 6:1 | Listen to what the Lord says: Phakama, contend in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. |
| 6:2 | Let the mountains listen to the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth. For the judgment of the Lord is with his people, and he will enter into judgment with Israel. |
| 6:3 | Bantu bam, what have I done to you, or how have I assailed you? Respond to me. |
| 6:4 | For I led you out of the land of Egypt, and I freed you from the house of servitude, and I sent before your face Moses, and Aaron, noMiriyam. |
| 6:5 | Bantu bam, remember, ndiyakubuza, what Balak the king of Moab planned, and how Balaam the son of Beor responded to him, from Shittim even to Gilgal, so that you may know the justice of the Lord. |
| 6:6 | What worthy thing might I offer to the Lord, as I bend the knee before God on high? How could I offer holocausts to him, and one year-old calves? |
| 6:7 | Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he-goats? How could I give up my firstborn because of my evil deed, the fruit of my womb because of the sin of my soul? |
| 6:8 | I will reveal to you, Oman, yintoni elungileyo, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God. |
| 6:9 | The voice of the Lord cries out to the city, “Phulaphula, you tribes,” and who will confirm it? And salvation will be for those who fear your name. |
| 6:10 | Nangona kunjalo, there is a fire in the house of the impious, the treasury of iniquity, and a small measure, filled with wrath. |
| 6:11 | Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag? |
| 6:12 | Ngaloo nto, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. |
| 6:13 | Kwaye nam, ke ngoko, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins. |
| 6:14 | You will consume and not be satisfied, and your humiliation will be in your midst. And you will take hold, and not save, and those whom you will save, I will deliver to the sword. |
| 6:15 | You will sow, and not reap. You will tread the olives, and not be anointed with oil, and crush the grapes, and not drink the wine. |
| 6:16 | For you have kept the precepts of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked according their wills, so that I should give you over to perdition and its hissing inhabitants, and you would carry the disgrace of my people. |
UMika 7
| 7:1 | Yeha ke mna!, for I have become just like one who gleans the clusters of the vintage in autumn. There is no cluster of grapes to consume; my soul desired figs out of season. |
| 7:2 | The holy ones pass away from the land, and there is no one righteous among men. All wait in ambush for blood; a man hunts his brother to death. |
| 7:3 | The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it. |
| 7:4 | Whoever is best among them is like a thorny plant, and he who is righteous is like a thorny hedge. The day of your inspection, your visitation, arrives. Now will be their ruination. |
| 7:5 | Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed. |
| 7:6 | For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are those of his own household. |
| 7:7 | But I will look towards the Lord. I will wait for God, my Savior. My God will hear me. |
| 7:8 | Wena, my enemy, should not rejoice over me because I have fallen. ndiya kuvuka, when I sit in darkness. The Lord is my light. |
| 7:9 | I will carry the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he may judge my case and execute judgment for me. He will lead me into the light. I will behold his justice. |
| 7:10 | And my enemy will look, and she will be covered with confusion, she who says to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her. Now she will be trampled under foot like the mud of the streets. |
| 7:11 | The day that your walls will be rebuilt, in that day the law will be far away. |
| 7:12 | In that day also, they will come towards you even from Assur, and even to the fortified cities, and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. |
| 7:13 | And the land will be in desolation, because of its inhabitants and because of the fruit of their intentions. |
| 7:14 | Ngentonga yakho, dlisa abantu bakho, umhlambi welifa lakho, uhlala wedwa kwihlathi elimxinwa, phakathi kweKarmele. Baya kudla eBhashan naseGiliyadi, njengakwimihla yamandulo. |
| 7:15 | njengeemini zokuphuma kwakho ezweni laseYiputa, ndiya kumtyhilela imisebenzi ebalulekileyo. |
| 7:16 | The nations will look, and they will be confounded at the strength of them all. They will place hand over mouth; their ears will be deaf. |
| 7:17 | They will lick the dust like serpents, kwaye, like the creeping things of the earth, they will be disturbed in their houses. They will dread the Lord our God, and they will fear you. |
| 7:18 | Unjani uThixo njengawe, osusa ubugwenxa, adlule kwisono samasalela elifa lakho? Akayi kuba sabuthumela ubushushu bakhe;, ngokuba ukulungele ukuba nenceba. |
| 7:19 | Wobuya umva, abe nenceba kuthi. wobususa ubugwenxa bethu;, kwaye uya kuziphosa zonke izono zethu enzulwini yolwandle. |
| 7:20 | uya kumnika uYakobi inyaniso, inceba kuAbraham, owabafungelayo oobawo kususela kwimihla yamandulo. |