Michée 3
Louis Segond 1910 (LSG) · Français
1 Je dis : Écoutez, chefs de Jacob, Et princes de la maison d’Israël ! N’est-ce pas à vous à connaître la justice ? 2 Vous haïssez le bien et vous aimez le mal ; Vous leur arrachez la peau et la chair de dessus les os. 3 Ils dévorent la chair de mon peuple, Lui arrachent la peau, Et lui brisent les os ; Ils le mettent en pièces comme ce qu’on cuit dans un pot, Comme de la viande dans une chaudière. 4 Alors ils crieront vers l’Éternel, Mais il ne leur répondra pas ; Il leur cachera sa face en ce temps-là, Parce qu’ils ont fait de mauvaises actions. 5 Ainsi parle l’Éternel sur les prophètes qui égarent mon peuple, Qui annoncent la paix si leurs dents ont quelque chose à mordre, Et qui publient la guerre si on ne leur met rien dans la bouche : 6 À cause de cela, vous aurez la nuit…, et plus de visions ! Vous aurez les ténèbres…, et plus d’oracles ! Le soleil se couchera sur ces prophètes, Le jour s’obscurcira sur eux. 7 Les voyants seront confus, les devins rougiront, Tous se couvriront la barbe ; Car Dieu ne répondra pas. 8 Mais moi, je suis rempli de force, de l’esprit de l’Éternel, Je suis rempli de justice et de vigueur, Pour faire connaître à Jacob son crime, Et à Israël son péché. 9 Écoutez donc ceci, chefs de la maison de Jacob, Et princes de la maison d’Israël, Vous qui avez en horreur la justice, Et qui pervertissez tout ce qui est droit, 10 Vous qui bâtissez Sion avec le sang, Et Jérusalem avec l’iniquité ! 11 Ses chefs jugent pour des présents, Ses sacrificateurs enseignent pour un salaire, Et ses prophètes prédisent pour de l’argent ; Et ils osent s’appuyer sur l’Éternel, ils disent : L’Éternel n’est-il pas au milieu de nous ? Le malheur ne nous atteindra pas. 12 C’est pourquoi, à cause de vous, Sion sera labourée comme un champ, Jérusalem deviendra un monceau de pierres, Et la montagne du temple une sommité couverte de bois.
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Michée 3:1
Mi 3:1-12. The Sins of the Princes, Prophets, and Priests: The Consequent Desolation of Zion.
1. princes--magistrates or judges.
Is it not for you?--Is it not your special function (Jr 5:4, 5)?
judgment--justice. Ye sit in judgment on others; surely then ye ought to know the judgment for injustice which awaits yourselves (Ro 2:1).
Michée 3:2
Michée 3:3
3. pot ... flesh within ... caldron--manifold species of cruel oppressions. Compare Eze 24:3, &c., containing, as to the coming punishment, the same figure as is here used of the sin: implying that the sin and punishment exactly correspond.
Michée 3:4
4. Then--at the time of judgment, which Micah takes for granted, so certain is it (compare Mi 2:3).
they cry ... but he will not hear--just as those oppressed by them had formerly cried, and they would not hear. Their prayer shall be rejected, because it is the mere cry of nature for deliverance from pain, not that of repentance for deliverance from sin.
ill in their doings--Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well.
Michée 3:5
5. Here he attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked the "princes."
make my people err--knowingly mislead My people by not denouncing their sins as incurring judgment.
bite with ... teeth, and cry, Peace--that is, who, so long as they are supplied with food, promise peace and prosperity in their prophecies.
he that putteth not into their mouths, they ... prepare war against him--Whenever they are not supplied with food, they foretell war and calamity.
prepare war--literally, "sanctify war," that is, proclaim it as a holy judgment of God because they are not fed (see on Jr 6:4; compare Is 13:3; Joe 1:14).
Michée 3:6
Michée 3:7
7. cover their lips--The Orientals prided themselves on the moustache and beard ("upper lip," Margin). To cover it, therefore, was a token of shame and sorrow (Le 13:45; Eze 24:17, 22). "They shall be so ashamed of themselves as not to dare to open their mouths or boast of the name of prophet" [Calvin].
there is no answer of God--They shall no more profess to have responses from God, being struck dumb with calamities (Mi 3:6).
Michée 3:8
8. I--in contrast to the false prophets (Mi 3:5, 7).
full of power--that which "the Spirit of Jehovah" imparts for the discharge of the prophetical function (Lu 1:17; 24:49; Ac 1:8).
judgment--a sense of justice [Maurer]; as opposed to the false prophets' speaking to please men, not from a regard to truth. Or, "judgment" to discern between graver and lighter offenses, and to denounce punishments accordingly [Grotius].
might--moral intrepidity in speaking the truth at all costs (2Ti 1:7).
to declare unto Jacob his ... sin--(Is 58:1). Not to flatter the sinner as the false prophets do with promises of peace.
Michée 3:9
Michée 3:10
10. They--change of person from "ye" (Mi 3:9); the third person puts them to a greater distance as estranged from Him. It is, literally, "Whosoever builds," singular.
build up Zion with blood--build on it stately mansions with wealth obtained by the condemnation and murder of the innocent (Jr 22:13; Eze 22:27; Ha 2:12).
Michée 3:11
11. heads thereof--the princes of Jerusalem.
judge for reward--take bribes as judges (Mi 7:3).
priests teach for hire--It was their duty to teach the law and to decide controversies gratuitously (Le 10:11; De 17:11; Mal 2:7; compare Jr 6:13; Jude 11).
prophets ... divine--that is, false prophets.
Is not the Lord among us?--namely in the temple (Is 48:2; Jr 7:4, 8-11).
Michée 3:12
12. Jr 26:18 quotes this verse. The Talmud and Maimonides record that at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus, Terentius Rufus, who was left in command of the army, with a ploughshare tore up the foundations of the temple.
mountain of the house--the height on which the temple stands.
as the high places of the forest--shall become as heights in a forest overrun with wild shrubs and brushwood.
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