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Amos
Justice, judgment, and the visions of a Tekoan shepherd
Oracles of the eighth-century southern prophet Amos, addressed to the northern kingdom on the eve of the Assyrian conquest. The book is sustained by a fierce concern for social justice and ritual integrity.
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当犹大王乌西雅、以色列王约阿施的儿子耶罗波安在位的时候、大地震前二年、提哥亚牧人中的阿摩司得默示论以色列。
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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他说、耶和华必从锡安吼叫、从耶路撒冷发声．牧人的草场要悲哀、迦密的山顶要枯干。
He said:
“Yahweh will roar from Zion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn,
and the top of Carmel will wither.”
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耶和华如此说、大马色三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他的刑罚．因为他以打粮食的铁器打过基列。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
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我却要降火在哈薛的家中、烧灭便哈达的宫殿。
but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
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我必折断大马色的门闩、剪除亚文平原的居民和伯．伊甸掌权的．亚兰人必被掳到吉珥．这是耶和华说的。
I will break the bar of Damascus,
and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden;
and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,”
says Yahweh.
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耶和华如此说、迦萨三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他的刑罚．因为他掳掠众民交给以东。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they carried away captive the whole community,
to deliver them up to Edom;
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我却要降火在迦萨的城内、烧灭其中的宫殿。
but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
and it will devour its palaces.
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我必剪除亚实突的居民、和亚实基伦掌权的．也必反手攻击以革伦．非利士人所馀剩的必都灭亡。这是主耶和华说的。
I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,
and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
and I will turn my hand against Ekron;
and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”
says the Lord Yahweh.
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耶和华如此说、推罗三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他的刑罚．因为他将众民交给以东、并不记念弟兄的盟约。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they delivered up the whole community to Edom,
and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;
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我却要降火在推罗的城内、烧灭其中的宫殿。
but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
and it will devour its palaces.”
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耶和华如此说、以东三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他的刑罚．因为他拿刀追赶兄弟、毫无怜悯、发怒撕裂、永怀忿怒。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because he pursued his brother with the sword,
and cast off all pity,
and his anger raged continually,
and he kept his wrath forever;
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我却要降火在提幔、烧灭波斯拉的宫殿。
but I will send a fire on Teman,
and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”
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耶和华如此说、亚扪人三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他们的刑罚．因为他们剖开基列的孕妇、扩张自己的境界。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,
that they may enlarge their border.
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我却要在争战呐喊的日子、旋风狂暴的时候、点火在拉巴的城内、烧灭其中的宫殿。
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah,
and it will devour its palaces,
with shouting in the day of battle,
with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;
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他们的王和首领必一同被掳去。这是耶和华说的。
and their king will go into captivity,
he and his princes together,”
says Yahweh.
1
耶和华如此说、摩押三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他的刑罚．因为他将以东王的骸骨焚烧成灰。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
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我却要降火在摩押、烧灭加略的宫殿．摩押必在哄嚷呐喊吹角之中死亡。
but I will send a fire on Moab,
and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth;
and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
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我必剪除摩押中的审判者、将其中的一切首领和他一同杀戮。这是耶和华说的。
and I will cut off the judge from among them,
and will kill all its princes with him,”
says Yahweh.
4
耶和华如此说、犹大人三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他们的刑罚．因为他们厌弃耶和华的训诲、不遵守他的律例．他们列祖所随从虚假的偶像使他们走迷了。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have rejected Yahweh’s law,
and have not kept his statutes,
and their lies have led them astray,
after which their fathers walked;
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我却要降火在犹大、烧灭耶路撒冷的宫殿。
but I will send a fire on Judah,
and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
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耶和华如此说、以色列人三番四次的犯罪、我必不免去他们的刑罚．因他们为银子卖了义人、为一双鞋卖了穷人。
Yahweh says:
“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment;
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes;
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他们见穷人头上所蒙的灰也都垂涎、阻碍谦卑人的道路．父子同一个女子行淫、亵渎我的圣名．
They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor,
and deny justice to the oppressed;
and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
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他们在各坛旁铺人所当的衣服、卧在其上．又在他们神的庙中、喝受罚之人的酒。
and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge;
and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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我从以色列人面前除灭亚摩利人。他虽高大如香柏树、坚固如橡树、我却上灭他的果子、下绝他的根本。
Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars,
and he was strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
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我也将你们从埃及地领上来、在旷野引导你们四十年、使你们得亚摩利人之地为业。
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years in the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.
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我从你们子弟中兴起先知、又从你们少年人中兴起拿细耳人。以色列人哪、不是这样么．这是耶和华说的。
I raised up some of your sons for prophets,
and some of your young men for Nazirites.
Isn’t this true,
you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
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你们却给拿细耳人酒喝、嘱咐先知说、不要说豫言。
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
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看哪、在你们所住之地、我必压你们、如同装满禾捆的车压物一样。
Behold, I will crush you in your place,
as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
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快跑的不能逃脱．有力的不能用力、刚勇的也不能自救。
Flight will perish from the swift;
and the strong won’t strengthen his force;
neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
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拿弓的不能站立、腿快的不能逃脱．骑马的也不能自救。
neither shall he stand who handles the bow;
and he who is swift of foot won’t escape;
neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
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到那日、勇士中最有胆量的、必赤身逃跑．这是耶和华说的。
and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,”
says Yahweh.
1
以色列人哪、你们全家是我从埃及地领上来的、当听耶和华攻击你们的话。
Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
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在地上万族中、我只认识你们．因此、我必追讨你们的一切罪孽。
“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth.
Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
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二人若不同心、岂能同行呢。
Do two walk together,
unless they have agreed?
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狮子若非抓食、岂能在林中咆哮呢。少壮狮子若无所得、岂能从洞中发声呢。
Will a lion roar in the thicket,
when he has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out of his den,
if he has caught nothing?
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若没有机槛、雀鸟岂能陷在网罗里呢。网罗若无所得、岂能从地上翻起呢。
Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,
where no snare is set for him?
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
when there is nothing to catch?
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城中若吹角、百姓岂不惊恐呢。灾祸若临到一城、岂非耶和华所降的么。
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,
without the people being afraid?
Does evil happen to a city,
and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
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主耶和华若不将奥秘指示他的仆人众先知、就一无所行。
Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,
unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
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狮子吼叫、谁不惧怕呢。主耶和华发命、谁能不说豫言呢。
The lion has roared.
Who will not fear?
The Lord Yahweh has spoken.
Who can but prophesy?
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要在亚实突的宫殿中、和埃及地的宫殿里传扬说、你们要聚集在撒玛利亚的山上、就看见城中有何等大的扰乱与欺压的事。
Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,
and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,
and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,
and see what unrest is in her,
and what oppression is among them.”
10
那些以强暴抢夺财物、积蓄在自己家中的人不知道行正直的事．这是耶和华说的。
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh,
“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
11
所以主耶和华如此说、敌人必来围攻这地、使你的势力衰微、抢掠你的家宅。
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
“An adversary will overrun the land;
and he will pull down your strongholds,
and your fortresses will be plundered.”
12
耶和华如此说、牧人怎样从狮子口中抢回两条羊腿或半个耳朵、住撒玛利亚的以色列人躺卧在床角上或铺绣花毯的榻上、他们得救也不过如此。
Yahweh says:
“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,
or a piece of an ear,
so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,
and on the silken cushions of a bed.”
13
主耶和华万军之 神说、当听这话、警戒雅各家。
“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
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我讨以色列罪的日子、也要讨伯特利祭坛的罪．坛角必被砍下、坠落于地。
“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,
I will also visit the altars of Bethel;
and the horns of the altar will be cut off,
and fall to the ground.
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我要拆毁过冬和过夏的房屋、象牙的房屋也必毁灭、高大的房屋都归无有、这是耶和华说的。
I will strike the winter house with the summer house;
and the houses of ivory will perish,
and the great houses will have an end,”
says Yahweh.
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你们住撒玛利亚山如巴珊母牛的阿、当听我的话你们欺负贫寒的、压碎穷乏的、对家主说、拿酒来、我们喝罢。
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
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主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓说、日子快到、人必用钩子将你们钩去、用鱼钩将你们馀剩的钩去。
The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold,
“The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks,
and the last of you with fish hooks.
3
你们各人必从破口直往前行、投入哈门．这是耶和华说的。
You will go out at the breaks in the wall,
everyone straight before her;
and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
4
以色列人哪、任你们往伯特利去犯罪、到吉甲加增罪过．每日早晨献上你们的祭物、每三日奉上你们的十分之一。
“Go to Bethel, and sin;
to Gilgal, and sin more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days,
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任你们献有酵的感谢祭、把甘心祭宣传报告给众人．因为是你们所喜爱的．这是主耶和华说的。
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened,
and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them:
for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
6
我使你们在一切城中牙齿干净、在你们各处粮食缺乏．你们仍不归向我．这是耶和华说的。
“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in every town;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
7
在收割的前三月我使雨停止、不降在你们那里．我降雨在这城、不降雨在那城．这块地有雨、那块地无雨．无雨的就枯干了。
“I also have withheld the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
and I caused it to rain on one city,
and caused it not to rain on another city.
One place was rained on,
and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
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这样、两三城的人凑到一城去找水、却喝不足．你们仍不归向我．这是耶和华说的。
So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,
and were not satisfied:
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
9
我以旱风、霉烂攻击你们．你们园中许多菜蔬、葡萄树、无花果树、橄榄树都被剪虫所吃．你们仍不归向我．这是耶和华说的。
“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards;
and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured:
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
10
我降瘟疫在你们中间、像在埃及一样．用刀杀戮你们的少年人、使你们的马匹被掳掠、营中尸首的臭气扑鼻．你们仍不归向我．这是耶和华说的。
“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
I have slain your young men with the sword,
and have carried away your horses;
and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
11
我倾覆你们中间的城邑、如同我从前倾覆所多玛蛾摩拉一样、使你们好像从火中抽出来的一根柴．你们仍不归向我．这是耶和华说的。
“I have overthrown some of you,
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;
yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
12
以色列阿、我必向你如此行．以色列阿、我既这样行、你当豫备迎见你的 神。
“Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, Israel.
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那创山、造风、将心意指示人、使晨光变为幽暗、脚踏在地之高处的．他的名是耶和华万军之 神。
For, behold, he who forms the mountains,
and creates the wind,
and declares to man what is his thought;
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the high places of the earth:
Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
1
以色列家阿、要听我为你们所作的哀歌。
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
2
以色列民〈原文作处女〉跌倒、不得再起．躺在地上、无人搀扶。
“The virgin of Israel has fallen;
She shall rise no more.
She is cast down on her land;
there is no one to raise her up.”
3
主耶和华如此说、以色列家的城发出一千兵的、只剩一百、发出一百的、只剩十个。
For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
“The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left,
and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
4
耶和华向以色列家如此说、你们要寻求我、就必存活。
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel:
“Seek me, and you will live;
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不要往伯特利寻求、不要进入吉甲、不要过到别是巴．因为吉甲必被掳掠、伯特利也必归于无有。
but don’t seek Bethel,
nor enter into Gilgal,
and don’t pass to Beersheba:
for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Bethel shall come to nothing.
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要寻求耶和华、就必存活．免得他在约瑟家像火发出、在伯特利焚烧、无人扑灭。
Seek Yahweh, and you will live;
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
7
你们这使公平变为茵蔯、将公义丢弃于地的、
You who turn justice to wormwood,
and cast down righteousness to the earth:
8
要寻求那造昴星和参星、使死荫变为晨光、使白日变为黑夜、命海水来浇在地上的、（耶和华是他的名）
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns the shadow of death into the morning,
and makes the day dark with night;
who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
9
他使力强的忽遭灭亡、以致保障遭遇毁坏。
who brings sudden destruction on the strong,
so that destruction comes on the fortress.
10
你们怨恨那在城门口责备人的、憎恶那说正直话的。
They hate him who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
11
你们践踏贫民、向他们勒索麦子．你们用凿过的石头建造房屋、却不得住在其内、栽种美好的葡萄园、却不得喝所出的酒。
Therefore, because you trample on the poor,
and take taxes from him of wheat:
You have built houses of cut stone,
but you will not dwell in them.
You have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
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我知道你们的罪过何等多、你们的罪恶何等大．你们苦待义人、收受贿赂、在城门口屈枉穷乏人。
For I know how many your offenses,
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the just,
who take a bribe,
and who turn away the needy in the courts.
13
所以通达人见这样的时势、必静默不言．因为时势真恶。
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time.
14
你们要求善、不要求恶、就必存活。这样、耶和华万军之 神必照你们所说的、与你们同在。
Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
as you say.
15
要恶恶好善、在城门口秉公行义．或者耶和华万军之 神向约瑟的馀民施恩。
Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
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主耶和华万军之 神如此说、在一切宽阔处必有哀号的声音．在各街市上必有人说、哀哉、哀哉．又必叫农夫来哭号、叫善唱哀歌的来举哀。
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
“Wailing will be in all the wide ways;
and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
and they will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
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在各葡萄园必有哀号的声音．因为我必从你中间经过．这是耶和华说的。
In all vineyards there will be wailing;
for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
18
想望耶和华日子来到的、有祸了．你们为何想望耶和华的日子呢．那日黑暗没有光明．
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!
Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
It is darkness,
and not light.
19
景况好像人躲避狮子又遇见熊、或是进房屋以手靠墙、就被蛇咬。
As if a man fled from a lion,
and a bear met him;
Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,
and a snake bit him.
20
耶和华的日子、不是黑暗没有光明么．不是幽暗毫无光辉么。
Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light?
Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21
我厌恶你们的节期、也不喜悦你们的严肃会。
I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
22
你们虽然向我献燔祭、和素祭、我却不悦纳．也不顾你们用肥畜献的平安祭。
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings,
I will not accept them;
neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
23
要使你们歌唱的声音远离我．因为我不听你们弹琴的响声。
Take away from me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24
惟愿公平如大水滚滚、使公义如江河滔滔。
But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
25
以色列家阿、你们在旷野四十年、岂是将祭物和供物献给我呢。
“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26
你们抬着为自己所造之摩洛的帐幕和偶像的龛、并你们的神星。
You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
27
所以我要把你们掳到大马色以外．这是耶和华名为万军之 神说的。
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
1
国为列国之首、人最著名、且为以色列家所归向、在锡安和撒玛利亚山安逸无虑的、有祸了。
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria,
the notable men of the chief of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel come!
2
你们要过到甲尼察看、从那里往大城哈马去、又下到非利士人的迦特、看那些国比你们的国还强么．境界比你们的境界还宽么。
Go to Calneh, and see;
and from there go to Hamath the great;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
are they better than these kingdoms?
or is their border greater than your border?
3
你们以为降祸的日子还远、坐在位上尽行强暴〈或作行强暴使审判临近〉。
Those who put far away the evil day,
and cause the seat of violence to come near;
4
你们躺卧在象牙床上、舒身在榻上、吃群中的羊羔、棚里的牛犊．
Who lie on beds of ivory,
and stretch themselves on their couches,
and eat the lambs out of the flock,
and the calves out of the middle of the stall;
5
弹琴鼓瑟唱消闲的歌曲、为自己制造乐器、如同大卫所造的．
who strum on the strings of a harp;
who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
6
以大碗喝酒、用上等的油抹身．却不为约瑟的苦难担忧。
who drink wine in bowls,
and anoint themselves with the best oils;
but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7
所以这些人必在被掳的人中首先被掳．舒身的人荒宴之乐必消灭了。
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive;
and the feasting and lounging will end.
8
主耶和华万军之 神指着自己起誓说、我憎恶雅各的荣华、厌弃他的宫殿．因此、我必将城、和其中所有的、都交付敌人。
“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies:
“I abhor the pride of Jacob,
and detest his fortresses.
Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
9
那时、若在一房之内剩下十个人、也都必死。
It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house,
that they shall die.
10
死人的伯叔、就是烧他尸首的、要将这尸首搬到房外、问房屋内间的人说、你那里还有人没有。他必说、没有．又说、不要作声、因为我们不可题耶和华的名。
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
11
看哪、耶和华出令、大房就被攻破、小屋就被打裂。
“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces,
and the little house into bits.
12
马岂能在崖石上奔跑．人岂能在那里用牛耕种呢。你们却使公平变为苦胆、使公义的果子变为茵蔯。
Do horses run on the rocky crags?
Does one plow there with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison,
and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
13
你们喜爱虚浮的事、自夸说、我们不是凭自己的力量取了角么。
you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say,
‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’
14
耶和华万军之 神说、以色列家阿、我必兴起一国攻击你们．他们必欺压你们、从哈马口直到亚拉巴的河。
For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,”
says Yahweh, the God of Armies;
“and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.”
1
主耶和华指示我一件事．为王割菜之后〈菜或作草〉菜又发生、刚发生的时候、主造蝗虫。
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
2
蝗虫吃尽那地的青物、我就说主耶和华阿、求你赦免．因为雅各微弱、他怎能站立得住呢。
When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
3
耶和华就后悔、说、这灾可以免了。
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
4
主耶和华又指示我一件事．他命火来惩罚以色列、火就吞灭深渊、险些将地烧灭。
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
5
我就说、主耶和华阿、求你止息．因为雅各微弱、他怎能站立得住呢。
Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
6
耶和华就后悔说、这灾也可免了。
Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
7
他又指示我一件事．有一道墙是按准绳建筑的、主手拿准绳站在其上。
Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8
耶和华对我说、阿摩司阿、你看见甚么．我说、看见准绳。主说、我要吊起准绳在我民以色列中．我必不再宽恕他们．
Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
9
以撒的邱坛必然凄凉、以色列的圣所必然荒废．我必兴起、用刀攻击耶罗波安的家。
The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10
伯特利的祭司亚玛谢打发人到以色列王耶罗波安那里、说、阿摩司在以色列家中、图谋背叛你．他所说的一切话、这国担当不起。
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
11
因为阿摩司如此说、耶罗波安必被刀杀、以色列民定被掳去离开本地。
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
12
亚玛谢又对阿摩司说、你这先见哪、要逃往犹大地去、在那里糊口、在那里说豫言．
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13
却不要在伯特利再说豫言．因为这里有王的圣所、有王的宫殿。
but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
14
阿摩司对亚玛谢说、我原不是先知、也不是先知的门徒〈原文作儿子〉我是牧人、又是修理桑树的．
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
15
耶和华选召我、使我不跟从羊群、对我说、你去向我民以色列说豫言。
and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16
亚玛谢阿、现在你要听耶和华的话．你说、不要向以色列说豫言、也不要向以撒家滴下豫言。
Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
17
所以耶和华如此说、你的妻子必在城中作妓女、你的儿女必倒在刀下、你的地必有人用绳子量了分取．你自己必死在污秽之地、以色列民定被掳去离开本地。
Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
1
主耶和华又指示我一件事．我看见一筐夏天的果子。
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2
他说、阿摩司阿、你看见甚么．我说、看见一筐夏天的果子．耶和华说、我民以色列的结局到了．我必不再宽恕他们。
He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then Yahweh said to me,
“The end has come on my people Israel.
I will not again pass by them any more.
3
主耶和华说、那日殿中的诗歌变为哀号．必有许多尸首在各处抛弃、无人作声。
The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
4
你们这些要吞吃穷乏人、使困苦人衰败的、当听我的话．
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5
你们说、月朔几时过去、我们好卖粮．安息日几时过去、我们好摆开麦子、卖出用小升斗、收银用大戥子、用诡诈的天平欺哄人．
Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6
好用银子买贫寒人、用一双鞋换穷乏人、将坏了的麦子卖给人。
that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7
耶和华指着雅各的荣耀起誓、说、他们的一切行为、我必永远不忘。
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob,
“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8
地岂不因这事震动、其上的居民不也悲哀么。地必全然像尼罗河涨起、如同埃及河涌上落下。
Won’t the land tremble for this,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
9
主耶和华说、到那日、我必使日头在午间落下、使地在白昼黑暗。
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10
我必使你们的节期变为悲哀、歌曲变为哀歌．众人腰束麻布、头上光秃．使这场悲哀如丧独生子、至终如痛苦的日子一样。
I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
11
主耶和华说、日子将到、我必命饥荒降在地上．人饥饿非因无饼、干渴非因无水、乃因不听耶和华的话。
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
12
他们必飘流、从这海到那海、从北边到东边、往来奔跑寻求耶和华的话、却寻不着。
They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,
and will not find it.
13
当那日、美貌的处女、和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。
In that day the beautiful virgins
and the young men will faint for thirst.
14
那指着撒玛利亚牛犊〈原文作罪〉起誓的说、但哪、我们指着你那里的活神起誓．又说、我们指着别是巴的神道〈神原文作活〉起誓．这些人都必仆倒、永不再起来。
Those who swear by the sin of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’
and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’
they will fall, and never rise up again.”
1
我看见主站在祭坛旁边．他说、你要击打柱顶、使门槛震动、打碎柱顶落在众人头上．所剩下的人我必用刀杀戮．无一人能逃避、无一人能逃脱。
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
2
他们虽然挖透阴间、我的手必取出他们来．虽然爬上天去、我必拿下他们来。
Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
3
虽然藏在迦密山顶、我必搜寻捉出他们来．虽然从我眼前藏在海底、我必命蛇咬他们。
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
4
虽被仇敌掳去、我必命刀剑杀戮他们．我必向他们定住眼目．降祸不降福。
Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
5
主万军之耶和华摸地、地就消化、凡住在地上的都必悲哀．地必全然像尼罗河涨起、如同埃及河落下。
For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
6
那在天上建造楼阁、在地上安定穹苍、命海水浇在地上的、耶和华是他的名。
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
7
耶和华说、以色列人哪、我岂不看你们如古实人么。我岂不是领以色列人出埃及地、领非利士人出迦斐托、领亚兰人出吉珥么。
Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8
主耶和华的眼目察看这有罪的国．必将这国从地上灭绝、却不将雅各家灭绝净尽．这是耶和华说的。
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
9
我必出令、将以色列家分散在列国中、好像用筛子筛谷、连一粒也不落在地上。
“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
10
我民中的一切罪人说、灾祸必追不上我们、也迎不着我们。他们必死在刀下。
All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’
11
到那日、我必建立大卫倒塌的帐幕、堵住其中的破口、把那破坏的建立起来、重新修造、像古时一样．
In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
12
使以色列人得以东所馀剩的和所有称为我名下的国．此乃行这事的耶和华说的。
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
13
耶和华说、日子将到、耕种的必接续收割的、踹葡萄的必接续撒种的．大山要滴下甜酒．小山都必流奶〈原文作消化见约珥三章十八节〉
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
and sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
and flow from the hills.
14
我必使我民以色列被掳的归回、他们必重修荒废的城邑居住、栽种葡萄园、喝其中所出的酒．修造果木园、吃其中的果子。
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.
15
我要将他们栽于本地、他们不再从我所赐给他们的地上拔出来．这是耶和华你的 神说的。
I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,”
says Yahweh your God.