阿摩司書 4

1 你們這些欺壓弱小，虐待窮人，且對自己丈夫說：「拿酒來，我們暢飲」的撒馬黎雅山上巴商母牛，聽聽這話吧!

Hear you this word, you heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.

2 吾主上主指著的神聖起誓說：「看，對付你們的日子快到，人必用鉤子把你們鉤去；直到你們最後一個也必被人用魚鉤鉤去。

The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling cauldrons.

3 你們一個一個地經過城牆的裂口，被押到赫爾孟去」──上主的斷語。

And you shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and you shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, says the Lord.

4 你們去貝特耳犯罪吧! 去基耳加耳罪上加罪吧! 每晨奉獻你們的犧牲，每三天奉獻你們的什一之物，

You went into Bethel, and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Galgala; and you brought your meat-offerings in the morning, [and] your tithes every third day.

5 焚燒有酵供物當作感恩祭，高聲宣揚你們自願獻的祭獻! 以色列子民，你們原喜歡這樣──吾主上主的斷語──

And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, says the Lord.

6 雖然我使你們一切城市饑荒，到處缺糧，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you returned not to me, says the Lord.

7 收割前三個月，我就不給你們降雨，或者在這城下雨，在另一城卻不降雨；這塊地得了雨，而另一塊地沒有得雨，因而枯乾了；

Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

8 兩三座城的人踉踉蹌蹌走到另一城去喝水，卻不能喝足；雖然如此，你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the Lord.

9 我使熱風和霉爛襲擊你們，使你們的田園和葡萄園乾旱；蝗蟲又吃光了你們的無花果檥和橄欖樹，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

I struck you with parching, and with blight: you multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive yards: yet not [even] thus did you return to me, says the Lord.

10 我在你們中間下了瘟疫，如在埃及一樣，用刀劍殺了你們的精兵，令人擄掠你們的戰馬，使你們營中腥臭撲鼻，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語─

I sent pestilence amongst you by the way of Egypt, and killed your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did you return to me, says the Lord.

11 我傾覆了你們，像天主傾覆了索多瑪和哈摩辣，你們好似由火中抽出來的木柴，但你們還是不歸向我──上主的斷語──

I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you return to me, says the Lord.

12 為此，以色列! 我必要這樣對待你。以色列! 因我要這樣對待你，你準備迎接你的天主吧!

Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.

13 看，是衪形成了山嶽，創造了風暴，向人宣示衪的旨意，造成黎明和黑暗，在大地高處巡行，衪的名字叫「雅威，」萬軍的天主。

For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.