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!
Listen to this message, women of Sameria, you well-fed cows of Bashan, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us another 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 God has sworn by his holiness: The time is coming when you will be carried away in baskets, your children carried away in fish-baskets,
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 through the breaches in the city wall you will go, thrown out on the garbage dump, 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，
Come to Bethel and transgress, at Gilgald increase your transgression. Bring your sacrifices in the morning, every third day your tithes!
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──
Burn some leavened bread as a thank-offering, proclaim aloud your voluntary offerings, for you love to do this, Israelites! says the Lord God.
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──
But it was I who gave to you empty stomachs in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your towns, yet you have not returned 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；
It was I who withheld from you the rain, sending rain on one city, while on another I allowed no rain. One field received rain, while a field without rain withered.
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──
People from two or three cities ranged as far as another city for drinking water, and still they did not have enough, yet you did not return 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 blight and mildew, I laid waste your gardens and vineyards. The swarming locust devoured your fig and your olive trees, yet you did not 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 plague among you like the plagues of Egypt, I slew your youths with the sword, your horses raided away, I caused the stench of your camps to rise in your nostrils, yet you did not 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 wrought a destruction among you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a stick snatched from the fire, yet you did not 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 this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I am about to do this to you, prepare to meet your God, 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。
He is here! He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to his thoughts to mortals, makes dawn and darkness, treads upon the heights of the earth, the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
