阿摩司書 6
1 那些安身熙雍，自恃撒馬黎雅山，自命為諸民之首，為以色列家所歸之人，是有禍的!
Woe [to] those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.
2 你們去加耳乃觀察一下，從那裏到大哈瑪特，然後下到培肋舍特人的加特，看你們是否比這些國更好﹖或者你們的疆域比她們的更廣大，
Pass ye over [to] Calneh and see, And go thence [to] Hamath the great, And go down [to] Gath of the Philistines, Are [they] better than these kingdoms? Greater [is] their border than your border?
3 那些想避開凶日的，卻接近了殘暴。
Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,
4 他們躺在躺象牙上床上，棋橫臥在軟榻上，吃著羊群中的羔羊和牛欄中的牛犢，
Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,
5 伴著琴聲吟詠，自比達味，發明樂器，
Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;
6 大碗喝酒，以上等的油抹身，但對若瑟的崩潰，卻漠不關心。
Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And [with] chief perfumes anoint [themselves], And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
7 為此，這些人現在就要先被擄去；放蕩不羈者的狂歡，也就完了。
Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
8 吾主上主指著自己起誓──上主萬軍的天主的斷語──我厭惡雅各伯的驕傲，痛恨他的宮殿；我必將城和城中所有有的一切交出。
Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.
9 倘若在一家中留下了十個人，也必死盡。
And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass — that they have died.
10 倖免的少數親友，由屋內抬出他們的骨骸，問那內室深處的人說：「還有人同你在一起嗎﹖」他必說：「沒有了。」繼而說：「不要作聲，千萬不要提上主的名字! 」
And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, 'Is there yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'
11 看，上主一下令，高樓大廈頓成瓦礫，矮小平房蕩然無存。
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.
12 馬豈能在懸崖上奔馳，牛豈能在海上耕作﹖你們竟將公道變為毒藥! 將正義之果變為苦藥!
Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
13 你們為了羅德巴爾而自鳴得意，且說：「我們豈不是靠自己的力量取得了卡爾納殷﹖」
O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, 'Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'
14 然而，以色列家! 看，我必要喚起一個民族來攻打你們，──上主萬軍的天主的斷語──從哈瑪特關口蹂躪你們直到阿辣巴河。
Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.
