阿摩司書 7
1 [神視一：蝗災]吾主上主叫我看見這事：割完君王的青草，當晚草初生時，蝗蟲出現了。
The Lord God schewide these thingis to me; and lo! a makere of locust in bigynnyng of buriownynge thingis of euentid reyn, and lo! euentid reyn after the clippere of the kyng.
2 當蝗蟲要吃光地上的青草時，我就說：「吾主上主，求你饒恕吧! 雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小! 」
And it was don, whanne he hadde endid for to ete the erbe of erthe, Y seide, Lord God, Y biseche, be thou merciful; who schal reise Jacob, for he is litil?
3 上主對這事後悔了。上主說：「這事不會發生。」[神視二：旱災]
The Lord hadde merci on this thing; It schal not be, seide the Lord God.
4 吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，吾主上主召來懲罰的火，燒毀了廣大的深淵，又燒毀了上主的基業。
The Lord God schewide to me these thingis; and lo! the Lord God schal clepe doom to fier, and it schal deuoure myche depthe of watir, and it eet togidere a part.
5 我就說：「吾主上主! 求你罷休! 雅各伯還怎能存在﹖他已這樣弱小! 」
And Y seide, Lord God, Y biseche, reste thou; who schal reise Jacob, for he is litil?
6 上主對這事後悔了。吾主上主說：「這事也不會發生。」[神視三：鉛垂線]
The Lord hadde merci on this thing; But and this thing schal not be, seide the Lord God.
7 吾主上主叫我看見這事：看，有一個人立在牆上，手中拿著一條鉛垂線。
The Lord God schewide to me these thingis; and lo! the Lord stondinge on a wal plastrid, and in the hond of hym was a trulle of a masoun.
8 上主對我說：「亞毛斯，你看見了什麼﹖」我答說：「一條鉛垂線。」吾主說：「看，我將鉛垂線安置在我民族以色列當中，我不再放過她。
And the Lord seide to me, What seest thou, Amos? And Y seide, A trulle of a masoun. And the Lord seide, Lo! I schal putte a trulle in the myddil of my puple Israel; Y schal no more putte to, for to ouerlede it;
9 依撒格的高丘必要荒蕪，以色列的聖所必要廢棄；我必起來攻擊雅洛貝罕家。」
and the hiy thingis of idol schulen be distried, and the halewyngis of Israel schulen be desolat; and Y schal rise on the hous of Jeroboam bi swerd.
10 那時，貝特耳司祭阿瑪責雅派人向以色列王雅洛貝罕說：「亞毛斯在以色列家中圖謀背叛你，國家再不能容受他的一切言論，
And Amasie, prest of Bethel, sente to Jeroboam, kyng of Israel, and seide, Amos rebellide ayens thee, in the myddil of the hous of Israel; the lond mai not susteyne alle hise wordis.
11 因為亞毛斯這樣說：雅洛貝罕必死於刀下，以色列必被據去充軍，遠離本土。」
For Amos seith these thingis, Jeroboam schal die bi swerd, and Israel caitif schal passe fro his lond.
12 事後，阿瑪責雅又向亞毛斯說：「先見者，你走吧! 趕快到猶大國去，在那裏餬口，在那裏講預言。
And Amasie seide to Amos, Thou that seest, go; fle thou in to the lond of Juda, and ete thou there thi breed; and there thou schalt profesie.
13 在貝特耳不可講預言，因為這裏是君王的殿宇。」
And thou schalt no more put to, that thou profesie in Bethel, for it is the halewyng of the king, and is the hous of the rewme.
14 亞毛斯回答阿瑪責雅說：「我原不是先知，也不是先知的弟子，只是一個放羊兼修剪野無花果的人。
And Amos answeride, and seide to Amasie, Y am not a profete, and Y am not sone of profete; but an herde of neet Y am, drawyng vp sicomoris.
15 但是，上主正在我趕羊時提了我來。上主對我說：你去向我的百姓以色列講預言吧!
And the Lord took me, whanne Y suede the floc; and the Lord seide to me, Go, and profesie thou to my puple Israel.
16 現在你且聽上主說什麼。你說：不要講預言攻擊以色列，不要發言反對依撒格家!
And now here thou the word of the Lord. Thou seist, Thou schalt not profesie on Israel, and thou schal not droppe on the hous of idol.
17 為此，上主這樣說：你的妻子必在城中賣淫，你的子女必喪生刀下，你的田地必被人以繩墨瓜分，你m在不潔之地，以色列必被據去充軍，遠離本土。」
For this thing the Lord seith these thingis, Thi wijf schal do fornicacioun in the citee, and thi sones and thi douytris schal falle bi swerd, and thi lond schal be motun with a litil coord; and thou schalt die in a pollutid lond, and Israel caitif schal passe fro his lond.
