阿摩司书 7
1 主耶和华指示我一件事：为王割菜之后，菜又发生；刚发生的时候，主造蝗虫。
This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me. Look, he formed a locust swarm when the spring crop began to come up, and, look, it was the late crop after the king's harvest.
2 蝗虫吃尽那地的青物，我就说：“主耶和华啊，求你赦免；因为雅各微弱，他怎能站立得住呢？”
When they finished eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, please forgive; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small.”
3 耶和华就后悔说：“这灾可以免了。”
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
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。
This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me: Look, the Lord Yahweh called on fire to judge. It dried the vast, deep water under the earth and would have devoured the land, also.
5 我就说：“主耶和华啊，求你止息；因为雅各微弱，他怎能站立得住呢？”
But I said, “Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small.”
6 耶和华就后悔说：“这灾也可免了。”
Yahweh relented concerning this, “This also will not happen,” said 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。
This is what he showed me: Look, the Lord stood beside a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
8 耶和华对我说：“阿摩司啊，你看见什么？”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, “Look, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will spare them no longer.
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 destroyed, the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined, 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 a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land cannot 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 this is what Amos said, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile away from 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，在那里说预言，
Amaziah said to Amos, “Seer, go, run back to the land of Judah, and there eat bread and prophesy.
13 却不要在伯特利再说预言；因为这里有王的圣所，有王的宫殿。”
But do not prophesy anymore here at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and 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。我是牧人，又是修理桑树的。
Then Amos said to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet nor a prophet's son. I am a herdsman, and I take care of sycamore fig trees.
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预言。’
But Yahweh took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
16 亚玛谢啊，现在你要听耶和华的话。你说：‘不要向以色列说预言，也不要向以撒家滴下预言。’
Now hear the word of Yahweh. You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not speak 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 this is what Yahweh says, 'Your wife will be a prostitute in the city; your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword; your land will be measured and divided up; you will die in an unclean land, and Israel will surely go into exile from his land.'”
