阿摩司書 2
1 耶和華如此說： 摩押三番四次地犯罪， 我必不免去她的刑罰； 因為她將以東王的骸骨焚燒成灰。
Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.
2 我卻要降火在摩押， 燒滅加略的宮殿。 摩押必在鬨嚷吶喊吹角之中死亡。
But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.
3 我必剪除摩押中的審判者， 將其中的一切首領和他一同殺戮。 這是耶和華說的。
And I will destroy the judge out of her, and kill all her princes with him, says the Lord.
4 耶和華如此說： 猶大人三番四次地犯罪， 我必不免去他們的刑罰； 因為他們厭棄耶和華的訓誨， 不遵守他的律例。 他們列祖所隨從虛假的偶像使他們走迷了。
Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
5 我卻要降火在猶大， 燒滅耶路撒冷的宮殿。
And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.
6 耶和華如此說： 以色列人三番四次地犯罪， 我必不免去他們的刑罰； 因他們為銀子賣了義人， 為一雙鞋賣了窮人。
Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,
7 他們見窮人頭上所蒙的灰也都垂涎， 阻礙謙卑人的道路。 父子同一個女子行淫， 褻瀆我的聖名。
wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have struck upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
8 他們在各壇旁鋪人所當的衣服，臥在其上， 又在他們神的廟中喝受罰之人的酒。
And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.
9 我從以色列人面前除滅亞摩利人。 他雖高大如香柏樹，堅固如橡樹， 我卻上滅他的果子，下絕他的根本。
Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 我也將你們從埃及地領上來， 在曠野引導你們四十年， 使你們得亞摩利人之地為業。
And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that you should inherit the land of the Amorites.
11 我從你們子弟中興起先知， 又從你們少年人中興起拿細耳人。 以色列人哪，不是這樣嗎？ 這是耶和華說的。
And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, you sons of Israel? says the Lord.
12 你們卻給拿細耳人酒喝， 囑咐先知說：不要說預言。
But you gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and you commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 看哪，在你們所住之地，我必壓你們， 如同裝滿禾捆的車壓物一樣。
Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.
14 快跑的不能逃脫； 有力的不能用力； 剛勇的也不能自救。
And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
15 拿弓的不能站立； 腿快的不能逃脫； 騎馬的也不能自救。
and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
16 到那日，勇士中最有膽量的， 必赤身逃跑。 這是耶和華說的。
And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord.
