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。
The Lord says: For Moab’s three crimes – no, four! – I will not rescind my judgment. They have burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom,
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。
to desecrate the dead. So I will send a fire into Moab. It will devour the palaces of Kirioth, with a war-cry, with the sound of trumpets.
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。
I will kill the ruler, all his nobles I will slay 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。
The Lord says: For Judah’s three crimes – no, four! – I will not rescind my judgment. They have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his statutes. Instead their false gods their ancestors followed, have led them astray.
5 我卻要降火在猶大， 燒滅耶路撒冷的宮殿。
So I will send a fire on Judah. It will devour the palaces 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。
The Lord says: For Israel’s three crimes – no, four! – I will not rescind my judgment. They sell the righteous for money, the needy for a pair of shoes.
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。
They trample on the head of the poor, push the humble out of the way. Father and son go to the same temple girl, and so profane my holy name.
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。
They stretch themselves on garments taken in pledges beside every altar, and they drink the wine of those who have been fined 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。
It was I who destroyed the Amorites for your sake, whose height was like that of the cedars, as strong as oaks. I destroyed their fruit from above and their roots from below.
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。
It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, led you forty years in the wilderness, brought you here to possess 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。
I raised up some of your sons to be prophets some of your youths to be Nazirites. Is not this indeed so, Israelites? 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 made the Nazirites drink wine and banned the prophets from prophesying.
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。
Listen! It is I who will make you groan in your places, as a wagon groans under its load of grain.
14 快跑的不能逃脫； 有力的不能用力； 剛勇的也不能自救。
Then flight will fail the swift, and the strength of the strongest will be useless. The warrior will 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。
the archer will not stand firm, the swift of foot will not escape, the horseman will 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。
The bravest of warriors will flee away naked in that day, says the Lord.
